Ottmar Hitzfeld

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Ottmar Hitzfeld
Otmar Hitzfeld in Bulgaria.jpg
Ottmar Hitzfeld 2011
Personnel
birthday January 12, 1949
place of birth Loerrach ,  Germany
size 178 cm
position striker
Juniors
Years station
1960-1967 TuS Stetten
1967-1968 FV Loerrach
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1968-1971 FV Loerrach
1971-1975 FC Basel 92 (66)
1975-1988 VfB Stuttgart 77 (38)
1978-1980 FC Lugano 55 (35)
1980-1983 FC Luzern 72 (30)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1972 Germany amateurs 8 0(5)
1972 Germany B 1 0(1)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
1983-1984 SC train
1984-1988 FC Aarau
1988-1991 Grasshopper Club Zurich
1991-1997 Borussia Dortmund
1998-2004 FC Bayern Munich
2007-2008 FC Bayern Munich
2008-2014 Switzerland
1 Only league games are given.

Ottmar Hitzfeld (born January 12, 1949 in Lörrach ) is a former German football player and coach . As a player, he was twice Swiss champion . During his time as a player, Hitzfeld mathematics and sports studies on teaching . As a coach, he won two Swiss championships and was German champion seven times . In 1997 he won the UEFA Champions League as a coach with Borussia Dortmund , and in 2001 he won the same competition with FC Bayern Munich . This makes him one of only five coaches who have managed to win the Champions League with two different clubs. He is the second most successful coach in the Bundesliga after Pep Guardiola in terms of average points per game. He also acted as the sports director of Borussia Dortmund between 1997 and 1998 .

From summer 2008 until the knockout round of 16 against Argentina at the 2014 World Cup in Brazil, he was the coach of the Swiss national team . Then he ended his career.

childhood

Hitzfeld grew up as the youngest of five siblings in Lörrach (Stetten) in southern Baden , right on the border with Switzerland . His father was a dentist. He got his first name based on Ottmar Walter (brother of Fritz Walter , who was already better known at the time ), the football player of 1. FC Kaiserslautern .

Career as a player

Hitzfeld was a youth player at TuS Stetten and later played at FV Lörrach . In 1971 he moved to the Swiss national league club FC Basel , with whom he became Swiss champions under coach Helmut Benthaus in the 1971/72 and 1972/73 seasons . In 1972/73 he was also the top scorer in Switzerland. In 1973 he completed his teaching degree at the University of Education in Lörrach with the state examination in mathematics and sport for teaching at secondary schools .

In the 1972 Olympic soccer tournament he played in the German Olympic team with Uli Hoeneß , among others . There he was used five times from the start and scored one goal in each of these games. In total, Hitzfeld made eight appearances in amateur international matches. On November 14, 1972, he played his only international match for the B national team , which won 3-1 against the Swiss team in Winterthur - here, too, he was successful with a goal.

In 1975, Hitzfeld moved from FC Basel to VfB Stuttgart , who had just been relegated from the 1st Bundesliga . In two years in the 2. Bundesliga he was used in 55 games and scored 33 goals. In the 1976/77 season he was part of the so-called “100-goal storm” with 22 goals scored (VfB Stuttgart had a goal difference of 100: 36) and made a decisive contribution to the club's resurgence. His six goals in the 8-0 win against SSV Jahn Regensburg still represent a record in German professional football. In the 1977/78 season he played 22 times for Stuttgart in the Bundesliga and scored five goals. He then went back to Switzerland, where he first played for FC Lugano and then for FC Lucerne in the National League. In 1983 he ended his career as a player.

Career as a coach

After his playing career, Hitzfeld actually wanted to start the preparatory service for the secondary school with the subjects mathematics and sport, but the state education authority demanded an additional examination because his studies were too long ago. Out of anger about this, Hitzfeld decided to start a professional coaching career.

Associations in Switzerland

1983 Hitzfeld coach at SC train , he in the second-class National League B took over and directly into the highest league, the National League A , resulted. Despite the promotion, he left the club after only one year and moved to FC Aarau in the National League A, with which he was runner-up in the first year and won the Swiss Cup at the end of the same season in 1984/85 . In the same year he was voted Swiss football coach of the year . In 1988 he moved to the Grasshopper Club Zurich , with whom he won five national titles between 1988 and 1991, including the Swiss championships in the 1989/90 and 1990/91 seasons .

Borussia Dortmund

At the beginning of the 1991/92 season , Hitzfeld succeeded Horst Köppel as coach of Borussia Dortmund and, after a moderate start, surprisingly led the team to the runner-up championship. Moved to third in the last match day, BVB led the table from the goal in Duisburg in the 9th minute until VfB Stuttgart scored the winning goal in Leverkusen in the 86th, which brought them the championship. Both benefited from the defeat of the previous table leaders Eintracht Frankfurt .

The following season, Hitzfeld reached the UEFA Cup final with Dortmund , which was lost in two games against Juventus Turin . Most of the money raised by reaching the finals was made available by Dortmund to its coach for player transfers. After the new signings of Matthias Sammer , Stefan Reuter , Karl-Heinz Riedle , Andreas Möller and from 1995 Jürgen Kohler (all previously played in Italy), Hitzfeld became German champions with Dortmund in the 1994/95 and 1995/96 seasons and won the UEFA Champions League season 1996/97  - in the finals again against Juventus. After winning this title, Hitzfeld resigned as a coach and became sports director at Borussia Dortmund. With the new coach Nevio Scala , the club won the World Cup in autumn 1997 .

Bayern Munich

On July 1, 1998, Hitzfeld became the coach of FC Bayern Munich . With this club he won the German championships of the 1998/99 , 1999/2000 , 2000/01 , 2002/03 seasons and the DFB Cup of the 1999/2000 and 2002/03 seasons , the UEFA Champions League of the 2000 season , in six seasons / 01 and the world Cup of the year 2001 .

Hitzfeld's contract, which ran until 2005, was prematurely terminated by Bayern on June 30, 2004 after the team had not won a title in the 2003/04 season . The manner of the dismissal was discussed controversially in the media and within the club. Hitzfeld's successor was Felix Magath . In November 2011, Hitzfeld admitted in a TV program on the Sport1 station that he was on the verge of burnout after six years in Bavaria . He himself no longer had the strength to terminate the employment relationship in 2004.

After the departure of the German team at the 2004 European Championships , Ottmar Hitzfeld received an offer from the DFB to succeed the resigned Rudi Völler as coach of the German national team, which he refused on July 1, 2004. Since he had brought himself up for discussion as a potential successor to Völler before the 2004 European Championship, he was heavily criticized for the surprising cancellation. Finally, the post was filled with the ex-player Jürgen Klinsmann .

From mid-2004, Hitzfeld initially stopped working as a football coach. Instead, as an expert for the pay TV broadcaster Premiere , he analyzed Bundesliga, Champions League and World Cup games.

In December 2006, Hitzfeld announced that he would like to end his break from coaching and return to work as a soccer coach for the 2007/08 season. Hitzfeld turned down requests from Hamburger SV and his former club Borussia Dortmund for immediate engagement as head coach at the beginning of the second half of the 2006/07 season.

Second time Bayern Munich

On February 1, 2007, Ottmar Hitzfeld succeeded his own successor Felix Magath, who had been on leave the day before, as coach at Bayern Munich. Michael Henke , who had already assisted Hitzfeld in the past at Borussia Dortmund and FC Bayern , stood by his side as assistant coach . Originally, Hitzfeld only wanted to work as a coach until the end of the season, but on March 15, 2007 he signed a contract extending beyond the 2006/07 season , which was dated to June 30, 2008. On January 2, 2008, Hitzfeld confirmed Bayern manager Uli Hoeneß's statement that he would not renew his contract. He ended the 2007/08 season by winning the double for Bayern Munich. Jürgen Klinsmann was his successor .

Swiss national team

From summer 2008 - after the European Championships - Hitzfeld coached the Swiss national team . To do this, he moved his residence back to his hometown Lörrach . The contract with the Swiss Football Association initially ran for two years until after the 2010 World Cup in South Africa and was extended early in August 2009 to mid-2012 and in March 2011 until 2014.

Hitzfeld got off to a mixed start in qualifying for the 2010 World Cup with the Swiss national team : A 2-2 draw in Tel Aviv against Israel after a 2-0 lead for Switzerland was followed by a 1-2 home defeat against Luxembourg . The team then improved continuously under the direction of Hitzfeld and qualified as group winners for the 2010 World Cup. There, Switzerland surprisingly won 1-0 in their first group game against the reigning European champions and eventual tournament winners Spain. After a defeat and a draw in the following games, the team did not get beyond the group stage.

In qualifying for the Euro 2012 , Switzerland finished third behind England and Montenegro and did not qualify for the European Championship . Hitzfeld was more successful with the national team in qualifying for the 2014 World Cup . The team remained undefeated in their group and was already a finalist one match day before the end of the qualification. In addition, Germany and Brazil were defeated in friendly matches . As a result, Switzerland was ranked sixth in the FIFA world rankings in June 2014 . On October 17, 2013, Hitzfeld announced the end of his coaching career after the 2014 World Cup . At the World Cup, Switzerland took second place in the group behind France in the preliminary round and thus reached the second round for the first time since 2006, where it was defeated by Argentina in extra time. With this departure, Hitzfeld ended his coaching and football career on July 1, 2014.

Success as a trainer

International

Switzerland

Germany

Others

  • Hitzfeld is one of five coaches who have managed to win the UEFA Champions League and the European Cup with two different clubs - alongside Ernst Happel , Jupp Heynckes , Carlo Ancelotti and José Mourinho ; but only Hitzfeld made it with two clubs from the same country.

Honors as a trainer
Hitzfeld quote on a soccer ball - detail of a modern Christmas crib in Heidelberg

Projects and engagements

Ottmar Hitzfeld supported the social project We are helping Africa for the 2010 Soccer World Cup in South Africa.

The Valais community of Staldenried named their new stadium with artificial turf in the hamlet of Gspon at an altitude of over 2000 meters as "Ottmar Hitzfeld Gspon Arena". The place is the highest soccer field in Europe (2008 m).

Since July 2008, Hitzfeld has been working as an expert for the pay TV channel Sky (formerly Premiere). He had already done this from September 2004 to February 2007.

Ottmar Hitzfeld is called “General” because of his factual nature. Hitzfeld is the nephew of General Otto Hitzfeld .

Ottmar Hitzfeld's statement can be read on a fair- produced, internationally approved tournament football specially made for the 2006 World Cup : “I draw from the power of positive thinking and daily conversation with God.” In 2014, he was in a modern Christmas crib in the Jesuit Church Heidelberg can be seen.

Ottmar Hitzfeld has been the ambassador of the Sepp Herberger Foundation of the German Football Association (DFB) since October 2016

Career overview in tabular form

Player career
period society title
1960-1967 GermanyGermany TuS Lörrach-Stetten
1967-1971 GermanyGermany FV Loerrach
1971-1975 SwitzerlandSwitzerland FC Basel 1972 : Swiss champion
1973 : Swiss champion
1975: Swiss cup winner
1975-1988 GermanyGermany VfB Stuttgart 1977: Promotion to the 1st Bundesliga
1978-1980 SwitzerlandSwitzerland FC Lugano 1979: Promotion to the National League A.
1980-1983 SwitzerlandSwitzerland FC Luzern
Coaching career
period society title
1983-1984 SwitzerlandSwitzerland SC train 1984 : Promotion to NLA
1984-1988 SwitzerlandSwitzerland FC Aarau 1985: Swiss Cup winner
1988-1991 SwitzerlandSwitzerland Grasshopper Club Zurich 1989: Swiss cup winner
1989: Supercup
winner
1990 : Swiss cup winner 1990 : Swiss champion
1991 : Swiss champion
1991-1997 GermanyGermany Borussia Dortmund 1995: Supercup winner
1995: German champion
1996: Supercup winner
1996: German champion
1997: Champions League
1998-2004 GermanyGermany FC Bayern Munich 1998: League Cup
1999: German Champion
1999: League Cup
2000: DFB-Pokal
2000: German Champion
2000: League Cup
2001: German Champion
2001: Champions League
2001: World Cup
2003: DFB-Pokal
2003: German Champion
2007-2008 GermanyGermany FC Bayern Munich 2007: League Cup
2008: DFB Cup
2008: German Champion
2008-2014 SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland 2009: direct qualification World Cup
2013: direct qualification World Cup

Web links

Commons : Ottmar Hitzfeld  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Most successful coach in the Bundesliga based on average points per game
  2. ^ Josef Hochstrasser: Ottmar Hitzfeld. The biography. Argon-Verlag, 2003, ISBN 3-87024-582-4 , p. 18.
  3. ^ Hochstrasser: Ottmar Hitzfeld. 2003, p. 48.
  4. ↑ List of the German team 1972 (PDF; 152 kB)
  5. ↑ Kicker Almanac 1995 . Copress Verlag, Munich 1994, ISBN 3-7679-0447-0 , p. 142.
  6. ↑ Kicker Almanach 1987, p. 104 - ISBN 3-7679-0245-1 .
  7. ↑ Interview with Ottmar Hitzfeld, Der Sonntag of August 10, 2014, p. 3.
  8. ↑ Swiss football statistics, www.rogerkaufmann.ch
  9. ↑ Relocation to Lörrach, www.bild.de
  10. ↑ Swiss Football Association: Ottmar Hitzfeld becomes national coach of Switzerland - Definitely: Ottmar Hitzfeld new national coach
  11. ↑ Hitzfeld extended until 2012
  12. ↑ Bern, dpa from March 5, 2011.
  13. ↑ Swiss Football Association
  14. ↑ Hitzfeld clears his chair. Tages-Anzeiger , October 17, 2013, accessed October 17, 2013 .
  15. ↑ "Gauchos" tremble into the quarterfinals. kicker.de , July 1, 2014, accessed on July 1, 2014 .
  16. ↑ Ottmar Hitzfeld honored In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . August 19, 2010.
  17. ↑ ... Honorary awards from the Bundesliga for coach Ottmar Hitzfeld and ... ( Memento of the original from January 27, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. to: presseportal.de . @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.presseportal.de
  18. ↑ Gala evening: Football slogan of the year by Gertjan Verbeek Nordbayern.de on October 24, 2014, accessed on October 24, 2014.
  19. ↑ Handelsblatt: Swiss artificial turf field named after Hitzfeld , accessed on October 29, 2013.
  20. ↑ WDR sport inside: Europe's highest sports field Video, accessed on March 5, 2013.
  21. ↑ The “General” turns 60
  22. ↑ St. Benno-Verlag: I believe in it! Christian football. Leipzig 2006 .
  23. ↑ Video: Hitzfeld is the new ambassador for the Sepp Herberger Foundation . In: DFB - German Football Association e. V. ( dfb.de [accessed on October 25, 2016]).
personal data
SURNAME Hitzfeld, Ottmar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH January 12, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Loerrach , Germany