Paul Holz (soccer player)

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Paul Wood
Personnel
birthday September 27, 1952
place of birth Bottrop ,  Germany
date of death December 11, 2017
size 178 cm
position midfield
Juniors
Years station
0000-1971 SV Rhenania Bottrop
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1971-1974 FC Schalke 04 59 (3)
1974-1975 VfL Bochum 34 (7)
1975-1976 Hannover 96 36 (6)
1977-1979 VfL Bochum 65 (6)
1979-1981 Borussia Dortmund 19 (0)
1981-1989 1. FC Bocholt ? (?)
1989-1991 VfL Rhede ? (?)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
Youth national team 10 (?)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
1989-1991 VfL Rhede (player coach)
1991-1992 1. FC Bocholt II
1 Only league games are given.

Paul Holz (born September 27, 1952 in Bottrop , † December 11, 2017 ) was a German football player . The midfielder played 201 games in the Bundesliga from 1971 to 1981 , scoring 21 goals. In addition, he came to twelve games in the second division with one goal.

Career

As a teenager, Holz played for Rhenania Bottrop. In the youth national team he played with Hartmut Huhse , among others ; he was discovered by Günter Siebert and signed for Schalke 04 . Here he had his first appearance on the first day of the 1971/72 season in a 5-1 win in Hanover ; he was substituted on for Huhse in the second half. After that he only made six more appearances in his first professional season, but was able to celebrate the runner-up and the cup victory.

After three years in Gelsenkirchen, he had to make room for Hannes Bongartz in Schalke's midfield and accepted an offer from district neighbor VfL Bochum . Just a year later he moved to Hannover 96 because of problems with coach Heinz Höher , with whom he was relegated to the second division at the end of the season. After half a year in the second division, he returned to Bochum for the second half of the 1976/77 season. In 1979 he then joined the third major club in the eastern Ruhr area, Borussia Dortmund , where he was active for two seasons. Then in 1981 wood moved to the second division relegated 1. FC Bocholt , for whom he played the following eight years in the Oberliga Nordrhein . In 1983/84 he failed with the club as a league champion when he returned to the 2nd Bundesliga . Then he let his career end from 1989 to 1991 as a player-coach of VfL Rhede in the association league.

Others

Holz lived in Bocholt and worked there for 32 years at Flender , a drive technology company . He was the first player to score a goal in a men's game in the then new Westfalenstadion . The opening game between BVB and FC Schalke 04, a benefit game in favor of the financially troubled BVB, ended 3-0, Holz scored the 1-0. Holz died after a serious illness at the age of 65.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Paul Holz played for arch enemies derwesten.de, August 18, 2014
  2. ↑ Ex-Bundesliga player Paul Holz died bbv-net.de, December 13, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Wood, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH September 27, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Bottrop
DATE OF DEATH December 11, 2017