Peter Dietrich (soccer player)

Peter Dietrich
Personnel
birthday	March 6, 1944
place of birth	Neu-Isenburg ,  Germany
size	177 cm
position	midfield
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1962-1964	SpVgg Neu-Isenburg
1964-1966	ESV Ingolstadt-Ringsee
1966-1967	Red and white food	28 (3)
1967-1971	Borussia Monchengladbach	103 (11)
1971-1976	Werder Bremen	82 (7)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1970	Germany	1 (0)
1 Only league games are given.

Peter Dietrich (born March 6, 1944 in Neu-Isenburg ) is a former German football player .

career

Beginning and Regionalliga Süd until 1966

The football player's career began in his hometown of Neu-Isenburg . At the age of 19 he played with the local Spvgg. 03 Neu-Isenburg in the newly created Regionalliga Süd . The game association had played in the second division south since the 1956/57 round and had qualified for the sub-structure, the Regionalliga Süd, after the Bundesliga was founded. The young player's first appearance was on September 15, 1963, the seventh matchday, in the away game against SV Waldhof Mannheim . He scored his first goal two game days later, on October 6, 1963 in a 1-1 draw against ESV Ingolstadt-Ringsee . The Red-Whites vom Buchenbusch rose after 38 match days with 27:49 points in the Hessian amateur league. The junior player had scored eight goals in 29 appearances.

Dietrich accepted an offer from ESV Ingolstadt and moved to Upper Bavaria in 1964. Under coach Emil Izsó , the 20-year-old also became a regular player for the black and whites and finished 12th with his new club at the end of the round in 1964/65. The newcomer from Neu-Isenburg scored nine goals in 29 competitive games. In the second year in Ingolstadt he experienced relegation from the regional league. Despite the twelve-time amateur national stopper Wilhelm Zott and the top scorer of the Regionalliga Süd, Willibald Mikulasch with 29 goals, alongside midfielder Peter Dietrich, who in turn had played 29 games for ESV and scored eight goals, ESV Ingolstadt rose in 16th place the 1965/66 season from the Regionalliga Süd. From 1963 to 1966, Dietrich played a total of 87 games in the South Regional Football League and scored 25 goals.

Bundesliga, Rot-Weiss Essen 1966 to 1967

The runner-up of the Regionalliga West 1965/66, Rot-Weiss Essen , had prevailed in the promotion round in 1966 against FC St. Pauli , 1. FC Saarbrücken and 1. FC Schweinfurt 05 and was promoted to the Bundesliga . In addition to goalkeeper Fred-Werner Bockholt (VfB Bottrop) and midfielder Heinz Simmet (Borussia Neunkirchen), Peter Dietrich was among the newcomers for the team from Hafenstrasse . Trainer Fritz Pliska already used him in the opening game of the 1966/67 season, on August 20, 1966, at MSV Duisburg . Since RWE only managed a home win in the second half of the season with a 3-1 win against Karlsruher SC in March 1967 - the red-whites had a total of seven draws in the Georg Melches Stadium - Dietrich was involved in the third relegation of a club. RWE was relegated from the Bundesliga in the summer of 1967 and the ex-Neu-Isenburg moved to Borussia Mönchengladbach after 28 Bundesliga games and three goals.

Borussia Mönchengladbach and national team, 1967 to 1971

In the summer of 1967, coach Hennes Weisweiler had to get over the departures of the two strikers Jupp Heynckes and Bernd Rupp . He tried to absorb the sporting loss through the newcomers Peter Meyer , Klaus Ackermann and Peter Dietrich. Already on the first match day of the 1967/68 round, on August 19, 1967 in the 4: 3 success at Schalke, he had sent the midfield line-up with Dietrich, Günter Netzer and Herbert L Genealogie onto the field. It was the "classic" formation of the 4: 3: 3 system with a defensive, a game-making and an attacking midfielder. Dietrich entrusted Weisweiler with the defensive protection in Gladbach's midfield. He interpreted this role with great willingness to run, tactical discipline and a fine talent for combination. Dietrich immediately made 32 appearances in the “foal” team and reached third place in the table with the club. Due to a back operation, he only got ten games in the 1968/69 round. With the healthy Peter Dietrich, he played 33 games with five goals, Mönchengladbach brought the first German championship to the Bökelberg in 1970 .

Due to his consistently good performance in the championship team, national coach Helmut Schön appointed him to the national team's final course for the 1970 World Cup in Mexico from May 4 to 14, 1970 at the Malente sports school . As part of this course, two final international preparatory matches were played: on May 9 in Berlin against Ireland and on May 13 in Hanover against Yugoslavia. In Berlin, Peter Dietrich came on for Jürgen Grabowski in the 46th minute , making his international debut. It was not used in Hanover. He was part of the 22-man squad for the World Cup, but injured himself in training (he bent over) and was unable to take advantage of his chance to play. After the World Cup he was again on the squad for the international match on October 17, 1970 in Cologne against Turkey.

As a member of the squad for this World Cup, he received - like all other squad members called up for the games - the Silver Laurel Leaf. In the 1970/71 season Mönchengladbach succeeded as the first team in the Bundesliga to defend the German championship. Dietrich played 28 games with three goals. The matches in the European Cup of the champions against FC Everton were also outstanding in this round . In both games against the English champions from Liverpool, Dietrich was in Gladbach's midfield. In the home game, as on the island, they separated with 1: 1 goals. Since the overtime did not bring a decision at Goodison Park on November 4, 1970, the penalty shoot-out decided 4: 3 for the English.

Werder Bremen and end of career, 1971 to 1976

After four laps on the Bökelberg, Dietrich and his team-mate Herbert L Bäumen accepted an offer from Werder Bremen to move to the Weser in 1971 . At Bremen Dietrich, who was supposed to play the leading role in midfield, only made eight games in the 1971/72 round due to illness and injury. In five rounds at Werder Bremen, 1971/72 to 1975/76, it was never enough to achieve a top position. Dietrich played his last Bundesliga game on February 21, 1976 in the 1-0 defeat against Eintracht Braunschweig under coach Herbert Burdenski . Against Braunschweig, Werder played in midfield with Röber, Hiller, Dietrich and Bracht. When Otto Rehhagel took over as coach on the Weser on February 29, Dietrich was no longer available and ended his career in the summer of 1976 with 82 games and seven goals for Werder Bremen. He played 213 games in the top German division between 1966 and 1976 and scored 21 goals.

Due to his susceptibility to injury, Peter Dietrich was often forced to start over again. He had to survive his first back operation as early as 1968. Two more operations followed, meniscus, groin and Achilles tendon complaints. Apparently, chronic weakness of the connective tissue led to these susceptibilities.

literature

• Jürgen Bitter : Germany's football. The encyclopedia. Sportverlag, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-328-00857-8 .
• Jürgen Bitter : Germany's national soccer player: the lexicon . SVB Sportverlag, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-328-00749-0 .
• Hardy Greens : From the Crown Prince to the Bundesliga . In: Encyclopedia of German League Football . tape 1 . AGON, Kassel 1996, ISBN 3-928562-85-1 .
• Matthias Kropp: Triumphs in the European Cup. All games of the German clubs since 1955 (= AGON Sportverlag statistics. Volume 20). AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 1996, ISBN 3-928562-75-4 .
• Matthias Weinrich: Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 3: 35 years of the Bundesliga. Part 1. The founding years 1963–1975. Stories, pictures, constellations, tables. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 1998, ISBN 3-89784-132-0 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Information given to the Bundestag by the Federal Government on September 29, 1973 - printed matter 7/1040 - Annex 3, pages 54 ff., Here p. 59.