Peter Reichel (soccer player)

Peter Reichel (born November 30, 1951 in Gießen ) is a former German soccer player who, as a defender for Eintracht Frankfurt, played 225 games in the Bundesliga from 1970 to 1978 and scored nine goals. He won the DFB Cup with Frankfurt in 1974 and 1975 and was used twice in the German national soccer team .

career

In 1961, when he was a youth at VfB Gießen , the student Peter Reichel began playing soccer. At the latest after his appointments by the DFB in October and November 1969 to the German national youth soccer team for the international matches against the Netherlands and Denmark, he drew attention to his above-average talent for defensive play. He was in the four successful qualifying matches for the UEFA youth tournament in Scotland in 1970 against Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia and was a member of the DFB squad for the youth tournament . In all three group matches against Wales, Switzerland and the Netherlands, he and Hartmut Huhse formed the German defenders. In total, the talent from Gießen played ten international matches for the DFB youth.

Right full-back Peter Reichel received a professional contract with Eintracht Frankfurt in 1970 . He gave up on the first day of the new season, on August 15, 1970 at the home game against Hamburger SV, in the team of coach Erich Ribbeck and at the side of goalkeeper Peter Kunter and defensive colleagues Karl-Heinz Wirth , Friedel Lutz and Lothar Schämer , his debut in the Bundesliga and from then on belonged to the regular formation in the Frankfurt back team. In 1974 and 1975 he won the DFB Cup twice and played for Eintracht until his sports disability in 1979. Reichel experienced the most successful season with coach Dietrich Weise 1974/75, when he was able to occupy third place in the Bundesliga and also managed to defend the cup. In addition to the Bundesliga appearances, he played 34 games in the DFB Cup and 17 international games in the European Cup for Eintracht. In the European Cup Winners' Cup he was eliminated in 1975/76 after a 2-1 home win in March 1976 by a 1: 3 away defeat on April 14 in the semi-finals against West Ham United .

National coach Helmut Schön called him twice in the national team . On December 20, 1975, he came on in the 74th minute of the friendly against Turkey for Bernard Dietz . The game was won 5-0 in Istanbul . He had his second use on April 24, 1976 in the quarter-final first leg of the European Football Championship 1976 in Madrid against Spain . Here he was substituted in for Bernard Dietz in the 83rd minute of the game. The game ended 1-1 and Germany qualified in the second leg for the finals in Yugoslavia. In 1976 and 1977 Reichel made seven international matches in the B national team .

After the game on August 12, 1978, which Eintracht lost 4-0 at FC Schalke 04, he said goodbye to the Bundesliga, was reamateurised and played for the Eintracht amateurs in the Oberliga Hessen until 1982 .

Next to the soccer field

In addition to his professional activities as a licensed player, the high school graduate successfully completed a teaching degree and taught mathematics and sport. First in Frankfurt-Sossenheim, then in the Anne Frank Realschule am Dornbusch.

literature

• Ulrich Matheja: "Schlappekicker and Heavenly Storms". The story of Eintracht Frankfurt . Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2004, ISBN 3-89533-427-8 .
• Jürgen Bitter : Germany's national soccer player: the lexicon . SVB Sportverlag, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-328-00749-0 .

Web links

• Peter Reichel in the database of weltfussball.de
• Peter Reichel in the database of fussballdaten.de
• Peter Reichel in the Eintracht archive