Roland Weidle

Roland Weidle (born January 1, 1949 in Stuttgart ) is a former German soccer player who played 255 games with 19 goals in the Bundesliga from 1967 to 1979 .

career

VfB Stuttgart, 1967 to 1971

The offensive player Roland Weidle, who came to the youth department of VfB Stuttgart from TSV Rohr in 1966 , completed seven international matches in the youth national team of the DFB in 1967 . This included three games against France, Austria and Hungary in the UEFA youth tournament in Turkey in May. This was followed by immediate consideration for the German national soccer team of amateurs in the international match on May 25, 1967 in Constance against Italy. He made his debut alongside Gerhard Faltermeier and captain Dieter Zettelmaier .

Coach Gunther Baumann first used the young player on January 13, 1968 in the 1: 3 home defeat against Borussia Mönchengladbach in the Bundesliga. Weidle came on in the 75th minute for Bo Larsson from Sweden . In the second year, the talent from within the ranks got the opportunity to prove his skills in only three appearances. When Weidle broke up after the 1970/71 round at VfB, he had 27 games with two goals in the Bundesliga. He could not be satisfied with that and therefore tried a fresh start at Eintracht Frankfurt from the 1971/72 season .

Eintracht Frankfurt, 1971 to 1978

In addition to Weidle, the national players Ender Konca and Thomas Parits also came to the Main in 1971 . With Jürgen Grabowski , Horst Heese , Bernd Nickel and Thomas Rohrbach , coach Erich Ribbeck had other offensive players available, so that the 15 games with four goals from Weidle in his first Eintracht season were remarkable. The ex-Stuttgarter was able to improve his performance and was one of the regular players from the 1972/73 round with 33 league games. With coach Dietrich Weise , Weidle, who had moved into midfield, won the DFB Cup twice in 1974 and 1975 . With the same midfield line-up - Klaus Beverungen , Weidle, Bernd Nickel - Eintracht won the two finals against Hamburger SV in 1974 and against MSV Duisburg in 1975. Weidle and Co also ranked fourth and third in the Bundesliga to the top teams in these rounds. In the seventh year with the Hessen, Weidle saw the replacement of coach Gyula Lóránt on November 30, 1977 and the successor by Dettmar Cramer . Roland Weidle played his last Bundesliga game for Eintracht on April 29, 1978 in a 2-0 home win against Braunschweig. From 1971 to 1978 he had played 198 league games with 17 goals for Eintracht Frankfurt. In addition there were 32 cup games and 18 appearances in the European Cup . He opened the European appearances in the 1972/73 round against Liverpool and ended in the 1977/78 round against Grasshoppers Zurich . Weidle signed a new contract with Arminia Bielefeld for the 1978/79 season and moved to the Ostwestfalen-Lippe region.

Arminia Bielefeld, 1978 to 1980

Weidle opened in Bielefeld under coach Milovan Beljin and ended the season in 16th place after 30 appearances under coach Otto Rehhagel . He played his last Bundesliga game on June 2, 1979 in a 0-0 home draw against Hamburger SV. When he won the title in the 2nd Bundesliga in 1979/80, he made 21 appearances with one goal. After the ascent he ended his engagement at the Bielefelder Alm and left for AC Bellinzona in Switzerland in the canton of Ticino . Weidle stayed there until 1985 before he ended his playing career at FC Morobbia.

Trainer

Later he also worked as a trainer, u. a. at FC Biel-Bienne. After 12 years as a coach at FC Aarberg , Roland Weidle is now the sports director (president) at FC Aarberg.

literature

• 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 .
• Matthias Weinrich, Hardy Greens : Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 6: German Cup history since 1935. Pictures, statistics, stories, constellations. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2000, ISBN 3-89784-146-0 .
• 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 .
• Jürgen Bitter : Germany's football. The encyclopedia. Sportverlag, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-328-00857-8 .