Sepp Maier

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Sepp Maier
Sepp Maier, 1978.jpg
Maier at Johan Cruyff's farewell game in 1978
Personnel
Surname Josef Dieter Maier
birthday February 28, 1944
place of birth Metten ,  German Empire
size 185 cm
position goal
Juniors
Years station
1952-1959 TSV hair
1959-1962 FC Bayern Munich
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1962-1979 FC Bayern Munich 536 (0)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1961–1962 DFB youth selection 11 (0)
1963 Germany amateurs 4 (0)
1966-1979 Germany 95 (0)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
1988-2004 Germany (goalkeeping coach)
1994-2008 FC Bayern Munich (goalkeeping coach)
1 Only league games are given.

Josef Dieter "Sepp" Maier (born February 28, 1944 in Metten , Lower Bavaria ) is a former German soccer goalkeeper . With his 95 appearances he is the record goalkeeper of the German national team and with 699 competitive games far ahead of Oliver Kahn he is the record player of FC Bayern Munich , for whom he played for 17 years. In his active time he was one of the best goalkeepers in the world and was nicknamed "The Cat of Anzing ". He won all the important national and international titles: He was world champion , European champion and German champion , he also won the European Cup Winners' Cup and that of the national champions as well as the DFB Cup .

Career

youth

Sepp Maier was born as the second child of the married couple Josef and Maria Maier. He has an older brother named Horst and a four years younger brother named Hans. The family moved to Haar in 1946 , where he attended elementary school. There he also completed an apprenticeship as a machinist from 1958.

societies

In the B-youth of TSV Haar, Sepp Maier initially played a center forward and felt it was a shame every time he had to stand in goal ; in training he sometimes took over the position "for fun". After an injury to the goalkeeper, Maier was summoned between the posts during a cup game and did a good job. He stayed in goal from then on and was nominated for the Upper Bavarian youth selection. This is where scouts from FC Bayern Munich became aware of the talent and signed him for the A-youth in 1958 .

In 1962 Maier became a contract player , from the first regional league season in 1963/64 he replaced Fritz Kosar as a regular goalkeeper. Before he was promoted to the Bundesliga with FC Bayern Munich in 1965 , he won the national cup of amateurs with the selection of the Bavarian State Association in 1963 - with a 3-1 victory over the selection of Hesse . Maier won the German championship with Bayern in 1969 , 1972 , 1973 and 1974 , won the DFB Cup in 1966 , 1967 , 1969 and 1971 and the European Cup Winners ' Cup in 1967 .

Maier is considered to be one of the central figures of the team with which FC Bayern dominated on an international level and won the European Champions Cup in 1974 , 1975 and 1976 . In 1976 he won the World Cup with Bayern . Maier was voted Germany's Footballer of the Year in 1975, 1977 and 1978 and took over the position of team captain when Franz Beckenbauer left in 1977 .

On July 14, 1979 Maier was seriously injured in a road accident he was responsible for . During aquaplaning , Maier got off his lane and sped into an oncoming car, in which two women were slightly injured. The weekend service at the district hospital, to which Maier was delivered after the accident, did not recognize the severity of his injuries and only diagnosed a few broken ribs . It was only through his friend Uli Hoeneß , who had just become Bayern manager, that he was referred to the Bavarian club doctor, who ordered Maier to be transferred to the Großhadern hospital . X-rays were first made here, which in turn showed a tear in the lung ; the liver had pushed in, the diaphragm was torn and Maier also had a collection of two and a half liters of blood in his abdominal cavity. Maier was only able to survive through an emergency operation.

He started training again on November 26, 1979, but then had to end his career. In 14 years as a Bundesliga player at Bayern Munich, he was only absent on three match days of the 1965/66 season ; Fritz Kosar took his place on the 10th, 11th and 34th matchdays . His 442 top division games played in a row - out of a total of 473 - mean a world record to this day. Walter Junghans became his successor in the Bayern goal . Shortly before his serious accident, Maier had received an offer from the NASL franchise New York Cosmos , in which Franz Beckenbauer had been active for two years. The rumored annual salary: one million marks. Maier declined this offer, however, and told the German media: "Maybe I'll be in the Cosmonaut Gate in two years, but only for one summer, because Bavaria remains Bavaria."

His farewell game on June 4, 1980 in the Munich Olympic Stadium, in which the German national team defeated Bayern 3-1 in front of 78,000 spectators, was not without conflict. Maier berated Bayern coach Pál Csernai , who then left his place on the supervisor's bench prematurely. With the money from his occupational disability insurance , Maier subsequently bought a tennis park with which, according to his own statement, he earned more than during his active time as a football player. In later years, especially after his retirement from football, he worked as a golfer , among other things .

National team

After he was in the goal of the DFB youth team under coach Helmut Schön in 1961 , he played his first game in the national team in 1966 . Maier made his debut on May 4th in a 4-0 win over Ireland in Dublin. He was also part of the squad for the 1966 World Cup finals in England, but was not used there as a substitute for Hans Tilkowski . In 1969 he was the No. 1 in the German goal. At the subsequent World Cup in Mexico in 1970 , he was eliminated with the German national team in the semifinals. He described the defeat in the game of the century against Italy as his greatest defeat. At the European Championship in Belgium in 1972, he won his first title with the German national team.

His greatest success came at the 1974 World Cup in his own country. He made his best international match in the Frankfurt Water Battle. Against the strong Poles, he parried brilliantly several times and thus secured the finals. He confirmed this performance in the final. Especially in the second half, the Dutch turned up. "Maier! Again and again Maier ”, shouted TV commentator Rudi Michel after Maier had parried several times in a world class manner. In the end, Sepp Maier became world champion with the German national team - his greatest triumph.

At the 1976 European Championship, Maier reached the finals with the German national team. The German national team lost this after a penalty shoot-out, and he did not save a penalty. At the 1978 World Cup, Maier retired with the German national team after a 2: 3 defeat against Austria in the second round.

With 95 international matches , Maier is Germany's record national goalkeeper. In his last six international matches in 1978/79 he was captain of the national team.

Private life

Maier is married for the second time and has a daughter from his first marriage.

Successes as a player (selection)

Sepp Maier with the World Cup trophy after winning the final at the 1974 World Cup in Munich's Olympic Stadium

National team

Bavaria

FC Bayern Munich

Awards

As the goalkeeper of the German national soccer team, which won the World Cup in 1974, he and his teammates were awarded the Silver Laurel Leaf in the same year . In 1978 he received the Federal Cross of Merit . He received the award for kicker goalkeeper of the year in 1976, 1977 and 1978. Between 1966 and 1979 he was classified as world class six times and 21 times in the international class in the ranking of German football .

He was inducted into the Hall of Fame of German Sports in 2014 and into the first eleven of the Hall of Fame of German Football at the German Football Museum in 2018 . In 2018 the Sky of Fame was opened in the Stachus -Passagen , in which Munich personalities are honored with a ceiling painting. Sepp Maier shows one of the first four ceiling paintings.

Activity as a goalkeeper coach

Sepp Maier in the show Markus Lanz (2012)

From 1994 to 2008 Maier was goalkeeping coach at Bayern Munich . From 1988 to October 10, 2004 he was also the goalkeeping coach of the German national team. He was dismissed from this position by national coach Jürgen Klinsmann after there had been differences over the goalkeeper question. Maier had spoken out in public for Oliver Kahn and against Jens Lehmann .

Successes as a goalkeeper coach (selection)

National team

FC Bayern Munich

Others

  • The goalkeeper described his recipe for success in Bavarian : “If you are right to the ball, you need to be good.” In addition, he earned a reputation as a joker with numerous comical interludes, including a scene when he was diving for a duck during a game.
  • He was one of the first goalkeepers who experimented with soft foam and rubber materials on goalkeeper gloves during their active days . Together with the sporting goods manufacturer Reusch , he was involved in the development of the first so-called soft-grip goalkeeper gloves.
  • Maier is also known for his rather unusual training methods. Some exercise equipment is sold under his name.
  • In the early 1980s he was the face of the Heide-Park advertising .
  • Sepp Maier is the officially appointed ambassador for the German José Carreras Leukemia Foundation .
  • On February 13, 1971, on the 21st day of the Bundesliga, when Rot-Weiss Essen played against Bayern (result 3: 1) in the Georg Melches Stadium , throwing attacks against Maier. First it was a beer bottle, then a knife about 20 cm long. Maier then ran to referee Jan Redelfs with the Corpus Delicti . As it turned out, the thrower was a drunk 16-year-old.
  • He had a supporting role in the film adaptation of Ludwig Thomas Lausbubengeschichten in the 1970s in the episode When Ludwig moves into maneuvers .
  • In 1976 he received the Heron Order of the Narrhalla Erding Carnival Society.

literature

  • My goalkeeping school. Tips and tricks from the national goalkeeper. Heyne, 1979.
  • I'm not a fool. Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 1980.
  • The goalkeeper book. Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 1984.
  • Super goalkeeper training. Falken, Niedernhausen / Taunus 1990.
  • With fun to success. Wero Press, Pfaffenweiler 1990.
  • Who dances with the ball ... Europa Verlag, Hamburg / Vienna 2000.

Web links

Commons : Sepp Maier  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Biogrphie Sepp Maier . In: whoswho.de. Retrieved May 27, 2019.
  2. ↑ Page no longer available , search in web archives: How's Sepp Maier? SWR TV portrait from August 6, 2012.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / swrmediathek.de
  3. ↑ a b Profile on Sepp Maier's website, accessed on May 27, 2019.
  4. ^ Günter Wiese: Goalkeeping legend Sepp Maier and his abrupt farewell. In: kicker.de . April 17, 2020, accessed April 19, 2020 .
  5. ↑ a b c d e f g h Sepp Maier only survived thanks to Hoeneß , accessed on April 22, 2020
  6. ↑ Maier is training again . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna November 24, 1979, p. 23 , column 3, middle ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  7. ^ Matthias Arnhold: Josef Dieter Maier - Matches in Bundesliga . RSSSF . July 26, 2012. Retrieved February 14, 2019.
  8. ↑ a b c Muras, Udo and Strasser, Patrick: Gerd Müller. The nation's bomber. Riva Verlag, Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-86883-700-1 , p. 158 .
  9. ↑ Maier in a clinch with trainer Csernai . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna June 6, 1980, p. 14 , column 2, below ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  10. ↑ Jaroslaw Owsianski: Josef Dieter Maier - International Appearances . RSSSF . March 25, 2005. Retrieved February 16, 2019.
  11. ^ Günter Wiese: Interview . In: Rainer Holzschuh (Ed.): Kicker . No. 5 . Olympia-Verlag GmbH, Nuremberg, p. 17 .
  12. ↑ Martin Messerer: World and European champions . In: Rainer Holzschuh (Ed.): Kicker . Olympia-Verlag GmbH, Nuremberg, p. 63 .
  13. ↑ Goalkeeper legend Sepp Maier turns 65 ( Memento from April 21, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) In: rp-online.de. Retrieved January 3, 2020, p. 10.
  14. ↑ Eleven soccer legends and a coach icon. ( Memento from November 23, 2018 in the Internet Archive )
  15. ↑ SKY OF FAME , stachuspassagen.de, accessed on January 3, 2020
  16. ↑ Heide-Park Flyer from 1981.
  17. ↑ Commercials. ( Memento from August 29, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) In: heide-park-world.de.
  18. ↑ This is how football becomes life-threatening . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna February 16, 1971, p. 15 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
personal data
SURNAME Maier, Sepp
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Maier, Josef Dieter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer goalkeeper
DATE OF BIRTH February 28, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Metten