Sigfried Held

Sigfried Held
Sigfried Held 2005
Personnel
birthday	August 7, 1942
place of birth	Freudenthal ,  German Empire
size	178 cm
position	Sturm , midfield
Juniors
Years	station
	TV Marktheidenfeld
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
0000-1963	TV Marktheidenfeld
1963-1965	Kickers Offenbach	66 (24)
1965-1971	Borussia Dortmund	183 (41)
1971-1977	Kickers Offenbach	204 (35)
1977-1979	Borussia Dortmund	47 0(3)
1979	SC Preußen Münster	11 0(1)
1979-1981	Bayer 05 Uerdingen	59 0(3)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
	Germany Juniors U 23	1 00
1966-1973	Germany	41 (5)
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
1981-1983	FC Schalke 04
1984	BV 08 Lüttringhausen
1986-1989	Iceland
1989-1990	Galatasaray Istanbul
1991-1993	FC Admira / Wacker
1993-1994	1. FC Dynamo Dresden
1995	Gamba Osaka
1996-1998	VfB Leipzig
2001-2003	Malta
2004-2005	Thailand
1 Only league games are given.

Sigfried Held (born August 7, 1942 in Freudenthal , Reichsgau Sudetenland , German Reich ), also called Sigi or Siggi Held, is a former German football player and coach . From 1965 to 1981, the offensive player played a total of 422 games in the Bundesliga with the clubs Kickers Offenbach , Borussia Dortmund , Preußen Münster and Bayer 05 Uerdingen , scoring 72 goals. In these 18 rounds of activity in the 1st and 2nd league of top German football there were 49 appearances (4 goals) in the 2nd Bundesliga , 99 regional league games (31 goals), 47 games for the DFB Cup (8 goals) and eleven Appearances in the European Cup Winners' Cup (4 goals). In club dress, winning the European Cup in 1966 was the greatest success of the strong-running dribbler and flanker on the left wing.

With the national soccer team , Held contested two successful world championship tournaments in 1966 and 1970 and from 1966 to 1973 he played 41 international matches with five goals in the team of national coach Helmut Schön . As a coach he worked with FC Schalke 04 and Dynamo Dresden in the Bundesliga, with FC Admira Wacker Mödling in the Austrian Bundesliga and he was also the national coach in Iceland , Malta and Thailand .

Life

Born in 1942 in the Sudetenland, the hero arrived at the end of World War II with his parents and brother in Würzburg, where the family was immediately assigned to the refugee camp in Marktheidenfeld , the so-called "Düsseldorfer Siedlung". His father soon found employment in the Marktheidenfeld train station. Regular visits to the local gymnastics club's sports field, to which his football-loving father took him when he was very young, shaped his young years. The emergency situation after the end of the war, in the years of the new beginning it was all about survival, in which the Held family found itself, owed "Siggi" Held that he was occupied with football from an early age and was enthusiastic about it. The cramped living conditions alone prevented the children of this generation from becoming couch potatoes. Regardless of the weather, the children and teenagers had to go out and were mostly outside the apartment. They played soccer. For hours her enthusiasm was only for the ball, until at some point the parents made themselves known and was called home to eat. Held addresses this daily, almost non-stop (game) training, combined with a corresponding talent, as the “key to later success”. And in retrospect, he recognizes another factor that should have a major impact on his sporting career, discipline.

The TVM became the first sporting home of the boy and youth "Siggi" Held. After successfully completing school, he completed a commercial apprenticeship with a tax advisor. His next professional step would have been to learn the profession of tax advisor, because he was chosen to take over the office of a relative in the future. After completing his training, the player in the 1st team at TV Marktheidenfeld joined the German armed forces. His discovery for top football was a long time coming; Held suspects that Kickers Offenbach came across him by chance during a game against an Offenbach suburban team. His time at TV Marktheidenfeld came to an end in 1963, after making contact from Offenbach for the 1963/64 season, he moved to the second-rate Regionalliga Süd to the Kickers from the stadium on Bieberer Berg .

Career

Club soccer

The former amateur from Marktheidenfeld made his debut on the third round match day, August 18, 1963, with a 1-0 outward win at Ulm 1846, in the Regionalliga Süd. He played in the team of coach Hans Merkle alongside players like Gerhard Kaufhold , Oskar Lotz , Hermann Nuber and Siegfried Gast in the attack on the half-left and learned the outstanding class of the World Cup goalkeeper from 1962 in Chile, Wolfgang Fahrian , in the game against Ulm Know the host's pages. The start as a contract footballer was made difficult by his membership in the Bundeswehr. The Hammelburg garrison showed no particular interest in his sporting career, on the contrary. Participation in the regular training in Offenbach was excluded, so that he had to be trained twice a week by coach Merkle in Hammelburg. However, the situation arose that a course for talented Bundeswehr soldiers with the aim of participating in the upcoming soccer military world championship was held. The selection was trained by DFB trainer Dettmar Cramer , who was Sepp Herberger's assistant . The outgoing national coach took the view that “this young man deserves a chance” when he saw Held for the first time at an audition in the Frankfurt Waldstadion. “I liked him very much, the right storm leader who will solve the upcoming tasks.” Held was therefore twice in action: as a regional league player from Kickers Offenbach and in the military selection. In October 1963 the Offenbach player was transferred to Darmstadt and the opportunity to participate in training in Offenbach was significantly improved. In his first regional league year, 1963/64, Held scored nine goals for Offenbach in 33 league appearances and the Kickers ranked third.

In his second season, 1964/65 , he improved his hit rate to 15 goals. But again only the third place came out and thus the promotion round was missed for the second time in a row. His rapid assaults, dribbling, his ability to combine and never flagging commitment had already drawn the DFB's attention to the striker from Offenbach: On June 25, 1965, the regional league player led the attack of the German junior national team U 23 in the international match against England. In the 1-0 success in Freiburg he was supported on the right by Horst Gecks and Hans Schulz in the then still usual World Cup system , and on the left by Johannes Löhr and Horst Wild . The sporting director of the national military team was Major Ottmar Rein, and he had excellent connections with Borussia Dortmund and thanks to his mediation, Held moved to Dortmund after two years in Offenbach. He was the first Borussia player who did not come from the Ruhr area or West Germany.

The first season in Dortmund 1965/66 was extremely successful for the young striker Held. Together with Reinhard Libuda and Lothar Emmerich , he formed an attack that also met international demands. After his debut at BVB, the press (kicker) read the following description: “He doesn't smoke, he doesn't drink and he saves. Siggi Held lives spartanly as a furnished gentleman in a room in Dortmund. This simple life guarantees the hero’s original game, its explosiveness. Held is a taciturn man. He prefers to listen to others rather than talking. He cannot and does not want to deny the franc. Held, who will be 24 on August 7, grew up in Marktheidenfeld in Lower Franconia. ”Held himself, in retrospect, states in his biography:“ Well, that's how legends arise. ”During this time, his great friendship with Lothar also began Emmerich. Many common, personal and sporting experiences connected the two over the years. Held was a strong dribbler and preparer, and "Emma" became the ruthless executor of his templates. The British press dubbed the storm duo Emmerich-Held "the terrible twins"; In the partnership with Held Emmerich became the most dangerous striker far and wide, which is why the British press called "Emma" as the "third leg" of Held. In the European Cup winners' Cup, the team with coach Willy Multhaup defeated the clubs FC Floriana from Valletta , ZSKA Sofia , Atlético Madrid and defending champion West Ham United in the semi-finals . After the 3-1 home win against West Ham, Weinrich noted: “As in the first leg, Siggi Held was the outstanding player on the hosts' side, while Gerd Cyliax had the right to fix the final score.” On May 5, 1966, they won in Glasgow the final against the clear favorites Liverpool FC . Held had brought BVB into the lead in the 61st minute. Through his performances this season in the Bundesliga (30 games with 11 goals and the runner-up ) and European Cup, Held became a national player on February 23, 1966 against England in London and was with the national team in the World Cup final against England on July 30, 1966 (2: 4 a.d.).

In the second Dortmund year, 1966/67, Held (29 games - eight goals) and colleagues reached 3rd place, but were eliminated in the European Cup in November / December 1966 in the 2nd round against Glasgow Rangers (1: 2, 0 : 0)

In particular, the unfortunate succession plan in the coaching area for the successful coach Multhaup, who had migrated to 1. FC Köln - Heinz Murach , Oswald Pfau , Helmut Schneider , Hermann Lindemann and Horst Witzler tried as heirs - ensured a significant step backwards for the Black Yellow, the consistently good performance of “Siggi” Held couldn't change that. In the summer of 1971, he returned to his starting position after six rounds of the Bundesliga at Borussia Dortmund with a total of 183 league games and 41 goals, and he signed a contract with Kickers Offenbach for the second time. Offenbach played in the second-rate Regionalliga Süd and tried with all their might to return to the Bundesliga immediately.

The international striker immediately met expectations at Bieberer Berg and was instrumental in the rise of the Kickers to the Bundesliga in 1971/72 at the side of goal scorer Erwin Kostedde (27 goals like Wolfgang Breuer from runner-up Bayern Hof). With furious attacking football (99:33 goals) Offenbach won the championship under coach Kuno Klötzer and also prevailed in the promotion round, albeit very narrowly, ahead of the strongest rival Rot-Weiss Essen. In the Bundesliga, however, the newcomer relied on coach Gyula Lóránt and reached 7th place in 1972/73; Held had played in all 34 round games and scored eight goals. In April 1974 the Hungarian was replaced by his previous assistant Otto Rehhagel .

Held and colleagues got off to a furious start in the 1974/75 round: On the first day of the match, August 24, 1974, they overran the European Cup winners 6-0 and Bayern Munich, who had five world champions. Held scored in the 57th minute to make it 4-0. With Dieter Schwemmle , Norbert Janzon , Kostedde and Held, trainer Rehhagel had put full emphasis on offensive and speed, plus offensive full-back Manfred Ritschel and the running miracle Winfried Schäfer in midfield. On the ninth game day, OFC turned a 2-0 half-time deficit in the Bremen Weserstadion in the second 45 minutes into a 6-3 success; Held scored the final score in the 88th minute. Eight days later, a 4: 3 home win against the eventual champions Borussia Mönchengladbach was achieved, as a 1: 2 half-time deficit was converted into a victory. Offenbach even led the table in November. In the last four round games there were four defeats in a row and the exhausted Kickers fell back to eighth place with 38:30 points and 72:62 goals. "Siggi" Held scored eight goals in 31 appearances. Before the 1975/76 season Offenbach lost the top performers Fred-Werner Bockholt (goalkeeper), striker Kostedde and midfield stabilizer Schäfer. These departures were to be replaced by the newcomers Bernd Helmschrot , Hermann Bitz , Günter Oleknavicius and Gernot Rohr . After the 17th matchday, December 6, 1975, the time of coach Rehhagel on the Bieberer Berg was over; The Kickers graced the end of the table with 12:22 points. Not only the athletically weakened squad had led to the crash; In addition to the disharmony with managing director Konrad, there were also problems with the trainer that led to bans by the DFB court of arbitration. The first sentence with a month's suspension and a 3,000 mark fine was bridged by the help of ex-trainer Paul Oßwald , but after the home game on September 6, 1975 against Eintracht Frankfurt (2: 1), referee Walter Eschweiler Rehhagel had already returned Match report noted with remarks that led to the next process. The verdict followed on December 8th, the sports court of the DFB pronounced a ban until February 15th, 1976, plus a 5,000 mark fine. The next morning the association announced the termination without notice.

Now, from January 1, 1976, Held and his team-mates experienced Zlatko "Tschik" Cajkovski's training work . The best time of the former successful coach at 1. FC Cologne and Bayern Munich was already over, he could not bring Offenbach back on the road to success. The goal yield with 40:72 hits was a blatant decrease compared to the previous year, when the offensive to Held and Kostedde had scored 72 goals. The Dane Lars Bastrup , who was re-signed in the winter, was just as unable to get rid of the misery in the attack with two hits as "Siggi" Held with three hits, the discrepancies in the team and in the club, which inhibited performance.

The 34-year-old hero went down to the 2nd Bundesliga with the Kickers, as did coach Cajkovski. The time for “Kugelblitz” was up in October, and it was replaced by Udo Klug . The race for the first two places in the 2nd League South 1976/77, however, made the VfB Stuttgart and TSV Munich 1860 among themselves, even though the Kickers had an excellent start in the round. After the tenth match day, the team around Held and Wolfgang Rausch led the table with 17: 3 points, two points ahead of FC Homburg and three points ahead of VfB Stuttgart. After defeats against the Stuttgarter Kickers (1: 2), FC Homburg (1: 2), Röchling Völklingen (2: 5) and 1860 Munich (0: 4) Offenbach finished the first half of the season with 26:12 points in 4th place, tied with 1860 Munich in second place. The Munich “Löwen” survived the second half of the season with just eight minus points, VfB with nine, Offenbach with eleven, so the OFC had to be content with third place. Senior Held was now simply no longer a goalscorer, but a playmaker, endurance runner and template giver who came over the left wing. He played all 38 rounds and scored three goals. Libero and penalty shooter Rausch headed the internal goalscorer list with 18 goals and “Siggis” closest friend Lothar Emmerich, the goalscorer list of the 2nd Bundesliga South, with 24 goals for FV Würzburg 04.

He then played again for his old club Borussia Dortmund (1977–1979) and between 1979 and 1981 he added 59 Bundesliga games for Bayer 05 Uerdingen . He scored three more goals each and contributed significantly to the amazed relegation of the Uerdingen under coach Horst Buhtz in the 1979/80 season. The veteran had opened the 1979/80 round at Preußen Münster in the 2nd Bundesliga North (11 games - 1 goal), before returning to the 1st division with the game on October 27, 1979, a 2-2 at Hamburger SV. Bundesliga returned. With the game on June 13, 1981 at Bayern Munich (0: 4), "Siggi" Held said goodbye as an active player from the Bundesliga. After 18 rounds of football in the Regionalliga, 2nd Bundesliga and 1st Bundesliga, he switched to the coaching side. For the 1981/82 season he took over the coaching position at FC Schalke 04 in the 2nd Bundesliga.

National team

As a national player , Held played 41 games from 1966 to 1973, scoring five times for Germany. He made his debut on February 23, 1966 in London in the 1-0 defeat by England . Together with Werner Krämer , Franz Beckenbauer , Günter Netzer and Heinz Hornig, he formed the attacking team of national coach Helmut Schön. He was runner-up at the 1966 World Cup, and third in 1970 . With the entire national team he was awarded the Silver Laurel Leaf as Vice World Champion in 1966. At the World Cup in England, the Dortmund player had played all six games with the German national team; in the 1970 tournament in Mexico he came on three missions, since the national coach had four strong wingers with Reinhard Libuda , Jürgen Grabowski , Johannes Löhr and Held available. Among them was the game against Italy, which went down in history as the “game of the century ” .

In the 3-1 win on April 29, 1972 in England, the quarter-finals of the 1972 European Championship , Held was a player from the second-rate Regionalliga Süd in the "Wembley-Elf" . At the European Championship finals in Belgium he was not part of the team; In the period from May 22 to June 25, 1972, the Bundesliga promotion round was held in Germany, while at the same time (on June 14 and 18) the finals were held in Belgium. In consultation with national coach Helmut Schön , Held played for his club Kickers Offenbach and managed to return to the Bundesliga with the OFC. In his place, Erwin Kremers from FC Schalke 04 stormed on the left wing of the DFB team.

In the first half of the 1973/74 World Cup season, Held stormed on November 14, 1973 in Glasgow, in a 1-1 draw against Scotland, for the last time in the national team. As a center forward, he represented the injured Gerd Müller . At the beginning of May 1974 he was still in the 40 squad, which was reported to FIFA, but he was no longer invited to the World Cup final course in Malente, which began on May 29, and thus did not take part in his third World Cup tournament in Germany in 1974. The national coach now relied on Jupp Heynckes , Bernd Hölzenbein and Dieter Herzog .

Trainer

After his playing career, he became a club coach and in this role was in charge of FC Schalke 04 from July 1981 to January 1983 , with whom he won the championship in the 2nd Bundesliga in 1981/82 and thus made it to the Bundesliga. After the first half of the 1982/83 season, Schalke 04 ranked 15th with 10:24 points; on January 20, 1983, his dismissal was pronounced, two days before the start of the second half of the season. Manager Rudi Assauer committed Jürgen Sundermann as successor. At the end of the round, Schalke took 16th place and after two relegation games against Bayer 05 Uerdingen had to start again in the second division. After that, he was the last month of the then second division in the second half of 1983/84 BV 08 Lüttringhausen busy whose descent into the league but he could not prevent. From 1986 to 1989 Held was the national coach for the first time, he was responsible for the Icelandic national soccer team . The main content was the qualifying rounds for the European Championship in 1988 and for the World Championship in 1990 . In September 1986 Held started with two draws against defending champions France (0-0) and the Soviet Union in the European Championship qualification. It was a success for the new coach to have done respectably against the trainers Henri Michel and Valerij Lobanowskyj with their stars Manuel Amoros , Basile Boli , Michel Platini , Jean Tigana and Igor Belanow , Oleh Blochin and Rinat Dassajew . Against Norway - with Rune Bratseth and Kai Erik Herlovsen - Iceland won both games (2: 1, 1: 0). The return games against France and the Soviet Union were lost, as were the two games against the GDR. The players around Atli Eðvaldsson , Gunar Gíslason and Ásgeir Sigurvinsson had found confidence in the serious man on the dugout and then went into the games of the 1990 World Cup qualifying with vigor.

There Held and his players had to do with the USSR, Austria, Turkey and the GDR. Both games against Vladimir Bessonov and his team-mates ended 1-1; Iceland finished 5th with 6:10 points, the USSR prevailed as group winners with 11: 5 points.

In the 1989/90 season he coached the traditional Turkish club Galatasaray Istanbul .

In 1991 he became a coach at Admira / Wacker and finished 4th with the club in the Austrian championship in 1991/92 and 3rd in 1992/93. On June 6, 1992, Held and his team around players like Dietmar Kühbauer , Roger Ljung and Olaf Marschall were in the final of the cup . The final was lost 0-1 against FK Austria Wien. In the European Cup , Mödling beat Cardiff City 1: 1 and 2: 0 and then failed to Royal Antwerp (2: 4, 4: 3 n.V.).

He then worked from 1993 to November 22, 1994 at Dynamo Dresden in the Bundesliga. With Dresden he finished the round in 1993/94 in 13th place and thus held the class, although Dresden was deducted four plus points for violating the license conditions. In the second Dresden year, 1994/95, he was dismissed after the 0: 4 away defeat on November 18, 1994 at Schalke 04. He finished 15th with 8:20 points and had to cope with player losses with Olaf Marschall, Piotr Nowak and Miroslav Stević during the summer break . Under his successors Horst Hrubesch and Ralf Minge , Dynamo ended up in 18th place at the end of the round and was relegated to the 2nd division. At the end of 1995 he moved to Japan and signed with Gamba Osaka . From July 1996 to October 1997 he was in the service of VfB Leipzig in the 2nd Bundesliga.

From summer 2001 Sigi Held was national coach of Malta , on October 22, 2003 he was replaced there by Horst Heese .

Of 20 September 2004 to 1 March 2005, he coached the Thai national team and met with her on 21 December 2004 in Bangkok to Germany (Score: 1: 5).

official

In 2006 he was the official World Cup ambassador for the FIFA World Cup city of Dortmund. On January 1, 2007, he became a fan representative at Borussia Dortmund .

Trivia

• On February 5, 1966, Siggi Held was the first guest ever to shoot the goal wall in the ZDF sports studio. The son of the Held couple works as a freelance psychologist, their daughter as a biologist at a university's tropical institute.

Works

• Siggi Held, Horst Wörner: All about the ball. Gerhard Hess Verlag, Bad Schussenried 2013, ISBN 978-3-87336-421-9 .

literature

• Christian Karn, Reinhard Rehberg: Player Lexicon 1963–1994. Agon Sportverlag, Kassel 2012, ISBN 978-3-89784-214-4 , p. 192.
• Dietrich Schulze-Marmeling: The fame, the dream and the passion. The story of Borussia Dortmund. Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2011, ISBN 978-3-89533-810-6 .
• Dietrich Schulze-Marmeling (Ed.): The history of the national soccer team. Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2008, ISBN 978-3-89533-578-5 .

Web links

• Sigfried Held in the weltfussball.de database
• Sigfried Held in the database of fussballdaten.de
• Sigfried Held in the database of transfermarkt.de (player profile)
• Sigfried Held in the database of transfermarkt.de (trainer profile)
• Sigfried Held in the database of the German Football Association
• Sigfried Held in the database of National-Football-Teams.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Matthias Arnhold: Si (e) gfried Held - Matches and Goals in Bundesliga . RSSSF . January 31, 2013. Accessed January 24, 2019.
2. ↑ S. Held, H. Wörner: Rund um den Ball. 2013, p. 38.
3. ↑ S. Held, H. Wörner: Rund um den Ball. 2013, p. 40.
4. ↑ S. Held, H. Wörner: Rund um den Ball. 2013, p. 41.
5. ↑ S. Held, H. Wörner: Rund um den Ball. 2013, p. 42.
6. ↑ S. Held, H. Wörner: Rund um den Ball. 2013, p. 44.
7. ↑ S. Held, H. Wörner: Rund um den Ball. 2013, p. 45.
8. ↑ S. Held, H. Wörner: Rund um den Ball. 2013, p. 46.
9. ↑ S. Held, H. Wörner: Rund um den Ball. 2013, p. 46.
10. ↑ S. Held, H. Wörner: Rund um den Ball. 2013, p. 50.
11. ↑ S. Held, H. Wörner: Rund um den Ball. 2013, p. 111.
12. ↑ D. Schulze-Marmeling: The fame, the dream and the passion. 2011, p. 133.
13. ^ Matthias Weinrich: The European Cup. Volume 1: 1955 to 1974. Agon Sportverlag, Kassel 2007, ISBN 978-3-89784-252-6 , p. 217.
14. ^ Norbert Kuntze: Rehhagel. Biography of a master coach. Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 1999, ISBN 3-89533-273-9 , p. 64.
15. ^ Matthias Arnhold: Si (e) gfried Held - International Appearances . RSSSF . October 9, 2004. Retrieved January 24, 2019.
16. ^ Information given to the Bundestag by the Federal Government on September 29, 1973 - Printed matter 7/1040 - Annex 3, p. 54 ff., Here p. 59.
17. ↑ S. Held, H. Wörner: Rund um den Ball. 2013, p. 128.