Theodor Redder

Theodor "Theo" Redder (born November 19, 1941 in Werl ) is a former German soccer player . As an active member of Borussia Dortmund , he won the DFB Cup in 1965 and the European Cup Winners ' Cup in 1966 .

career

From Werl to the Oberliga West until 1963

The amateur soccer player from SC Preußen Werl moved to Borussia Dortmund for the 1961/62 round. In his first year at BVB he was part of the amateur team. In the last year of the old football league West , 1962/63 , under coach Hermann Eppenhoff , he came to two appearances in the league. The Borussia reached the runner-up behind champions 1. FC Köln and thus entered the final round of the German championship. He made his first league debut on September 23, 1962, when he formed the defender pair with Wilhelm Burgsmüller in the 2-1 away defeat against Schwarz-Weiß Essen . His second mission was more successful. On March 31, 1963 Dortmund won the away game against SC Viktoria Köln with 2-1 goals and the young defender mostly fought the Cologne right winger Carl-Heinz Rühl . In the final round - Burgsmüller and Lothar Geisler were the regular defenders when winning the German championship in 1963 - the young player was not used.

Bundesliga, European Cup, national team, 1963 to 1969

In the 1963/64 round, the newly founded Bundesliga started playing and the robust defender, who was mostly used as a defender, played his way into the regular BVB team during the round. When the DFB Cup final was lost 3-0 to Hamburger SV before the start of the round on August 14, 1963 in Hanover, Burgsmüller and Geisler defended in front of goalkeeper Bernhard Wessel . On the second Bundesliga matchday, August 31, 1963, the "poisonous two-fighter" made his debut in the league in a 3: 3 home draw at the Rote Erde stadium against TSV 1860 Munich . Borussia finished fourth at the end of the round and Redder had played 26 rounds and scored two goals. The sporting climax was the matches in the European Champions Cup against Benfica Lisbon , Dukla Prague and Inter Milan . Redder defended on December 4, 1963 against José Augusto in the 5-0 home win against the cup winners of 1961 and 1962 from Lisbon, was in the successes against the Dukla-Elf from Prague, led by Josef Masopust , and also in the two Semi-finals in April 1964 against the eventual cup winner from Milan. In the inter-offensive he got to know the qualities of Jair da Costa , Sandro Mazzola and Mario Corso and was also able to convince professionals of his qualities. The outgoing national coach Sepp Herberger nominated the Dortmund defender for his farewell game on June 7, 1964 in Helsinki against Finland in the German national soccer team .

In the second Bundesliga year, 1964/65 , the black and yellow achieved third place in the league and put the crown on the round of the DFB Cup by winning the final on May 22, 1965 in Hanover with 2-0 goals against Alemannia Aachen . Redder formed the defender couple with Gerhard Cyliax . Under Herberger's successor Helmut Schön , Redder came to two further appointments on March 10, 1965 in Hanover against the Netherlands in a 1-1 draw in the B national team and on June 25 in Freiburg in the international match of the U23 junior national team against England DFB teams.

In the year of the football World Cup in England in 1966, Borussia Dortmund completed its most successful round to date with defender Redder. In the Bundesliga the round was finished as a runner-up and on May 5, 1966 he was part of the Borussia team, who won the European Cup Winners' Cup at Hampden Park in Glasgow for the first time with a 2-1 win after extra time against Liverpool Could conquer the European Cup for a German soccer team. Coach Willi Multhaup entrusted him with guarding the dreaded winger Ian Callaghan and Reinhard "Stan" Libuda released the team and their appendages in the 106th minute with an "arc lamp" to make it 2-1. The decisive game for the championship in the Bundesliga back round 1965/66 took place two weeks after the sensational success in Glasgow against the tied competitor TSV 1860 Munich on May 21 in Dortmund. Max Merkel's "Löwen", directed by the brilliant Peter Grosser, prevailed against a Dortmund team that no longer had the necessary freshness and resilience in the second half of the game with 2-0 goals and thus decided the championship race in 1966.

From 1963 to 1969 Theo Redder had a total of 115 appearances for Borussia Dortmund in the Bundesliga . He scored two goals.

Finale

After a protracted injury caused by damaged adductors and tied to a plaster bed for three months with a torn muscle, the defender's motivation declined. And since his father, who ran a bakery, became seriously ill, Theo Redder took over the family business in Wickede (Ruhr) . Later he worked as a master baker in a department store chain.

Theo Redder is currently the 2nd chairman of the Borussia Dortmund council of elders, and includes various well-earned senior players from Borussia Dortmund. This council has an advisory function.

literature

• Schulze-Marmeling / Steffen: Borussia Dortmund. The fame, the dream and the money . Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 1994, ISBN 3-89533-110-4 .
• Matthias Kropp: Germany's great football teams. Part 3: Borussia Dortmund 1945–1993 . Agon-Verlag, Kassel 1993, ISBN 3-928562-34-7 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Jürgen Bitter : Germany's national soccer player: the lexicon . SVB Sportverlag, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-328-00749-0 , p. 377 .