Goal of the month

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The goal of the month has been a monthly award given by the German television station Das Erste since March 1971 for a valid goal in football that was scored within the month of the award. The election is now carried out on the Internet and via TED ; in previous years a vote by post was necessary. A similar award is given by the BBC , which has been determining the Goal of the Month since 1970 . Equivalent in other countries are not known.

After the first broadcast, WDR received 600,000 letters. In order to evaluate this, they turned to the management of the Klingelpütz prison in Cologne .

In addition to the goal of the month, Das Erste also awards the goal of the year . After the resumption of the Bundesliga coverage in the sports show in 2003, a goal of the week was also chosen in every broadcast ; these were also shown Monday to Friday before the 8 p.m. daily news and then formed the basis for the choice of goal of the month. The broadcast was supplemented with a short advertising film about the car to be won, which partially financed the costs for the broadcasting rights of the Bundesliga games . Before that, a goal of the day selected by the editorial team was presented at the end of the broadcast .

A full list of all goals of the month can be found in the article List of Goals of the Month .

mode

One of five hits can be determined. These were preselected by the editorial team. Voting was initially carried out by post and later by telephone. This is now also possible online. The shooter of the goal receives a medal . The winner of a prize will be determined from all participants in the vote.

Selection criteria

The preselected goals can be goals from matches in different competitions or from friendly matches. In most cases, however, it was goals that were scored in Bundesliga games. 42% of the goals of the month were scored in games in the 1st Bundesliga. Only in the interim periods without Bundesliga matches are goals nominated more frequently in lower-class leagues and international matches (including 45 goals in international matches for the German men's national team). Initially, the hits were shown without comment, in order to avoid goals being chosen out of sympathy for the shooter or his team. Meanwhile, however, the names of the players and their teams are mentioned.

Records

Gerhard Faltermeier, first laureate in 1971 (here in 1968 in the dress of the Bavarian association selection)

First goal of the month

The first scorer of the goal of the month was Gerhard “Gerd” Faltermeier . The then midfielder of SSV Jahn Regensburg placed on March 28, 1971 in the regional league game (at that time second class) against VfR Mannheim a 20-meter free kick into the corner so that the ball got stuck in the net. 71,000 of the 250,000 entries voted this hit the first goal of the month. Sportschau host Oskar Klose presented the first award to Faltermeier in the studio.

First goal of the month by a woman

In September 1974, a woman scored the goal of the month for the first time. Bärbel Wohlleben from TuS Wörrstadt scored the goal in the first final of the German women's soccer championship. Women have scored a goal of the month a total of 13 times: Bärbel Wohlleben 1974, Beverly Ranger 1975, Silvia Neid 1988, Ursula Lohn 1989, Heidi Mohr 1991, Kerstin Elger 1996, Renate Lingor 1999, Birgit Prinz 2001, Nia Künzer 2003, Simone Laudehr 2007, Melanie Behringer in 2009, as the youngest goalscorer so far, Leonie Maier in 2013 and Dzsenifer Marozsán in 2015.

The only player in the GDR league

Jörg Burow from FC Carl Zeiss Jena was the only player in the GDR league to receive the award. On September 12, 1986, he scored a free-kick goal against BSG Stahl Brandenburg . Since he was not allowed to leave the country to be awarded the medal, he only received it four years later after the fall of the Berlin Wall .

Most frequent awards

Lukas Podolski, twelve-time shooter of the goal of the month

The most frequent, twelve times, was awarded to Lukas Podolski (2004–2017). Podolski achieved his first eight awards in just 27 months (January 2004 to April 2006). It follows Jürgen Klinsmann with seven hits (1986-1999). Karl-Heinz Rummenigge (1979–1984), Mario Basler (1992–1999) and Klaus Fischer (1975–2003) follow with six goals each . Gerd Müller (1972–1976) and Rudi Völler (1987–1990) each received five awards.

Players from Bayern Munich received the medal most frequently , followed by players from the German men's national team , Borussia Mönchengladbach and 1. FC Köln .

Borussia Mönchengladbach players in 1973 received an unsurpassed six medals within one year.

Successive awards

Bernd Rupp was the first to be elected for two consecutive months: In September and October 1973, each for Borussia Mönchengladbach . Then Gerd Müller (September / October 1976), Allan Simonsen (September / October 1977), Stefan Kuntz (November / December 1993), Jürgen Klinsmann (June / July 1994), Arjen Robben (March / April 2010), Raúl (March / April 2012) and Marcel Risse (October / November 2016). Jürgen Klinsmann managed to score two goals of the month in just five days at the 1994 soccer World Cup : on June 27, the goal to make it 1-0 against South Korea and on July 2, in the round of 16 against Belgium, the goal to make it 2: 1 (final score 3: 2 each). In 2010, Arjen Robben scored three goals of the month for FC Bayern Munich in just 74 days in three different competitions: on January 23 in the Bundesliga against Werder Bremen , on March 24 in the DFB Cup against Schalke 04 and on March 7. April in the Champions League against Manchester United .

Largest distance between two awards for a player

In the nostalgic derby of the old stars of the clubs FC Bayern Munich and TSV 1860 Munich on July 30, 2003, the former center forward Klaus Fischer succeeded again at the age of 53, almost 28 years after his first and 13 years after his last award Goal of the month to score 0: 1 (final score 4: 4) in the 6th minute with an overhead kick.

The oldest awardee

The oldest winner is Kurt Meyer . At the age of 79 he lifted the ball into the goal on January 20, 2001 in an old man's game by Blau-Weiß Post Recklinghausen. His goal was also voted Goal of the Year that year .

The youngest winner

The youngest award winner was 16-year-old Michael Freudlsperger in March 2015. The youngster with Down syndrome converted a penalty against Bundesliga goalkeeper Tom Starke at half time in a Bundesliga match .

The youngest goalscorer of the month in a regular game was Lukas Scepanik ( 1. FC Köln U17). At the age of 17 he scored on June 5, 2011 in the final of the U17 championship against Werder Bremen's U17 in the 85th minute the goal to make it 3-2.

particularities

Own goals

Helmut Winklhofer scored a curious goal of the month in his first game for Bayern Munich at Bayer 05 Uerdingen on August 10, 1985. From about 30 meters he shot the ball into his own goal , making it 1-0 for Jean-Marie Pfaff . However, the club management of Bayern Munich forbade the nominated players Jean-Marie Pfaff and Helmut Winklhofer to accept the award.

Another own goal was awarded in July 1993: On matchday 1 of the second division season 1993/94 in Hertha BSC's game at FC Carl Zeiss Jena, Hertha goalkeeper Walter Junghans missed a back pass from his sweeper Frank Rohde when the ball hit the bad surface made unexpected hop.

In the meantime, own goals are no longer taken into account for the selection of candidates.

Goalkeeper as a goal scorer

So far, nine goalkeepers have been voted goal scorer of the month. The best-known of them is Jens Lehmann , who scored a header for Schalke 04 in the Bundesliga match against Borussia Dortmund on December 19, 1997, making him the first goalkeeper to score a goal out of the game in the Bundesliga. Marwin Hitz also scored out of the game for FC Augsburg in February 2015 in the Bundesliga . Other winners were Dieter Paucken , who scored a goal by side pull in injury time in the match between 1. FC Köln II and SSVg Velbert , and Gerald Hillringhaus , who scored a goal against MTV Ingolstadt for SV Türk Gücü Munich on September 23, 1989 scored by side puller.

The award was also won by five other goalkeepers, each of whom scored one goal from a tee:

Co-productions

The goal of the month for a co-production went five times to two players: in April 1972 to Klaus Scheer and Reinhard Libuda (Schalke 04), in November 1972 to Günter Netzer and Gerd Müller , in June 2002 to Marco Bode and Miroslav Klose (all Germans National team), in July 2013 to Julian Draxler and Raúl (FC Schalke 04) and in July 2016 to Dirk Nowitzki and Lukas Podolski (Nowitzki All Star Team).

Golden Goal

Goals were awarded twice, which decided and ended the respective game as a golden goal . Both goals were scored in a final and thus secured the title win for a German national team. The goal scorers were Oliver Bierhoff in the final of the 1996 European Championship against the Czech Republic (June 1996) and Nia Künzer in the final of the 2003 Women's World Championship against Sweden (October 2003).

Free kick goals

Marcel Risse and Mehmet Scholl are the only players to score three goals of the month from free kicks. It's the only goals of the month for both of them.

"Poop" of the month

In the weekly show Zeigler's wonderful world of football , moderated by Arnd Zeigler on WDR television , the poop goal of the month is chosen based on the model of the goal of the month and the poop goal of the year at the end of the year . You can choose from five curious (own) goals scored each month, which often come from amateur football.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ernst Huberty in "50 Years of Sportschau - The Long Night", broadcast on WDR3 on June 4, 2011
  2. ↑ sportschau.de
  3. ↑ Hit for life
  4. ↑ Goal of the Month - Broadcast. In: sportschau.de. Westdeutscher Rundfunk, accessed on August 22, 2016 .
  5. ↑ Sportschau: Goal of the Month March 2015 (with video)
  6. ^ Statement by Matthias Opdenhövel in the Sportschau from November 9, 2013
  7. ↑ Zeigler's wonderful world of football - the concept of the broadcast. In: wdr.de. Westdeutscher Rundfunk Köln , accessed on February 2, 2020 .

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