Uwe Müller (soccer player, October 1963)

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Uwe Müller (born October 16, 1963 in Langenselbold ) is a former German soccer player . At Eintracht Frankfurt , the midfielder played 131 league games in the Bundesliga between 1982 and 1988 and scored 18 goals. He also played 235 games in the Austrian Bundesliga for Admira Wacker Vienna and FK Austria Vienna from 1988 to 1997 .

career

At the age of 15, Uwe Müller came from his hometown club SpVgg 1910 Langenselbold from the eastern Rhine-Main area to the youth department of Eintracht Frankfurt. He developed steadily and came through the Hessian also in the youth selection of the DFB. With the Eintracht youth he won two German championship titles: on July 13, 1980 in Gelsenkirchen 2-1 against FC Schalke 04 the B-Junior Championship and on July 17, 1982 in Karlsruhe the A-Junior Championship with 2-0 against VfB Stuttgart. When coach Helmut Senekowitsch last looked after Eintracht on the sixth match day, September 18, 1982, from September 19, Branko Zebec took over the coaching position for the Hessians, Müller made his debut in a 4-0 away defeat at Bayern Munich in the Bundesliga. He formed the midfield in the Olympic Stadium with Werner Lorant , Ralf Falkenmayer and Bernd Nickel and Eintracht was in 17th place with 2:10 points. At the end of the round, Müller and colleagues finished 10th and the young player had scored three goals in the Bundesliga in 16 appearances. In his second season, 1983/84, he experienced another coaching change in October 1983, now from Zebec to Dietrich Weise . Müller had played in 20 league games and scored four goals. The team from Riederwald came in 16th and had to play two relegation games against MSV Duisburg. In Duisburg, Eintracht prevailed 5-0, in the home game they separated 1: 1 and Müller had scored a goal in both games. In his third Bundesliga season, 1984/85, the midfielder and attacker counted with 32 league appearances and six goals to the close circle of regular players and took 12th place under coach Weise. In the DFB Cup , Müller retired with his teammates on November 21, 1984 after a 2: 4 defeat after extra time at Borussia Mönchengladbach. He had equalized the 2-2 for Eintracht in the 86th minute of the game. This season, the offensive talent of Eintracht also played four games in the DFB's U21 youth team at international matches against Scotland (1: 2), Sweden (1: 0), Bulgaria (2: 0) and Czechoslovakia (1: 1); he had already received his first two appointments in this DFB selection in the 1983/84 season.

After the 1987-88 season, Muller denied on 14 May 1988 with a 3: 3 home draw against Hannover 96 his last Bundesliga game for Eintracht as he in the 60th minute for coach Karl-Heinz Feldkamp for Michael Kostner came off the bench, finished he worked in Frankfurt and made the move abroad. In the DFB Cup , he was used in the two games against FC Schalke 04 (3: 2) and Bayer Uerdingen (4: 2).

For the 1988/89 season he moved to Austria and joined FC Admira / Wacker Vienna. At the side of teammates like Walter Knaller , Gerhard Rodax and Fred Schaub , he was runner- up straight away and played 36 league games, where he scored three goals. In the cup competition he made it into the finals , but lost with his team in the overall standings against Tyrol 4: 6. Müller also made it into the Cup final with Admira / Wacker in 1992 and 1996 , but also lost these finals. After a total of 234 league games with 16 goals, the Hessian ended his career in Vienna on September 7, 1996 against SV Ried (2: 1) and joined SC Eisenstadt from January to June 1997 before he ended the season 1997/98 at FV Steinau and Eintracht Oberissigheim returned in January 2002 as a player coach to his home club in Langenselbold, where he was active until 2009.

Since 2002 he has also been a coach at the Eintracht Frankfurt soccer school. Müller has been the coach of VfR 09 Meerholz since summer 2010 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Jürgen Bitter: Germany's football. The encyclopedia. FA Herbig. Munich 2008. ISBN 978-3-7766-2558-5 . P. 504
  2. ^ Matthias Weinrich: Encyclopedia of German League Football. 35 years of the Bundesliga, part 2: goals, crises & a successful trio 1975–1987. Agon Sportverlag. Kassel 1999. ISBN 3-89784-133-9 . P. 248
  3. ↑ Karl-Heinz Jens u. a .: Kicker-Almanach 2001. Copress-Verlag. Munich 2000. ISBN 3-7679-0724-0 . P. 142

literature

  • Christian Karn, Reinhard Rehberg: Player Lexicon 1963–1994. Agon Sportverlag. Kassel 2012. ISBN 978-3-89784-214-4 . P. 351.
  • Ulrich Matheja: Schlappekicker and sky striker. The story of Eintracht Frankfurt. Publishing house Die Werkstatt. Göttingen 2004. ISBN 3-89533-427-8 . P. 364.

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personal data
SURNAME Müller, Uwe
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH October 16, 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Langenselbold