Willi Lippens

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Willi Lippens
Nederlands elftal to elftal van in Nederland voetballende buitenlanders Will, inventory number 924-1297.jpg
"Duck" Lippens (1970)
Personnel
birthday November 10, 1945
place of birth HauGermany
size 170 cm
position Storm
Juniors
Years station
0000-1965 VfB Kleve
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1965-1976 Red and white food 327 (186)
1976-1988 Borussia Dortmund 70 0(13)
1979 Dallas tornado 25 0(15)
1979-1981 Red and white food 67 0(23)
1981-1982 Rot-Weiß Oberhausen 2 00(0)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1971 Netherlands 1 00(1)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
1998 Red and white food
1 Only league games are given.

Willi "Ente" Lippens (born November 10, 1945 in Hau , Germany ) is a former Dutch football player .

life and career

Family and childhood

Lippens, who grew up in Kleve in the Lower Rhine region , is the son of a German mother and a Dutch father.

Career in the club

Lippens was a classic left winger with outstanding dribbling skills .

From 1965 to 1976 and 1979 to 1981 Lippens played for Rot-Weiss Essen . In the summer of 1976 he moved to the Ruhr area neighbor Borussia Dortmund , for whom he was active until April 1979. After the guest appearance at the US club Dallas Tornado , Lippens returned to Rot-Weiss Essen in the 2nd Bundesliga North at the end of 1979 .

Lippens played a total of 242 Bundesliga games and scored 92 goals. With 172 Bundesliga games and 79 goals, he is still both record player and record goal scorer for Essen.

On the occasion of his 70th birthday, Rot-Weiss Essen applied to the WFLV for a license to play for the licensed team and received this from December 10, 2015. In purely formal terms, Lippens was thus eligible to play for the first team in the 2015/16 season. His shirt number was 70. The club's chairman Michael Welling promised a “comeback” in the form of a short stint if the situation allowed it. However, the situation in the table at the end of the season for Rot-Weiss Essen was so precarious that Lippens was not used.

Career in the national team

Fadrhonc helps Lippens into a new national team suit (1971)

The bond coach František Fadrhonc invited him to the Dutch national team in 1971. Lippens made his debut on February 24th in Rotterdam in a 6-0 win in the qualifier for the 1972 European Championship against the selection of Luxembourg . In his only international match , he contributed to the result with one goal. Nevertheless, his debut could not be described as successful: he was almost not alluded to by the rest of the Dutch. Significant for the bad relationship between Lippens and the rest of the team was an incident on the way to the game when a German broadcaster was playing pop music on the players' bus. Lippens' teammate Rinus Israël responded with “I don't like this fucking Nazi station!” Willem van Hanegem also played his part, he always addressed Lippens as “Donald Duck”.

Lippens would have loved to play for the German national team and was also favored by national coach Helmut Schön , but his Dutch father's hostility to Germany , who had been a victim of the National Socialists in World War II , prevented him from playing for the DFB selection. Lippens said of his father's attitude in this regard: "He told me that I wouldn't have to come home then".

Lippens devoted an unequivocal comment to his non-nomination for the Dutch squad for the 1974 World Cup : "With me, Holland would have become 1974 and thus only a German world champion !"

Career as a coach

In 1998 Lippens briefly coached Rot-Weiss Essen, but could no longer prevent relegation to the fourth-class Oberliga Nordrhein .

Trivia

  • He owed his nickname “duck” to his characteristic running style, which was somewhat reminiscent of the waddling gait of a duck.
  • Willi Lippens is considered an “original” who is never at a loss for a good saying. When in 1965 in a regional league game at Westfalia Herne he responded to a warning and the referee's comment "Mr. Lippens, I am warning you" [sic] with the words: "Mr. Referee, I thank you", he promptly responded Expelled from the field and subsequently received a fourteen-day ban for disrespectful behavior.
  • After his football career, Lippens opened a restaurant in Bottrop and named it "I thank you" in reference to his famous quote.
  • Before a guest appearance by Bayern Munich in Essen, Lippens is said to have made the suggestion , as Munich goalkeeper Sepp Maier reported, that Maier should play the ball on Lippens to the amusement of the audience when Bayern tee off, and then he play it back. However, he, Maier, did not agree to that.
  • On the grounds that he finally wanted to score a header goal, he is said to have pushed the ball over the line once in a handstand. In a youth game whose referee was the later FDP chairman and Federal Minister of Economics Möllemann .
  • In a television portrait, during unsuccessful fishing in the Ruhr: “The fish are all in Bottrop, for a funeral. A pike died there. "

statistics

For Rot-Weiss Essen :

  • 155 regional league games / 107 goals (1965–1966, 1967–1969, 1971–1973)
  • 172 1st Bundesliga games / 79 goals (1966–1967, 1969–1971, 1973–1976)
  • 67 games in the 2nd Bundesliga North / 23 goals (1979–1981)

For Borussia Dortmund :

  • 70 1st Bundesliga games / 13 goals (1976–1979)

literature

  • Marc Geschonke: Duck with a slouch hat. In: ... the boss continues to play in heaven. Football stories from the Ruhr area , edited by Hermann Beckfeld and Werner Boschmann. Henselowsky Boschmann Verlag , Bottrop 2007, ISBN 3-922750-62-1
  • Ingo Schiweck: Kicking the enemy? The everyday peace behind the German-Dutch football war . Maverix-Verlag, Düsseldorf 2006, pp. 67-74. ISBN 3-9810957-4-X
  • Dietmar Schott : Thank you! The footballer Willi "Ente" Lippens . Klartext, Essen 2008. ISBN 978-3-89861-978-3 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Matthias Arnhold: Willem Lippens - Matches and Goals in Bundesliga. Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation, July 31, 2014, accessed September 10, 2014 .
  2. Martin Herms: No duck - Willi Lippens receives RWE play authorization . derwesten.de , January 24, 2016, accessed on January 24, 2016.
    (Not a duck): Experienced striker is eligible to play . RW Essen website, January 24, 2016, accessed January 24, 2016.
  3. http://www.derwesten.de/sport/comeback-von-willi-lippens-faellt-doch-aus-aimp-id11812322.html Retrieved on July 9, 2016
  4. In the middle of the pot. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original ; accessed on October 12, 2019 .
  5. Holland News. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original ; accessed on October 12, 2019 .
  6. DFB team: Born in Germany, played everywhere . Spox.com , June 25, 2009, accessed January 27, 2016.
  7. a b c d e Markus Hoffmann: “Thank you”. ( Memento from September 11, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Bundesliga.de, January 1, 2012, accessed on January 27, 2016.
  8. Dieter Koditek: Willi 'Ente' Lippens - A visit to a football legend , RP Online , April 3, 2017, accessed on August 5, 2018.

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