Dieter Lindner (footballer)
Dieter Lindner ( born June 11, 1939 in Breslau) is a former German football player and later - functionary. As a player of Eintracht Frankfurt he completed from 1957 to 1963 in the then world-class soccer Oberliga Süd 132 league games with 49 goals and in the Bundesliga from 1963 to 1971 more 189 Official matches with five goals. In the season 1958/59 he won with his club the German Cup and 1960 he was with concord in the final of the European Champions' Cup.
Career
Players until 1971
Oberliga Süd, 1957-1963
Lindner played throughout his players Activity - Youth as at senior level - for Eintracht Frankfurt. Only 17 years old, the talented offensive youth player was used in the premier league squad harmony. He debuted on February 10, 1957 in a 3-1 away win at Jahn Regensburg in the Oberliga Süd. Under coach Adolf Patek, he held the center-forward role and brought in the 60th minutes, his team a 1-0 lead. In his first regular seniors round in 1957/58, it brought the young hope of 22 league inserts, scoring eight goals. In the season 1958/59 he was able to coach Paul Oßwald and on the side of players like Richard Kress, Istvan Sztani, Ekkehard Feigenspan and playmaker Alfred Pfaff celebrate the championship in the Oberliga Süd. In 22 league games of the variable in the attack -purpose offensive player who scored five goals. The team from Riederwald sat down with two points ahead of local rivals Kickers Offenbach as runners-up and six points ahead of the 1st FC Nuremberg in third place, by. In the final round of the June 11, the 20th anniversary celebrating Forward, concord - Eleven belonged to the sovereign with 12:0 points and goal difference of 26:11 meters, against the rival Werder Bremen, FK Pirmasens and the first FC Köln moved into the finals. The young player had scored two goals in the six group games. The final of the German soccer championship 1959 was held on June 28th at the Berlin Olympic Stadium against the Südvize Kickers Offenbach instead. In a dramatic match, the Eintracht sat 5-3 after extra gates and brought the championship trophy to Frankfurt. " The final 1959 go down as one of the most breathtaking in the German football history ," Peace Bert Becker flew into the "kicker" taken as Green holds in his documentary about the German championship.
In the year after winning the German Championship, 1959/60, achieved the harmony in the South behind champion Karlsruher SC and Kickers Offenbach third. Personally reached Lindner with 29 inserts and 16 goals his best league record. The new Striker Erwin Stein led with 24 goals, the internal scorers in front of him, and on October 3, 1959, he came at the international match in Konstanz against Switzerland to a use in the B- team. He has given in to replace his former teammate Feigenspan on Right Wing and acted alongside his colleagues Eintracht Friedel Lutz and Dieter Stinka.
For the actual climax but the games were in the European Cup of Champions. The title of winner of the DFB sat down against Young Boys Bern, Vienna Sports Club and in the semifinal against Scotland Masters Glasgow Rangers through and moved into the finals on May 18, 1960 in Glasgow against the series winners Real Madrid one. In the two games against Scottish professionals in the semifinals of another 20 -year-old Lindner ran on top form. After a 6-1 home victory on 13 April 1960, quoted in the press: " The 20-year old Dieter Lindner crowned his strongest performance in the Eagle jersey with a headed goal after kick Weilbächers and a goal from close range to 5: 1 by -pass of Alfred Pfaff ". In an interview with Jörg Heinisch Lindner noted for the first leg against the Rangers: " The first leg against Glasgow was one of the greatest games I 've made. I scored two goals and added two wonderful originals ". Even when obtained with 6:3 gates return match at Ibrox Park on May 5, he was one of the strongest players of Eintracht. "After six minutes made by Lindner wonder goal (his 23 -meter hammer struck exactly in the left upper angle ) shows that the Hessians had not come to entrenched to defend their lead just own penalty ". But in the final in front of 127,621 spectators at Hampden Park, he had to acknowledge his colleagues Eintracht playful superiority of the real 7:3 success of "White Ballet ". Against the individual class, especially the two stars Alfredo di Stefano ( 3 goals ) and Ferenc Puskas ( 4 goals), could not contribute to the success of the excellent camaraderie of the German master. On top of that Real was also good set by game observation on the concord. Lindner is cited by Heinisch with the following statement:
" They were already well prepared for us. I was a very good header of a ball and have many goals with his head. And our strengths and weaknesses have known. I have played against the Zarraga. He has plucked at each corner or free kick, as he stood next to me at my jersey - very easy - no one has noticed. At the moment it's over - I do not get high, especially not at the right time. When we performed 1-0 against Real Madrid and also once had hit the bar because they had time to experience the di Stefano, who was the best football player of the team. How has run across the square from one gate to another, like a dervish. And how did he bawled his teammates. That was incredible. I 've never seen a team leader: It was visible as who then turned up. That was great! "
In rounds 1960/61 and 1961/62 Lindner reached with the eagle supports each of the runner-up in the Südoberliga and thus moved two more times in the final round of the German Cup. On points with Borussia Dortmund - both 7:5 points - missed the harmony 1961 a place in the final and in the year of the FIFA World Cup in Chile in 1962, failed Lindner and colleagues at the later champions 1.FC Cologne. In a total of 16 finalists inserts Lindner scored five goals from 1959 to 1962. The fourth chapter Football Oberliga Süd was terminated after the round 1962/63. The Frankfurt -grown scored 49 goals for Eintracht in 132 league games. In addition to the Appearances and the European Cup round of 1960, the month-long world tour was in May / June 1962 with the stations Athens, Cairo, Bombay, Calcutta, Bangkok, Kuala Lumpur, Tokyo, Hawaii, San Francisco, Vancouver, Winnipeg, Toronto and New York at the highlights of this playing career by Dieter Lindner.
Bundesliga, 1963-1971
Lindner also belongs to the circle of players who have brought on the start date of the Bundesliga, August 24, 1963 as the newly created Active single-track top league up and running. The Eintracht opened the Bundesliga with a 1-1 home draw against 1 FC Kaiserslautern. But now he acted as an external rotor and formed together with Alfred Horn, Horst Trimhold and Wilhelm Huberts in the still practiced WM system the "magic square". Frankfurt reached in the debut year of the Bundesliga in third place - Lindner came to 29 games with two goals - and pulled in the DFB Cup after wins against VfL Wolfsburg, KSV Hessen Kassel, FC Schalke 04 and Hertha BSC in the final on 13 June 1964 in Stuttgart against the Südrivalen TSV Munich 1860. The Elf on Riederwald but lost the final against the Munich " lion " in the " fiery furnace " of the Stuttgart Neckar stadium with 0:2 goals and showed it does not perform well. In Matheja viewed Lindner expresses this with the following statement:
"We were standing whacked No force. Nothing there. The decisive factor was that the Munich were better prepared. They trained at noon in the sweltering heat and were accustomed to the high temperatures. We trained in the evening at six clock. Before the final in 1959 against the Offenbacher Kickers training was recognized by three clock noon. As we saw in the game is different. "
From the round 1965/66 Elek Schwartz took over the training line in the harmony and with Jürgen Grabowski, Peter Kunter and Karl -Heinz Wirth came three new players to the team. The former coach of Benfica led the morning session and the modern 4-2 -4- one system in Hesse. Lindner moved with Schwartz in the central defense and in the second season of the new coach, 1966 /67 concord for months played with massively for the title. From 18 to 33 Matchday stood Lindner and his team-mates on the second place. Only when she had lost the 34th game, 3 June 1967 with 1:2 gates at 1860 Munich, they fell back to fourth place. Lindner had been missing only on a game day. At the same time missed Lindner with concord in the Fairs Cup, the narrowest of margins the second collection in a European final. After successes against Drumcondra Dublin, Hvidovre Copenhagen, Ferencvaros Budapest ( with Florian Albert), Burnley ( Bellamy, Coates ) failed the Schwartz - wards until the semi-final match at Dinamo Zagreb. The pupils of coach Branko Zebec managed despite a 0-3 defeat in the first leg in Frankfurt before a home crowd in Zagreb with a 4-0 success after extra time a place in the final. The guys around keeper Zlatko Skoric, intelligence chief Rudolf Belin and scorer Slaven Zambata brought on August / 6 30 September in the final two games against Leeds United the trophy. The concord was formed this season on the defensive mostly with actors Peter Kunter ( keeper ), in the back four with Fahrudin Jusufi, Lindner, Peter Blusch and Lothar Schämer and acted in front with the two midfielders Jürgen Friedrich and Wilhelm Huberts. Lindner had completed all ten matches in the Fairs Cup.
After only three inserts in the Round 1969/70 under coach Erich Ribbeck young Dieter Lindner ended his playing career in the summer of 1970. After 17 days of play round 1970/71 Eintracht stood with 11:23 points ranked 18th and had been confronted with the relegation to the Regionalliga Süd. It reactivated Lindner to strengthen the defensive and came to the broadcast on the balance of 17:11 points and was able to avoid as 15 points with a total of 28:40 relegation. The "eternal" eagle-bearer came again on 15 Bundesliga games and even scoring a goal. Lindner is led from 1963 to 1971 in the Bundesliga with 189 league games and scored five goals.
With the game on January 8, 1969, at the Fairs Cup against Atletico Bilbao Eintracht captain had finished his appearances after a total of 24 games with four goals in the European club competitions.
Functionary
Now he lives in Nieder-Erlenbach Lindner was in season 1980/81 Vice President of concord and from 5 May to October 2, 1996 the interim president. He was also for many years chairman of the board.
He is an honorary member and honorary captain of Eintracht Frankfurt and board member of the Association Eintracht Frankfurt Museum.