Dieter Eckstein
Dieter Eckstein ( born March 12, 1964 in Kehl) is a former German football player.
Career
Eckstein's first football club was in his hometown of Kehler FV. From there he moved in 1983 to the 1st FC Nuremberg. At first he was employed at the club amateurs, with whom in 1984 he managed to climb the Bayern league to which he contributed 31 goals. Eckstein played as a striker in the Bundesliga for 1.FC Nuremberg, Eintracht Frankfurt and FC Schalke 04 He was also from 1995 to 1998 still for West Ham United in England, and in the 2nd Bundesliga for SV Waldhof Mannheim, active FC Winterthur in Switzerland and FC Augsburg in the Regionalliga Süd, where he was top scorer. His career trailed off at SG Post / Süd Regensburg.
Dieter Eckstein played a total of 289 times in the Bundesliga, scoring 84 goals.
1 FC Nuremberg
Eckstein graduated in the 1984/85 season a total of 37 second-division games in which he scored 13 goals, and rose with the club as champions of the second division to the Bundesliga. From 1985 to 1988 and from 1990 to 1994, he played in the 189mal Erstligamannschaft, scoring 66 goals. He is behind Heinz Strehl of the Bundesliga top scorer with the second highest number of hits in the club.
- Successes: Bundesliga promotion in 1985, 5th in 1988
Eintracht Frankfurt
Between 1988 and 1991 he scored 14 goals in 70 games for Eintracht Frankfurt.
- Achievements: Third 1990
FC Schalke 04
During his brief stint at Schalke from 1993 to 1995, he scored 4 goals in 30 games.
More Stations
One station at West Ham United, where he was, however, not used, followed by an engagement at SV Waldhof Mannheim in the Second Bundesliga. There he met in season 21 inserts the season 1995/1996 only once into the opposing goal. His way led then on the Swiss club FC Winterthur, for whom he scored in the qualifying round of eight goals in eleven games, for then antretenden in the Regionalliga Süd FC Augsburg. There are the seasons 1996/97 and 1997/ 98 26 Results for cornerstone to beech in 48 games. At the end of his career he was active in the Oberliga Bayern for SG Post / Süd Regensburg, where he further seven Torerfolge glückten in 32 missions.
National
In the national team he wore from 1986 to 1988 seven times the jersey of the DFB and scored one goal. In 1988 he was in the squad of the German national football team at the World Championship in Germany. For the German U- 21 team came cornerstone 1985-1986 to six inserts, scoring four goals. For the Olympic team, he came in the years 1987 and 1988 to a total of three missions.
As coach
After the end of his career, he began his coaching career in Franconia. He then worked as head coach at TSV Neusaess, the SV Heidingsfeld, FC Erzberg Wörnitz, the SV Weissenbrunn, FC Dombühl, the SV Hainsfarth, TSV 08 Dürrwangen and finally the DJK / SV Mitteleschenbach in Frankenhohe A-Class. As a coach of TSV Dürrwangen he led the club in the season 2009/10, the rise in the county league of Franconia. Since November 2013 he coached the men's teams SpVgg Steinach Basic 2012 eV in the circle class 3 circuit Nuremberg Franconia height. He also assisted ex-professional Helmut Rahner, as a youth coordinator of SpVgg Steinach reason.
Private
As Dieter Eckstein was 11 years old, his father died two years later his mother. Henceforth, he was raised by foster parents. Died in 1988 his seven- week-old son on the sudden infant death syndrome. Dieter Eckstein fell ill in 2001 from testicular cancer, which he was able to defeat. In February 2001 he suffered during an indoor game in Neusaess a heart attack and was in a coma for five days. In a charity football match of celebrities as part of the charity campaign moments of the Bavarian Radio in Regensburg Dieter Eckstein suffered on July 1, 2011, a cardiac arrest and had to be resuscitated in the sequence.
Today Eckstein lives in Middle Franconia Dürrwangen and runs a soccer school for children and young people. As coaches and players in several regional associations, including in Dombühl, Erzberg and Dürrwangen, he is still active in his Middle Franconian football home.
Dieter Eckstein, together with a number of other former professional football player of the 1st FC Nuremberg Member of the tradition of the first teams FCN. With these cornerstone passes in Wörnitz, with former colleagues as Jörg Dittwar, Bernd Hobsch, Armin Eck, Fred Klaus and Martin Schneider, the all-star football school for children and young people.