Dieter Eilts
Dieter Eilts ( born December 13, 1964 in Upgant -Schott ) is a German football coach and former football player. At the European Championships in 1996 he was European champion with the DFB.
- 2.1 club
- 2.2 national team
- 2.3 Custom
Playing career
Association
Eilts started his footballing career at SV Hage Ostfriesland. From 1985 to 2002 he played for Werder Bremen total of 390 Bundesliga games in which he scored seven goals. After he belonged to the First Team of the Hanseatic city dwellers already for 1985/86 season, Eilts had to wait for the following season to get his first professional use in the jersey of the Green-Whites. On 17 Round, 5 December, 1986, coach Otto Rehhagel joined him in the 79th minute for Rudi Völler. The premiere match against 1 FC Cologne but was lost with 0:3. To another use, there was not more for Eilts this season. Also 1986/87, the then young players stood strong in the shadows of the regulars such as Günter Hermann, Norbert Meier, Mirko Votava and which a year older than Thomas Wolter. Only in the second half of the 1988/89 season managed Eilts the breakthrough in Bremen. From 24 Matchday he stood on end in the starting lineup of the SVW and missed remainder of the season match. He also starred in the DFB Cup final against Borussia Dortmund, which lost Werder 1:4. The year before he could with the Bremen team already celebrate winning the German championship, completed at that time but only two league games. With the beginning of the season 1989 /90 to 2000/ 01, ie more than ten years, Eilts was no longer to think out of the midfield composite Bremer. Except for one season, he always had put in more than 25 Premier League games per year for the North German. In 1990, the team again reached the final of the German Cup. Playoff opponent this time was the 1st FC Kaiserslautern. The Bremen, where Eilts played like last year, the full ninety minutes, lost with 2:3 and had to put off to the following year. In the league Eilts posted on 31 March 1990 the first of his seven league matches. In the game against Hamburger SV he managed the 2-1 victory. In the 1989/90 UEFA Cup campaign would retire by a home -1 only in the semi-finals: from 0 against Fiorentina: 1 and an away -0. At the legendary 5-1 win in the second round against SSC Napoli, with Diego Maradona in the squad, to Eilts enlisted in the scoresheet, scoring the last goal of the encounter. In 1991, the Bremen for the third time in a row in the DFB Cup final. After Eilts scored the 1-0 lead, Maurice Banach equalized for the 1st FC Cologne so that the shoot had to decide. There Werder sat by and Eilts won the German Cup at the third attempt for the first time. Thus, the association for the European Cup Winners' Cup 1991/92 qualified. About the FC Bacau, Ferencvaros Budapest, Galatasaray and FC Bruges Werder took the way to the final, where you had to AS Monaco confront. After Eilts was missing in the semi-final against Bruges due to a red card suspension, he stood against the French representative in the starting lineup. Bremen decided the game with 2-0 and Eilts was able to celebrate his first and only international club titles. 1994 and 1999 with the triumphs repeated in German Cup competition. In both games he was the full time active. Already in 1993, was the German Championship titles are won for a second time. 2001/ 02 Eilts was still in the Bremen squad, but did not come out four games, all of them between the first and fourth matchday of the season. His last Bundesliga Match of the defensive player on August 18, 2001 compared to TSV 1860 München.
National
Since 1993 Dieter Eilts belonged to the wider circle of the national team. Berti Vogts put the midfielder for the first time on 18 December 1993 friendly match against the USA on. The breakthrough in black and white dress he succeeded in the season 1995/ 1996. In the European Football Championship in England in 1996 he was considered a mainstay of the German team that won the European Championship for the third time, and was elected to the UEFA Allstars team of this tournament. Overall Eilts denied to 1997 31 caps. His last game he completed the qualifying match for the FIFA World Cup 1998 on June 7, 1997 against Ukraine.
Successes as a player
Association
- German champions Werder Bremen with: 1988, 1993
- DFB Cup winner with Werder Bremen: 1991, 1994, 1999
- European Cup Winners' Cup with Werder Bremen: 1992
National
- European Champion 1996
Individually
- Bremer Sportsman of the Year: 1995
Coaching career
After Eilts had first acts after his active career as a player for a year as manager of the A- youth Werder Bremen, he was 1 July 2003 coach of the German U19 national team. From 6 August 2004, he was coach of the German U21 national team and qualified with her last for the final round of the European Championship 2009. Nevertheless, he was in early November 2008 released from this office, with different views on game philosophy and operation of selected teams given as reasons were.
On 20 November 2008, the DFB broke the contract with Dieter Eilts finally officially on, so this a day later the post of head coach at second division FC Hansa Rostock could take over. As the successor to Frank Pagelsdorfs he should lead the first in the preseason relegated from the Bundesliga club from the 14th season game day from the middle of the second division in the upper half of the table. After the defeat away on 6 March 2009 against FC St. Pauli however, he was on leave after being in eleven official matches only one win and two draws had been able to post, which is why the club had dropped back down to the second to last place in the table.
Since January 2011, Dieter Eilts worked at the State division VfL Oldenburg youth coordinator. To his task field it belongs to, to care for the young coach among others. In early 2012 he returned, while retaining its activity Oldenburg to Werder Bremen back. He will oversee future youth soccer players aged six to 13 years in the newly formed club's own football school. The repeated acquisition of a coach 's involvement in the professional area he graduated from.
Awards, trivia
- Eilts is one of currently seven honorary captains of Werder Bremen.
- It was founded in 1995 Bremer Sportsman of the Year.
- It was named because of its strong performance during the European Football Championship in England in 1996 in the press as " Lord Eilts ".
- His nicknames were " iron Dieter ", " East Frisian Inglês "
- For his services to the sport in Lower Saxony, he was inducted into the Honor Gallery of the Lower Saxony Institute for Sports History.
Personal
Dieter Eilts lives in Bremen. He has two daughters.