Dietmar Danner

Dietmar Danner ( born November 29, 1950 in Mannheim ) is a former German football player.

His father Walter Danner played during the Second World War and after the return from captivity from 1949 to 1951 in the first team of VfR Mannheim. Dietmar Danner began at Eintracht Plank city with the football matches, before moving to VfR Mannheim, where he made his debut at age 18 in the Regional Team.

1971 joined the left-footer to Borussia Mönchengladbach, where the technicians and long-distance runners in his first season became a regular player of the Bundesliga third parties and where he formed the midfield axis together with Rainer Bonhof, Günter Netzer and Herbert Wimmer. 1973 Danner was with Borussia fifth in the Bundesliga and DFB-Pokal winner. According to Netzer's move to Real Madrid and Bonhofs retreat in the defense Danner made ​​in the 1973/74 season along with Horst Koeppel, Christian Kulik and Herbert Wimmer the midfield line of Borussia, who finished second place behind Bayern Munich at the end. In the first season half of the season 1974/75 Danner came because of injuries but little used, in the second round he was again a regular player and won his first national title. On May 7, 1975 in Dusseldorf, and on May 21 in Enschede Danner was present in the two finals of the UEFA Cup; Borussia Mönchengladbach won by a 5-1 second-leg victory over FC Twente Enschede first German team ever UEFA Cup. In the 1975/76 season Danner was present in all 34 games and won for the second time the German championship title. Had Danner participated in his first five years at Borussia in 149 games, so this should come after problems with the inner band and the meniscus in the next four years, only thirty games. In his third championship in the 1976/77 season he was even just three times used in the UEFA Cup second victory of Borussia Danner came off the bench in the final first leg for fifteen minutes.

In the German national Danner came on six international appearances in the period from 1973 until 1976. His sixth and last international match was the semi-finals of the European Football Championship in 1976, when he was replaced at half-time against Heinz Flohe. Danner was able to continue the club services in the national team ever, but he had also regularly struggling with injuries.

His career as a professional footballer he sat in the 1980/81 season at FC Schalke 04 with 19 missions continued, he went down with Schalke in the Bundesliga. From there, he spent a year with 1 FC Saarbrücken. 1982/83 he finished his football career after a year at the Linzer ASK in Austria.

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