Helmut Schmidt (footballer)

Helmut Schmidt ( born June 9, 1949) is a former German football player.

Career

Clubs

The midfielder played from 1967 to 1970 for FC Bayern Munich, with whom he won the 1969 Double. His league debut came ( 31 Matchday) on 27 April 1968 the 2:3 defeat at home to Werder Bremen, against whom he on March 29, 1969 ( 28th Round ) with the intermediate 2-0 - the 6-0 home win - his first goal scored. His second and last goal was a late and at the same time "golden ": On April 19, 1969 ( 29 Matchday) won by Bayern Munich at Borussia Dortmund with his goal in the 89th minute. He also came to seven missions in the DFB Cup and two European Champion Clubs' Cup, the forerunner of today's Champions League, where he retired with the Bavarians in 1969 in the first round against AS Saint-Etienne.

In the 1970/71 season Schmidt played 17 Bundesliga games for Kickers Offenbach, with whom he surprisingly won the DFB - Cup on August 29, 1970 against 1 FC Cologne and 1971 relegation to the Regionalliga Süd. After one season, he moved to the Regionalliga West, to Borussia Dortmund, where he in his first season, 23 matches played - mostly as a substitute - and a goal, the 1-1 draw at Fortuna Cologne on October 15, 1972 ( 9. Matchday), arrived. From 1974 to 1976 he played for the ESV Ingolstadt- Ringsee and then up to end of his career, 1980, for TSV 1860 Rosenheim; the 1976/77 season with his companions Bayern Dieter Brenninger.

National

His two international matches played Schmidt for the U-23 national team, for the first time on May 7, 1969 in a 2-2 draw in Graz against the Austrian national team and for the last time on 24 September 1969 with the 1-2 defeat against Romania in Bucharest.

Achievements

• German champions in 1969 with FC Bayern Munich
• DFB Cup winner in 1969 with FC Bayern Munich, in 1970 with Kickers Offenbach