Henning Frenzel
Henning Frenzel ( May 3, 1942 in Geithain ) was soccer player in Leipzig. For the teams of the SC engine, the SC Leipzig and the first locomotive FC he played at the highest GDR football class, the top league. With the first FC Lok he was 1976 Cup Winners' Cup. Frenzel is 56 times the national team. With the East German Olympic team in 1964, he won the bronze medal.
Football career
Youth
Henning Frenzel grew up in the West Saxon town Geithain. He started in 1952 at the native operating motor sports community Geithain to play football. In 1959, he joined the DDR Oberliga SC locomotive Leipzig. There he first played in the junior team and won the 1960 with her the GDR Junior Cup. On July 10, 1960 Frenzel played in Halberstadt his only junior international game. In the encounter DDR - Bulgaria (0:0 ), he was employed as a center forward. In 1961, he came in three junior internationals used.
SC Lok Leipzig
His first game in the DDR - Oberliga denied the 1.76 m wide Frenzel for the SC locomotive already at age 18 on 26 June 1960, the twelfth season game day. At 1-1 at Motor Zwickau, he was employed as the left striker. This season Frenzel was already 15 league operations. 1961/62, when the league went to the summer - spring - game year over 39 point games because of the change from calendar year rhythm, Frenzel was with 37 point stakes already regulars in the attack formation of Leipzig. With 20 goals he was first scorer of his team, a success which he still repeated six times during his career. By the end of the season 1962/63 Frenzel maintained 72 league games in which he scored 34 goals. Of the 15 Fairs Cup games of the Leipzig city selection in Frenzel Oberliga time he played seven matches and scored five goals.
National
One and a half years after his first league game Frenzel was appointed to the East German national team. His debut in the A selection he gave on 10 December 1961 at the international match Morocco - DDR ( 2-0). In the second half he came in to replace the half left striker Günter Schröter. He then belonged to 1971 for solid players master the national team, although he was repeatedly used only as a change of players. After Frenzel was used from the early 1970s in the big leagues as a midfielder, was coach Georg Buschner only little use for his former center forward. So Frenzel not played in 1972 in the national team, in 1973 and 1974, he was only used four times. It was canceled at the last moment from the squad for the 1974 World Cup. His last international match played Frenzel on 28 February 1972 at the test match Algeria - DDR (1:3), he came on in the 63rd minute for the midfielder Wolfgang Seguin. To Frenzel's most spectacular international matches included the European Championship qualifier DDR - Netherlands on 5 April 1967 in which he still shot out with three goals from a 0:2 behind a 4-3 win, as well as the European Championship qualifier DDR - Hungary on 29 October. , 1967, when he scored his 1-0 win matches for their first win of the GDR over the Magyars. Overall Frenzel completed 1961-1972 56 A- international matches in which he scored 19 goals. In five games he ran on as team captain. In April 1962 Frenzel played one match with the B selection. When 1:3 against Czechoslovakia, he scored the consolation goal for the GDR.
During Frenzel with the A selection never reached the final of a World or European Championships, he was more successful with the East German Olympic team. In 1964, he played nine of the thirteen qualification and finals matches and scored seven goals, including five in the final tournament in Tokyo. The GDR selection came in the small final, in which Egypt was defeated 3-1. The way to a bronze medal paved Frenzel with the goal to make it 1-0. Four years later failed the Olympic team in qualifying, Frenzel had completed four of the six qualifying games. Of the four qualifiers for the 1972 Olympics Frenzel played the first three games, then he was like not even used in the senior national team in the Olympic selection and so missed the finals in the Federal Republic, the GDR selection again won the bronze medal. From 1964 to 1971 Frenzel played 15 times in official games of the Olympic team and scored eight goals for them.
Sports club and football club in Leipzig
1963 belonged Frenzel to the players that have been assigned to the newly created and particularly eligible SC Leipzig as part of a reorganization of the Leipzig football. The first season of 1963/64 was for the Sport Club disappointing, he was sent off local rivals BSG Chemie Leipzig, the master was surprising in the shadows, and also the Cup hopes were destroyed after the 2:3 - final defeat against 1 FC Magdeburg. By the end of 1965 Frenzel had appeared in 62 league games for the SC Leipzig. In January 1966, the football section of the SC Leipzig was spun off as part of the football club start-ups in East Germany and converted to the 1 FC Locomotive Leipzig. The season concluded the FC from the championship and third Frenzel was the only time in his career with 22 goals scorer of the DDR - Oberliga. On June 9, 1966 reported the newspaper Deutsches Sport echo that Frenzel along with his teammate Manfred Geisler wanted to move to FC Carl Zeiss Jena. However, nothing came of the change, since it was not approved by the East German Football Federation. Then Frenzel reached in 1967 with the runner-up his best result in the big leagues. In the 1968/69 season he became top scorer of the 1st FC Lok with just six hits. It was a visible sign of fading quality of the team that descended logical as Table. Despite his status as a national player Frenzel could enforce his whereabouts at the Leipzig club and made with his 29 -point game inserts and 17 goals in the GDR league for its chances of promotion. Surprisingly reached Leipzig the cup final, but for the second time in his career had Frenzel after 2:4 against FC Vorwärts Berlin suffered a final defeat. From the 1971/72 season at the now 29 -year-old Frenzel joined the attack in the midfield.
In the season 1973 /74 1.FC Lok first played in the UEFA Cup and came to spectacular victories among other things, the Torino and Fortuna Dusseldorf to the semi-finals, where only Tottenham Hotspur sat 2-1 and 2-0 the stop sign. Frenzel played in all ten games. His only goal he scored in the second-round match in a 3-0 home win against Fortuna Dusseldorf. The gate was played volley with lots of spin up into the triangle, commented by the East German magazine Fuwo as a gate that you " reserves over years and decades in the memory."
1976 Frenzel had finally success in the GDR Cup competition. On May 1, he was the third time in the final. In the match against FC Vorwärts Frankfurt he was employed as a central midfielder, but not prevented him from achieving the goals to make it 1-0 and 2-0, with whom he initiated the 3-0 victory of his team. Despite his football age of 34 years Frenzel remained with 25 or 24 point game inserts for the seasons 1976/77 and 1977/78 regular players at the 1 FC Lok. In 1977, he was, after he was partially inserted into the season again as a center forward, with seven goals once again top scorer of Leipzig. In the spring of 1978, the approaching end of his career was visible as a football player. Although he played eleven games in the second round, but only one meeting for 90 minutes. His last league match took place on 27 May 1978 the 25 point game day, instead. In the 4-0 home game win over bismuth Gera Frenzel was again off the bench for 32 minutes. After his 286 league appearances for the first FC Lok Leipzig he came to a total of 420 top-flight appearances with 152 goals. In the eternal record lists the DDR - Oberliga he stands so each finished fourth at the point stakes, and at the point game gates.
Football coach
Even after the end of his career as a football player Frenzel hired on for the football and initially was maintained even 1 FC Lok. There he worked as a coach at youth level. In 1989 he took over for a short time training the relegation second division motor Grimsby, but could not keep him from relegation. In 1993, he coached the youth of the C- 1 FC Lok successor VfB Leipzig and in 1994 was youth coach at SC Eintracht Schkeuditz.
Private life
Frenzel had completed an apprenticeship as a construction worker after finishing school. When his work as a trainer by the economic changes in the former East Germany could no longer be financed, in 1990 he was unemployed for several months, after which coach was based on a government job creation scheme. From 1993 he worked at a Leipzig Transport Company as a shipping clerk. In 2004 he once more made as a football player when he headlines at one point game of the third set class for the now newly formed 1st FC Lok Leipzig participated as a 62- year-old against SV Paunsdorf Devils. The game ended with the record 20:0 for the first FC Lok.
Achievements
- Bronze Medal Olympic Games in 1964
- East German Cup winner 1976
- League 's top scorer in 1966
- DDR Junior Cup Winners 1960