Karl-Heinz Schnellinger
Karl -Heinz Quick Inger (1968 )
Karl -Heinz Quick Inger ( born March 31, 1939 in Düren ) is a former German football player.
The defender was one of the first German professionals who were sold abroad. In Italy, he won with AC Milan all major international title. With the German national team, he participated in four World Cups ( 1958, 1962, 1966, 1970) in part, but could never win the title.
Today he lives in his adopted home of Italian in Segrate near Milan. Professionally, he worked after his sporting career as a general agent for fitted kitchens in Milan.
Club career
Time in Germany
At the age of ten years Schnellinger he joined the SG Düren 99 in, for the seniors team in the season 1957/58 in the 2nd League West aground and scored six goals in 21 games. He was nominated in the spring of 1957 for the DFB national youth team and took in April 1957 at the UEFA youth tournament in Spain part. There he trained with Fritz Pott the German defenders pair. At the latest after his international on 12 October 1957 at Dress the amateur national team against England on the side of defenders colleague Willi Gerdau he was recommended by Helmut Schön, the former assistant to national coach Sepp Herberger, for higher tasks.
After the 1958 World Cup switched Quick Inger, who gave up his education in the Upper Fifth in favor of football and an apprenticeship successfully completed, the first FC Cologne, where he was a safe size in defense. Under coach Péter Szabó, he debuted on 2 November 1958 in an away game against Rot -Weiß Oberhausen, in the Oberliga West. In the 0-1 defeat he trained with Georg Stollenwerk in the former WM system the defender pair. At the round end, he had completed 19 league games and reached Cologne for the runner a place in the final round of the German soccer championship. In his first tournament in 1959, he played all six games; but the Südmeister Eintracht Frankfurt proved too strong and won in the final of the German Championship. From 1960 to 1963 he won with the team of President Franz Kremer four championships in the Oberliga West in a row. His first final of the German Cup, he experienced on June 25, 1960, with a 2:3 defeat against Hamburger SV. With the " Billy Goats " he won in 1962 under coach Zlatko Cajkovski the German soccer championship 1961/62 - in the final defeated Cologne 1.FC Nuremberg 4-0. 1963 Cologne was again in the final of the Championship, but lost 1-3 against Borussia Dortmund. The consolation goal for FC scored Schnellinger itself In 1962, he was chosen by the sports journalists Footballer of the Year in Germany. In the election to the European Footballer of the Year, in which only rarely defenders can be found on the front seats, in 1962, he finished in third place, 1963, he was sixth. After the last round of the old first-class soccer league in 1962 /63 - Quick Inger had 131 league games with eight goals and 30 finals games ( 1 goal) completed for the 1st FC Cologne from 1958 to 1963 - he was a professional in the series A in Italy.
Quick Inger was over a decade one of the world's best defender and can certainly be counted among the greats of their trade. He was strong in the air, had runs innovative capacity, a good basic technique for the build-up play and absolute class in defensive duel and was also an exceptionally intelligent young man who was so fitted by nature and a brilliant tactician.
When the English football legend Stanley Matthews in 1965 at the age of 50 years took her farewell, he invited the top European players. For direct opponent to chose the famous Right Wing Quick Inger, whom he regarded as the best left defender. The selection from the continent hit the English national team 6-4.
Time in Italy
Quick Inger changed following the runner-up in 1963 for a transfer fee of $ 500,000 in the Italian Serie A for AS Roma. He received a signing bonus in the amount of DM 350,000 and was initially loaned for one season to the AC Mantova. After Quick Inger had played a strong season in Mantua and shiny introduced in the Serie A, he returned to AS Roma, where he played the season 1964/65. But soon the top club AC Milan became aware of the blond and signed him immediately. In Milan he played with many stars together ( Gianni Rivera, Kurt Hamrin, Pierino Prati, Giovanni Trapattoni and Roberto Rosato ) and developed in the "land of the Catenaccio " tactically further and was considered one of the best defenders in the world.
With the Lombard tradition Club Quick Inger floated on a wave of success: 1967 Coppa Italia 1968 Scudetto and European Cup Winners' Cup with a 2-0 victory against Hamburger SV. A year later, Milan beat the team of Ajax Amsterdam 4-1 in the final of the European Champions' Cup. For the first time a team had won both major European football competitions. 1969 came the World Cup. 1972 and 1973 brought the AC Milan Coppa Italia twice, in 1973 and the second time the European Cup Winners' Cup, but Schnellinger was not used in the final against Leeds United ( 1-0). In 1974 he stood for the last time in a European Cup final. The first FC Magdeburg, cup winners of the GDR, he foiled a successful completion of the career.
Back in Germany
Shortly thereafter ( season 1974/75 ) signed Karl -Heinz Schnellinger the Bundesliga's newly Tennis Borussia Berlin - a transfer coup; partly because of his career, on the other hand because he had so far not played a game in the Bundesliga. 19 games played the father of three daughters for Berlin, but the immediate descent could not prevent. The experienced rapid Inger was indeed elected immediately to the captain, but it was the age of 36 no longer at the peak of its power, and with 89 goals conceded TeBe had the weakest defense in the league. Quick Inger ended his active career and settled in Italy.
Career in the national team
On April 2, 1958 ( two days after his 19th birthday ) was the defender made his debut in the German National Team. " Quick Inger has passed his examination shiny. With him, there's no hesitation, no hesitation. Uncompromising he destroyed all attacks, "wrote the press after the game against Czechoslovakia ( 3-2 ).
Herberger took him in the same year with the World Cup in Sweden, where Schnellinger should gain international experience, and put him in two games: in the first round against Czechoslovakia ( 2-2) and in the more insignificant the match for third place against France ( 3:6 ). Impressed it had debutant especially Fritz Walter, whom he admired and to whom he looked up. The "big Fritz" was the ideal football player for the boy from Düren. His discovery was the then Assistant Herberger Helmut Schön, who became aware in the Middle Rhine selection on quick Inger.
1962 drove Karl -Heinz Quick Inger under different conditions for the World Cup in Chile. As the reigning German champion, he was now a fixture in Herberger's system. Although the German team not make it past the quarter-finals, he made a strong impression, because the German defense had conceded only two goals in four games. German journalists voted him then "Footballer of the Year" and he was the All-Star team in the world championship.
At the World Cup in England in 1966 stood next Schnellinger with Helmut Haller and Albert Brülls two more Italy - Legionaries in the German squad, which brought the team that was completed by the young stars such as Franz Beckenbauer, Wolfgang Overath and Lothar Emmerich more quality. Germany was one of the strongest teams in the tournament, not least because of their defense, which had to collect only two goals to the final. But the final at the legendary Wembley Stadium went to a dramatic end with 2:4 nV to hosts England.
In his fourth World Cup in Mexico in 1970 Quick Inger organized the German defenses. His only goal he scored in 47 games for the national team, was the equalizing goal in the semifinal against Italy. On June 17, 1970 at the World Cup semi-final match between Germany and Italy at the Azteca stadium in Mexico City in front of over 100,000 spectators was the team Helmut Schön's back since the 8th minute 0:1. It was already the 91st minute. Jürgen Grabowski cross from the left. Karl -Heinz Quick Inger steered to right: 1:1. The German commentator Ernst Huberty misled the cult to the saying " just quick Inger ... " because Schnellinger played in Italy for years. This was followed by a spectacular and still famous today extension. Italy won 4:3 nV, and even today one speaks of the " Game of the Century ". Germany is finally World Cup bronze medalist ( 1-0 win over Uruguay).
On February 17, 1971 Quick Inger graduated at 0:1 on Albania his last international game and ended after 13 years and 47 games, including 17 World Championships, the national team of his career.
Achievements
- German champions: 1961/62
- Italian Champion: 1967/68
- Italian Cup Winners: 1963/64, 1966 /67 1971/72 1972/73 the
- European Cup Winners Cup Winners: 1967/68, 1972/73
- European Cup Winners ' Cup: 1968/69
- World Cup winner: 1969
- World Cup: Fourth ( 1958), Second (1966 ), Third (1970 )
- Germany's Footballer of the Year: 1962
Statistics
- 47 matches; 1 goal for Germany
- 1 amateur international match
- 1st Bundesliga
- Oberliga West
- Final round of the German Cup
- DFB-Pokal
- West Cup
- Europe Champions Cup; UEFA Cup