Max Lorenz (footballer)
Max Lorenz ( born August 19, 1939 in Bremen -Hemelingen ) is a German former football player who in the German national football team 19 games completed from 1965 to 1970 and has been with Werder Bremen in the 1965 German Masters.
- 2.1 National, 1965-1970
Career
Clubs, to 1972
Bremen until 1969
Lawrence grew up in Hemelingen district and went through there the entire youth stations and the beginnings of the senior football at SV Hemelingen. After climbing 1959/60 with the sports association in the amateur league Bremen, he accepted the offer of the then North Oberliga side Werder Bremen and became the Round 1960/61 contract players. On matchday, 4 September 1960 he made his debut in a 7-1 home win over Bremerhaven 93 in the Football Oberliga Nord. Coach Georg Knöpfle had nominated the former amateur footballer for the right external rotor position in what was then the WM system. Werder finished behind the serial champions Hamburger SV in second place and Lorenz had done this in 24 games with six goals his contribution. His first game in the final round of the German football championship saw Lawrence on May 20, 1961 in the match against 1.FC Cologne. The game ended 1-1 in Cologne; Bremer had competed with the attack occupation Günter Wilmovius, Arnold contactor, Lorenz, Klaus Hanel and Horst Barth. In the last two years of the old class system Oberliga Lorenz failed with Werder respectively in the qualifiers ahead of the finals: 1962 in Hanover, against Schalke 04 in front of 60,000 spectators through a 1:4 defeat after extra time and in 1963 by a 1-2 defeat against the 1 FC Nuremberg in front of 58,000 spectators in Ludwigshafen. He trained in both games each with Helmut Jagielski and Helmut Schimeczek the rotor row of side coached by Georg Knöpfle.
In the DFB-Pokal in 1961, Lawrence starred in the matches against 1.FC Saarbrücken, 1st FC Cologne and 3-2 gates victorious after extra semi-final on August 23, 1961 against Karlsruher SC. For the final on 13 September 1961 in Gelsenkirchen against 1 FC Kaiserslautern, he was missing it. Mostly came the Lorenz both usable as an external rotor used. He gathered with Werder and 1961/62 in the European Cup Winners' international experience as he played in all four games against Aarhus GF and Atletico Madrid.
Overall, he graduated in the Oberliga Nord 1960-1963 74 league matches and scored eleven goals.
When the football league was opened 1963/64, with the first match on August 24, 1963 Lorenz formed, along with goalkeeper Klaus Lambertz and outfield players Josef Piontek, Wolfgang Bordel, Helmut Schütz Jagielski and Arnold the defense formation of Werder 's 3-2 - home win against Borussia Dortmund. With the new coach Willi Multhaup Bremer occupied in the first year 1963/64, with 28:32 points in tenth place in the then 16 founding members of the Bundesliga field. When the SV Werder Bundesliga in the second year, 1964/65, the favored defending champions 1.FC Cologne pointed with three points ahead of second place, Lorenz had completed 27 missions with two goals in the title of Bremen. In 30 -rounds the Werder defense around goalkeeper Günter Bernard, the defender pair Josef Piontek and Horst -Dieter Höttges, the runner series with Heinz Steinmann, Helmut Jagielski and Lorenz, and the two half- strikers Arnold contactor and Diethelm admitted Furthermore, only 29 goals, and was a guarantor of Bremen championship.
Personally, Lorenz learned through his international debut on April 24, 1965 at the World Cup qualifier against Cyprus in Karlsruhe in the spring of the championship round, a recognition of his performance at Werder Bremen. As defending champion - Coach Multhaup but was changed to Borussia Dortmund - Bremen reached the fourth place in 1966. In the European Cup of Champions had been conquered without difficulty APOEL Nicosia, was then but in the Yugoslav champions FK Partizan Belgrade failed. In Belgrade Lorenz lost with his team-mates 0:3, so the 1-0 home victory on November 17, 1965 was not enough. Two years after winning the title followed on the Weser almost crashing into the Regional, almost on the 16th rank of the relegation was avoided in 1967. Under coach Fritz Langner invaded Lorenz and colleagues in 1968 again in the front table ranks and were runners-up. After the decline in 1969 to ninth - his last league game for Bremen, he graduated at the June 7, 1969 at 6:5 home win against Borussia Mönchengladbach - Lorenz adopted by 176 Bundesliga inserts with 15 goals from Bremen and joined Eintracht Braunschweig.
Brunswick, 1969-1972
Before the last Coach of the Year by Helmuth Johannsen in 1969 /70 Lawrence was changed for 400,000 marks Transfer to Bundesliga champion of the year 1967. In the former " Zonenrandgebiet " at the Hamburger Straße Lorenz experienced in the round 1969/70 in Concord but no success, just on the 16th place standing Brunswick escaped with difficulty from relegation. Lorenz had completed 33 Bundesliga games and the defense in 34 league games conceded 49 goals. That was a good league value, but the gates were only 40 achieved too little to play more than just to avoid relegation. Germany coach Helmut Schön took Lorenz still with the Football World Cup 1970 in Mexico.
In the first year under coach Otto Knefler 1970 /71 to Braunschweig pushed to fourth place forward. Lorenz had participated in 24 games and Lothar Ulsaß taken care of by his 18 goals in the most effective offensive for Torgefahr. In his third year at Eintracht, 1971/72, Lorenz was from the 1st to the 14th Round of the concord on the field before he was blocked by the consequences of the Bundesliga scandal - because of the 1:1 home game on June 5, 1971 against RW Oberhausen, promised an additional prize money in front of the third party and also partially paid was - and could deny no more league game more. His last Bundesliga game dated November 6, 1971, Braunschweig 1:1 played at Rot-Weiß Oberhausen and with 13:15 points was on the 11th Place. Defense and midfield were formed here with Bernd Franke in goal, Wolfgang Grzyb, Peter Kaack, Joachim Bäse and Franz Merkhoffer in defense, and Friedhelm Haebermann, Bernd Gersdorff and Max Lorenz in midfield. For Braunschweig 71 Bundesliga games are conducted with three goals at Lorenz. Overall, his record in the Bundesliga from 1963 to 1972 is 247 League Appearances with 18 goals.
The young age employed as a clerk at Jacobs Coffee Lorenz worked after his career with a leading sporting goods retailer.
Achievements
National Team, 1965-1970
On 24 April 1965, and the World Cup qualifier against Cyprus in Karlsruhe, Lorenz made his debut in the 5-0 success in the German national soccer team. Germany coach Helmut Schön familiar here in the rotor row on Willi Schulz, Klaus -Dieter Sieloff and the man from Werder Bremen. He belonged to the player squad for the 1966 World Cup in England, but was not in the tournament are used. In the two historic "first" victories against England (1-0 in Hanover) and Brazil ( 2-1 in Stuttgart) on 1 or June 16, 1968 he was a member of the defense of the German team. As the DFB team outclassed in Food on May 21, 1969, 12:0 goals scored in World Cup qualifier in Cyprus, Lorenz scored his only goal in the national dress. At the end of his international career, he participated in his second World Cup tournament. He belonged to the 22er squad of the DFB for the World Cup 1970 in Mexico. On 20 June 1970, he appeared as a substitute in the match for third place against Uruguay ( 1-0) in the 46th minute for Karl -Heinz Quick Inger and thus completed his 19th international match.
Achievements
Worth mentioning
In 2008, Lorenz suffered a stroke, but he survived without residual effects. He was the life companion, who died on May 26, 2013 actress Hildegard Krekel and received in 2006 a handprint on the Mall of Fame in Bremen.