Sigfried Held
Sigfried Held in 2005
Sigfried Held ( born August 7, 1942 in Freudenthal ), also known as Sigi or Siggi Held, is a former German football player and coach.
He played for Borussia Dortmund, Kickers Offenbach, Preußen Münster and Bayer Uerdingen.
Player
Prior to his move to the Bundesliga in 1965 to Borussia Dortmund played hero for the first time at the OFC in the Regionalliga Süd. The come from TV Marktheidenfeld striker shot on the side of Hermann Nuber and Siggi guest in the season 1964/65 for the Offenbach 15 goals. It came out only the third rank, and so the second time the collection has been missed in the promotion round in a row.
For Borussia Dortmund Siggi Held graduated from 1965-1971 and between 1977 and 1979 a total of 230 Bundesliga matches and scored 44 goals. He was the first player of Borussia, who did not come from the Ruhr area or at least West Germany. With the BVB he won 1965/1966 the European Cup Winners' Cup, one was German Vice Champion and one third in the Bundesliga. The first season in Dortmund 1965/66 has been a great season for the young striker hero. With Reinhard Libuda and Lothar Emmerich together he made a international demands expectant attack. In the European Cup Winners' Cup they defeated one after the teams of FC Floriana Valletta, CSKA Sofia, Atletico Madrid and West Ham United and thus reached the final on May 5, 1966 in Glasgow against the clear favorites Liverpool. The team succeeded in attacking football with a victory over the defending champion (West Ham United) and in the final with the iconic lamp from "Stan" Libuda Liverpool was beaten. Due to the impressive performances this season in the Bundesliga and in the Europa Cup was already Siggi Held on 23 February 1966 match against England in London international. He had an impressive 1965/66 season he was league runner-up, National player to have won the European Cup and was runner-up at the World Cup in England.
For the Kickers Offenbach played hero 1972-1976 133 times in the Bundesliga, scoring 25 goals, so he is still a record Bundesliga player of the Offenbach. In the 1971/72 season, he was instrumental in the side of Erwin Kostedde the rise of the Kickers in the Bundesliga. Between 1979 and 1981 he played 59 Bundesliga games for Bayer Uerdingen and his old club Borussia Dortmund. He scored three goals.
As a national player Sigfried Held graduated 41 games from 1966 to 1973 when she met five times for Germany. He made his debut on 23 February 1966 in London at the 0-1 defeat against the English national football team. At the World Cup in England in 1966, he became Vice World Champion, 1970 in Mexico by third parties. He was also actively involved in the as received Game of the Century in the history match against Italy. At the European Championships in 1972, although he was not in the Final Round in Belgium in the team, in the memorable 3-1 victory on April 29 in England in the European Championship quarter- finals stormed Siggi Held at Wembley Elf but on the side of Gerd Müller Günter Netzer and Franz Beckenbauer. In the period from May 22 to June 25, 1972 the Bundesliga promotion round was held in Germany, took place during the finals in Belgium on 14 and 18 June in the same period. In consultation with national coach Helmut Schön played hero for his club.
On February 5, 1966 Held first ever shot on the goal wall of the ZDF sports studios.
Coach
After his career as a player, he was a club coach and assisted in this capacity from July 1981 to January 1983 FC Schalke 04, which he made the promotion to the Bundesliga. He then spent a year at the then second division BV 08 Lüttringhausen busy, but its descent into the league he could not prevent.
In the 1989/90 season he coached the Turkish traditional club Galatasaray.
In 1991 he was at Admira / Wacker coach and made the club a splash in the Austrian Cup and the European Cup. After that, he was from 1993 to November 1994 worked for Dynamo Dresden. The end of 1995, he moved to Japan and signed with Gamba Osaka. From July 1996 to October 1997 he was in the service of the VfB Leipzig.
From the summer of 2001 was Sigi Held coach of Malta, where he was replaced in that post on October 22, 2003 by Horst Heese.
From 20 September 2004 to 1 March 2005, he coached the Thai national team and met with her on 21 December 2004 in Bangkok to Germany ( result: 1:5 ).
Functionary
In 2006 he was the official World Cup ambassador of the FIFA World Cup city of Dortmund, he has been since January 1, 2007 Fan attendant at Borussia Dortmund.
Statistics
Held Internationals
- 35 for Borussia Dortmund
- 6 for Kickers Offenbach
Held Bundesliga games
- 230 for Borussia Dortmund
- 133 for Kickers Offenbach
- 59 Bayer 05 Uerdingen
Held Bundesliga goals
- 44 for Borussia Dortmund
- 25 for Kickers Offenbach
- 3 for Bayer 05 Uerdingen