Friedhelm Konitska ( German: Friedhelm Konietzka ; August 2, 1938 , Lünen , Third Reich - March 12, 2012 , Brunnen , Switzerland ) - German soccer player and football coach . He acted as a striker . Heading the Swiss club Zurich as a coach, he won the national championship and cup three times.
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| Nickname | Timo | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | August 2, 1938 Luenen , Third Reich | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Died | March 12, 2012 (73 years old) Brunnen , Switzerland | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Citizenship |  Germany | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 177 cm | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Position | attack | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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During his playing career, he received the nickname Timo from his teammates because of the resemblance to the Soviet marshal S. K. Timoshenko [1] .
Content
- 1 Club career
- 2 Career in the team
- 2.1 Matches for the national team
- 3 Coaching career
- 4 Death
- 5 Achievements
- 6 Performance Statistics
- 7 notes
- 8 References
Club career
Konitska was born in Lunen ( Westphalia ). From the age of 14 he worked at a coal mine [2] , while playing for the local club “08 Lünen”. In 1958, a talented striker was noticed by the head coach of Dortmund Borussia Max Merkel , who organized the transfer of Friedhelm to his team. In the new club Konitska became one of the leaders of the attack, having formed an effective team with Jürgen Schütz . In total, during the performance in the regional West Oberliga, the striker scored 84 goals in 107 matches [3] . In 1963, Borussia became the champion of Germany, while Konitska scored 5 goals in 5 championship matches.
August 24, 1963 Konitska became the author of the first goal of Borussia in the Bundesliga , scoring the ball into the goal of Werder Bremen . In the 1964/65 season, he became the owner of the German Cup , after which he moved to the Munich 1860 club. In the first season, Konitska won the Bundesliga for the new team, scoring 26 goals in 33 matches (the second championship result after Lothar Emmerich ). However, at the beginning of the 1966/67 season, the player received a six-month suspension for assaulting a judge, which undermined his career in Germany. Until the end of the season Konitska still managed to play in 7 matches of the championship, after which he moved to the Swiss club Winterthur , who at that time played in the second division.
Thanks to Konitsky's goals, Winterthur managed to break into the top division and reach the Swiss Cup finals following the 1967/68 season. In 1971, Konitska moved to another Swiss club Zurich , where he took the post of playing coach. At the end of the season, he became the owner of the country's cup.
In 1973, Konitska completed his playing career.
Team Career
Despite the high performance, Konitska rarely called in the national team. In total, he spent only 9 matches for the German national team, including one in the selection for the 1966 World Cup .
Team Matches
| Matches and goals Konitsky for the national team of Germany | |||||
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| No. | date of | Rival | Score | Goals of Konitsky | Competition |
| one | September 30, 1962 | Yugoslavia | 3: 2 | - | Friendly match |
| 2 | October 24, 1962 | France | 2: 2 | one | Friendly match |
| 3 | May 5, 1963 | Brazil | 1: 2 | - | Friendly match |
| four | September 28, 1963 | Turkey | 3-0 | - | Friendly match |
| 5 | December 29, 1963 | Morocco | 4: 1 | 2 | Friendly match |
| 6 | January 1, 1964 | Algeria | 0: 2 | - | Friendly match |
| 7 | June 7, 1964 | Finland | 4: 1 | - | Friendly match |
| 8 | March 13, 1965 | Italy | 1: 1 | - | Friendly match |
| 9 | April 24, 1965 | Cyprus | 5: 0 | - | World Cup Qualifiers 1966 |
Total: 9 matches / 3 goals; 5 wins, 2 draws, 2 losses.
Coaching career
As the head coach Konitska led a number of Swiss and German clubs. He achieved the greatest success with Zurich, winning the Swiss Championship three times in a row from 1974 to 1976, as well as reaching the semifinals of the European Cup in the 1976/77 season , where Zurich lost to Liverpool . Heading the Young Boys, Konitska reached the finals of the Swiss Cup twice in a row in 1979 and 1980, and in 1982 he again became the country's champion with Grasshopper. In 1984, he coached the Dortmund Borussia for a short time.
In 1985 Konitska officially changed his name to Timo, and on August 2, 1988 received Swiss citizenship. After completing his career, he lived in the town of Brunnen near Lake Firwaldstet , where together with his wife Claudia kept the guest house “Oksen”.
Death
In the last years of his life, Konitska suffered from cancer . In early 2012, he decided to voluntarily die with the help of euthanasia .
He died on March 12, 2012.
Achievements
- Champion of Germany ( 2 ): 1963 , 1965/66
- Germany Cup Winner: 1964/65
- Swiss Champion ( 4 ): 1973/74, 1974/75, 1975/76, 1981/82
- Swiss Cup Winner ( 3 ): 1971/72, 1972/73, 1975/76
Performance Statistics
| Club | Season | League [4] | Cups [5] | Eurocups [6] | Total | ||||
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| Games | Goals | Games | Goals | Games | Goals | Games | Goals | ||
| Borussia (Dortmund) | 1958/59 | 8 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 8 |
| 1959/60 | 29th | 25 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 29th | 25 | |
| 1960/61 | 34 | 22 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 34 | 22 | |
| 1961/62 | 16 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 16 | 13 | |
| 1962/63 | 31 | 24 | 3 | four | 0 | 0 | 34 | 28 | |
| 1963/64 | 25 | twenty | one | 0 | 8 | four | 34 | 24 | |
| 1964/65 | 28 | 22 | 5 | 2 | 3 | one | 36 | 25 | |
| Total | 171 | 134 | 9 | 6 | eleven | 5 | 191 | 145 | |
| Munich 1860 | 1965/66 | 33 | 26 | one | 0 | 8 | 7 | 42 | 33 |
| 1966/67 | fourteen | four | one | 0 | 2 | four | 17 | 8 | |
| Total | 47 | thirty | 2 | 0 | 10 | eleven | 59 | 41 | |
| Winterthur | 1967/68 | 26 | 34 | 6 | 6 | - | - | 32 | 40 |
| 1968/69 | 24 | 9 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 26 | 9 | |
| 1969/70 | 26 | fourteen | four | 3 | 0 | 0 | thirty | 17 | |
| 1970/71 | 26 | fourteen | 3 | one | 0 | 0 | 29th | fifteen | |
| Total | 102 | 71 | fifteen | 10 | 0 | 0 | 117 | 81 | |
| Zurich | 1971/72 | 25 | 6 | 5 | one | 5 | 2 | 35 | 9 |
| 1972/73 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 | fifteen | 0 | |
| Total | 34 | 6 | 5 | one | eleven | 2 | fifty | 9 | |
| Total career | 354 | 241 | 31 | 17 | 32 | eighteen | 417 | 276 | |
Notes
- ↑ Friedhelm "Timo" Konietzka (German) (unavailable link) (February 4, 2007). Date of treatment December 3, 2008. Archived on October 5, 2011.
- ↑ Aus sieben Metern mit der Innenseite . die Welt Kompakt (March 14, 2012).
- ↑ Matthias Arnhold. Friedhelm 'Timo' Konietzka - Matches and Goals in Bundesliga . RSSSF (June 8, 2017). Date of treatment June 14, 2017.
- ↑ Oberliga West of Germany (1958-1963), Bundesliga of Germany (1963-1967), National League B of Switzerland (1967-1968), National League A of Switzerland (1968-1973). The matches of the German championship until 1963, which was played according to the Olympic system, are included.
- ↑ German Cup, Swiss Cup .
- ↑ European Cup , Fairs Cup , UEFA Cup Winners' Cup , Intertoto Cup .