Dieter Herzog

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Dieter Herzog
Full name	Dieter Herzog
Date of birth	July 15, 1946 (age 60)
Place of birth	Oberhausen, Germany
Height	173 cm
Playing position	winger
Youth clubs
	Sterkrade 06/07 VfB Bottrop
Senior clubs¹
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
????-???? 1970-1976 1976-1983	Spfr. Hamborn 07 Fortuna Düsseldorf Bayer 04 Leverkusen	- (-) 167 (42) 117 (11)
National team²
1974	West Germany	5 (0)
¹ Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 30 June 1984. ² National team caps and goals correct as of 30 June 1984. * Appearances (Goals)

Dieter Herzog (born July 15, 1946 in Oberhausen) is a former German international football player.

Herzog played in 250 Bundesliga matches (46 goals) for Fortuna Düsseldorf and Bayer 04 Leverkusen in his professional career, after starting his senior career with Sportfreunde Hamborn 07 in a lower division and joining Düsseldorf a year before the club returned to Bundesliga in 1971. He was part of the Düsseldorf team that ended third in Bundesliga in 1972-1973 and 1973-1974, the season in which he made the biggest impact. In 1976 the left-sided winger joined Bayer 04 Leverkusen when the club was attempting to build a squad that could lead them all the way up to the Bundesliga. In fact, they succeeded and enabled Herzog to play four more season in the best German division then.

In the prime of his game in the years before the 1974 FIFA World Cup, Dieter Herzog was called up by Helmut Schön to represent West Germany five times in 1974. As he also came to action in the games against Yugoslavia and Sweden in the second round of the tournament, he played a part in the host nation winning the World Cup on that occasion.

Employed by Bayer 04 Leverkusen-sponsor Bayer after the end of his career, Dieter Herzog worked as a scout for his old club later on.

	West Germany squad - 1974 FIFA World Cup Champions (2nd Title)
1 Maier \| 2 Vogts \| 3 Breitner \| 4 Schwarzenbeck \| 5 Beckenbauer \| 6 Höttges \| 7 Wimmer \| 8 Cullmann \| 9 Grabowski \| 10 Netzer \| 11 Heynckes \| 12 Overath \| 13 Müller \| 14 Hoeneß \| 15 Flohe \| 16 Bonhof \| 17 Hölzenbein \| 18 Herzog \| 19 Kapellmann \| 20 Kremers \| 21 Nigbur \| 22 Kleff \| Coach: Schön