Horst-Dieter Höttges

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Horst Höttges
Personal information
Full name	Horst-Dieter Höttges
Date of birth	(1943-09-10) 10 September 1943
Place of birth	Mönchengladbach, Germany
Height	1.76 m (5 ft 9 ¹⁄₂ in)
Playing position	Defender (full back)
Club information
Current club	Colchester United (Scout)
Youth career
	Blau-Weiß Bahl
	Rheydter Spielverein
	Borussia Mönchengladbach
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps^†	(Gls)^†
1963–1964	Borussia Mönchengladbach	30	(0)
1964–1978	Werder Bremen	420	(55)
1964–1978	SC Oberbecksen
	TSV Achim
National team
1963–1964	West Germany U23	3	(0)
	West Germany B	2	(0)
1965–1974	West Germany	66	(1)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. † Appearances (Goals).

Horst-Dieter Höttges (born 10 September 1943 in Mönchengladbach) is a former German footballer.^[1]

Club career

Höttges joined Borussia Mönchengladbach at the age of seventeen from neighbourhood side Rheydter SV (to whom he went from his first club, Blau-Weiß Bahl). After three years in the youth of Mönchengladbach he was taking part for them in their Regionalliga West campaign of 1963–64 with Mönchengladbach manager Hennes Weisweiler feeling Höttges' way of playing wouldn't be what he was looking for and, though, the defender was forced to move on. Ahead of the 1964–65 season he signed with Bundesliga team Werder Bremen and enjoyed immediate success under Willi Multhaup at the Weserstadion, ending up winner of the Bundesliga title with Werder at the end of the same season.

This outstanding success with Werder Bremen was a key for the full back to be called up by Helmut Schön for the German team already in 1965, a time when his toughness in tackling duels earned him his "Eisenfuß" (iron foot) nickname. Although Werder Bremen couldn't recopy the success of 1965, and became rather a relegation battler than a title chaser, Höttges remained loyal to them and served in the Bundesliga until 1978, scoring 55 goals in his 420 appearances for the North German side.^[2] His commitment to a half-a-day employment as sales representative for a manufacturer of sports goods forced him to hang up his boots that summer. Höttges put job before club, unwilling to give up his business, and got named "Ehrenspielführer" (honorary captain) due to his career efforts by Werder Bremen.

Later on he was showing up for some time on amateur level for Bad Oeynhausen's SC Oberbecksen and TSV Achim, a club in a village near Bremen, where he settled down. He was partly coaching that club in an honorary capacity in the 1990s.

Country record

On 13 March 1965, Horst-Dieter Höttges debuted for West Germany in a friendly against Italy (1–1) at Hamburg's Volksparkstadion. Hamburg's Volksparkstadion was also the place where he won the last of his sixty-six caps for West Germany during the memorable first round defeat at the hands of East Germany in the 1974 FIFA World Cup.^[3] The defeat of the West Germans in the politically and emotionally exaggerated match lead coach Helmut Schön to significant changes in his line-up and limiting Höttges to a bench role was one of those. It resulted in the defenders subsequent retirement from international football after the 1974 FIFA World Cup final (West) Germany won against their Dutch opponents.^[4] His first of altogether three World Cup participations Höttges enjoyed in 1966 as part of the runner-up squad of (West) Germany in England. He was further a member of the squad for the 1970 FIFA World Cup (third place finish) and was a starter for his country in the 1972 UEFA European Football Championship final against in Brussels on 18 June. He and his team-mates beat the Soviet Union that day to win Germany's first UEFA European Football Championship trophy.

References

↑ "Horst-Dieter "Eisenfuß" Höttges" (in German). fussballdaten.de. Retrieved 12 February 2010.
↑ Matthias Arnhold (15 July 2011). "Horst-Dieter Höttges - Matches and Goals in Bundesliga". Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. Retrieved 12 March 2012.
↑ Horst-Dieter Höttges – FIFA competition record
↑ Matthias Arnhold (12 December 2004). "Horst-Dieter Höttges - International Appearances". Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. Retrieved 12 March 2012.

v t e West Germany squad – 1966 FIFA World Cup Runners-Up

1 Tilkowski 2 Höttges 3 Schnellinger 4 Beckenbauer 5 Schulz 6 Weber 7 Brülls 8 Haller 9 Seeler (c) 10 Held 11 Emmerich 12 Overath 13 Hornig 14 Lutz 15 Patzke 16 Lorenz 17 Paul 18 Sieloff 19 Krämer 20 Grabowski 21 Bernard 22 Maier Coach: Schön

v t e West Germany squad – 1970 FIFA World Cup Third Place

1 Maier 2 Höttges 3 Schnellinger 4 Beckenbauer 5 Schulz 6 Weber 7 Vogts 8 Haller 9 Seeler (c) 10 Held 11 Fichtel 12 Overath 13 Müller 14 Libuda 15 Patzke 16 Lorenz 17 Löhr 18 Sieloff 19 Dietrich 20 Grabowski 21 Manglitz 22 Wolter Coach: Schön

v t e West Germany squad – UEFA Euro 1972 winners (1st title)

GK Maier GK Kleff DF Beckenbauer (c) DF Bella DF Breitner DF Höttges DF Schwarzenbeck DF Vogts MF Bonhof MF Hoeneß MF Köppel MF Netzer FW Grabowski FW Heynckes FW Kremers FW Löhr FW Müller FW Wimmer Coach: Schön

v t e West Germany squad – 1974 FIFA World Cup winners (2nd title)

1 Maier 2 Vogts 3 Breitner 4 Schwarzenbeck 5 Beckenbauer (c) 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

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Persondata
Name	Höttges, Horst-Dieter
Alternative names
Short description	German footballer
Date of birth	10 September 1943
Place of birth	Mönchengladbach, Germany
Date of death
Place of death

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