Mourning around Bernd Nickel

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With Frankfurt s world champions of 1974, he was named in the same breath, though he was only a senior international. For as his friends Jürgen Grabowski and Bernd Hölzenbein Bernd Nickel is one of the legends of harmony that gave the club in the 70s and 80s face and character. On Wednesday s Dr. Hammer, as he was called with admiration, died after a long illness at the age of 72 years.

The down-home agents Hesse, who during and after his career both in Frankfurt and was at home in his native Eisemroth in the Lahn-Dill, owed his nickname of his dreaded shot power and technique. In 426 Bundesliga appearances scoring 141 goals nickel. Only nine of which came from penalty kicks, as he sometimes remarked. For these sizable hit rate is for a permanent midfielder as he was outstanding.

nickel hit from all four corners of the Waldstadion

Less force but rather Effet stuck in a record Nickels: From all four corners of the former Waldstadion he has turned a corner directly. On November 22, 1975 at 6: 0 against Bayern he were loaded goalkeeper Sepp Maier. Against Kaiserslautern, Fortuna Dusseldorf and at 9: 2 against Werder Bremen the left-footed brought this feat.

Dr. Hammer was brilliant at his shot power. imago sport photoservices

Worst of an overhead kick into the top corner weighed: On the penultimate day in 1971 he met in this way in the derby against Bernd Hölzenbeins Offenbach. The subsequent 2: 0 victory meant relegation for Eintracht - and the cancellation of his move to Bayern Munich, which was due during the descent.

Nickel has never really looked back. The attachment to home was for the learned telephone technician always greater than the urge in the big wide world. Even if so, how was hardly possible for many professionals of his generation, a career in the national team. The Bayern block turned up often alone on.

Nickel and teammates Trinklein built the first Eintracht fan shop on

Nickel was one of the first in the Bundesliga who discovered the merchandising. His teammate Gert Trinklein had the idea, and together they built the first Eintracht fan shop on. We started with pins, cufflinks, then came the first shirts, Naggel told how his former teammates called lovingly, 2010 in an interview with the Bernd Hölzenbein s What a guy!.

The harmony of his time was often titel able at the end but not mature enough title. The Diva vom Main still enjoyed great success. Nickel won with the eagle carriers three times the DFB Cup (1974, 1975, 1981) and the UEFA Cup in 1980 in the playoffs against Borussia Moenchengladbach.

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At the Summer Games in 1972, he stood in the West German Olympic team. After the career, which he finished at Young Boys Bern in 1984, he was a regular customer when the Eintracht aground at a home game in the urban forest - if it allowed health.

We were playing in mud, ice, snow, said Nickel. He liked to talk to social rounds of golf anecdotes from the Bundesliga without revealing intimate. The real football topics were more important to him than the gossip. And often swung incomprehension with over shoddy ground passes on the today yet so good lawn or just bad corner kicks.

One such as nickel has gladly inserted extra layers for shots and flanks: I was an absolute street footballers have, for hours as a child geballert on barn and later beaten Friday after the final training session, corners until your thighs glowed.

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