Heinz Strehl

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Heinz Strehl
Personal information
Date of birth (1938-07-20)20 July 1938
Place of birth Kalchreuth, Germany
Date of death 11 August 1986(1986-08-11) (aged 48)
Place of death Kalchreuth, West Germany[1]
Height 1.81 m (5 ft 11 in)
Position(s) Forward
Youth career
TSV Gleißhammer
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1958–1970 1. FC Nürnberg 300 (159)
Total 300 (159)
International career
1962–1965
West Germany
4 (4)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Heinz Strehl (20 July 1938 – 11 August 1986) was a German footballer who played as a forward.

Career

A

West Germany debut against Yugoslavia on 30 September 1962, with a hat-trick in between the 23rd and the 62nd minute. An effort that still lists Strehl among the fastest fifteen hat-trick outputs in the West Germany national team's football history. Thanks to Strehl's goals West Germany came out 3–2 winner in Zagreb
that day.

Beforehand, Strehl had already been part of

West Germany
.

Nominally a

inside forward due to his good passing skills and vision.[2] Apart from winning the Bundesliga in 1968, Strehl also won the West German football championship in 1961 and the West German Cup
in 1962.

After suffering a meniscus injury in 1970, Strehl retired from professional football. He continued to act as a player manager for FC Schwaig until 1973.[2]

Aged 48, Heinz Strehl died on 11 August 1986, of heart failure.[2]

Trivia

  • Strehl's 76 goals in the Bundesliga for 1. FC Nürnberg are still the most goals scored by an individual player of 1. FC Nürnberg in their Bundesliga history.

References

  1. ^ "Heinz Strehl" (in German). munzinger.de. Retrieved 28 November 2012.
  2. ^ a b c Bitter, Jürgen (1997). Deutschlands Fußball Nationalspieler (in German). Sportverlag. p. 476.

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