Helmut Kremers

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Helmut Kremers
Kremers in 2009
Personal information
Date of birth (1949-03-24) 24 March 1949 (age 75)
Place of birth Mönchengladbach, Germany
Height 1.72 m (5 ft 8 in)
Position(s)
Full-back
Youth career
Borussia Mönchengladbach
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1967–1969 Borussia Mönchengladbach 14 (1)
1969–1971 Kickers Offenbach 65 (9)
1971–1980 Schalke 04 226 (45)
1980–1981 Rot-Weiss Essen 18 (4)
1981 Calgary Boomers 31 (3)
1981–1982 Memphis Americans (indoor) 14 (13)
Total 368 (75)
International career
1973–1975
West Germany
 8 (0)
Managerial career
1989 Schalke 04 (caretaker)
Medal record
Men's football
Representing  West Germany
FIFA World Cup
Winner 1974 West Germany
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Helmut Kremers (born 24 March 1949) is a German former professional

full-back. His twin brother, Erwin Kremers, also played as a German international with the two brothers playing with each other regularly. Helmut and Erwin Kremers are the first ever twins to play in the Bundesliga.[1]

Club career

Moving up to the

Major Indoor Soccer League for one season. In 1982/83 he put on his football boots again as player-coach of SV 08 Kuppenheim in the Oberliga Baden-Württemberg and succeeded Heinz Stickel in this office.[5]

International career

Kremers played in eight games for his country, the last time on 12 March 1975, in a friendly defeat at the hands of

West Germany than his twin brother (who won 15 caps), Kremers was part of the 1974 FIFA World Cup winning squad. Erwin Kremers
missed out on that due to a disciplinary decision taken beforehand.

Honours

After career

Kremers was FC Schalke 04 manager three times between 1989 and 1993, interim coach in 1989 and from 12 September to 6 December 1994 the last president to date. The sentence he said at the general meeting became legendary: “When we used to play against Dortmund, we didn’t even change our clothes.” After his term of office, the presidency was replaced by a change in the statutes by a board appointed by the supervisory board, which was then headed by Gerhard Rehberg. In December 2011 he ran for the office of President of MSV Duisburg but was not elected.[7]

Today Kremers is managing director of a GmbH for project development in Duisburg, which he founded in 1992.[8][9]

Miscellaneous

Kremers completed an apprenticeship as a wholesale merchant. In a portrait in May 1974, he was described as a "reasonable person", as a "pragmatist", "more Hanseatic cool than Rhenish cheerful nature" and as a person "between naturalness and well-concealed arrogance". Together with his twin brother Erwin, he reached 44th place in the German hit parade in 1974 as "Die Kremers" with the title The Girl of My Dreams. The two Kremers brothers lived under the same roof with their families during their careers, and they also owned a discotheque together. During his career, Helmut Kremers spoke out in favour of the abolition of transfer fees when changing clubs, since this was "a kind of human trafficking".[10]

Literature

  • Christian Karn, Reinhard Rehberg: Encyclopedia of German League Football. Player Encyclopedia 1963–1994. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2012.
    ISBN 978-3-89784-214-4
    , page 279.
  • Fritz Tauber: German national football player. Player statistics from A to Z. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2012,
    ISBN 978-3-89784-397-4
    , page 69.

References

  1. ^ Dart, James; Bandini, Nicky (10 October 2007). "Who has scored the most hat-tricks in a single season?". The Guardian. Retrieved 8 September 2022.
  2. ^ "Helmut Kremers". www.nasljerseys.com. Retrieved 29 July 2008.
  3. RSSSF.com
    . Retrieved 6 February 2020.
  4. ^ Muras, Udo. "Helden von Bern, Verlierer von Brüssel" (in German). DFB. Retrieved 5 January 2023.
  5. ^ "Helmut Kremers" (in German). Kicker. Retrieved 4 January 2023.
  6. RSSSF.com
    . Retrieved 6 February 2020.
  7. ^ Müller, Peter; Retzlaff, Dirk (14 December 2011). "Der MSV Duisburg hat plötzlich die große Wahl" (in German). WAZ. Retrieved 4 January 2023.
  8. ^ Buschmann, Heiko (23 March 2014). "Am Montag werden sie 65 Jahre alt" (in German). RevierSport. Retrieved 4 January 2023.
  9. ^ "K&K & Was sonst noch dazu gehört" (in German). K&K GmbH. Retrieved 4 January 2023.
  10. ^ "Zwischen Natürlichkeit und kaschierter Arroganz" (PDF) (in German). Abendblatt. 30 May 1974. Retrieved 10 January 2023.

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