Obituary for "Dixie" Dörner: Aesthet and Antriber

He loved the ball and the ball him, but some desire remained unfulfilled, even in this very intimate relationship. When the GDR in 1974 went to the World Cup to West Germany and placed in Hamburg to hosts and eventual champions on the cross, Hans-Juergen Corner was sitting at home on the couch. Because of the consequences of jaundice he missed the tournament.

• Beckenbauer of the East : Only at first he was flattered
• aesthete, impeller, Conductor
• Shipwreck in shark tank
• wheeling and dealing him was a stranger

I was 23 and consoled myself with the fact that I then just later play a World Cup or European Championships, told Corner decades later. But the GDR never made it more of a World Cup, and never to a European Championship, and therefore this Libero got world-class, which its forward thrust — thankfully! — not never let even the disciplinarian Georg Büchner, finish by any trainer, the stage that would deserve it.

Beckenbauer of the East : Only at first he was flattered

Corner Krönungsmesse the Olympic Games in Montreal were in 1976. France came up with Plating, Brazil Junior, Poland with Late and Search, Spain Canada and Juanito, the Soviet Union with Blondin, but gold won the GDR, the selection before and after probably never been better played as in those weeks in distant Canada. Corner scored four tournament goals, he was in the prime of his skills and his art. He never just completed his role as a sweeper, he celebrates them, and he could also because the Gobstopper uncompromisingly cleared away before him: Konrad manner in the national team, Udo jewelry at Dynamo Dresden.

As Dynamo in 1973 met in the European Champion Clubs' Cup with FC Bayern Munich, the Western media called before the duel Corner the Beckenbauer of the East. Initially it flattered the latter not so much: I am I, I thought. He was he — and, like him of the East German football had a second time.

aesthete, impeller, Conductor

In very young striker, midfielder later, and the UEFA youth tournament in 1969, the GDR reported him for safety's sake even as a substitute goalkeeper. He was an all-rounder, but his appeal was the role as a sweeper, entrusted to him Walter Fritz sch. He was on the paper defender, but on the court aesthete and impeller, conductor and brilliant free kick taker. Furthermore, he let the severity easily look like, and he stood with the also died much too early Reinhard Hefner for fine Dresden game of the golden 70s.

I was convinced that we always offer the discerning Dresden audience a few showpieces must, said Corner later. The long-time captain of the East German national team and the SG Dynamo never wanted as a sweeper manage, he wanted to make: I played with risk, but I always knew what I was doing. He denied 392 Oberlin- and 65 European Cup games for Dynamo, he was five times champion and five times Cup winners, but never head coach at his heart club.

Shipwreck in shark tank

The coach Corner — before the turn for the Olympic team in the GDR responsible, then the DFB at youth level and on the staff of head coach Berth Volts — never has experienced the orders that were given to him as a player.

As him in January 1996 Welder Bremen's President Dr. Franz Boomers, axis as he called, wondering Corner not last long. He was the first coach from the East, a head coach-place West Bundesliga took in united Germany in a. Corner came without their own assistant coach, without a consultant and without the necessary hardness for the shark tank Bundesliga. When he in August 1997 — was Bremen Bundesliga tail light — traveled with a Hull team to an invitational tournament to the Canaries and there against CD Tenerife (0: 4) and Atlético Madrid (0: 8) was shipwrecked, Corner flew first with back and then Out.

wheeling and dealing him was a stranger

He would have to fight against it, to play this tournament under these circumstances, but he did it — at that time — not. He was too nice, and any wheeling and dealing he was a stranger. It was, with just 46, the break in the coaching career. Engagements at PSV Wicket, at Clearly in Egypt, where he was Egyptian, succeeding Trainer Nobel Cup winner and runner-up, and at CFB Leipzig was followed, but the big football had no place for him. The occupied him and — also — annoyed. He was not broken at the dismissal in Bremen, he said later, but secretly I was wondering why not ring with you and the phone as with others?

He eventually got over it and its made peace with one's own biography and many unfulfilled longings. The man who suggested as a player and as a person, a fine blade, sat from 2013 at Dynamo in the Supervisory Board, in 2019, the native of Berlitz in the Hall of Fame of German football was taken.

Something too small DDR National Trainer Georg Büchner Corner found with its 1.75 meter at first for the post as Libero. Büchner mostly laid right, but he was wrong (and he corrected his mistake very soon): The GDR football had no major. In the night of Wednesday, Dixie Corner died at the age of 70 years after a long, severe disease.