Klaus-Dieter Sieloff

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Klaus-Dieter Sieloff (* 27). February 1942 in Tilsit; † December 13, 2011 in Stuttgart was a German footballer who completed fourteen international matches for the German national football team from 1964 to 1971 and scored five goals. With the Bundesliga team Borussia Mönchengladbach, he won the German Football Championship twice in 1970 and 1971 and the DFB Cup in 1973.

Career

Stuttgart, until 1969
The young footballer from Tilsit in East Prussia came via the stations Borussia Kiel (until 1954) and FV Rottweil (1954-1959) in 1959 in the youth department of the South upper division VfB Stuttgart. When the coach era Georg Wurzer ended at VfB after the 1959/60 round and Kurt Baluses took on the heavy legacy in 1960/61, Klaus-Dieter Sieloff from the A-Youth and Hans Eisele was taken over by the VfB amateurs in the upper league squad. With Rolf Blessing and Erich Retter were two actives from the master teams of 1950 and 1952. Now, however, with Rolf Geiger alongside goalkeeper Günter Sawitzki, a new top performer was in a responsible position in the team, who had to cope with the losses of Rudolf Hoffmann to FK Pirmasens and Erwin Waldner to FC Zurich. His first Oberliga match completed the athletic well-trained, besides with good duel leadership and a hard distance shot young players on the 9th. October 1960 in front of 30,000 spectators in the 2-0 home victory against 1st FC Nuremberg, when he formed the VfB interior trio together with Eberhard Pfisterer and Rolf Geiger. In his first league year, six more bets were added and VfB took seventh place. In the last year of the old first-class Oberliga system, 1962/63, VfB Stuttgart qualified with sixth place for the new Bundesliga for the 1963/64 season and Sieloff had already played in the notebook of national coach Sepp Herberger. He belonged for the first time at the international match on the 13th. May 1964 in Hanover against Scotland the squad of the national team and celebrated on the 7th June 1964 at the international match in Helsinki against Finland his debut in the DFB team. It was the last game in the coaching era of national coach Sepp Herberger and VfB colleague Rolf Geiger stormed in the German offensive.

From 1963 to 1969 Sieloff completed as VfB defense chief 141 Bundesliga games for VfB and scored 21 goals. In the first season he came to fifth place with the Red-White, then followed three years with double-digit places, before in 1968 and 1969 with the eighth and fifth place again better in the Neckar Stadium. After Kurt Baluses Rudi Gutendorf took over the coaching office, Albert Sing solved "Riegel-Rudi" on 14. December 1966, before Sieloff under coach Gunther Baumann played the two laps 1967/68 and 1968/69. Personally, the defensive specialist with build qualities and distance shots has experienced stagnation in recent years