Heinz Kördell

Heinz „Heiner“ Kördell (born January 8, 1932, Wanne-Eickel, Germany) is a former German soccer player. In 1958, he was German champion with FC Schalke 04. He played one international match for Germany. Kördell is a member of the honorary committee of Schalke.

Kördell was the son of a coal miner in Germany's Ruhrgebiet. In 1956, he joined the Schalke team from SpVgg Röhlinghausen. As an offensive midfielder, he was in the team that won for Schalke the (to date) last German championship in 1958. For six years, he played at Schalke, before joining Schwarz-Weiß Essen in 1962. In German Oberliga West (then the highest division in German football) he scored 19 goals in 103 matches. His only match in the black-and-white dress of Germany he played on December 28, 1958, in Cairo, where Germany faced Egypt.

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"To us, at the time, "culture" meant having a toilet in your own flat." [1]

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  1. ↑ „Kultur war für uns damals, eine Toilette in der Wohnung zu haben.“ cited according to: Jörg Marwedel, Hymne in Blau, in Süddeutsche Zeitung, March 1, 2005 (online-edition as accessed on December 12, 2006)

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