.jpg) Kremers in 2009 | |||||||||||||||||
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| Date of birth | (1949-03-24)24 March 1949 (age 76) | ||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Mönchengladbach, Germany | ||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.72 m (5 ft 8 in) | ||||||||||||||||
| Position | 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
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| * Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||||||||||||||||
Helmut Kremers (born 24 March 1949) is a German former professionalfootballer who played as afull-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 theBundesliga.[1]
Moving up to theBundesliga squad ofBorussia Mönchengladbach in 1967, Helmut Kremers won his first of twoDFB-Pokal trophies with then lower league sideKickers Offenbach in 1970. In 1972, he had joinedFC Schalke 04 together with his twin brotherErwin in 1971, he was able to lift the trophy for a second time. Unlike his twin brother, who playedwinger,full back Helmut had spells with other clubs after the end of his deal with Schalke, playing forRot-Weiss Essen in the1980–81 2. Bundesliga and forNorth American Soccer League teamCalgary Boomers in 1981.[2] In total, Kremers scored 50 goals in 273 Bundesliga appearances.[3] Together, the twin brothers made three appearances in the national team: 1973 inHanover againstAustria (4-0) and inGelsenkirchen againstFrance (2-1) and in 1974 againstHungary in a 5-0 win inDortmund. In 1974 he becameFIFA World Cup champion withGermany in his own country but was never used. Nevertheless, like all members of the squad of the German World Cup team, he receivedthe Silver Laurel Leaf on 23 September 1974.[4] In the fall of 1981, he joined theMemphis Americans of theMajor Indoor Soccer League for one season. In 1982/83 he put on his football boots again as player-coach of SV 08 Kuppenheim in theOberliga Baden-Württemberg and succeeded Heinz Stickel in this office.[5]
Kremers played in eight games for his country, the last time on 12 March 1975, in a friendly defeat at the hands ofEngland.[6] Although playing on less occasions forWest Germany than his twin brother (who won 15 caps), Kremers was part of the1974 FIFA World Cup winningsquad.Erwin Kremers missed out on that due to a disciplinary decision taken beforehand.
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 ofMSV 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]
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]
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