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Dieter Eilts (born 13 December 1964) is a German former professional footballer who played as a midfielder.[1] After retiring as a player, he began a managerial career and also worked for SV Werder Bremen as director of the football academy.

Dieter Eilts

Personal information
Date of birth	(1964-12-13) 13 December 1964 (age 57)
Place of birth	Upgant-Schott, West Germany
Height	1.86 m (6 ft 1 in)
Position(s)	Midfielder
Youth career
	SV Hage
	Werder Bremen
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1984–1988	Werder Bremen II	132	(36)
1985–2002	Werder Bremen	390	(7)
Total		522	(43)
National team
1993–1997	Germany	31	(0)
Teams managed
2002–2003	Werder Bremen U19
2003–2004	Germany U19
2004–2008	Germany U21
2006–2007	Germany 20
2008–2009	Hansa Rostock
Honours Men's football Representing  Germany UEFA European Championship Winner 1996 England
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Playing career

Born in Upgant-Schott, East Frisia, Eilts had the reputation of being the quintessential midfield blue-collar worker. He played 390 matches in the Bundesliga for SV Werder Bremen, his only club during his whole professional career, and scored seven goals.[2] He was also lauded as one of the most responsible and sensible players of the league, never appearing in the yellow press and always leading by example. Eilts is regarded as one of the finest discoveries of legendary coach Otto Rehhagel.

Eilts also was a regular with the German squad, collecting 31 caps.[3] His finest games came in the 1996 European Championship, when he, Matthias Sammer and Thomas Helmer formed the defensive backbone of the team that won the trophy.

Eilts went to EURO '96 with the reputation of an outstanding club servant with Werder Bremen under future competition hero Otto Rehhagel, but at international level he was relatively inexperienced and had never previously participated in a major tournament. There were doubts in the German media over the wisdom of handing him the midfield anchorman role in England, but the wiry East Frisian surprised everybody with the class and composure of his play. It was his tactical appreciation and willingness to drop back into defence that enabled sweeper Matthias Sammer to make many dangerous sorties into enemy territory as his team let in just three goals, one of which came in the final after Eilts had been forced off due to injury. He closed his international career in 1997 with 31 caps, six of those coming in England, but captained Bremen until 2002, clocking up 390 Bundesliga appearances over a 17-year period. He won two German championships, three German Cups and, in 1992, the UEFA European Cup Winners' Cup. Since retirement he has coached the Germany Under-19 and U21 squads.

After retiring

After his player career, Eilts trained the German U19 squad, and from 6 August 2004, he was the coach of the German U21 squad. Latterly, he coached German second league team Hansa Rostock, but was released from his contract on 6 March 2009 after poor league results.[4]

In 2009, Eilts was appointed as youth manager for VfL Oldenburg. In January 2011, he got a new role as youth-coordinator in the club.[5]

Eilts got on 27 January 2012 the job as Director of football academy at SV Werder Bremen.[6]

Nickname

Eilts' nickname was Ostfriesen-Alemão (the Alemão of East Frisia). It was coined by his then-manager Otto Rehhagel in a press conference ahead of a Werder Bremen match against S.S.C. Napoli in the UEFA Cup in reference to Napoli's Brazilian star midfielder Alemão.[7]

Career statistics

Club

Appearances and goals by club, season and competition

Club	Season	League			Cup		Continental		Other		Total		Ref.
		Division	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
Werder Bremen II	1984–85	Oberliga Nord	34	5	0	0	–		–		34	5	[8][9]
	1985–86		34	13	0	0	–		–		34	13	[8][9]
	1986–87		30	11	2	1	–		–		32	12	[8][9]
	1987–88		34	7	0	0	–		–		34	7	[8][9]
	Total		132	36	2	1	0	0	0	0	134	37	–
Werder Bremen	1986–87	Bundesliga	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	[9]
	1987–88		2	0	2	1	0	0	0	0	4	1	[9]
	1988–89		13	0	3	1	0	0	0	0	16	1	[9]
	1989–90		31	1	6	1	9	2	0	0	46	4	[9]
	1990–91		32	0	6	1	0	0	0	0	38	1	[9]
	1991–92		37	1	5	0	7	1	2[lower-alpha 1]	0	51	2	[9]
	1992–93		24	1	5	0	4	0	2[lower-alpha 2]	0	35	1	[9]
	1993–94		26	1	5	0	7	0	1[lower-alpha 3]	0	39	1	[9]
	1994–95		34	1	1	0	4	0	1[lower-alpha 4]	0	40	1	[9]
	1995–96		32	0	3	0	5	0	0	0	40	0	[9]
	1996–97		30	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	32	0	[9]
	1997–98		33	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	34	1	[9]
	1998–99		32	0	6	0	4	1	0	0	42	1	[9]
	1999–00		29	1	4	0	9	0	2[lower-alpha 5]	0	44	1	[9]
	2000–01		30	0	2	0	5	0	0	0	37	0	[9]
	2001–02		4	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	6	0	[9]
	Total		390	7	52	4	55	4	8	0	505	15	–
Career total			522	43	44	12	55	4	8	0	29	59	–

International

Appearances and goals by national team and year[8]

National team	Year	Apps	Goals
Germany	1993	2	0
	1994	3	0
	1995	7	0
	1996	15	0
	1997	4	0
Total		31	0

Honours

Werder Bremen

• Bundesliga: 1987–88, 1992–93
• DFB-Pokal: 1990–91, 1993–94, 1998–99
• European Cup Winners' Cup: 1991–92
• UEFA Intertoto Cup: 1998[10]
• DFL-Supercup: 1993, 1994[11][12]

Germany

• UEFA European Championship: 1996

Individual

• UEFA European Championship Team of the Tournament: 1996

References

• Werder Bremen profile

На других языках

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- [en] Dieter Eilts

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[es] Dieter Eilts

Dieter Eilts (13 de diciembre de 1964) es un exfutbolista alemán, se desempeñaba como centrocampista y por sus habilidades el entrenador Otto Rehhagel lo apodó Alemão.

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[fr] Dieter Eilts

Dieter Eilts est un footballeur allemand né le 13 décembre 1964 à Upgant-Schott, en Basse-Saxe. Il évoluait au poste de milieu défensif.

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[it] Dieter Eilts

Dieter Eilts (Upgant-Schott, 13 dicembre 1964) è un allenatore di calcio ed ex calciatore tedesco, di ruolo centrocampista.

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[ru] Айльтс, Дитер

Ди́тер Айльтс (нем. Dieter Eilts; 13 декабря 1964, Упгант-Шот, ФРГ) — немецкий футболист и тренер. Выступал на позиции полузащитника.

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