Herbert Schoen (18 May 1929 – 8 April 2014) was a German international footballer.
![]() Herbert Schoen (centre) | |||
Personal information | |||
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Date of birth | (1929-05-18)18 May 1929 | ||
Place of birth | Luckenwalde, Free State of Prussia, Germany | ||
Date of death | 8 April 2014(2014-04-08) (aged 84) | ||
Position(s) | Defender | ||
Youth career | |||
1948–1950 | SV DVP Potsdam | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
1950–1954 | SG Dynamo Dresden | 133 | (2) |
1954–1959 | SC Dynamo Berlin | ||
1959–1962 | SG Dynamo Hohenschönhausen | ||
National team | |||
1952–1957 | East Germany | 12 | (0) |
Teams managed | |||
1974-1976 | BFC Dynamo II[nb 1] | ||
*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
The defender played internationally with the East German national team in the 1950s.[2]
On club level he appeared in 179 Oberliga matches.[3]
Herbert Schoen continued as youth coach at SC Dynamo Berlin and then BFC Dynamo after retiring as a player. Schoen was a tough-as-nails defender during his playing career. He trained players such as Werner Voigt and Frank Terletzki. Werner Voigt remembers how Schoen forced the players to throw snowballs at each other, but the players were not allowed to fend them off with their hands, they were only allowed to dodge, to increase the ability to react.[4] Schoen was also the first coach of Frank Terletzki. Teletzki has described Schoen as a "tough dog". He claims that learned virtues such as discipline and hardness towards oneself from Schoen. Terletzki said: "It didn't matter to us whether it was pouring rain or snowing, we always trained."[5]
Schoen remained involved in BFC Dynamo and an active member of the club into old age. Schoen died in 2014 at the age of 84.[6]
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