Frank Mill
Mill in 2013.
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| Full name | Frank Mill | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Date of birth | 23 July 1958 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Essen, West Germany | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.76 m (5 ft 9 1⁄2 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Playing position | Striker | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Youth career | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1966–1972 | Eintracht Essen | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1972–1976 | Rot-Weiss Essen | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Senior career* | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1976–1981 | Rot-Weiss Essen | 120 | (74) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1981–1986 | Borussia Mönchengladbach | 153 | (71) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1986–1994 | Borussia Dortmund | 178 | (49) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1994–1996 | Fortuna Düsseldorf | 55 | (7) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Total | 506 | (201) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| National team | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1980 | West Germany U-21 | 2 | (0) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1983–1988 | West Germany Olympic | 20 | (10) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1982–1990 | West Germany | 17 | (0) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Frank Mill (born 23 July 1958 in Essen, West Germany) is a German former footballer who was part of the 1990 FIFA World Cup winning squad of West Germany. Further, he participated at the 1984 and at the 1988 Summer Olympics, where he won the bronze medal with the German team.
A clinical striker in his prime, the son of a junk dealer started his career at the age of six at local side Eintracht Essen before he joined the youth ranks of Essen's biggest club, Rot-Weiss Essen, in 1972. Starting job training to become a florist, his mother owned a flower shop, Mill signed his first professional contract with Rot-Weiss in 1976. Essen was a Bundesliga side in his debut season, a campaign in which those three goals he banged in total 19 appearances couldn't avoid their drop down to 2. Bundesliga North. In that division he grew to a reliable hitman, scoring 71 goals for Rot-Weiss (at times alongside Horst Hrubesch) until the end of the 1981 season, forty of those just in his 38 appearances of 1979–80. A tally that identified him as the topscorer of 2. Bundesliga Nord and easily made him a chased starlet. A move to Borussia Mönchengladbach under manager Jupp Heynckes brought him back to top level Bundesliga in 1981.
At Mönchengladbach he kept on scoring, netting fourteen in his first year under contract. Only eight months into his life at Bökelberg he got called up by Jupp Derwall to represent Germany for the first time in his career. On 21 March 1982, he featured in a friendly against Brazil in Rio de Janeiro. A back injury forced him out of contention for the West German squad for the 1982 FIFA World Cup tournament. The mentioned injury hampered his scoring spree slightly for just the then next season. During 1983–84 he was back on top of Mönchengladbach's scoring, firing nineteen goals past opposite goalkeepers in the Bundesliga. Missing out on the Bundesliga title with his club just on the final day and only on goal difference, the striker had to deal with a second major blow as Mönchengladbach also lost the DFB-Pokal final that summer, on penalties against Bayern Munich (with his Bayern Munich-bound team-mate Lothar Matthäus failing to score from the spot in the shoot-out). Mill scored the only Mönchengladbach goal in normal time in that match.
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