Horst-Dieter Höttges
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| Personal information | |||
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| Full name | Horst-Dieter Höttges | ||
| Date of birth | 10 September 1943 | ||
| Place of birth | Mönchengladbach, Germany | ||
| Height | 1.76 m (5 ft 9 1⁄2 in) | ||
| Playing position | Defender (full back) | ||
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Current team
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Colchester United (Scout) | ||
| Youth career | |||
| Blau-Weiß Bahl | |||
| Rheydter Spielverein | |||
| Borussia Mönchengladbach | |||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1963–1964 | Borussia Mönchengladbach | 30 | (0) |
| 1964–1978 | Werder Bremen | 420 | (55) |
| 1964–1978 | SC Oberbecksen | ||
| TSV Achim | |||
| National team | |||
| 1963–1964 | West Germany U23 | 3 | (0) |
| West Germany B | 2 | (0) | |
| 1965–1974 | West Germany | 66 | (1) |
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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Horst-Dieter Höttges (born 10 September 1943 in Mönchengladbach) is a former German footballer.
Höttges joined Borussia Mönchengladbach at the age of seventeen from neighbourhood side Rheydter SV (to whom he went from his first club, Blau-Weiß Bahl). After three years in the youth of Mönchengladbach he was taking part for them in their Regionalliga West campaign of 1963–64 with Mönchengladbach manager Hennes Weisweiler feeling Höttges' way of playing wouldn't be what he was looking for and, though, the defender was forced to move on. Ahead of the 1964–65 season he signed with Bundesliga team Werder Bremen and enjoyed immediate success under Willi Multhaup at the Weserstadion, ending up winner of the Bundesliga title with Werder at the end of the same season.
This outstanding success with Werder Bremen was a key for the full back to be called up by Helmut Schön for the German team already in 1965, a time when his toughness in tackling duels earned him his "Eisenfuß" (iron foot) nickname. Although Werder Bremen couldn't recopy the success of 1965, and became rather a relegation battler than a title chaser, Höttges remained loyal to them and served in the Bundesliga until 1978, scoring 55 goals in his 420 appearances for the North German side. His commitment to a half-a-day employment as sales representative for a manufacturer of sports goods forced him to hang up his boots that summer. Höttges put job before club, unwilling to give up his business, and got named "Ehrenspielführer" (honorary captain) due to his career efforts by Werder Bremen.
Later on he was showing up for some time on amateur level for Bad Oeynhausen's SC Oberbecksen and TSV Achim, a club in a village near Bremen, where he settled down. He was partly coaching that club in an honorary capacity in the 1990s.
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