He successfully coached 1. FC Kaiserslautern (1967 to 1973 and briefly 1983), Eintracht Frankfurt (1973 to 1976 and 1983 to 1986) and Fortuna Düsseldorf (1976 to 1978) in the Bundesliga in the 1970s and 1980s – also with DFB he was active as a youth coach for the U18 and U20: At the age of 86, successful coach Dietrich Weise died on Sunday in Heilbronn.
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He experienced his most successful time with the Hessians: With Eintracht Frankfurt, Weise won the DFB Cup in 1974 and 1975 and reached the semi-finals of the Cup Winners’ Cup in 1976. “With Dietrich Weise we are not only losing a football expert, but also a good friend whose humanity we will miss,” said Frankfurt President Peter Fischer, affected by Weises’s death. With the Dusseldorf team, he reached the final of the DFB Cup again in 1978 in the last year of his activity with the Westphalia team – but lost to 1. FC Köln there.
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The manner then celebrated great successes with the U18s when he won the European Championship title in his own country and also won the Junior World Championship with the same team, including Rüdiger Vollborn and Michael Zorc, the following year. After comebacks as a Kaiserslautern and Frankfurt coach, the football teacher spent his autumn career in Egypt, where he won the championship and the cup with Al Ahly in 1989 and became an honorary national coach in 1990. His last coaching position was that of the team manager of the Liechtenstein team, which he was in charge of from 1990 to 1996.
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