Name: Siegfried Held

Nickname: "Siggi"



Country: Germany
Club: Borussia Dortmund
Position: *SS, AMF, WF, CF
Side: RF/BS (Mainly LS)
Age: 23-29 years (07/08/1942)

Height: 180 cm
Weight: 75 kg

Attack: 83
Defence: 40
Balance: 75
Stamina: 81
Top Speed: 86
Acceleration: 90
Response: 75
Agility: 87
Dribble Accuracy: 88
Dribble Speed: 85
Short Pass Accuracy: 81
Short Pass Speed: 75
Long Pass Accuracy: 87
Long Pass Speed: 76
Shot Accuracy: 79
Shot Power: 83
Shot Technique: 78
Free Kick Accuracy: 70
Curling: 74
Header: 72
Jump: 73
Technique: 86
Aggression: 81
Mentality: 74
Keeper Skills: 50
Team Work: 78

Injury Tolerance: A
Condition: 6
Weak Foot Accuracy: 7
Weak Foot Frequency: 8
Consistency: 5
Growth Type: Standard Lasting

CARDS
P07 Mazing Run
S05 1-touch Play
S06 Outside Curve

SPECIAL ABILITIES: Outside - 1 touch Pass - Dribbling

Attack / Defence Awareness Card: Attack Minded


INFO

Siegfried Held was offensive allrounder, very fast player with excellent dribbling and great crosser. Besides he had a strong shot although he was never prolific scorer, he rarely talked but his moves on the pitch talked instead of him. Very mobile player with a lot of sudden change of direction. A fantastic outside and central forward, one of the few players who could use both feet equally well. A very fast player who preferred providing goal chances to scoring himself. Held was still active at the ripe age of 38 years when a played as a sweeper for Bayer 05 Uerdingen in the last few years of his careers. In the mid-1960s Held and Emmerich formed a feared partnership with both players taking turns at the wing and the central striker position. While Emmerich was nominally the winger and Held the central striker, it often panned out the opposite, with Emmerich often seeking to score from an inside position to make the best use of his lethal left foot while Held liked to act as provider coming from the wing, either going to the byline and looking to cross or cutting inside looking for Emmerich. During the 1966 World Cup Emmerich played as an orthodox left winger and Held on the right wing with Uwe Seeler as the central striker. He was again around for the 1970 World Cup in Mexico, this time taking turns on the left wing with Hannes Löhr, while Stan Libuda and Jürgen Grabowski shared the right wing spot with Gerd Müller in the middle. He was again deployed as a left winger during the 1972 Euro campaign and as such part of the first victory of the German national team at Wembley in April 1972. He missed the final two games of that campaign because he had to compete in the promotion round with his club Kickers Offenbach, who he had joined in 1971 while they were playing in the second division. He was replaced by the newcomer from FC Schalke 04, Erwin Kremers. The introvert and taciturn Held enjoyed a long-lasting career but he never won too much silverware. The only big title he won was the 1966 Cup winners Cup with Dortmund. His habit of signing for mid-table teams like Offenbach and 1970s Dortmund was the main reason for his lack of silverware. For Borussia Dortmund completed Siggi Held 1965-1971 and 1977-1979 a total of 229 Bundesliga games and scored 43 goals. With BVB 1965/1966 he won the European Cup Winners' Cup, once again became German Vice Champion and third in the Bundesliga. He had an impressive season 1965/66: Bundesliga, he was runner-up, national team, won the European Cup and was runner-up at the World Cup in England. For the Kickers Offenbach Held played 1972-1976 133 times in the Bundesliga, scoring 25 goals, so he is still a record player in the Bundesliga Offenbacher. Between 1979 and 1981 he played 59 Bundesliga appearances for Bayer Uerdingen and his old club Borussia Dortmund. He scored three goals. Sigfried Held as national team finished 41 games from 1966 to 1973, scoring five times for Germany.