Helmut Kremers

Helmut Kremers

Personal information
Date of birth	(1949-03-24) 24 March 1949
Place of birth	Mönchengladbach, Germany
Height
Position(s)	Full back
Youth career
	Borussia Mönchengladbach
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1967–1969	Borussia Mönchengladbach	14	(1)
1969–1971	Kickers Offenbach	33	(4)
1971–1980	Schalke 04	226	(45)
1980–1981	Rot-Weiss Essen	18	(4)
1981	Calgary Boomers	31	(3)
1981–1982	Memphis Americans (indoor)	14	(13)
International career
1973–1975	West Germany	8	(0)
Managerial career
1989	Schalke 04 (caretaker)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Helmut Kremers (born 24 March 1949) is a former German football player. His twin brother, Erwin Kremers, also played as a German international with the two brothers playing with each other regularly. Helmut and Erwin Kremers are the first ever twins to play in the Bundesliga.

Club career

Moving up to the Bundesliga squad of Borussia Mönchengladbach in 1967, Helmut Kremers won his first of two DFB-Pokal trophies with then lower league side Kickers Offenbach in 1970. In 1972, he had joined FC Schalke 04 together with his twin brother Erwin in 1971, he was able to lift the trophy for a second time. Unlike his twin brother, who played winger, full back Helmut had spells with other clubs after the end of his deal with Schalke, playing for Rot-Weiss Essen in the 1980–81 2. Bundesliga and for North American Soccer League team Calgary Boomers in 1981. In total, Kremers scored 50 goals in 273 Bundesliga appearances. In the fall of 1981, he joined the Memphis Americans of the Major Indoor Soccer League for one season.

International career

Kremers played in eight games for his country, the last time on 12 March 1975, in a friendly defeat at the hands of England. Although playing on less occasions for West Germany than his twin brother (who won 15 caps), Kremers was part of the 1974 FIFA World Cup winning squad. Erwin Kremers missed out on that due to a disciplinary decision taken beforehand.

External links

• Helmut Kremers profile at Fussballdaten