จากเพจ Hertha BSC Museum 1892
เนื่องในโอกาศวันเกิดครบรอบ 68 ปี ของโค้ชเฮง
[Spoil] คลิกเพื่อดูข้อความที่ซ่อนไว้Happy 68th birthday to (Vithaya) Withaya Laohakul Birthday (* 01.02.1954 in Lamphun, Thailand).
Players at Hertha BSC from 1979 to 1982.
Thailand's first ever in football - Bundesliga
Although Hertha BSC in the 1978/1979 season through to the semi-finals around the UEFA Cup as well as the final game around the DFB Cup, where in both competitions the big toss is extremely unfortunate, the Berliners succeed in the first last Game day through a remis in the last home game against Eintracht Braunschweig the final end of class. The low audience income of only 16,500 viewers on average brings the blue-and-whites to the brink of financial strain.
The resulting painful departures of numerous players, including goalkeeper Norbert Nigbur and the two club icons Erich "Ete" Beer and Hans "Hanne" Weiner, leave Hertha BSC in a very difficult time in the German football-over Looking across the house. The more creativity is in assembling the frame for the 1979/1980 season in the 1st. Bundesliga in demand.
A tip of a friend
Fritz Schollmeyer, former coach of the local rival tennis Borussia, introduces his friend Wolfgang Holst the commitment of a 1.77 m tall and 68 kg Thai national player. It is the 25-year-old Vithaya Laohakul - in the 1978/1979 season already awarded as Thailand's footballer of the year for the second time. As the team ranked in the penultimate spot after just one victory from the first eight seasons games, Vithaya Laohakul comes to Berlin with the support of the "Alliance to Support Hertha BSC" in early October 1979.
Fortan plays "Vitia", as it has already been called after a short time, among the amateurs. The blue-white coach legend Helmut "Fiffi" crown leg recognizes the potential of the Thai and recommends Kuno Klötzer, the coach of the federal league, to take over the license player with the words "He is" great at ball and has fierce skills. "
Premiere after the change of leadership
Although at first the Thai has great difficulty getting used to the icy winter in Berlin, he quickly relieves himself in the new environment. He initially lives with Horst Trempel (treasure champion of the support association) and his wife in Spandau, both of them are carefully trying to get the new addition. In addition, he is making very fast progress in learning the German language. Soon, he and his life partner are moving to an apartment in Neu-Westend, where he often jog to training. The path into professional German football opens for Vithaya Laohakul but only after the presidency elections on the 29th. November 1979, when Wolfgang Holst took over the office of the chairman of Ottomar Domrich.
At the beginning of December, Vithaya Laohakul will finally sign the required license player contract before the Bundesliga game against Fortuna Düsseldorf. Hans "Gustav" Eder, who will be handed over to the team at the end of October, immediately calls the ambitious Asians into the squad for the important home game. I am 8. In December 1979 "Vitia" becomes 3:0 in the 70s. Game minute for Michael Sziedat joined in and debuted as the first Thai player in the history of the Federal Football League. Already a week later, he is in the starting shelf in the away game against VfB Stuttgart. He will also be included in the DFB-Pokal competition with the beginning of the extension against the middle-rhinestone team of the TuS Langerwehe.
At the request of Wolfgang Holst, Helmut "Fiffi" Kronsbein, together with Hans "Gustav" Eder, takes over the heavy task of turning the impending descent. The great pressure of success makes it almost impossible for the coaching team to integrate Thai talent into the first team in this difficult situation, which is why Vithaya Laohakul only on 22nd. Game day in the match at Borussia Mönchengladbach comes with a ten-minute short-term investment. At the end of the season, it is not enough for the Berliners to keep the class despite a very good comeback.
Hertha BSC has to bid farewell for the first time sportively from the Bel era of German football due to the two goals worse goal difference. Vithaya Laohakul booked in the 1979/1980 season alongside the four appearances in the 1st. Bundesliga and in the DFB-Pokal, five more attempts in the DFB adult round (one hit) as well as in 14 friendly games (five goals) and is considered as a bearer of hope in the targeted immediate comeback.
A prisoner of hope with a stroke of injury
At the beginning of the 1980/1981 season, coach Uwe Klimaschefski appoints Thailand Laohakul as one of the prominent players of the Blue-Whites. In the final of the "International Berlin Cup" Vithaya Laohakul scored the 1:0 lead and goes with this 600. The Berliners hit the club chronicles in an international friendly match. However, after that, he is repeatedly thrown back due to injuries and therefore only comes to a total of 21 attempts in the 2. Bundesliga as well as the DFB Cup. Five times he is in the starting formation, in 16 games he will be included.
Experiencing his personal peak "Vitia" on 8. November 1980 at the Berlin Olympiastadion, when he was in his 90s. Minute of the game sets the closing point at 8:0 (4:0) against SG Wattenscheid 09 - it's Hertha BSC's second highest win since the introduction of the Football League. Despite the record number of 123 goals after the 6:0 (4:0) at OSV Hannover in 42. and the last season game, which the Thai people fought over the full 90 minutes of the game, remains for the Berliners due to a missing point of the ungrateful third table, which remains in the 2. Bundesliga means.
Optimism in the Southeast Asia
Nevertheless, Vithaya Laohakul is in the 2nd player questionnaire to cut the team. Bundesliga North of the new season with the statement "We become first" very optimistic. But he is again persecuted by the injury test. Right before Christmas 1981 Vithaya Laohakul arrives on the 19th. Game day in the first home game under the new coach Georg Gawliczek for his eleventh and for now last attempt at 2:1 (1:1) against Wormatia Worms. After that, he has to undergo surgery on his left knee and is not standing again until the 11th. April 1982 for the home game against VfL Osnabrück in the squad, where he was in 75. Match minute for Hubert Schmitz is being exchanged and his last effort is recorded in a blue and white jersey. The return of his team to the 1st. The Bundesliga as vice champion he can then only get from the Reserve Bank or witness from the stands.
The farewell
After the 1981/1982 season, the ways of "Thai Bum" part ways - a nickname that the Berliner Boulevard press gave the very popular Thai fans among the blue-white fans - and the blue-and-white. 61st national player moves to 1st FC Saarbrücken in the Southwest Ober League. There, in 1983, he managed to climb to the 2nd place. Federal league. In two playing periods, he scored seven hits in 53 seasons for the Saarländer, before dragging him back to his home country. Currently, the 66-year-old is the technical director or. Director of the Football Academy of Thailand's First League Chonburi Football Club is active and enjoys throughout the Kingdom due to his achievements as a player and coach as before the call of a highly respected football legend. 
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