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3 unusual facts about Frank Mill


Frank Mill

Gerd Niebaum, and the team manager, Reinhard Saftig, resulted in a change of manager at the club with Saftig's successor, Horst Köppel, leaving no doubt over him having the same point of view as the chairman regarding Mill's role for the club's first-team.

In that division he grew to a reliable hitman, scoring 71 goals for Rot-Weiss (at times alongside Horst Hrubesch) until the end of the 1981 season, forty of those just in his 38 appearances of 1979–80.

With Stephane Chapuisat and Flemming Povlsen Hitzfeld's regular picks in the Dortmund frontline, Mill was more and more handed a sub-role and, at the end of Hitzfeld's debut season in charge of the club, missing out on the Bundesliga title again.



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