Frank Ordenewitz

{{Infobox football biography

| name = Frank Ordenewitz

| fullname =

| image =

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=yes|1965|3|25}}

| birth_place = Dorfmark, West Germany

| height = 1.80 m

| currentclub =

| position = Forward

| youthyears1 = 1979–1981

| youthclubs1 = TSV Dorfmark

| youthyears2 = 1981–1983

| youthclubs2 = Werder Bremen

| years1 = 1983–1985

| clubs1 = Werder Bremen (A)

| caps1 = 61

| goals1 = 51

| years2 = 1983–1989

| clubs2 = Werder Bremen

| caps2 = 125

| goals2 = 37

| years3 = 1989–1993

| clubs3 = 1. FC Köln

| caps3 = 126

| goals3 = 30

| years4 = 1993–1994

| clubs4 = JEF United Ichihara

| caps4 = 55

| goals4 = 37

| years5 = 1995

| clubs5 = Hamburger SV

| caps5 = 21

| goals5 = 1

| years6 = 1996

| clubs6 = Brummell Sendai

| caps6 = 28

| goals6 = 20

| years7 = 1997–1998

| clubs7 = VfB Oldenburg

| caps7 = 28

| goals7 = 3

| totalcaps = 426

| totalgoals = 178

| nationalyears1 = 1987

| nationalteam1 = West Germany

| nationalcaps1 = 2

| nationalgoals1 = 0

}}

Frank Ordenewitz (born 25 March 1965) is a German former professional footballer who played as a forward.

Club career

Ordenewitz scored 68 goals in 272 Bundesliga matches.{{Cite web | url = https://www.rsssf.org/players/ordenewitzdata.html | title = Frank Ordenewitz - Matches and Goals in Bundesliga | first = Matthias | last = Arnhold | date = 18 April 2019 | access-date = 24 April 2019 | publisher = RSSSF.com}}

In a league match against 1. FC Köln on 7 May 1988, the Werder Bremen player admitted to a handball in the penalty area to the referee. Köln went on to win the match 2–0. For his sportsmanship he won the FIFA Fair Play Award that season.

Three seasons later, now playing for 1. FC Köln, Ordenewitz received a yellow card against MSV Duisburg in the DFB-Pokal semi-final on 6 May 1991 (final score: 3–0 for Köln). That would have blocked him from playing in the final against his former club, Werder Bremen, and so his coach, Erich Rutemöller, advised him to get himself sent off, since this would allow him to instead serve his suspension in their next Bundesliga game. As asked, Ordenewitz intentionally knocked the ball away and was sent off.[https://11freunde.de/artikel/mach-et-otze/356125 „Mach et, Otze!“] in 11 Freunde, 2 March 2007[http://www.spiegel.de/spiegel/print/d-13488769.html Fußball: Mach et Otze] in Der Spiegel, 13 May 1991 In an interview after the game, Rutemöller admitted the plan, saying: "Otze came to me, and I think you shouldn't take the chance away from him, and so I said: 'Do it!'". This request, in various modifications, later became the dictum “Mach et, Otze!”.[https://ga.de/sport/fckoeln/1-fc-koeln-wie-der-kultspruch-mach-et-otze-entstand_aid-57712185 Wie der Kultspruch „Mach et, Otze!“ entstand] in General-Anzeiger, 1st May 2021 In response, the DFB changed the rule and banned Ordenewitz from playing in the final anyway, which FC Köln went on to lose on penalties.

International career

Ordenewitz was capped twice for the West Germany national team in 1987.{{Cite web | url = https://www.rsssf.org/miscellaneous/ordenewitz-intl.html | title = Frank Ordenewitz - International Appearances | first = Matthias | last = Arnhold | date = 18 April 2019 | access-date = 24 April 2019 | publisher = RSSSF.com}}

Career statistics

=Club=

rowspan="2"\|Club !rowspan="2"\|Season !colspan="3"\|League !colspan="2"\|National cup !colspan="2"\|League cup !colspan="2"\|Total
class="wikitable" style="text-align:center" \|+ Appearances and goals by club, season and competition{{NFT\|15863\|accessdate=24 July 2013}}{{cite web \|title=Germany - Player Data - SV Werder Bremen \|url=https://www.rsssf.org/players/dp-werder.html \|website=RSSSF.com \|access-date=25 April 2019}}{{cite web \|title=Germany - Player Data - 1. FC Köln \|url=https://www.rsssf.org/players/dp-koeln.html \|website=RSSSF.com \|access-date=25 April 2019}}
Division	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
rowspan="7"\|Werder Bremen	1983–84	rowspan="6"\|Bundesliga	5	0	1	0	0	0	6	0
1984–85	9	1	1	0	0	0	9	1
1985–86	24	7	1	0	0	0	25	7
1986–87	30	8	3	2	0	0	33	10
1987–88	30	15	1	6	3	0	36	18
1988–89	27	6	6	0	0	0	33	6
colspan="2"\|Total !125	37	18	5	0	0	143	42
rowspan="5"\|1. FC Köln	1989–90	rowspan="4"\|Bundesliga	30	3	3	1	0	0	33	4
1990–91	31	7	6	\|3	0	0	37	10
1991–92	35	11	2	\|0	0	0	37	11
1992–93	30	9	2	\|2	0	0	32	11
colspan="2"\|Total !126	30	13	6	0	0	139	36
rowspan="3"\|JEF United Ichihara	1993	rowspan="2"\|J1 League	15	7	3	0	6	3	24	10
1994	40	30	2	0	1	0	43	30
colspan="2"\|Total !55	37	5	0	7	3	67	40
rowspan="3"\|Hamburger SV	1994–95	rowspan="2"\|Bundesliga	15	0					15	0
1995–96	6	1					6	1
colspan="2"\|Total !21	1	0	0	0	0	21	1
Brummell Sendai	1996	Football League	28	20	3	5	0	0	31	25
VfB Oldenburg	1997–98	Regionalliga	28	3					28	3
colspan="3"\|Career total !383	128	39	16	7	3	429	147

=International=

class="wikitable" style="text-align:center" \|+ Appearances and goals by national team and year
National team	Year	Apps	Goals
West Germany \|1987	2	0
colspan="2"\|Total	2	0

class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"

|+ Appearances and goals by national team and year

National team

Year

Apps

Goals

West Germany

|1987

colspan="2"|Total

Honors

Werder Bremen

Bundesliga: 1987–88
DFL-Supercup: 1988{{Cite web |url=https://www.dfb.de/supercup/das-spiel/?spieledb_path=%2Fmatches%2F1969425|title=Deutscher Supercup, 1988, Finale |date=16 October 2014 |publisher=dfb.de |access-date=5 November 2020}}

Individual