Jürgen Neumann

Jürgen Neumann (born December 6, 1941 in Kaiserslautern , † December 25, 2002 in McKinney , Texas ) was a German soccer player who won the championship with 1. FC Kaiserslautern in the Oberliga Südwest in the 1962/63 season.

career

Clubs, 1951 to 1973

1. FC Kaiserslautern, 1951 to 1966

In the 1959/60 round, Jürgen Neumann, who came from their own youth department, was transferred to the Lauterer league team. At the side of the world champions from 1954, Horst Eckel and Werner Liebrich , he immediately belonged to the Betzenbergelf core formation. On the starting day, on August 16, 1959, the young player, who was not yet 18 years old, was on coach Richard Schneider's team , which opened the round with an away game at Eintracht Bad Kreuznach . Neumann played 27 games with four goals in his first season in the Oberliga Südwest and 1. FCK finished fifth. In the next two rounds, Kaiserslautern placed 4th in the southwest and the defender, stopper and Neumann, who was increasingly used as an outside runner, kept his playing times from the debut year. In 1961 he was also successful in the games for the DFB Cup and came with his team until the final on September 13, 1961 in Gelsenkirchen against Werder Bremen . The final was lost with 0-2 goals. In the championship round 1962/63 Jürgen Neumann was missing only in one league game and contributed 12 hits to the title win of the Palatinate with six points ahead of the pursuers Borussia Neunkirchen , FK Pirmasens and Wormatia Worms . In the final round, the fixed size in the Lauterer midfield played all six games against Hertha BSC , 1. FC Nürnberg and 1. FC Köln , but also had to suffer from the sporting inferiority in the clear 2: 8 and 1: 5 defeats against 1. Experience FC Köln and 1. FC Nürnberg. In total, Jürgen Neumann played 108 games with 22 goals for 1. FC Kaiserslautern in the Oberliga Südwest from 1959 to 1963.

In the premier year of the Bundesliga 1963/64, the left wing runner was an indispensable top performer for the Betzenbergelf with 29 appearances and six goals. He was also on the first day of the new league on August 24, 1963 in a 1-1 draw at Eintracht Frankfurt in the Kaiserslautern formation and scored the 1-0 lead of the guests with a converted penalty in the 38th minute of the game. In the three rounds up to 1966 1. FC Kaiserslautern fought permanently to stay in the league. When the newly promoted FC Bayern Munich won with a 2-1 victory in Kaiserslautern on April 23, 1966 , Jürgen Neumann was sent off in the 38th minute and played his last Bundesliga game for the Palatinate.

FC Zurich and Daring Club Brussels, 1966 to 1970

After the 1965/66 round he moved to Switzerland for FC Zurich and was able to celebrate successes against FC Barcelona , Nottingham Forest and Sporting Lisbon in the 1967/68 round in the European trade fair cup together with goalkeeper Karl Grob and midfielder Jakob Kuhn and only got divorced in the quarterfinals against Dundee FC . This round of eleven from Letzigrund was crowned by winning the Swiss championship . After two years in Switzerland, two rounds at the Daring Club in Brussels followed.

Arminia Bielefeld, 1970 to 1973

The promoted to the Bundesliga in the 1970/71 round, Arminia Bielefeld , signed Jürgen Neumann on the recommendation of coach Egon Piechaczek . At the start of the round on August 15, 1970, he formed the Bielefeld midfield together with Ulrich Braun and Horst Stockhausen in the 3-0 defeat at Borussia Dortmund. As a result of irreparable signs of wear and tear, the ex-Lauterer could no longer appear on the field for Arminia after this game day to keep the league. As a “money mail carrier”, however, he played an inglorious role in the Bundesliga scandal for Bielefeld in this round .

Selection games, 1961 to 1964

The young talent of 1. FC Kaiserslautern, Jürgen Neumann, who has just been taken over from the youth in the league team, was added to the squad of the amateur soccer team in September 1959 by DFB coach Georg Gawliczek for the two German-German qualifying games for participation in the Olympic qualification nominated against the GDR. In the second leg on September 23rd in Düsseldorf, the DFB-Elf won 2-1 goals, Neumann was used as an outside runner. On March 15, 1961, the 19-year-old Jürgen Neumann was appointed to the German junior national team U23 for the first time during the game in London against England. Together with Werner Olk from Bayern Munich he formed the defenders pair in front of goalkeeper Günter Bernard von Schweinfurt 05. The English won the game clearly with 4-1 goals. Two months later, the second game in the youth team against Belgium followed. National coach Sepp Herberger carried out a test match between two DFB national teams in Saarbrücken on March 21, 1962. He offered the Lauterer in the A-Elf in front of 40,000 spectators on the side of Karl-Heinz Schnellinger as a right defender. On November 27, 1963, he was also in the renewed 1: 4 defeat in Liverpool against England again with the game. The German runner series played in the cast Neumann, Peter Kaack and Werner Lungwitz . Neumann received his last appointment to a DFB team on March 4, 1964 in Aachen at the junior international match against Turkey.

literature

• Hardy Greens : Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 1: From the Crown Prince to the Bundesliga. 1890 to 1963. German championship, Gauliga, Oberliga. Numbers, pictures, stories. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 1996, ISBN 3-928562-85-1 .
• Werner Skrentny (Ed.): The fear of the devil in front of the pea mountain. The history of the Oberliga Südwest 1946–1963. Klartext, Essen 1996, ISBN 3-88474-394-5 .
• Ulrich Merk, André Schulin: Bundesliga chronicle 1963/64. Volume 1: Triumphal procession of the billy goats. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2004, ISBN 3-89784-083-9 .
• Ulrich Merk, André Schulin: Bundesliga chronicle 1965/66. Volume 3: Newcomers cause a sensation. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2005, ISBN 3-89784-085-5 .

Web links

• Jürgen Neumann in the database of weltfussball.de
• Jürgen Neumann in the database of fussballdaten.de