Willy Meyer

This article is about the soccer player Willy Meyer . For the Spanish politician see Willy Meyer bankruptcy .

Willy Meyer (born March 17, 1937 in Amberg ; † June 10, 2017 in Schwandorf ) was a German soccer player who played in the first German-German qualifying game before the qualifying games for the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome, on September 16, 1959 in Walter's Berlin -Ulbricht-Stadion , where the German national soccer team played against the national soccer team of the GDR .

career

society

The pupil Willy Meyer went through the different year classes in his home community Weiden in the youth department of the local game association , in whose ranks he was able to win the district championship in 1953. As a member of the 4 x 100 meter youth relay, he set an Upper Palatinate record in 46.7 seconds . In the summer of 1954, at the age of 17, he moved to 1. FC Schwandorf. Since SpVgg Weiden won the championship in the amateur league of Southern Bavaria in the round in 1953/54 and also made it to the second league south , the young player did not expect a good chance of being in the Oberpfälzer league team in the foreseeable future to be able to. At Schwandorf, the sprinter played on the right wing in 1954/55 immediately in the 1st team in the Oberpfalz district league. In the second year in Schwandorf, 1955/56, the young player experienced promotion to the 1st amateur league in Southern Bavaria. From the 1956/57 season to the 1962/63 round, the exceptionally fast attacker played with 1. FC Schwandorf in the 1. Amateur League South Bavaria. A big plus for Meyer's speed was his participation in athletics training. He also felt comfortable on the cinder track and ran the 100 meters in 10.8 seconds. After the league change through the introduction of the Bundesliga for the 1963/64 round, Meyer and his club also held their own in the Bayernliga . In the 1961/62 season, Willy Meyer was at the top of the list of goalscorers in southern Bavaria with 25 goals. Frequent injury breaks - due to his speed, Meyer was often fought by the opposing defenders with gross fouls - threw the striker back again and again and meant for him not only the cancellation of selection invitations, but also the repeated building up of the form after arbitrarily caused breaks. Only in the round 1968/69 he was not in action for Schwandorf, in this season he exercised the player-coaching activity at FC Schwarzenfeld, which he also successfully practiced in 1974/75 at home 1. FC Schwandorf. In the years that followed, he only helped out sporadically in the first team when needed and kept the fun of football through the activity and socializing in the senior men’s team.

Selection appointments

DFB trainer Georg Gawliczek called Willy Meyer from 1. FC Schwandorf after courses in Düsseldorf, Cologne and Duisburg into the DFB amateur national team for the qualifying games in September 1959 against the GDR national soccer team. In the preparatory game on August 5, 1959 in the Augsburger Rosenaustadion against a combination of contract players from Augsburg and Munich, the DFB amateurs won the game with 3-2 goals, the 22-year-old attacker from Schwandorf convinced with an outstanding performance and played himself in the starting eleven for the first leg in Berlin. The 12,000 spectators marveled at the test match in the ranks of the amateur national team, captain Herbert Schäfer and half-striker Günter Herrmann , who knew how to use the strikers skillfully. Hilmar Weishaar , the left winger from FK Pirmasens , put himself in the limelight with hard shots on goal and right winger Willy Meyer was even described as a "discovery for the present national coach Sepp Herberger and darling of the masses". Unbelievably fast, able to cope with all situations and with a hard shot, Meyer could only be fought by the "lion" defender Pfanzelt through excessive severity. The Schwandorf discovery scored the equalizer to 1: 1 in the 17th minute and the winning goal to 3: 2 for the amateur selection in the 80th minute.

The players in Augsburg:

Contract players-eleven : Kosar - Tietz (both Bayern Munich), Pfanzelt - Metzger (both 1860 Munich), Landerer (Bayern Munich), Simon - Kölbl (both 1860 Munich), Haller (BC Augsburg), Feigenspan (1860 Munich), Grosser (Bayern Munich), Heiß (1860 Munich).

Olympic selection : Eglin (Stuttgarter Kickers) - Bisanz (1.FC Köln), Kurbjuhn (Buxtehude) - W. Schulz (Union Günnigfeld), Gerdau (Heider SV), H. Schäfer (Spfrd. Siegen) - Meyer (1. FC Schwandorf), Höher (Bayer Leverkusen), Thimm (Arminia Hannover), Herrmann (Karlsruher SC), Weishaar (FK Pirmasens).

After the break, Wilkening (Arminia Hannover) and Nauheimer (FSV Frankfurt) were used by the amateurs .

Together with Günter Herrmann (Karlsruher SC), Joachim Thimm (Arminia Hannover), Günter Nauheimer (FSV Frankfurt) and Gert Dörfel (Hamburger SV), Willy Meyer formed the right winger on September 16, 1959 in East Berlin in the first leg of the German-German playoffs the attack by the team of coach Georg Gawliczek. The DFB team won the game with 2-0 goals. The DFB amateurs mostly presented their attacks via the fast people on the wing, Dörfel and Meyer. Supported by the sovereign defense with goalkeeper Eglin, the defenders Olk and Kurbjuhn as well as the stabilizing runner row with Matthias Mauritz , Herbert Schäfer and Willi Schulz, the DFV representation around Dieter Erler and Günter Schröter could not prevail decisively. According to an agreement between the two National Olympic Committees, the game took place in camera and was not included in the official international match statistics of the DFB amateurs. The amateur from Upper Palatinate, Willy Meyer, therefore played a decisive elimination game for the DFB amateur national team before the qualifying games for the 1960 Olympic Games in Rome, but was not listed as an amateur national team due to the political circumstances practiced at the time. During the second leg in Düsseldorf on September 23, Meyer was injured on the reserve bench with Peter Kunter , Günter Herrmann, Jürgen Kurbjuhn, Gustav Walenciak and Günter Nauheimer. The DFB representation also decided the second game in their favor. After goals from Thimm and Wilkening (a "case" like Willy Meyer), the DFV team was beaten 2-1 again.

National coach Sepp Herberger invited his provisional squad for the A and B internationals on October 3 (B-Eleven) and October 4, 1959 (A-Eleven) against Switzerland for a course from September 28 to October 3 in the Association sports school of the Baden Football Association in Karlsruhe-Schöneck . The forward line-up was: Rahn (1. FC Köln), Kraus (Kickers Offenbach), Meyer (1. FC Schwandorf), Brülls (Mönchengladbach), Lindner (Eintracht Frankfurt), Seeler (Hamburger SV), Strehl (1. FC Nürnberg) , Siedl (Bayern Munich), Pfaff (Eintracht Frankfurt), Herrmann (Karlsruher SC), Dörfel (Hamburger SV), Albrecht (1. FC Nürnberg). Willy Meyer could not take part in the course due to an injury and was therefore not nominated for the games of the A and B national team against Switzerland. In Konstanz - Switzerland won 1-0 goals - the German B-Elf attacked: Ekkehard Feigenspan (Dieter Lindner), Rudolf Kölbl , Heinz Strehl, Michael Pfeiffer and Hans Cieslarczyk . Three center strikers (Feigenspan, Kölbl, Strehl), two half strikers (Lindner, Pfeiffer) and one left winger (Cieslarczyk) were called up. There is no proven or hopeful right winger in this formation. A healthy Willy Meyer could have been an alternative to his regular position of right winger in September / October 1959.

The top scorer of the 1st Amateur League South Bavaria in the round 1961/62 also convinced in the association selection of Bavaria on June 11, 1962 in the game against Lower Austria. Bayern won 5-2 goals and the Schwandorfer entered the top scorer list twice. In the preliminary round of the 1963 regional cup on October 5, 1962 in Cologne against the Middle Rhine, he also stormed in the Bayern selection with a clear 5-1 success.

After the career

The commercial clerk in a local brewery, who had rejected offers from the league teams from Munich and Fürth, played for the senior men's team of 1. FC Schwandorf until the eighties. In October 1981 they won the German AH football championship in Karlsruhe. Even today (2007) the sprightly senior keeps himself fit through regular jogging.

literature

• Jürgen Bitter : Germany's football. The encyclopedia. Sportverlag, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-328-00857-8 .
• Volker Kluge : Summer Olympic Games. The Chronicle II. London 1948 - Tokyo 1964. Sportverlag Berlin, Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-328-00740-7 .
• 50 years of the Bavarian Football Association, BFV . Vindelica-Verlag, Gersthofen, 1996.
• IFFHS: LIBERO, Special German, No. D 12, 1995, GDR football 1959.

Web link

• "Willy" Meyer was a goalscorer and athlete at FC - Article on Mittelbayerische.de on August 21, 2007