Alfred Glenski

Alfred Glenski (born January 23, 1940 in Baesweiler ) is a former German soccer player who played 21 appearances with nine goals in the Bundesliga for Alemannia Aachen in the 1967/68 season .

career

Amateur, until 1960

After the two teammates Alfred Glenski and Willi Bergstein had shot SV Baesweiler 09 to the championship in the Mittelrhein Association League in front of Siegburger SV 04 in the 1959/60 season , the two offensive talents from what was then Selfkantkreis Geilenkirchen-Heinsberg got for the 1960/61 round a contract with the western league club Alemannia Aachen. The half-striker Alfred Glenski made his debut in the second half of the championship season on March 5, 1960 at the international match in London against England in the German national football team of amateurs . In the test match of the DFB amateurs before the second leg in the Olympic qualification against Poland on April 18 in Warsaw, the talent from Baesweiler formed the attack of the DFB coach Georg together with Carl-Heinz Rühl , Gustav Walenziak , Gerhard Neuser and Willibert Kremer Gawliczek supervised the amateur national team.

Alemannia Aachen, 1960 to 1968

In contrast to center forward Willi Bergstein - who shot himself to the top of the top scorer list in Aachen with 25 goals in the first year - Alfred “Ale” Glenski found it difficult to get into the regular line-up of the Tivoli- Elf in Aachen in the first two rounds . The first game in the Oberliga West played Glenski on October 16, 1960 in a 2-1 home win against Meidericher SV . The half-right acting half-forward scored both goals for the team of coach Helmut Kronsbein . When Vladimir Beara and Branko Zebec, two Yugoslav national players from Red Star Belgrade and center runner Hans Löring from SC Viktoria Köln came to Aachen for the second season in 1961/62, the ex-amateur from Baesweiler had a very difficult time with the regular line-up to qualify. In the last year of the major leagues 1962/63 Glenski made the leap into the first line at Alemannia with 26 appearances and nine hits under the new coach Oswald Pfau . Despite the fifth place, the DFB Aachen did not nominate for the new Bundesliga for the 1963/64 round. The last league game won the team of captain Josef Martinelli on May 11, 1963 with 2-1 goals against Bayer Leverkusen and had with 37:23 points the same number of points as the fourth in the table Prussia Münster . From 1960 to 1963 "Ale" had played 42 league games with 13 goals. Glenski stayed with Alemannia and continued his career from the 1963/64 season in Aachen in the Regionalliga West .

Regionalliga West, 1963 to 1967

In the four rounds Regionalliga West 1963/64 to 1966/67 Alfred Glenski was an integral part of the Alemannia Aachen league team. He was actively involved in the championship wins in 1964 and 1967 , as well as in the runner-up in 1965 and the entry into the DFB Cup final and the promotion to the Bundesliga in 1967. In the 1965/66 season he won the top scorer in the west with 26 goals ahead of Heinz- Dieter Hasebrink (Rot-Weiss Essen) with 18 and Peter Meyer (Fortuna Düsseldorf) with 17 goals. He played a total of 102 games with 48 goals. This balance also includes the bitter experiences of the failed promotion rounds in 1964 and 1965, where he played all six matches. In total, "Ale" Glenski made 19 appearances in the three rounds of promotion with Aachen. In the last promotion game in 1967, on June 25th against Göttingen 05, he contributed two hits to the 3-1 home win. Coach Michael Pfeiffer rose to the Bundesliga with strikers Herbert Gronen , Erwin Hoffmann , Hans-Jürgen Ferdinand , Alfred Glenski and Karl-Heinz Sell in 1967 against the competitors Kickers Offenbach , 1. FC Saarbrücken , Göttingen 05 and Tennis Borussia Berlin . Moving into the DFB Cup final on May 22, 1965 in Hanover against Borussia Dortmund is also one of the sporting highlights in Alfred Glenski's career. In the 2-0 defeat against Dortmund, however, he was unable to prevail against defensive specialist Dieter Kurrat .

Bundesliga, 1967/68

Glenski played the first Bundesliga game on September 9, 1967 in a 1-0 away win at Borussia Neunkirchen. In the 28th minute of the game he scored the winning goal. With Hans-Jürgen Ferdinand (14 goals) and Karl-Heinz Krott (seven goals), he led the internal Alemannia goalscorer list with his nine goals. With his 21st appearance on April 6, 1968 in the 1-1 draw against Werder Bremen, he ended the Bundesliga round in 1967/68 with the promoted team, who finished eleventh.

Finale

"Ale" Glenski moved to Bonner SC in 1968 , when he was promoted to the regional league, and by 1970 he played 35 games with seven goals for coach Gert Burkhardt's team in the old Gronaustadion . After two rounds he retired to the amateur camp and switched from BSC to SV Brachelen in 1910 and was later u. a. Active as a player-coach for SV 1920 Breberen , 1. FC Heinsberg-Lieck, FC Randerath-Porselen, SV Marienberg and FC Concordia Stahe-Niederbusch.

After his retirement from football, Alfred Glenski worked as the cashier of a Übach-Palenberg branch of the Kreissparkasse Heinsberg. He is married and has a daughter.

literature

• Hans Dieter Baroth : Boys, Heaven is yours! The history of the Oberliga West 1947–1963. Klartext, Essen 1988, ISBN 3-88474-332-5 .
• Hardy Greens : Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 2: Bundesliga & Co. 1963 to today. 1st division, 2nd division, GDR Oberliga. Numbers, pictures, stories. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 1997, ISBN 3-89609-113-1 .
• Ulrich Homann (Hrsg.): Hellfire on Ascension. The history of the promotion rounds to the Bundesliga 1963–1974. Klartext, Essen 1990, ISBN 3-88474-346-5 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ochehoppaz.de: Alemannia player with at least 1 championship game since 1904 , accessed on February 26, 2018