Alfred Hussner

Alfred Hussner (born May 13, 1950 ) is a former German football player . The midfielder won twice in the rounds of 1971/72 and 1972/73 with FC St. Pauli, the championship in the then second -rate regional football league North . With 23 goals, he also won the top scorer's crown in the Regionalliga Nord in 1971/72 . From 1968 to 1973 he played a total of 162 league games in this league for the clubs Heider SV and FC St. Pauli and scored 72 goals.

Career

Beginning in Heide and next station at FC St. Pauli, until 1973

When "small HSV" from Dithmarschen , the black and whites of Heider SV, youth player Alfred Hußner walked in the footsteps of his father, Richard, who is also a proven player of the team had been to the stadium at the Meldorfer road. Hussner made his debut in what was then the second -rate regional football league , under coach Hans Pacholke - player from Heide in the 1956/57 top division - on the first day of the 1968/69 season, on August 18, 1968, in a 3: 3 away draw against TuS Celle. The 18-year-old debutant played on the half-left alongside teammates such as goalkeeper Jochen Jacobsen, field player Peter-Reinhard Pulter, Paul Peleikis and Klaus Meincke and scored a goal. Despite the good round performance of the newcomer from his own youth - Alfred Hussner made 32 league appearances and scored eight goals - he was relegated to the amateur camp with his home club as penultimate table. Outstanding was the performance in Heid at the Bremer Brücke against the superior champions VfL Osnabrück , when the black and whites won a point on April 5, 1969 with a 1-1 draw. Only one goal against the dreaded VfL attacking trio with Willi Mumme , goal scorer Wolfgang Kaniber (30 games - 30 goals) and Carsten Baumann was an impressive performance by the team around the young talent Alfred Hussner. After relegation, he signed a contract with third-placed FC St. Pauli and moved to Hamburg for the 1969/70 season.

The talent from Heide made his debut under coach Erwin Türk and at the side of defensive legend Werner Pokropp on August 17, 1969, an away game against the runner-up of the previous round, VfB Lübeck, in the competitive game of the "Kiezkicker" from Heiligengeistfeld. In the 1-0 defeat, he formed the attack formation of the St. Pauli-Elf together with Wolfgang Krontal, Herbert Liedtke , Reinhard Löffler and Werner Greth as a half-striker. Horst Wohlers , who had moved up from the amateur team , made his regional league debut for Liedtke in the second half. Hussner was part of the regular formation from the start and played all 32 league games in which he scored ten goals. In the race for the championship, VfL Osnabrück prevailed again - St. Pauli did not help the two victories against Osnabrück (4: 1; 2: 0), because in the last five unsuccessful games the first two places were lost - and VfL Wolfsburg moved into the coveted Bundesliga promotion round as runner-up. The brown-whites had to be content with fourth place, but had made good provisions for the coming rounds with the new signings with Hussner, Wohlers, Greth and goalkeeper Udo Böhs .

For Alfred Hussner's second season at St. Pauli, 1970/71, his club strengthened its attack with Horst Romes . The defensive performance was then a guarantee for the runner-up; In 34 rounds of games, the opponents only put 31 goals in the case of the brown and white. In the last seven rounds of games, the team around Hussner reached 14-0 points and moved into the Bundesliga promotion round with one point ahead of VfB Lübeck. Hussner played all eight group games against Fortuna Düsseldorf, Borussia Neunkirchen, 1. FC Nürnberg and Wacker 04 Berlin; the Millerntorelf only finished third with 8: 8 points. Hussner couldn't come up with goals, he was used by coach Türk as libero and head of the defense.

For the 1971/72 season came from HSV Barmbek-Uhlenhorst the versatile Rolf Höfert with trainer Edgar "Edu" Preuss to the "Kiezkickern". In addition, the attackers Walter Dobberkau and Ulrich Schulz were committed. Under "Edu" Preuss, Alfred Hussner was back in midfield and Horst "Fussel" Wohlers was finally able to bring his outstanding playful qualities to full use as a libero for the benefit of the team. The championship was won with five points ahead of Vice Osnabrück and Hussner shot himself to the top of the top scorers list in the north with 23 hits. The home balance of 32: 2 points was the basis of winning the championship. In the promotion round, the St. Pauli striker received the red card on May 28, 1972 in the opening game at Wacker 04 Berlin (1: 1) in the 77th minute and was thus out of the rest of the games. With 7: 9 points, St. Pauli landed again in third place.

After only one year, coach Preuss was replaced by Karl-Heinz Mülhausen for the 1972/73 round. But there was also plenty of exercise in the squad. The two goalkeepers Axel Lange and Hans Benno Larsen came new, the young Franz Gerber , Harald Münster, Werner Nickel signed as field players and Siegfried Bronnert also joined the Millerntor team during the winter transfer period . Alfred Hussner again played an outstanding round in midfield and scored 23 goals in 33 league games. The team presented itself in this series as a peat factory (94:33), with Horst Wohlers and Alfred Hussner, called "head and foot", the most important players. The team clearly dominated the round. The team spent the turn of the year 1972/73 in Southeast Asia, and that was the highlight of the series for many players. In this three-week tour through Thailand, Indonesia and Hong Kong from December 21, 1972 to January 13, 1973, the first match against the Indonesian national team in front of 50,000 spectators in Djakarta, despite a 2: 4 defeat, was certainly a highlight of this trip .

In the 1973 Bundesliga promotion round, St. Pauli finished second behind promoted Fortuna Köln. Hussner stood out as a midfielder with eight goals from a good team and thus also led the list of goalscorers for the promotion round. Horst Neumann with five and Franz Gerber with three goals underlined the offensive qualities of the champions of the Regionalliga Nord, who lost both games against Fortuna Köln. “Don Alfredo” left the club after a week's trial training at Bayern Munich in the summer of 1973 for KV Mechelen in Belgium. FCB coach Udo Lattek would have liked the blond midfielder, but the club wasn't ready to shell out the 240,000 DM demanded by President Schacht - the Belgians were. After a total of 130 regional league appearances with 64 goals and 17 games in the Bundesliga promotion round with eight more goals, Hussner moved to Belgium for KV Mechelen for the 1973/74 season .

Mechelen, Geneva and VfL Osnabrück, 1973 to 1978

With the red-yellow from the Achter de Kazerne stadium in Mechelen, Hussner played for two years in the first division in Belgium . 1975/76 joined Servette FC for a year in Switzerland , where he scored 12 goals in 22 league games under coach Jürgen Sundermann when he reached the runner-up behind FC Zurich . On April 19, 1976 he lost the cup final 0-1 against the champions.

For the 1976/77 season he moved back to Germany, he signed a contract with VfL Osnabrück in the 2nd Bundesliga . Despite an attacker like Gerd-Volker Schock with 23 goals in 35 games and the new midfielder Hussner with nine goals in 26 league appearances, the team of coach Siegfried Melzig only managed to finish ninth. In his second year in Osnabrück, 1977/78 , the team under coach Reinhard Roder even fell back to 16th place. Hussner had scored ten goals in 37 appearances and saw Radoslav Momirski take over as coach from the beginning of March . After the two laps in Osnabrück, which did not go as desired, he again accepted an offer from abroad and moved to Switzerland.

Bern and Lugano, 1978 to 1982

When traditional club Young Boys Bern he met the German former international Friedhelm Konietzka as coach. In the first year, 1978/79, he made it to the Cup final against Master Servette FC with Bern . In the replay, Geneva prevailed with 3-2 goals. In the 1979/80 season he took part in the European Cup Winners' Cup with Young Boys . After two years at FC Lugano from 1980 to 1982 in the National League B, Alfred Hussner ended his long playing career.

Trainer

He gained his first coaching experience in Switzerland near Oberendfelden and Chur and returned to Schleswig-Holstein in the early 1990s. First he coached the youth of his home club Heider SV and Husumer SV. He then became head coach at Heider SV.

literature

• Christian Karn, Reinhard Rehberg: Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 9: Player Lexicon 1963-1994. Bundesliga, regional league, 2nd league. Agon-Sportverlag, Kassel 2012, ISBN 978-3-89784-214-4 .
• Ronny Galczynski, Bernd Carstensen: FC St. Pauli. Club Encyclopedia. Publishing house Die Werkstatt. Göttingen 2009. ISBN 978-3-89533-613-3 .
• Rene Martens: Miracles always happen. The history of FC St. Pauli. Publishing house Die Werkstatt. Göttingen 2002. ISBN 3-89533-375-1 .

Web links

• Alfred Hussner in the database of fussballdaten.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Rene Martens: There are always miracles. The history of FC St. Pauli. P. 97
2. ^ Galczynski, Carstensen: FC St. Pauli. Club Encyclopedia. P. 220.
3. ↑ Merk, Schulin, Großmann: Bundesliga Chronicle 1972/73. Agon Sportverlag. Kassel 2008. ISBN 978-3-89784-092-8 . P. 196.
4. ^ Galczynski, Carstensen: FC St. Pauli. Club Encyclopedia. P. 155.