Alfred Metzler

Alfred Metzler (born April 29, 1951 in Wolfach ) is a former German football player and coach.

Career

Metzler began playing football at the age of eight in his home town at FC Wolfach , where he went through all youth classes and made his debut in the competition team. As a teenager, he switched to FC 08 Villingen, which was playing in the second-rate regional league at the time, and played twelve league games alongside players such as Karl Armbrust , Klaus Bockisch , Rainer Eisenhardt , Walter Gruler and Heinz Schrodt in 1971/72 . In 1972 he rose with the club in the Black Forest-Bodensee amateur league, where the team, as third division champions in 1973, missed direct promotion in the promotion round.

Metzler moved in 1973 within South Baden to the third division team Offenburger FV , with whom he won the championship in the 1st Amateur League South Baden twice in a row. In 1974, however, there was no promoted team due to the introduction of the 2nd Bundesliga . In the following year, Metzler and the team trained by Hans Cieslarczyk missed promotion in the promotion round with three wins from six games alongside Uli Bruder , Bernd Schmider , Hans Hägele and Karl-Heinz Bente as second behind SSV Reutlingen 05 .

Metzler moved to Freiburg FC in 1975 and played 27 games over the course of the 1975/76 season . Under the new coach Georg Gawliczek , Metzler was a regular player in the following season and played all 34 games of the season. The team dominated the series and at the end of the season, champions, had a 13 point lead over local rivals SC Freiburg . In the subsequent promotion round, the Freiburg FC remained free of loss points against SSV Reutlingen, SSV Ulm 1846 and SV Neckargerach . Then Metzler played three seasons for the club in the 2nd Bundesliga until 1980.

In 1980 he returned to the Offenburg FV, who competed in the Oberliga Baden-Württemberg and at the beginning of the 1980s set the goal of moving up to the 2nd Bundesliga. In the following years, therefore, in addition to Metzler, including Klaus Müller , Karl-Heinz Handschuh , Hans-Dieter Bentrup , Ralf Todzi and Uli Bruder, other former professional players were committed. Under coach Klaus Blawert , the club delivered a duel with SSV Ulm in 1846 for the third division championship in the 1982/83 Oberliga season , which the "Spatzen" ultimately won by two points. Nevertheless, Metzler qualified with the team as second in the table for the German Amateur Championship in 1983 , but there they failed after a 6-0 defeat in the semi-finals against the reserve team of FC Bayern Munich . In the course of the following season there was a decisive experience after the dismissal of Blawert, initially Manfred Krafft , who only two game days after his commitment at the beginning of November 1983 made use of a contractual special right of termination and followed an offer from 1. FC Kaiserslautern , then as Interim solution Rolf Müller and from the end of November Karl-Heinz Bente acted as trainers. When Bente was killed in a car accident in January, Metzler ended his playing career and took over the coaching position. Again he led the club to the runner-up; in the German amateur championship in 1984 , the team he supervised won the title after a 4-1 final win against SC Eintracht Hamm . In the following season the OFV continued to play in the front, but let the contact with the top around SV Sandhausen and VfR Mannheim tear off. As a result, Metzler was dismissed after the 27th game day and replaced by Schmider, who led the team to fourth place.

According to the player lexicon, Metzler played 94 league games in the 2nd Bundesliga with Freiburg FC from 1977/78 to 1979/80 and scored nine goals.

Metzler then fully devoted himself to his work as a teacher. His studies at the Freiburg University of Education , which he completed parallel to his playing career, were financed with his player's salary. He also worked as an artist, from 1999 he devoted himself to magic. He also writes newspaper columns that have already been published as books.

literature

• Christian Karn, Reinhard Rehberg: Player Lexicon 1963–1994. Agon Sportverlag. Kassel 2012. ISBN 978-3-89784-214-4 . P. 337.

Web links

• Magical interlude

Individual evidence

1. ^ Alfred Metzler from Wolfach: A master on many levels - Badische Zeitung. Retrieved April 25, 2020 .