Alfred Mirsberger

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Alfred Mirsberger (born August 13, 1927 ; † September 22, 2018 ) was a German soccer player who played a total of 244 league games from 1948 to 1959 as an active member of the 1.FC Nürnberg and Viktoria Aschaffenburg clubs in what was then the first-class soccer Oberliga Süd Scored 12 goals. Mirsberger won the championship in the Oberliga Süd with the "Club" in the 1950/51 season . The player, who was mostly used as a defender in the then prevalent World Cup system , was appointed by the DFB to three appearances in the B national team from 1951 to 1953 .

career

Oberliga Süd, 1948 to 1959

The up-and-coming talent Alfred Mirsberger moved from the amateur division of SV Wacker Nürnberg to the first division club 1. FC Nürnberg in 1947. After the southern championship in 1947/48, the "club" also won the first final after the Second World War for the German football championship in the final on August 8, 1948 in Cologne against 1. FC Kaiserslautern (2: 1) . Mirsberger had not yet played in the major league or in the finals. Before goalkeeper Eduard Schaffer , Willi Billmann and Adolf Knoll formed the undisputed pair of defenders. Since another catch-up game of this round against Eintracht Frankfurt was played on August 29 (1: 3) and Mirsberger was used as a defender for the first time, he is led in 1947/48 with a league assignment.

For the 1948/49 season, the so-called "Contract Players Statute" was introduced by the DFB . This made it possible for the first time legally to allow players to receive a monthly remuneration up to a maximum of DM 320 if the player continued to exercise a "civilian profession". In his second "club" year, the young defender ran for the first time on November 7, 1948 in a 0-1 home defeat against SV Waldhof Mannheim in the league. The level of the championship year could not be nearly maintained and the defending champion landed in 11th place. Mirsberger had played nine league games. From the following season 1949/50 he was part of the regular formation. He completed 26 games (2 goals) in the Oberliga in 1949/50 and at the end of the round the Franks took eighth place under coach Hans Schmidt .

Former national player "Bumbes" Schmidt led Nuremberg to the championship in the Oberliga Süd in 1950/51 . The "Taler" called Mirsberger missed only two of 34 round games and Max Morlock got the top scorer's crown with 28 goals. The offensive newcomers Otto Brenzke and Adolf Kallenborn also contributed to this . In the final round of the German football championship, Preußen Münster and Nuremberg crossed the finish line tied with 8: 4 points each. Since the division procedure was still in effect at this time, i.e. goals scored divided by goals conceded, Münster sat down with 22:16 goals and a goal quotient of 1.375 against Mirsberger and colleagues at 17:13 goals and a quotient of only 1.308, super close with seven hundredths in the fight for the final. Mirsberger had played all six final round matches as a right defender against Preußen Münster, Tennis Borussia Berlin and Hamburger SV.

In the following year, 1951/52, Nuremberg reached the final round again with the runner-up in the south. Defender Mirsberger had completed 28 (1 goal) in the league; Willi Sippel was mostly his defensive partner. In the group stage of the final round, the Franconians again took second place, now one point behind 1. FC Saarbrücken. Mirsberger had played five games against Saarbrücken, FC Schalke 04 and Hamburger SV. In the next three rounds Nuremberg could not move into the final round. After Franz Binder's first year as a coach in 1954/55, Mirsberger ended his activity for the Franconians and moved to Viktoria Aschaffenburg. The defender equipped with good ball technique - that put the "joker" in a position to shine with regular fall kicks - had played 169 competitive games (10 goals) in the Oberliga Süd from 1948 to 1955 for 1. FC Nürnberg; Overall, it is listed in the "club" statistics with 292 games.

The newcomer from Nuremberg completed all 30 league games in 1955/56 when he returned to the league in Aschaffenburg - but he still lived in Nuremberg and took on the driving for two training sessions and the games on the weekend. The Viktoria surprisingly took fifth place, co-promoted Munich 1860, however, could not prevent immediate relegation to the 2nd League South. With coach Ludwig Janda , Mirsberger also experienced two wins against 1. FC Nürnberg (3-0, 2-1). Outstanding teammates like Rudolf Hoffmann , Hans Neuschäfer , Heinz Budion , Helmut Buller and Hubert Staab helped Mirsberger achieve a round four points ahead of 1. FC Nürnberg. However, since forbidden material donations had been received when he moved from Nuremberg to Aschaffenburg in the summer of 1955, Mirsberger was suspended for eight weeks during the round of 1956/57. When Aschaffenburg was only able to fend off relegation with the 14th place in the 1958/59 season, veteran Mirsberger helped out in the attack in the last games of the second half of the season to get the necessary points. On the penultimate game day, May 3, 1959, he was the winning goal scorer of the "Ascheberger" in a 1-0 home win against SSV Reutlingen. After 75 league appearances (two goals), he ended his playing career in the summer of 1959 and returned to Nuremberg.

Mirsberger professionally ran a snack bar including a tobacco / cigarette shop in Nuremberg's Königstrasse and worked as a junior coach at the “Club” until the mid-1970s, where he introduced Horst Weyerich to professional football, among others .

Selection appointments

In the 1951/52 season Mirsberger was brought into action on September 22, 1951 in Augsburg by national coach Sepp Herberger in the international match against Austria in the B national team. The game ended 1: 1 and in addition to Mirsberger, the other "Club" players Eduard Schaffer , Gerhard Bergner and Kurt Ucko also played . Just three weeks later, on October 14th, the defender was used for the second time in the German B national team. The DFB selection won 2-0 in Basel against Switzerland. On November 23, 1952, a test match of a DFB selection against a formation from Saarland (3: 4) took place in Homburg, where Mirsberger again played as a defender. In the spring of the 1952/53 season, on March 22, 1953, he was brought by the DFB for the third time in the B national team. The German selection lost the international match against Austria with 1: 3 in Vienna. Karl Bögelein stood in the goal, Mirsberger defended with Werner Niebel and the runner row was started with Kurt Sommerlatt , Herbert Schäfer and Jupp Derwall .

literature

  • Hardy Grüne , Lorenz Knieriem: Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 8: Player Lexicon 1890–1963. AGON-Sportverlag, Kassel 2006, ISBN 3-89784-148-7 .
  • Werner Skrentny (Ed.): When Morlock still met the moonlight. The history of the Oberliga Süd 1945–1963. Klartext, Essen 1993, ISBN 3-88474-055-5 .
  • Christoph Bausenwein, Bernd Siegler, Harald Kaiser: The legend of the club. The history of 1. FC Nürnberg. Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2012, ISBN 978-3-89533-907-3 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Nürnberger Nachrichten , September 26, 2018
  2. ↑ Bausenwein, Siegler, Kaiser: The legend of the club. P. 463
  3. ^ Bausenwein, Siegler, Liedel: Franconia on the ball. History and stories of a football century. Real publisher. 2003. ISBN 3-429-02462-5 . P. 100
  4. ^ Bausenwein, Siegler: the club lexicon. Publishing house Die Werkstatt. Göttingen 2003. ISBN 3-89533-376-X . P. 98
personal data
SURNAME Mirsberger, Alfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH August 13, 1927
DATE OF DEATH 22nd September 2018