Arnold Cramer

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Arnold Cramer (born October 2, 1941 ) is a former German soccer player . In the 1960/61 season, the defender played ten league games at FC Schalke 04 in what was then the first-class football Oberliga West . Schalke finished third at the end of the lap.

Player career

The defensive player convinced with his talent especially in the youth field. He made it into the DFB national youth team through games in the youth team of West Germany . The young hopefuls from Schalke played all six international junior international matches hosted by the DFB in 1960. In April 1960 he was part of the squad for the UEFA youth tournament in Austria. In all three group matches against Turkey (1: 0), Hungary (1: 1) and the GDR (1: 1) he formed the defender pair with Dieter Kurrat . Other teammates at the UEFA junior tournament included players such as Hermann Marchl , Jürgen Neumann , Stefan Reisch , Kurt Haseneder , Karl-Heinz Bente , Hans-Otto Peters , Gerhard Elfert and Jürgen Koch .

For the 1960/61 season, the former youth player was transferred to the top division squad of Schalke 04. The squad of coach Georg Gawliczek was also refreshed by Ernst Kuster , Egon Horst and Willi Schulz . On the fifth match day, September 11, 1960, the 18-year-old Cramer made his debut in a 3-1 away win against VfL Bochum in the Oberliga West. In front of goalkeeper Josef Broden , he formed the Schalke's defense in the then common World Cup system together with Helmut Laszig , Willi Schulz, Egon Horst and Günter Karnhof as right defender . Up to and including the twelfth match day on November 6, 1960, he was then a member of the regular cast.

Outstanding was the game against Borussia Dortmund on October 2nd, in which Schalke 04 fought for a 0-0 draw in the Rote Erde stadium in front of 40,000 spectators . (Cramer had primarily to take care of the BVB left winger Hans Cieslarczyk ) and the home game on October 16 against Westfalia Herne (1: 1), in which Cramer in front of 35,000 spectators on his former youth national team colleague Jürgen Koch in the eleven of Coach Fritz Langner met. In the second half of the season he had two more games in April 1961 against TSV Marl-Hüls (1: 2) and Hamborn 07 (2: 0) and ended his first round in the senior division with ten league appearances. With Günter Brocker , Heinz Kördell , Helmut Laszig and Walter Zastrau there were other defender candidates in the Schalke 04 squad.

When Hans Nowak, a former offensive player, had been successfully retrained to become a defender in the 1961/62 season and another talent in the form of Hans-Jürgen Becher attracted attention, Cramer did not play any more in the league. For the 1962/63 season he joined the STV Horst-Emscher in the 2nd League West. In the black and blue "Hussars" from the Fürstenberg Stadium , there were only ten games under coach Herbert Burdenski on the side of teammates like Werner Jestremski , Manfred Otta and Rudolf Schmidt in the 2nd division.

Arnold Cramer's football career ended at the age of 21; Whether illnesses, injuries, professional demands or other obstacles were to blame for a continuation of his still young career cannot be read from the available literature.

literature

  • Lorenz Knieriem, Hardy Grüne : Player Lexicon 1890 - 1963 . In: Encyclopedia of German League Football . tape 8 . AGON, Kassel 2006, ISBN 3-89784-148-7 , p. 53 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Karl-Heinz Heimann, Karl-Heinz Jens: Kicker-Almanach 1989. Copress-Verlag. Munich 1988. ISBN 3-7679-0245-1 . P. 407
personal data
SURNAME Cramer, Arnold
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH October 2, 1941