Bärbel Wohlleben
Bärbel Wohlleben (born December 26, 1943 ) is a former German soccer player who won the first German women's championship officially organized by the DFB in 1974 with TuS Wörrstadt . The goal she scored to make it 3-0 in the final on September 8th at the Bruchweg Stadium in Mainz against DJK Eintracht Erle was voted goal of the month by the viewers of the ARD sports show .
career
youth
Bärbel Wohlleben grew up in the north of Rheinhessen, in Ingelheim am Rhein . Ten-year-old Bärbel, encouraged by her parents who are very open to sport, was allowed to play the club-like football game with the boys in the youth department of the Ingelheim game association. On the side she was also active in athletics. Purposefully operated by her father, he was a committed athlete himself and volunteered as a lawyer for the Southwest German Football Association, Bärbel was the only girl in Rhineland-Palatinate to play with the boys with a special permit. She could keep up with the male offspring, she was even among the better. As the only girl in a boys' team in Rhineland-Palatinate, she was an attraction. But that only went up to C-youth, after that she was no longer allowed to play and from then on had to concentrate on athletics and handball again.
For years she was only able to play football with her three brothers at the football fields in Ingelheim. In contrast, she pursued the performance-oriented handball game at the then top German club TV Vorwärts Frankfurt .
Wörrstadt
In October 1969, chance intervened in the young woman's sports planning. She met Uschi Demmler at a handball game, got to know Uschi Demmler about her obvious skill in handling the ball as a footballer when she was warming up and learned that Demmler had been training football with the women of TuS Wörrstadt for a few months. The next day Wohlleben drove for the first workout in the 20 km outside the town of Mainz located Wörrstadt . On the Day of Repentance and Prayer in 1969, she played her first friendly game with the TuS women. Since she worked for her father in his law firm, she was able to do additional running and strength training in addition to the evening club training units in Wörrstadt every Wednesday afternoon without any professional disadvantages. She quickly earned the honorable nickname of the “female Beckenbauer” through her achievements as a soccer player.
After the DFB lifted the women's football ban on October 31, 1970 in Travemünde on its association day, it was finally possible to work in the women's area within and with official framework conditions. In Wörrstadt, a successful women's football team developed around the players Uschi Demmler, Bärbel Jung, Uschi Pätzold, Karin Petzold, Bärbel Wohlleben and the later sports student Anne Haarbach and the former artistic cyclist Gerhild Binder . In 1970 Wohlleben was part of the first selection team, which was primarily composed of players from SC 07 Bad Neuenahr and TuS Wörrstadt. She made her debut in two unofficial internationals against Denmark and scored a goal with an overhead kick. Administratively, the TuS ladies received significant support from "Fips" Scheidt on the way up. At the same time, the same positive process took place in the Rhineland with the women's team at SC 07 Bad Neuenahr, where Heinz-Günter Hansen acted as a bustling engine. For the first time in 1972 Wohlleben and Co were able to defeat their rivals from the Rhineland.
Scheidt organized a tournament of the national association champions in 1973 without the approval of the DFB. This championship had to remain unofficial, as not every national association had yet determined a champion and was therefore also held under the name "Gold Cup". The Wörrstadt women already felt like the "championship team", because they had prevailed in the semifinals against Bad Neuenahr and won the final on September 29, 1973 in Rüsselsheim against the team of Bayern Munich with 3-1 goals. Twelve months later, on September 8, 1974 in Mainz, Wörrstadt caught up with coach Erwin Hartmann and playmaker Anne Trabant the official championship win. After they had prevailed against Bonner SC in the semi-finals in Bingen , the competition from DJK Eintracht Erle had no chance in the final at the Bruchweg Stadium in Mainz. Wohlleben and Kameradinnen prevailed with 4: 0 goals and thus celebrated winning the first women's championship officially organized by the DFB. Bärbel Wohlleben's goal for the 3-0 intermediate result was then voted for the first goal of the month by a woman by the viewers of the ARD sports show . The DFB honored the championship team with a reception at the Mainz Hilton.
With the departure of Haarbach and Petzold to Bonner SC - exactly against the Bonn team, Wörrstadt lost the semi-finals in the final round in 1975 - a turning point occurred at TuS. They had achieved everything in the club with the German championship title in 1974 and did not defend themselves with all their might against the threatened sell-out. Wohlleben therefore bought himself free for 1,000 DM and switched to NSG Oberst Schiel in Frankfurt for the 1976/77 round .
Second German championship and end of career
As a Hessian champion, the 33-year-old took part again in 1977 with NSG Oberst Schiel in the final round of the German championship. After successes against Tennis Borussia Berlin , Rendsburger TSV and in the semifinals against the Baden champions SV Schlierstadt , Wohlleben was again in the final for the German championship on June 18 and 25, 1977 . The team of player-coach Anne Trabant-Haarbach, SSG 09 Bergisch Gladbach , won the second leg with just 1-0 goals and Wohlleben had to be content with the runner-up. In the following year, 1977/78, Wohlleben was able to celebrate winning the second German championship with the SC 07 Bad Neuenahr . In the semi-finals, the Wohlleben team prevailed against KBC Duisburg and in the two finals in June 1978 against the Saarland champions FC Hellas Marpingen , Christa Nüsser's two goals from the 2-0 first leg win in favor of the Rhineland champions. The 0-1 defeat in the second leg in Eppelborn could no longer prevent the team from Neuenahr from winning the title.
After a stopover at FSV Frankfurt, Bärbel Wohlleben ended her career in Ingelheim. There she still looks after girls' teams today (2010). Since the women's national team's first official international match only took place on November 10, 1982 in Koblenz against Switzerland, they never played in the DFB team.
literature
- Rainer Hennies, Daniel Meuren (ed.): Women's football. The long road to recognition . Verlag Die Werkstatt, 2009, ISBN 978-3-89533-639-3 .
- 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 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Ronny Galczynski: Women's football from A – Z. Humboldt 2010, ISBN 978-3-86910-169-9 , p. 326.
- ^ Ronny Galczynski: Women's football from A - ZS 327
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Well-being, Bärbel |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German soccer player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 26, 1943 |