Bernhard Wessel (soccer player)

Bernhard Wessel
Personnel
birthday	August 20, 1936
place of birth	Sendenhorst ,  Germany
size	175 cm
position	goalkeeper
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
	SG Sendenhorst
	TSG Rheda
1959-1969	Borussia Dortmund	107 (0)
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
	TuS Neuenrade
	TuS Iserlohn
	VfB Westhofen
	Cough 09
	VfL Schwerte
1 Only league games are given.

Bernhard Wessel (* 20th August 1936 in Sendenhorst ) is a former German football - goalkeeper . With Borussia Dortmund he won the German football championship in 1963 and the DFB Cup in 1965 .

Career

Via the stations SG Sendenhorst and TSG Rheda , the 1.75 m tall goalkeeper came to the top division Borussia Dortmund in 1959 as the goalkeeper of the Westphalia team . In the 1961/62 season, the powerful jumping "aviator" made his debut under the new coach Hermann Eppenhoff in the football league West . On September 10, 1961, he represented the goalkeeper Heinrich Kwiatkowski in the 4-1 home win against Alemannia Aachen . Wessel played twelve league games and BVB finished eighth. In the last year of the old first-class football league, 1962/63, the black and yellow reached the runner-up behind series champion 1. FC Köln and thus moved back into the final round. In the league, however, Kwiatkowski had clearly held the root position with 22 appearances. The World Cup participant in the 1954 and 1958 tournaments was also on May 25, 1963 in the first final game in the 2: 3 defeat at Südmeister 1860 Munich in the goal of Westphalia. After that, however, Wessel's hour struck. In the five following group games against Borussia Neunkirchen, Hamburger SV and in the second leg on June 22nd against the Munich “Lions” led by former coach Max Merkel (4-0 home win), Eppenhoff relied on Wessel's form. With 9: 3 points, Dortmund moved into the final on June 29 in Stuttgart against the West Champion from Cologne. Surprisingly, Dortmund prevailed with 3-1 goals and the BVB defensive played a part in winning the German championship in the formation with goalkeeper Wessel, the defenders Wilhelm Burgsmüller and Lothar Geisler and the runner row with Dieter Kurrat , Wolfgang Paul and Helmut Bracht . In the DFB Cup, Wessel and colleagues were only prevented from playing the double in the final on August 14, 1963 in Hanover against Hamburger SV by a 3-0 defeat . In total, Wessel completed 20 league and six finals games at BVB from 1961 to 1963.

Between 1963 and 1969 Wessel played 87 Bundesliga games for Borussia Dortmund . In the first three Bundesliga years with Borussia Dortmund he was in the shadow of the national goalkeeper Hans Tilkowski and only played occasionally. After Tilkowski moved to Eintracht Frankfurt , Bernhard Wessel came to the fore more often in the last two years of his career. In the 1964/65 season, Bernhard Wessel played a major role in the Dortmund DFB Cup victory in 1965 , although he did not play in the final. He previously guarded the goal in every round and was represented by Hans Tilkowski in the final against Alemannia Aachen . Wessel gained his first experience in the European Cup in the 1963/64 season in his two games in the first round against Lyn Oslo . In Borussia Dortmund's success in the 1965/66 European Cup Winners' Cup , he guarded the goal in the 8-0 home win against La Valletta and in the 3-0 home win in the first leg of the first leg against CSKA Sofia .

Wessel played his last Bundesliga game in the 1968/69 season on February 8, 1969 in the 2-0 away defeat against Hamburger SV. He had completed another 14 BL games and the new competitor Klaus Günther had played 24 games in the case. BVB saved themselves from relegation just in 16th place and had three coaches: Oswald Pfau (until December 16, 1968), Helmut Schneider (December 17, 1968 to March 17, 1969) and, from March 21, Hermann Lindemann needed.

After the career

Due to a protracted groin injury, Wessel ended his career at the age of 32 and worked as an employee at Hoesch . He also acted as a trainer for various amateur clubs near Dortmund and in the Sauerland. He led TuS Neuenrade to the quarter-finals of the German amateur championship and at VfL Schwerte he trained Wolfgang Kleff - later national goalkeeper and master goalkeeper for Borussia Mönchengladbach. Later he also worked as a tennis instructor. Wessel lives in Boppard .

literature

• Schulze-Marmeling, Steffen: Borussia Dortmund. The fame, the dream and the money. Publishing house Die Werkstatt. Göttingen 1994. ISBN 3-89533-110-4 .
• 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 .

Web links

• Bernhard Wessel in the database of weltfussball.de
• Bernhard Wessel in the database of fussballdaten.de
• Profile at schwatzgelb.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Bernhard Wessel on the blog fliggwerk from May 2016 , accessed on May 31, 2019