Christian Breuer (soccer player)

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Christian Breuer (born April 24, 1939 in Hüchelhoven - Fliesteden , today in Bergheim ; † September 3, 2017 in Aachen ) was a German football player . As an active player in 1. FC Köln , he won the German championship in 1962 with a 4-0 win over defending champions 1. FC Nürnberg .

career

1. FC Köln, until 1962

Together with his cousin Christian Müller , Breuer moved in the summer of 1958 from SC Fliesteden to 1. FC Köln in the football Oberliga West , where Fritz Breuer (both not related) had been playing since the early 1950s . For the versatile player - in attack as well as in midfield - the change from amateur football to the level of the league as well as the performance of the Cologne team meant that he did not play in the league association round in the first game year 1958/59. In the final round of the German championship, he was coached by Péter Szabó but the game on 20 June 1959 in Cologne against FK Pirmasens on the side of teammate Fritz Breuer, Fritz Ewert , Josef Röhrig , Hans Schäfer and Karl-Heinz Schnellinger in the Race sent. In the three seasons 1959/60 to 1961/62 he belonged to the respective Cologne championship teams in the Oberliga West and represented the "billy goat elf" in 17 games in the final round of the German championship and scored a goal. In the 1959/60 finals , he moved into the final of the German soccer championship with Cologne for the first time, but lost the final on June 25th in Frankfurt with 2: 3 goals against Hamburger SV with his teammates . The highlight of his playing career was winning the title in the championship finals in 1962, when President Franz Kremer's team took over from defending champions 1. FC Nürnberg with 4-0 goals. Despite this success, Breuer joined the top division rivals Alemannia Aachen for the 1962/63 round . From 1959 to 1962 he had played 63 games for Cologne in the Oberliga West and scored eleven goals. In Europe he represented the colors of Cologne in the trade fair cup from 1960 to 1962 - city selection (AS Rom) and 1. FC Cologne (Inter Milan). Breuer played a total of one hundred competitive games for 1. FC Köln and scored thirteen goals.

Aachen, 1962 to 1966

In the last year of the first-class league system - 1962/63 - Christian Breuer completed all 30 round games for the Tivoli-Elf under coach Oswald Pfau and took fifth place with the Alemannia. He and his teammates Alfred Glenski , Josef Martinelli and Branko Zebec scored 3: 1 points against his ex-team and renewed title holder in the west, 1. FC Köln . With the offensive “Jupp” Martinelli and the Yugoslav ex-national player Zebec as head of defense, he formed a line of runners in a class of their own. Surprisingly, Aachen - a permanent member of the Oberliga West from 1947 to 1963 - was not nominated for the new Bundesliga for the 1963/64 round, unlike the competition from Meiderich and Münster . Breuer and colleagues therefore played in the second division of the West Regional Football League from the start of the Bundesliga . As hoped, Alemannia won the championship in 1964 and moved into the promotion round. There the West Champion finished third behind Hannover 96 and Hessen Kassel and thus remained in the regional league. In the second Bundesliga attempt in 1965, Breuer and colleagues were runner-up behind Borussia Mönchengladbach and failed in the promotion round at Bayern Munich . In the DFB Cup , Alemannia had previously fought their way into the cup final with a 4: 3 semi-final success after extra time - the powerful Christian Breuer had scored the winning goal in the 100th minute of the game - which on May 22nd in Hanover with 0: 2 goals was lost against old western rivals Borussia Dortmund . In the third regional league year, 1965/66 , the promotion round was not reached with third place behind Fortuna Düsseldorf and Rot-Weiss Essen. A coach change in October 1965 from Pfau to Williberth Werth did not bring the desired success. At the age of 27, Breuer therefore accepted the offer of the Bundesliga club Hannover 96 in the summer of 1966 after 103 regional league appearances with 31 goals for Aachen and was thus in the squad of the "Reds" in Hanover from the 1966/67 season.

Hanover, 1966 to 1970

In four rounds of Bundesliga football - 1966 to 1970 - the newcomer from Aachen in Hanover experienced turbulence in the coaching area - Horst Buhtz , Zlatko Čajkovski -, spectacular player commitments - Jupp Heynckes , Josip Skoblar - and still not made it to the top of the table. During the four years, Breuer was always a member of the regular line-up, changing coach names and unsatisfactory placements did nothing to change that. In the Bundesliga, the 96ers fell from ninth (1967) to 13th place (1970) and in the trade fair cup - SSC Napoli, B 1909 Odense, AIK Stockholm, Leeds United, Ajax Amsterdam - the desired success could not be achieved. On May 3, 1970 in the 4-2 home win against 1. FC Kaiserslautern, the midfielder and Libero completed his last Bundesliga game for Hanover. After 122 Bundesliga games with eleven goals for Lower Saxony, Breuer returned to Alemannia Aachen in the 1970/71 round in the West Regional Football League.

Aachen, 1970 to 1975

In his first season after his return from Hanover, he finished sixth in the relegated Bundesliga with his teammates Herbert Gronen , Erwin Hermandung , Werner Scholz and Horst Schauß under the training direction of Hermann Lindemann - replaced by Volker Kottmann from the second half of the season - in sixth place in the Regionalliga West. At the top of the table were VfL Bochum , Fortuna Düsseldorf and Wuppertaler SV , the return to the Bundesliga as soon as possible was not an achievable goal for Aachen. Until the last round of the old second-rate regional league - 1973/74 - Alemannia could not realistically deal with team captain Christian Breuer, his teammates Georg Marwig , Karl Del'Haye , Hans-Jürgen Ferdinand , Wilhelm Haag , Joaquín Montañés , Christoph Walter and coach Michael Pfeiffer the fight for the first two places against Wattenscheid 09 , Rot-Weiß Oberhausen and Bayer 05 Uerdingen intervene and in 1974 finished seventh. A total of - 1963/64 to 1965/66 and 1970/71 to 1973/74 - Breuer completed 238 games in the Football Regionalliga West for Aachen and scored 52 goals.

At the age of 35, the senior also tackled the first year of the 2nd Bundesliga North 1974/75. Coach Pfeiffer was replaced by Horst Witzler in September 1974 and Rolf Kucharski scored 20 goals for Alemannia. In the last round with Aachen, the captain experienced the fight against relegation in the new league. With 30:46 points, the black and yellow landed in 15th place, from 17th place on they would have been relegated to the amateur camp. On the 38th matchday, June 15, 1975, in the 0-2 away defeat at Arminia Bielefeld , Libero Breuer completed his last game in the 2nd Bundesliga with his defensive colleagues Gerhard Prokop , Josef Bläser , Peter Stollwerk and Franz Pavlak and thus ended his career as a licensed footballer. He had completed another 31 rounds with one goal.

After the career

The trained locksmith ran a stationery shop in Aachen and took over in 1975/76 as a player-coach in the amateur division of Rhenania Würselen . Franz-Josef Breuer , who came from SC Jülich in 1910 , completed the missions in the 1976/77 and 1977/78 rounds, which are still attributed to Christian Breuer in the players' dictionary.

societies

successes

  • 1960 German vice-champion
  • 1962 German champion
  • 1965 DFB Cup final
  • West German champion: 1960 , 1961 , 1962

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 .
  • Matthias Kropp (ed.), Berthold Erb: 1. FC Cologne (= Germany's big soccer teams, part 10). AGON Sportverlag, Kassel, 1997, ISBN 978-3-928562-96-6 .
  • Uwe Nuttelmann (Ed.): Regionalliga West 1963–1974 . Uwe Nuttelmann, Jade, 2002, ISBN 3-930814-28-5 .
  • Matthias Weinrich: Second League Almanac. All players. All clubs. All results. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2001, ISBN 3-89784-190-8 .
  • Franz Creutz (Ed.): Games you will never forget! Alemannia in the 60s . Meyer and Meyer, Aachen 1996, ISBN 978-3-89124-373-2 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Mourning Christian Breuer. Alemannia Aachen website, September 4, 2017, accessed on September 5, 2017 .
  2. ^ Hannover 96 mourns Christian Breuer. Hannover 96, September 5, 2017, accessed on September 5, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Frederic Latz: Master player died: Mourning Christian Breuer . Press release from 1. FC Köln, September 5, 2017, accessed on September 6, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Breuer, Christian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH April 24, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH n Hüchelhoven - Fliesteden , German Empire
DATE OF DEATH 3rd September 2017
Place of death Aachen , Germany