Dietmar Schwager

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Dietmar Schwager
Personnel
birthday August 15, 1940
place of birth Kaiserslautern
date of death 20th November 2018
Place of death KaiserslauternGermany
position Defense
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
0000-1962 ASV Kaiserslautern
1962-1964 VfR Kaiserslautern 63 (2)
1964-1976 1. FC Kaiserslautern 320 (2)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
1975-1976 1. FC Kaiserslautern Am.
1976-1977 Borussia Neunkirchen
1977-1979 Borussia Neunkirchen
1979 FC Schalke 04 (assistant coach)
1979-1980 FC Schalke 04
1980-1981 FSV Frankfurt
1990-1991 1. FC Kaiserslautern Am.
1 Only league games are given.

Dietmar Schwager (born August 15, 1940 in Kaiserslautern ; † November 20, 2018 in Kaiserslautern- Dansenberg ) was a German football player and coach. The defender played a total of 320 league games (2 goals) in the Bundesliga with 1. FC Kaiserslautern from 1964 to 1975 .

career

player

Schwager played in his career for ASV (until 1962) and VfR Kaiserslautern (1962-1964) and from 1964 to 1976 for 1. FC Kaiserslautern . The tough two-fighter made his debut with the vom Erbsenberg team, the VfR, four days after his 22nd birthday, on August 19, 1962, in a 1-1 home draw against 1. FC Saarbrücken in what was then the first-class Southwest football league . At the end of the round, "Dittes" brother-in-law had played 26 league games and scored one goal in the previous season of the old first-class Oberliga Südwest. VfR finished in 13th place and 1. FCK had won the championship and was nominated for the Bundesliga for the 1963/64 season. The defensive hope went with the VfR in the also newly installed Football Regionalliga Südwest for the 1963/64 season, played 37 games (1 goal) and finished 7th with the VfR under coach Werner Baßler . New signing Erwin Weber from SV Kindsbach had contributed 22 goals in 31 league games and Schwager's defensive qualities made a decisive contribution to the 27:11 home points being conquered. After two years at VfR, Schwager accepted the offer from the “Red Devils” and switched to the Betzenberg team in the Bundesliga for the 1964/65 season.

In addition to the man from VfR, Helmut Kapitulski, the playmaker and striker from FK Pirmasens and amateur national striker Wilfried Leydecker, joined coach Günter Brocker's team . On the first day of the round, August 22, 1964, Schwager made his Bundesliga debut in the home game against SV Werder Bremen. In the 2-1 home win against the eventual sensation champion, he ran as a center runner and head of defense and got to know the class of Werder offensive forces Gerhard Zebrowski , Diethelm Ferner , Klaus Matischak , Klaus Hänel and Theo Klöckner . In the Bundesliga chronicle it is noted in the match report: "But in the defense center of the Lauterer there was an excellently organizing and skilfully intervening stopper with the young brother-in-law who, along with the attentive keeper Schnarr, was responsible for a major part of the lucky point win (wrong: three-point)."

In the next few years he got to know the work of other trainers Gyula Lóránt , Otto Knefler , Egon Piechaczek , Dietrich Weise and Erich Ribbeck at Betzenberg . Outstanding was the finals in the 1972 DFB Cup final against FC Schalke 04, the first participation in the UEFA Cup in the 1972/73 season , the legendary home win on October 20, 1973 against FC Bayern Munich after a 4-1 deficit in the 57th minute and the appearance of the Swedish team-mates Ronnie Hellström and Roland Sandberg in his last Bundesliga round in 1974/75. On the last match day of the 1974/75 round, June 14, 1975, Schwager said goodbye to a 3: 3 away draw at Wuppertaler SV as an active player from the Bundesliga. For eleven years, the initial man-marketer and later Libero, who was feared for his tough duel, had always been a top performer in the regular cast on the Betzenberg. He became the legitimate successor of world champion stopper Werner Liebrich and his reliability and loyalty to the club made him an independent figure in FCK history.

For the club he played 320 Bundesliga games in which he scored two goals. After Werner Melzer, this means that he has the second most Bundesliga games for 1. FCK.

Trainer

He started working as a coach in 1975 and looked after the amateurs of 1. FC Kaiserslautern in the 1975/76 season . He then looked after Borussia Neunkirchen between 1976 and 1977 and between 1977 and 1979 . Then he was assistant to ex-FCK coach Gyula Lóránt at FC Schalke 04 . In December 1979 brother-in-law Lóránt succeeded in his office and was dismissed in April 1980 after a series of seven winless Bundesliga games. Fahrudin Jusufi was his successor . In the 1980/81 season Schwager coached FSV Frankfurt in the 2nd Bundesliga South. In the summer of 1990 he was again coach of the FCK amateurs. He carried out this activity until the winter break in 1991/92.

Schwager had a lottery acceptance point in Kaiserslautern.

literature

  • Christian Karn, Reinhard Rehberg: Player Lexicon 1963–1994. Agon Sportverlag. Kassel 2012. ISBN 978-3-89784-214-4 . P. 465.
  • Dominic Bold: 1. FC Kaiserslautern. The Chronicle. Publishing house Die Werkstatt. Göttingen 2013. ISBN 978-3-7307-0046-4 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. https://www.rheinpfalz.de/lokal/kaiserslautern/artikel/kaiserslautern-trauer-um-frueheren-fck-profi-dietmar-schwager/
  2. ^ Jürgen Bitter: Germany's football. The encyclopedia. FA Herbig. Munich 2008. ISBN 978-3-7766-2558-5 . P. 663
  3. ^ Ulrich Merk, Andre Schulin: Bundesliga Chronicle 1964/65. Agon Sportverlag. Kassel 2004. ISBN 3-89784-084-7 . P. 34
  4. ^ Dominic Bold: 1. FC Kaiserslautern. The Chronicle. P. 178
  5. a b "Bastion Betzenberg", p. 198f