Edelbert Rey

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Edelbert Rey (born October 25, 1929 ) is a former German soccer player. The offensive player completed a total of 229 league games at VfL Neckarau and Preußen Münster in the top leagues south and west from 1951 to 1961 in which he scored 56 goals.

Career as a footballer

North Baden, until 1952

Edelbert Rey grew up in Plankstadt and developed his footballing skills at Eintracht Plankstadt there. In the 1949/50 round he and his teammates won the championship in the district class B and rose to the A-class Mannheim. As a climber, Plankstadt reached third place in 1950/51 with the young playmaker and goalscorer. His achievements reached far beyond the A-Class, so that Rey received a contract offer from the league club VfL Neckarau for the 1951/52 season. The Mannheim district association was desperately looking for a successor to the national player Fritz Balogh, who died on January 14, 1951 . He should immediately close the sporting gap, but also not be associated with large financial expenses. The half-striker talent from Plankstadt came at just the right time.

Neckarau opened the league round in 1951/52 with a 3-0 home defeat against VfB Stuttgart. In front of 8,000 spectators, the newcomer from Plankstadt experienced the courageous leap from the district class to the top division on half right at the side of the Grammingen twins Karl and Martin . On the opposing side, he was now dealing with experts like Erich Retter and Robert Schlienz ; the individual class compared to the previous A-class was already considerable. After the first half of the season Neckarau was 16th and last in the table with 8:22 points. With 17:43 points Neckarau rose at the end of the round in the 2nd League South. Rey, a technically strong and tactically clever half-forward, had played all 30 league games and scored four goals alongside Willi Preschle and the Gramminger twins. Having to compete as "Balogh's successor" certainly did not help the young talent; But he managed the jump from the A-class to the league with his considerations for the entire 30 league games.

After only one season in Neckarau in the Oberliga Süd, Rey accepted the offer from Preußen Münster for the 1952/53 season and moved to the west runner-up in 1951.

Münster, 1952 to 1961

In the Münsterland , the philology student immediately belonged to the regular line-up of the Eagle Bearers under trainer Willi Multhaup , as did the other newcomers Alfred Kelbassa and Alwin Jenatschek . In both games against the champions Borussia Dortmund, the SCP reached a draw; in the Prussian stadium a 3: 3, in the stadium Rote Erde a 1: 1. Münster did not achieve constancy. The 7th place was occupied with 32:28 points; Rey had scored ten goals in 29 league games and usually formed the Prussian attack with Felix Gerritzen , Kelbassa, Siegfried Rachuba and Josef Lammers on half right. The Gramminger twins who moved to Fortuna Düsseldorf took 9th place with Fortuna. In his second year in Münster, a new coach came with Ludwig Tretter and Josef Seemann from Bayern Munich was supposed to replace Horst-Emscher-returnees Kelbassa in attack . If Münster won 2-0 against 1. FC Köln in the first half of the season, the Prussians were outclassed 8-1 in the second half of the season against the new West Masters. On December 6, 1953 Münster had won the unofficial title of autumn champion with a 3-0 home win against Rheydt, tied with 1. FC Köln with 21: 9 points each. Nevertheless, Münster reached fourth place with 33:27 points, but now eight points behind Cologne. Rey had played in 25 games and scored seven goals as a connector.

After that, the Prussians bobbed around in the middle of the table. Rey scored eight goals in 1955/56, nine in 1956/57 and eight again in 1957/58. He experienced the work of the trainers Paul Böhm , Günter Hentschke and, from 1958/59, the working method of Kuno Klötzer . The way to the top of the table in Oberliga West did not succeed, not even with new players such as Heribert Kania , Adolf Scheidt , Herbert Eiteljörge , Helmut Tybussek , Hermann Lulka , Gerd Cyliax , Falk Dörr , Harald Beyer and Klaus Bockisch . With a 0: 3 home defeat in front of 25,000 spectators, the man from Plankstadt said goodbye to Münster and the Oberliga West on March 5, 1961. He had formed the right attacking side of the Prussians again as a half right with Hermann Lulka wing.

After a total of 229 league appearances with 56 goals, the Münster player personality ended his career in the summer of 1961.

literature

  • Werner Skrentny (Ed.): When Morlock still met the moonlight. The history of the Oberliga Süd 1945 to 1963. Klartext Verlag. Essen 1993. ISBN 3-88474-055-5 . Pp. 117-121.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Lorenz Knieriem, Hardy Grüne : Spiellexikon 1890 - 1963 . In: Encyclopedia of German League Football . tape 8 . AGON, Kassel 2006, ISBN 3-89784-148-7 , p. 313 .
  2. ↑ Gerhard Zeilinger: Triumph and decline in Mannheim's football sport 1945 to 1970. Football archive Mannheim. Mannheim 1995. p. 59
  3. ↑ Gerhard Zeilinger: Triumph and decline in Mannheim's football sport 1945 to 1970. Football archive Mannheim. Mannheim 1995. p. 71
personal data
SURNAME Rey, Edelbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH October 25, 1929