Egon Loy

Egon Loy (born May 14, 1931 ) is a former German soccer player who won the German championship as a goalkeeper for Eintracht Frankfurt in 1959 .

career

Amateur, until 1954

Egon Loy spent his youth and the first phase of his senior years in Schwabach near Nuremberg. With the local TSV 04 Schwabach , he was promoted to the 1st Amateur League in Bavaria in the 1950/51 round. Until 1954 he played with his home club in the highest amateur class in Bavaria. Loy was the backing of the Bavarian federation selection when they won three titles in the national cup of amateurs from 1952 to 1954. Erich Bäumler , Ludwig Hinterstocker and Johann Zeitler scored the goals in the attack . On May 30, 1954, the tall goalkeeper guarded the goal of the German national soccer team of amateurs at the international match in Longwy against France. It was the only amateur international match in 1954 and ended in a 0-0 draw. For the 1954/55 round, the goalkeeper moved to the Oberliga Süd at Eintracht Frankfurt. His teammate from the Bayern team, Erich Bäumler from SpVgg Weiden, also made the move to the Riederwald.

Eintracht Frankfurt, 1954 to 1967

The debut game in the Oberliga Süd led the previous amateur on August 22, 1954 to the local hit on the Bieberer Berg in Offenbach. Egon Loy impressed in Eintracht's 1-0 away win and then held the regular place in goal. In the first year he completed 28 league and 2 cup games. But then a serious knee injury threw the Franconian almost completely off track. He was therefore only able to play one game in his second year in Frankfurt, 1955/56, and in 1956/57 he fought hard to return to the sporting stage. In the year of the soccer world championship 1958 in Sweden he did it again, Egon Loy completed all 30 games in the Oberliga Süd and finished third with Eintracht. On November 17, 1957, his good performances were rewarded with a nomination for the goal of the southern German selection in the representative game against southwest Germany. For the round of 1958/59, the previous OFC trainer Paul Oßwald switched to Eintracht. The Riederwälder won the title in the south, prevailed in the finals of the German football championship without losing points and advanced to the final. On June 28, 1959, Egon Loy's men won the German championship in Berlin with 5: 3 goals after extra time against the Offenbacher Kickers . In the 1959/60 round, Loy experienced the atmosphere of the European Cup competition. The semi-finals against Glasgow Rangers on April 13 and May 5, 1960, respectively, were impressive. After the sensational 6-1 home win, Eintracht also won the second leg at Ibrox Park in Glasgow with 6-3 goals. The final on May 18th at Hampden Park in Glasgow against Cup defender Real Madrid turned out to be a real football festival despite the 3-7 defeat. Alfredo Di Stéfano and Ferenc Puskás showed the Eintracht goalkeeper why they have been called the biggest stars in European competition. In the last three rounds of the Oberliga Süd, 1960/61 to 1962/63, the reliable Eintracht goalkeeper played all 90 league games. In addition there were the games in the finals in 1961 and 1962. In total, Loy came from 1959 to 1962 on 17 finals. In the big league there were from 1954 to 1963, the two rounds 1955/56 and 1956/57 with the knee injury can be almost completely canceled, 209 league games. In the first two rounds of the new Bundesliga , 1963/64 and 1964/65, the ex-Schwabacher still held the regular place in the goal of Eintracht. At the DFB Cup final on June 13, 1964 in Stuttgart against 1860 Munich, the "Löwen" won 2-0 goals, he was also in goal. From the round 1965/66, the former amateur national goalkeeper of Eintracht Wetzlar, Peter Kunter , took over the role of number one in the Eintracht goal. The 35-year-old veteran played the last two Bundesliga games on September 17 and October 8, 1966 against Hannover 96 and MSV Duisburg. From 1963 to 1966, Loy played 69 Bundesliga games for Eintracht Frankfurt. After finishing his professional career at Eintracht, he was a player-coach at Rot-Weiß Walldorf from 1967 to 1969 .

Web link

• Egon Loy in the Eintracht Archive

literature

• Hardy Greens : Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 1: From the Crown Prince to the Bundesliga. 1890 to 1963. German championship, Gauliga, Oberliga. Numbers, pictures, stories. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 1996, ISBN 3-928562-85-1 .
• Jürgen Bitter : Germany's football. The encyclopedia. Sportverlag, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-328-00857-8 .
• KICKER, Football Almanach '93, Copress-Verlag, 1992, ISBN 3-7679-0398-9 .
• Matthias Kropp: Triumphs in the European Cup. All games of the German clubs since 1955 (= "AGON Sportverlag statistics." Volume 20). AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 1996, ISBN 3-928562-75-4 .
• Matthias Weinrich, Hardy Greens: Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 6: German Cup history since 1935. Pictures, statistics, stories, constellations. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2000, ISBN 3-89784-146-0 .
• Matthias Weinrich: Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 3: 35 years of the Bundesliga. Part 1. The founding years 1963–1975. Stories, pictures, constellations, tables. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 1998, ISBN 3-89784-132-0 .
• Werner Skrentny (Ed.): When Morlock still met the moonlight. The history of the Oberliga Süd 1945–1963. Klartext, Essen 1993, ISBN 3-88474-055-5 .
• Klaus Querengässer: The German football championship. Part 2: 1948–1963 (= AGON Sportverlag statistics. Vol. 29). AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 1997, ISBN 3-89609-107-7 .