Elmar May

Elmar May
Personnel
birthday	October 5, 1939
place of birth	Germany
date of death	January 31, 1999
position	striker
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1957-1961	Eintracht Trier	89 (34)
1961-1966	Borussia Neunkirchen	133 (66)
1966-1967	Hamburger SV	3 0(0)
1 Only league games are given.

Elmar May (born October 5, 1939 - January 31, 1999 ) was a German football player . He played 54 Bundesliga games for Borussia Neunkirchen and Hamburger SV , in which he scored 18 goals.

Career

Oberliga and Regionalliga Südwest, 1957 to 1964

May played for Eintracht Trier from 1957 to 1961 in what was then the first-class Southwest football league . The man on the right wing came in four rounds for the team from the Mosel Stadium to 89 appearances in the Oberliga Südwest and scored 34 goals. In the last year of half-striker Günter Herrmann , 1957/58, May made his debut on December 29, 1957, in the away game against FV Speyer in the league. By the end of the round there were three more league appearances against Eintracht Kreuznach, Mainz 05 and TuS Neuendorf on the side of goalkeeper routinist Walter Butscheid . From 1958/59 he formed together with Paul Pidancet the right wing of the blue-white-black and belonged to the main team of the Eintracht in the league. He was a dangerous right winger in the World Cup system that was practiced at the time and was equipped with exceptional shooting power. In the first half of the 1959/60 season he was appointed to the U-23 national team by national coach Sepp Herberger . He stormed in the DFB selection on November 7, 1959 in Mikolc in the international match against Hungary at the side of the attackers Alfred Horn , Heinz Strehl , Bernhard Steffen and Dieter Backhaus . On November 18, he represented the colors of the southwest selection in the game in Saarbrücken against southern Germany; likewise on March 19, 1960 in Ludwigshafen during the game against northern Germany. On April 26, 1960, May stormed on the wing of a youth team of the DFB in a test match in Karlsruhe against a selection from southern Germany. For the 1961/62 season he joined with club mate Pidancet Borussia Neunkirchen.

He was a member of Borussia Neunkirchen in the Oberliga Südwest since 1961 . In the last two rounds of the old league first class from 1961 to 1963 May came to 47 league appearances, in which he scored 25 goals. On March 21, 1962 in Saarbrücken, national coach Herberger carried out an internal test match between two DFB selection teams A against B in front of 40,000 spectators. May stormed the right wing in selection B, which lost the game with 4: 5 goals. Neunkirchen won the championship in the southwest in the first season with May on the wing, 1961/62 . “Das Schalke des Südwestens” had a dangerous attack with the players May (28-19), Pidancet (29-11), Rudi Dörrenbächer (30-27), Karl Ringel (25-7) and Günter Kuntz (23-17) had to show.

Since his club Borussia Neunkirchen did not belong to the new Bundesliga for the 1963/64 season, May completed this round in the Southwest Regional Football League with the Ellenfeldstadion team . In the championship a close three-way battle developed between Neunkirchen, FK Pirmasens and Wormatia Worms. In the second half of the season, Neunkirchen prevailed at the beginning of April 1964 with a 3-1 home win against the eventual runner-up from Pirmasens and also won the duel on April 19 at Wormatia with a 1-0 victory and thus won the championship . May had scored 24 goals in 35 league appearances. Borussia President Norbert Engel and the chairman of the game committee Kurt Gluding had a bad start into the promotion round with a 1: 5 defeat on June 6th. May paused in the sensational 2-0 win against FC Bayern Munich with an outstanding goalkeeper Willi Ertz . On the last day of the promotion round, the teams from Neunkirchen and Tasmania 1900 Berlin, who had the same number of points, met in Neunkirchen. With a goal in the tenth minute, May decided the match and thus promotion to the Bundesliga.

Bundesliga, 1964 to 1967

The Bundesliga debut took the Saarlanders to 1. FC Nürnberg on August 22, 1964. At halftime it was 0-0. In the last ten minutes, the "club" decided the game with two hits. May and colleagues also lost the next two matches and thus graced the end of the table with 0: 6 points before the fourth match day, September 12, 1964. In front of 25,000 spectators, the team of coach Horst Buhtz prevailed against HSV with 3-1 goals. May had fired a penalty kick in the 37th minute "with a tremendous thump under the crossbar." His guard Jürgen Kurbjuhn was sent off after repeated foul play in the 85th minute. Several times the goalscorer May's goals were also points gains for the newcomer. He distinguished himself as the winning goal scorer in the 1-0 win against Karlsruher SC and as a two-time scorer in the 2-0 win in the second leg at Hamburger SV on January 23, 1965. His goals in the games against the "Club" and the reigning German champions 1. FC Köln each resulted in a 1-1 draw in the second half of the season. At the end of the round he had played all 30 competitive games and scored twelve goals. Internally, Günter Kuntz and Heinz Simmet followed tied with seven goals each, followed by newcomer Günter Heiden with five goals. In the second Bundesliga year, 1965/66, Neunkirchen could not repeat this performance. As 17th in the table, May and colleagues were relegated to the regional league. May had played 51 games for Borussia and scored 18 goals in the two years.

After Neunkirchen's relegation from the Bundesliga in 1966, May was signed by Hamburger SV . Other newcomers to the HSV team, led by Technical Director Georg Knöpfle and trained by Josef Schneider , were Hans Schulz and Hans-Jürgen Hellfritz . May had had an operation on the meniscus of his right knee just before his engagement. In the 0-1 home defeat on September 17, 1966, he made his debut for HSV in the Bundesliga. His attack colleagues were Bernd Dörfel , Manfred Pohlschmidt , Harry Behre and Gert Dörfel . Eight days later he was there in the 1: 5 defeat at Werder Bremen before the permanent knee problems caused a break until February 11, 1967. The home game against RW Essen in February 1967 was his last game in professional football. In March 1967 he underwent another operation; now the meniscus has been removed from both knees. At the end of December 1967, May's contract with Hamburger SV was terminated. In 1998 he was still fighting for recognition as a sports invalid.

May later worked as an innkeeper in Gran Canaria .

literature

• 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 .
• Werner Skrentny, Jens Reimer Prüß : With the diamond in the heart. The great history of Hamburger SV. Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2008, ISBN 978-3-89533-620-1 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Profile on kicker.de
2. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from October 17, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on October 14, 2013) 

Web links

• Elmar May in the database of fussballdaten.de
• Elmar May in the database of weltfussball.de
• Elmar May in the database of the German Football Association