Erich Juskowiak

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Erich Juskowiak (born September 7, 1926 in Oberhausen , † July 1, 1983 in Düsseldorf ) was a German football player . From 1947 to 1961 he played a total of 251 competitive games for the Rot-Weiß Oberhausen and Fortuna Düsseldorf clubs in what was then the first-class football Oberliga West and scored 39 goals, mostly on the defensive. In the German national soccer team he came as a defender in the then practiced World Cup system from 1951 to 1959 to 31 missions in which he scored four goals and took part in the 1958 World Cup in Sweden. Because of its enormous shooting power, it was called "hammer".

career

societies

Youth, Oberliga and 2. Liga West

In Alt-Oberhausen , in the youth of Concordia Lirich, the student Juskowiak began his career as a footballer in 1935. In the middle of World War II , he stormed for the VfR 08 Oberhausen . Juskowiak was then drafted into the Wehrmacht and suffered several wounds, including a head shot. After the end of the war he joined the SC Rot-Weiß Oberhausen , the Lower Rhine champion of 1946.

In the newly introduced Oberliga West Juskowiak made his debut in the "Kleeblatt-Elf" on the second round matchday, September 21, 1947, in a 2-0 home win against VfR Cologne. In front of 15,000 spectators he played in defense in front of goalkeeper Willy Jürissen , while the driving forces behind the attack were Werner Stahl on right winger and center forward Werner Günther . The newcomer completed 19 association games in the 13th season. In his third league year, 1949/50, he took eleventh place with RW Oberhausen - now the championship was played in a 16-man season - and had scored seven goals in 25 league games. On October 9, 1949, he scored the 1-0 opening goal after just ten seconds at the home game against Hamborn 07. He played on half left in the inner storm and also scored the second goal to the 2-1 success. After a total of 64 league games (7 goals), he joined SSV Wuppertal 04 in the 2nd West League in the summer of 1950 for professional reasons .

With the team from the Elberfeld stadium, he rose in 1950/51 at the side of player-coach Herbert Pohl but not in the Oberliga West. It was enough behind champions and promoted Bayer 04 Leverkusen to runner-up, but in the relegation games the Wuppertal team only finished third behind Alemannia Aachen and Schwarz-Weiß Essen , which did not entitle them to promotion. Juskowiak had scored five goals in 28 second division games.

After a season in the Bergisches Land, he moved back to the Lower Rhine; he played from the 1951/52 season again for Rot-Weiß Oberhausen, which was relegated to the 2nd division. With the team from the Niederrhein stadium , however, he did not succeed in making the intended return to the top division. In the first year, 1951/52, he landed in third place with 17 goals from striker Willi Demski with RWO, in the second year, 1952/53, with eleventh place, the promotion was clearly missed. Juskowiak - he had made his debut in the national soccer team as a second division player on December 23, 1951 - had played 57 competitive games for Oberhausen in two rounds in the second division West and scored seven goals. For the 1953/54 season he accepted the offer from Fortuna Düsseldorf from the Oberliga West and moved to the state capital of North Rhine-Westphalia, where he was also given a job at the Rheinbahn.

Fortuna Dusseldorf

In the 1953/54 season, at the end of which the World Cup in 1954 was held in Switzerland, the man from Oberhausen started his real career in the Oberliga West after a three-year interlude in the 2nd division. He scored twelve goals in 27 league games in his first year at Fortuna. But he was not only used as a defender; his shooting power, headball strength and both feet were often used on the offensive. For example, he scored on the fifth match day, September 13, 1953, in a 3-0 home win against Meidericher SV as a center forward two goals. Despite teammates like goalkeeper Anton Turek , Matthias Mauritz and the pair of twins Karl and Martin Gramminger , the red-whites only finished tenth under the new coach Kuno Klötzer .

His personal performance was rewarded with the appointment of national coach Sepp Herberger for the international match on December 19, 1954 in Lisbon against Portugal. After a break of almost three years, he was able to continue his international career with his second international match in the senior national team. With Fortuna, he finished sixth in the league three times in a row in 1955, 1956 and 1957. In the 1958/59 season, the third place achieved the best placement, but tied with runners-up 1. FC Köln, they missed the finals of the German soccer championship. Juskowiak and his colleagues lost the decisive game for the runner-up on April 5, 1959 in front of 56,000 spectators in the local Rheinstadion against 1. FC Köln 3: 4. Thus, the Cologne equalized on the 28th matchday the narrow point lead of Fortuna and moved through the better goal difference in the final round; the 5-0 away win of the Flinger Broich team on matchday 30 at Meidericher SV didn't change that.

The two runners-up in the German Cup in the years 1957 and 1958 provide for Juskowiak with Fortuna Dusseldorf the largest club success is when. 1: 0 semi-final victory on 24 November 1957 in Hanover against Hamburger SV HSV-offensive failed to Uwe Seeler at Goalkeeper Albert Görtz , the defender couple Mauritz - Juskowiak, as well as the Fortuna runner row with Herbert Bayer , Günter Jäger and Gerhard Harpers . The final was lost 0-1 against FC Bayern Munich in Augsburg in front of 44,000 spectators. Juskowiak was mainly challenged by the duels with Gerhard Siedl and Kurt Sommerlatt on the right wing of the Munich team. The second DFB Cup final, on November 16, 1958 in Kassel against VfB Stuttgart, ended after 90 minutes with a 3-3 draw. In extra time, coach Georg Wurzer's team prevailed with a goal from center forward Lothar Weise . Here, too, Fortuna national defender Juskowiak, with Erwin Waldner and Rolf Geiger on the right wing of VfB, had to deal with colleagues from the national team.

After the surprising relegation from the Oberliga of Fortuna Düsseldorf in the 1959/60 season to the 2nd League West, the 34-year-old senior completed nine rounds in the 1960/61 season in the 2nd division under coach Fritz Pliska . His frustrated leaving the field during the current game on March 5, 1961 at the home game against VfB Bottrop - the long-time high performer was insulted by a spectator - is often cited as the "inglorious end of Juskowiak's playing career" in literature. In fact, he ended his career on the third match day of the 1961/62 league round, August 20, 1961, at Tivoli against Alemannia Aachen, in a 2-1 away win. Symptomatic of his broad-based footballing opportunities, which were not limited to tackling strength, powerful header game and outstanding defensive shooting power, he acted on half-left in midfield at his farewell performance, alongside offensive teammates Bernhard Steffen , Franz-Josef Wolfframm , Peter Meyer and Heinz Janssen.

His outstanding ability in what was then the Oberliga West performance class was good athleticism, bipedalism, hit security, tackling strength, positional and header play, shooting power in connection with long kicks and the specialty as a free-kick and penalty-kick taker as well as his calm and overview in competition Confrontation and probation in the duels in the league games against the then greats of the winger scene in person by Helmut Rahn , Bernhard Klodt , Felix Gerritzen , Wolfgang Peters and Willi Koslowski played a key role in his development as a top player in addition to his talent and training morale.

After the league debut on September 21, 1947 at Rot-Weiß Oberhausen, Juskowiak finished on August 20, 1961, after a total of 251 league appearances (39 goals) and 94 competitive games (12 goals) in the 2nd division west and nine years of membership in the national team at 31 International matches (4 goals) and a world championship tournament - three weeks before his 35th birthday - his 13-year career in the upper house of football.

National team

Sepp Herberger

Erich Juskowiak's national team career officially began with his international debut on December 23, 1951 in Essen against Luxembourg. In fact, the hour struck for him in the DFB selection in the months after the 1954 World Cup in Switzerland, three years after his debut. Due to illnesses, form crises and the age of some of the "54 World Champions", national coach Sepp Herberger was forced to build a new team for the 1958 World Cup in Sweden. After Leinemann, Herberger soon realized - after the international match on October 17, 1954 in Paris against France - that Kohlmeyer had to be replaced by Juskowiak and that Herkenrath would have to play for Turek. In the 1955/56 season, the Dusseldorf player wore the DFB dress in six, 1956/57 in seven and in 1957/58 in nine - including five World Cup matches - international matches. He was an undisputed regular player of the Herberger-Elf and this despite crises and far more defeats than successes of the reigning world champions in the interim period before the next soccer world championship.

The highlight of the preparatory international matches for the World Cup tournament in Sweden was the game on March 19, 1958 in Frankfurt against Spain. 81,000 spectators formed the framework in the Waldstadion. National coach Herberger trusted for the first time with the line-up Fritz Herkenrath (goalkeeper), the defender couple Georg Stollenwerk - Juskowiak and the runners Horst Eckel , Herbert Erhardt and Horst Szymaniak on his defense formation during the tournament days in June in Sweden. The 2-0 success against the Spanish offensive series with Miguel, Kubala, di Stefano, Suarez and Collar confirmed the correctness of the definition of this defensive formation.

In the games against international greats such as Boris Tatushin (Soviet Union), Charles Antenen (Switzerland), Armand Jurion (Belgium) and Miguel Gonzales Perez (Spain), he had already proven his international class before the 1958 World Cup in Sweden. In the World Cup tournament itself, the left defender had to prove himself against Omar Corbatta (Argentina), Vaclav Hovorka (Czechoslovakia), Billy Bingham (Northern Ireland), Aleksandar Petakovic (Yugoslavia) and Kurt Hamrin (Sweden). The defending champion convinced in the group matches and prevailed in the quarter-finals with a 1-0 win against the playful Yugoslavia after a "78-minute defensive battle". The German defensive had to bear the brunt of this and “Jus” prevented another hit from the two-time Yugoslav scorer in the group games, Petakovic, with a “great game”.

Tactical line-up for the 1958 World Cup semi-final

The semi-finals in Gothenburg on June 24th are considered to be one of the greatest scandalous games in football history. The game was moved from Stockholm to the Ullevi Stadium in Gothenburg at short notice . The German delegation was forced to move unexpectedly; concentrated preparation was hardly possible under these circumstances. Isolated physical attacks and verbal hostility against many German tourists, who were also refused entry tickets, overshadowed the game long before kick-off. Juskowiak became a "tragic figure" in his 25th international match. The Hungarian referee Istvan Zsolt (1921-1991) made several decisions in favor of the Swedes. When the score was 1: 1, Juskowiak defeated Kurt Hamrin in the 60th minute - Zsolt had not punished his multiple fouls - a foul of revenge. Referee Zsolt sent the Düsseldorf player off the field, the DFB selection lost in the final minutes - with nine players, as Fritz Walter had to be carried off the pitch in the 75th minute after a foul by his guard Parling - after goals from Gren (81.) and Hamrin (88th) with 1: 3 goals. Since then, Juskowiak has been synonymous with the failure of the German team in Sweden. Since then, when he is named, one inevitably thinks of one situation: his expulsion at the 1958 World Cup in Sweden and how Hans Schäfer and Fritz Walter lead the completely dissolved teammate off the field after minutes of protest. And Sepp Herberger did not look at him. Leinemann also notes that Herberger "stubbornly looked past Juskowiak, who was leaving the place with his head hanging". He couldn't find a gesture for the man who had lost his nerve for a tenth of a second and was now the most unhappy of all footballers. The national coach criticized him with the words, "It was not his job to punish his opponent for a foul".

Juskowiak later reported: “The bad thing at the time was that after the scandal nobody talked to me anymore. In the evening at the banquet it was downright embarrassing because of all things the Sweden game was my 25th international game. With an icy smile they presented me with the silver badge of honor. It was like a funeral. As if they let me down very slowly in a coffin. As if it was my sole fault that Germany couldn't become world champions. "

After apologizing to national coach Herberger, he was nominated for six more international matches. Among them was the only international call for his club mate Matthias Mauritz on May 20, 1959 in Hamburg against Poland and the convincing 7-0 success on October 21, 1959 in Cologne against the Netherlands. Afterwards, “Jus” received a letter from Herberger with the praise: “I would like to have the 'Erich' from last Sunday for our national team for many years to come.” In fact, on November 8, 1959 in Budapest in front of 90,000 spectators, the man from Düsseldorf played for the last time against Hungary Time the national jersey. In the 3: 4 defeat, the German defense with goalkeeper Hans Tilkowski , the defender couple Stollenwerk - Juskowiak, as well as the runners Helmut Benthaus , Erhardt and Szymaniak started against the Hungarian offensive around Flórián Albert and Lajos Tichy . After 31 international appearances, the international career of the 33-year-old "Hammer" Juskowiak was over. With Karl-Heinz Schnellinger , the national coach already had a young player with great prospects.

Personal

Gravestone Erich Juskowiak

After moving to Düsseldorf in 1953, the trained plumber worked for the Rheinbahn for two years, after which he took over a tobacco shop, before he brokered contracts for a building society two years later. The employment continued as managing director of a cleaning company before he finally found his livelihood with his son Horst in the steel industry. From 1970 to 1972, his son played 39 league games at VfR Neuss in what was then the second -rate regional football league.

Neither the dismissal in Gothenburg nor the inglorious departure from Fortuna caused Erich Juskowiak to retire completely from public life. He stood before the court in 1962 and 1964 for "causing public nuisance" and was sentenced to six months' imprisonment by the Düsseldorf juvenile court, suspended for five years. After that, he was never seen on the football scene again.

In 1982 there was a reconciliation meeting with his opponent at the time, Kurt Hamrin . Juskowiak died on July 1, 1983 at the age of 56 from a heart attack at the wheel of his car. His grave is in the forest cemetery of Ratingen-Lintorf .

literature

  • Werner Skrentny (Ed.): Extension - the other football magazine. Publishers: AGON, Kassel and Klartext, Essen. no year ISSN  0948-4590 . Pp. 22-29.
  • Raphael Keppel : Germany's international football matches. Documentation from 1908–1989. Sport- und Spielverlag Hitzel, Hürth 1989, ISBN 3-9802172-4-8 .
  • Harald Landefeld, Achim Nöllenheidt (ed.): Helmut, tell me dat Tor ... New stories and portraits from the Oberliga West 1947–1963. Klartext, Essen 1993, ISBN 3-88474-043-1 , pp. 21-26.
  • Jürgen Bitter : Germany's national soccer player: the lexicon . SVB Sportverlag, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-328-00749-0 .
  • Michael Bolten, Marco Langer: Everything else is just football. The story of Fortuna Düsseldorf. Publishing house Die Werkstatt. Göttingen 2005. ISBN 978-3-89533-711-6 .
  • Lorenz Knieriem, Hardy Grüne : Player Lexicon 1890 - 1963 . In: Encyclopedia of German League Football . tape 8 . AGON, Kassel 2006, ISBN 3-89784-148-7 , p. 178-179 .
  • Fritz Tauber: German national football team: Player statistics from A to Z . 3. Edition. AGNON, Kassel 2012, ISBN 978-3-89784-397-4 (176 pages).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Matthias Arnhold: Erich Juskowiak - Matches and Goals in Oberliga . RSSSF . June 8, 2017. Retrieved June 12, 2017.
  2. ^ Jürgen Leinemann: Sepp Herberger. One life, one legend. Rowohlt Publishing House. Berlin 1997. ISBN 3-87134-285-8 . P. 358.
  3. ↑ Hardy Greens: Football World Cup Encyclopedia. 1930-2006. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2002, ISBN 3-89784-205-X , p. 151.
  4. ↑ Werner Skrentny (Ed.): Extension. No. 2. p. 23.
  5. ↑ Jennifer Striewski: Erich Juskowiak, biography in the portal Rheinische Geschichte
  6. ↑ a b Werner Skrentny (Ed.): Extension. No. 2. p. 24.
  7. ^ Jürgen Leinemann: Sepp Herberger. One life, one legend. Rowohlt Publishing House. Berlin 1997. ISBN 3-87134-285-8 . P. 383.
  8. ↑ This semi-final was hell , einestages.spiegel.de.
  9. ^ Jürgen Leinemann: Sepp Herberger. One life, one legend. Rowohlt Publishing House. Berlin 1997. ISBN 3-87134-285-8 . P. 388.
  10. ^ Matthias Arnhold: Erich Juskowiak - International Appearances . RSSSF . June 8, 2017. Retrieved June 12, 2017.
  11. ↑ Bolten, Langer: Everything else is just football. The story of Fortuna Düsseldorf. P. 124.
  12. ^ Jürgen Bitter: Germany's national soccer player. The encyclopedia. P. 223.
  13. ↑ 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 , p. 233.
  14. ↑ Werner Skrentny (Ed.): Extension. No. 2. pp. 26/27.
personal data
SURNAME Juskowiak, Erich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES hammer
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH September 7, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Oberhausen
DATE OF DEATH July 1, 1983
Place of death Dusseldorf