Ernst Traser

Ernst Traser (born January 4, 1953 in Darmstadt ) is a former German soccer player who made 23 appearances in the German national soccer team of amateurs from 1972 to 1978.

career

Kickers Offenbach, 1971 to 1973

Together with his twin brother Heinz , Ernst Traser from Wixhausen (near Darmstadt) came to the youth department of Kickers Offenbach . For the 1971/72 round, the OFC youth gave the Traser twins and Dieter Hochheimer a contract for the first team in the Regionalliga Süd . Since seasoned professionals switched to Bieberer Berg at the same time as Bockholt, Held, Kostedde, Meyer and Schmidradner, the opportunities for the young talents under coach Kuno Klötzer were manageable. Ernst, the strong and robust defender, made ten appearances in the regional league in the championship round and was substituted on three times in the successful promotion round of the Bundesliga in 1972. In the following two rounds in the Bundesliga , Ernst Traser only made nine appearances under coach Gyula Lóránt . Since no improvement could be seen in the missions, he moved with his brother Heinz, who only appeared twice for the OFC in the Bundesliga, in the winter break of the 1973/74 season to 1. FC Saarbrücken in the Regionalliga Südwest .

1. FC Saarbrücken, 1973 to 1985

Ernst Traser made his debut for the Saarlanders on December 23, 1973 in the Saarbrücken catch-up game at VfB Theley, where he was substituted as a starting eleven in the 63rd minute against his brother Heinz. With the Saarlanders, the Traser twins managed to qualify directly for the 2nd Bundesliga Group South as second in the table, but they finished last in their group in the last round of promotion to the 1st Bundesliga, with Ernst Traser being used in all games . At the side of his former teammate from Offenbach, Egon Schmitt , who had already joined Saarbrücken for the 1973/74 round, he was one of the defensive guarantors of 1. FC Saarbrücken for eleven years. When 1. FC Saarbrücken was able to celebrate the championship in the 2nd Bundesliga in 1975/76 and thus promotion, Ernst Traser, always enthusiastic, had played all 38 league games and also contributed five goals to promotion. In the first division from 1976 to 1978 24 games were added. After relegation, the Hesse in Saarland stayed with 1. FCS and thus made the descent in the 1980/81 season in the amateur Oberliga Südwest. Brother Heinz then moved to KSV Hessen Kassel and remained in the 2nd Bundesliga. Ernst, on the other hand, as a veteran in the 1982/83 season, helped the state capital to return to the 2nd Bundesliga by winning the championship in the southwest in front of FK Pirmasens and FC 08 Homburg . In the 1984/85 season he contributed ten missions to reaching the 3rd place in the table and thus to the opportunity through the relegation games against the third bottom of the Bundesliga to enable promotion to the first division. Ernst Traser defended Arminia Bielefeld in both games , both in the 2-0 win and in the 1-1 draw, and thus led 1. FC Saarbrücken into the Bundesliga for the second time since 1976. For round 1985/86 he let his active career at FCA 04 Darmstadt end in the Hessian amateur camp.

Amateur national team, 1972 to 1978

Together with his brother Heinz, Ernst Traser made his debut in the first international game of the DFB amateurs after the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich on December 6, 1972 in Hertogenbosch against Holland in the amateur national team. Like Heinz, he was also actively involved in the success of the 1974 UEFA Amateur Cup in Rijeka in April 1974 in the semi-final against Holland by transforming a penalty kick . Ernst completed all seven amateur international games held in 1974. In 1975, his commitment to the Olympic qualifying second leg in Barcelona against Spain and the trip to China in July stood out. With his 23rd assignment, he concluded his career in the amateur national team on September 26, 1978 in Bielefeld during the game against the PR China. It was also the farewell game of record national player Egon Schmitt, his long-time club and amateur national team colleague.

literature

• 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 .
• 25 years 2nd league, AGON, 2000, ISBN 3-89784145-2 .
• KICKER, Football Almanac 1993, Copress-Verlag, 1992, ISBN 3-7679-0398-9 .