Erwin Metzger

Erwin Metzger (born July 27, 1939 in Augsburg ) is a former German soccer player who played 20 games in the Bundesliga with Karlsruher SC from 1963 to 1966 , scoring 4 goals.

Career, 1954 to 1976

Swabia Augsburg, 1954 to 1963

From the B youth, Erwin Metzger wore the TSV Schwaben Augsburg jersey . The young striker, who had just come from his youth, made his first experiences in the senior team in the 1957/58 round, when the Swabians were relegated from the 2nd division south . It was followed in 1959 by the championships in the 1st amateur league in southern Bavaria and in 1960 in northern Bavaria. After the second championship title, Metzger and his teammates were also successful in the promotion round against the amateurs from VfB Stuttgart, SpVgg 05 Bad Homburg and Phönix Mannheim and thus returned to the 2nd League South. The climber took the momentum into the second division and immediately won the runner-up behind local rivals BC Augsburg (with Helmut Haller ) and thus belonged to the 1961/62 round of the Oberliga Süd .

In the 1962 world championship year, Schwaben Augsburg could just keep the class with 13th place. Metzger had played 26 games with 11 goals. He played his first game in the Oberliga Süd on August 6, 1961 in the 2-4 defeat on the Bieberer Berg against Kickers Offenbach . The two duels against local rivals BCA decided the team of coach Georg Lechner senior each in their favor. The second round match on January 28, 1962 decided Erwin Metzger with his goal in the 16th minute to 1-0. In the last league year 1962/63, the Swabian Elf ranked 15th and Metzger was used in 24 games with 12 goals. Together with Georg Lechner junior - he played 60 games with 28 goals in the two rounds - Metzger led the internal goalscorer list with 23 hits. Karlsruher SC, nominated for the new Bundesliga football league, made Erwin Metzger a contract offer for the 1963/64 round, whereupon the player broke up his tents in Augsburg and moved to Karlsruhe.

Karlsruher SC, 1963 to 1966

Erwin Metzger belongs to the group of players who, on August 24, 1963, on the start day of the new league, co-founded the era of the Bundesliga as an active player. KSC welcomed Meidericher SV , who was "nameless" in the south, in front of 40,000 spectators in the Wildpark Stadium and was led into the new age of top German football with 1: 4 goals. The team of trainer Kurt Sommerlatt took on the storm with the players Metzger, Josef Marx , Otto Geisert , Siegfried Stark and Horst Wild and was clearly inferior to the guest in terms of running and tactics - the accordion system of trainer Rudi Gutendorf . In the 38th minute, the newcomer from Augsburg not only scored the 3-1 goal for the hosts, but also scored the first Bundesliga goal for Karlsruhe. The multi-week trip around the world after the top division round in 1962/63 with games in Asia, New Zealand, the South Pacific and the United States of America had cost more energy and substance than the KSC planners in the preview of the new Bundesliga, in addition to the important personnel policy of the Departures and newcomers. The recovery phase was short in order to be optimally equipped for the new round with significantly stronger competition through the preparatory training. KSC just managed to stay in the league with 13th place and Metzger had scored four goals in 18 games. At the start of the second Bundesliga round in 1964/65, the Baden team was able to take revenge against Meiderich. With 2: 1 goals, the KSC started the new round with Erwin Metzger in the attack. On the second game day a 1-1 draw on August 29, 1964 at Schalke 04 followed. In Gelsenkirchen, Horst-Dieter Berking , Otto Geisert, Metzger, Klaus-Peter Jendrosch and Hans Cieslarczyk formed the attack of the team from the Wildpark Stadium. For Erwin Metzger, a knee injury dealt with at first meant a lengthy break in play and later painful comeback attempts that all failed and finally after the round of 1965/66 - without commitment - led to sports disability.

FC Nöttingen, 1966 to 1976

During the one and a half year ban , Erwin Metzger worked as a trainer for the B division club FC Nöttingen . As a player-coach, he then rose every three years to the 2nd amateur league in Central Baden and ended his activity in 1976 at the age of 37.

Next to the square

The trained wholesale salesman, who last worked in the insurance industry in the field, still lives today (2008) as a pensioner with family in Nöttingen.

Individual evidence

1. ^ First Bundesliga club for the Karlsruher SC

literature

• 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 .
• Ulrich Merk, André Schulin: Bundesliga chronicle 1963/64. Volume 1: Triumphal procession of the billy goats. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2004, ISBN 3-89784-083-9 .
• Up, heroes! Verlag Block eins, No. 09, Karlsruhe, 2008, page 28
• Wildlife Park Live 07/08, No. 5, September 23, 2008, Karlsruhe, page 49