Ferdinand Wenauer

Ferdinand "Nandl" Wenauer (born April 26, 1939 in Nuremberg ; † July 27, 1992 ) was a German national soccer player and two-time German champion with 1. FC Nürnberg .

He took his first steps as a footballer in the youth of ASV Nürnberg-Süd. His father, who was a detective by profession, was a youth leader there. At the age of 15, the then club youth leader Andreas Weiß brought “Nandl” into the hands of the successful youth coach Fritz Kreißel . Growing out of youth, the Austrian old international Franz "Bimbo" Binder took over the further formation of the hopeful stopper talent . In the 1960/61 season , the new coach Herbert Widmayer won the German championship against Borussia Dortmund . In the final in particular, “Nandl” showed his class as head of defense when he gave Borussia's striker Jürgen Schütz no chance and took him completely out of the game. As the defending champion, they moved back into the final in 1962, but 1. FC Köln was safe with a clear 4-0 victory. Nevertheless, another title came to Nuremberg in 1962, when the "Club" won the DFB Cup in the Noris against Fortuna Düsseldorf . More than just a downer for the class stopper was the fact that national coach Sepp Herberger was not considered for the 1962 World Cup in Chile.

In the final game before the tournament, the international match on April 11, 1962 in Hamburg against Uruguay , in a convincing 3-0 win, he confidently held the national team's defense together. A weak game in the final against 1. FC Cologne on May 12th brought the decision for Cologne's Leo Wilden and the end for Wenauer. In the national team , he only made four appearances.

By the end of the Oberliga Süd in 1963, he had 141 games to book. In the Bundesliga , which began in 1963, things did not go as expected for his “club”, and Nuremberg had nothing to do with the championships. The consistent stopper Wenauer and the goal-threatening center forward Strehl could not change that. Only when the master maker of TSV 1860 Munich , Max Merkel , swung the scepter in Nuremberg, did success return. In the 1967/68 round , "Nandl" Wenauer celebrated winning the second German championship. He directed the strong defense in front of the goalkeeper Wabra , allowed the opponents only 37 goals against in the club with Leupold , Popp , Ludwig Müller and Ferschl .

After the triumph came the crash. As defending champion, the "Club" was relegated from the Bundesliga in 1969. Wenauer played 168 times in the Bundesliga for 1. FC Nürnberg. Then he came on 94 missions in the Regionalliga Süd. The rise did not succeed in his active time. In total, he is listed with 706 games for his "club". He was always loyal to the Franks. At the beginning of the sixties even the big Real Madrid asked him to find a successor for Santamaria without any results.

After his active time, the trained book printer devoted himself to his stationery shop in the Äußere Laufer Gasse in Nuremberg. He played for three years between 1972 and 1975 at the neighboring 1. FC Herzogenaurach , then he coached the Nuremberg district club TSV Altenfurt and SpVgg Jahn Forchheim . Later he also worked for the Middle Franconian national division club FSV Bad Windsheim. He also trained the amateurs of the "club".

The Nuremberg international was only 53 years old - he died on July 27, 1992 of heart failure.

In the Frankenstadion, block 17 c is named after Wenauer.

Web links

• Biography on glubberer.de
• Ferdinand Wenauer in the database of fussballdaten.de