Franz Schäffner

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Franz Schäffner (born October 29, 1942 ) is a former German soccer player . From 1965 to 1968, the center forward played 90 games in three rounds for VfR Mannheim in what was then the second -rate regional soccer league and scored 74 goals.

career

The young offensive player finished sixth with his hometown club FV Hockenheim 08 in the 1962/63 season in the 1st Amateur League North Baden . On July 27, 1963, he was a member of the FV team that won the Badischer Pokal in Schwetzingen with a 3-2 win after extra time against ASV Feudenheim . In the 1-0 title defense in the cup competition on June 18, 1964, again against Feudenheim, he distinguished himself as the winning goal scorer. On May 16, 1965 he was in the attack of the North Baden amateur selection in the representative game against the southwest selection. For the 1965/66 round, the striker from Hockenheim signed a contract with VfR Mannheim to compensate for the departure of top scorer Rudolf Bast in the Regionalliga Süd.

The assertive attacker with a great shot immediately became the goalscorer of VfR Mannheim. He made his debut on the first round match day, on August 15, 1965, in the away game against SV Darmstadt 98, in the Regionalliga. In the 2-4 defeat of the blue-white-reds, he also scored his first goal in the regional league. The lawn players finished 12th at the end of the round and Schäffner had scored 20 goals alongside fellow players Hans Benzler (goalkeeper), Hans-Jürgen Wäckerle , Karl-Heinz Kott , Günter Rehbein and Wolfgang Platz . With the new VfR coach Oswald Pfau and the newcomers Klaus Beckfeld and Jürgen Schult , the next two rounds went into the first third of the table; the lawn players ranked fifth in 1967 and sixth in 1968 in the south. An essential guarantee for the good performance were the goals scored by the duty scorer, Franz Schäffner. With 26 and 27 goals, respectively, he made it to the top of the southern goalscorer list. In three years at VfR Mannheim, he was by far the most successful goalscorer at VfR.

For the 1968/69 round he accepted the offer from the Bundesliga and moved to TSV 1860 Munich . The offensive players Hans Küppers , Rudi Brunnenmeier and Ludwig Bründl had to be replaced at the German champions of 1966 . The "Löwen" tried it with the obligations of the former international striker Jürgen Schütz and the talents Klaus Fischer , Hans Linsenmaier and Franz Schäffner. On the first round match day, August 17, 1968, the man from Mannheim made his debut in the away game against VfB Stuttgart in the Bundesliga. Together with Klaus Fischer, in the 1-1 draw, he formed the top attacking team of the “Löwen” eleven, supervised by coach Albert Sing . By the sixth matchday, September 14, 1968, when 1860 Munich won the home game against 1. FC Nürnberg with 2-0 goals, Schäffner had made five Bundesliga appearances. In the 32nd minute he had to be replaced due to an injury. He was out for four months due to meniscus damage and tried to return to the Bundesliga at the end of January 1969 / February 1969. After his eighth Bundesliga appearance on February 22, 1969, in a 3-0 defeat in the second leg in Nuremberg, his career was finally over. In the summer of 1969 he was declared a sports disabled person.

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personal data
SURNAME Schäffner, Franz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH October 29, 1942