Fredy Mutz

Fredy Mutz
Personnel
Surname	Alfred Mutz
birthday	March 15, 1926
place of birth	Remscheid ,  German Empire
date of death	April 15, 2001
Place of death	Leverkusen ,  Germany
position	goalkeeper
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1941-1949	Spvg Remscheid 07
1949-1951	VfB Marathon Remscheid
1951-1961	Bayer 04 Leverkusen	281 (0)
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
	BV Wiesdorf
1 Only league games are given.

Alfred "Fredy" Mutz (born March 15, 1926 in Remscheid ; † April 15, 2001 in Leverkusen ) was a German football player and functionary.

First steps

The future goalkeeper, registered as Alfred Mutz in the birth register, was born in Remscheid as the son of the chairman of a local gymnastics club. The father, who wanted his son and his brothers to be enthusiastic about gymnastics, was critical of his enthusiasm for football and burned Fredy's first two pairs of football boots.

At the age of 15, thanks to a special permit, Mutz played for the first team of Spvg Remscheid 07 from the summer of 1941 and for the first time in the city selection at the age of 17, where as a minor he ousted the experienced Willi Helduser, who was also a representative in the team of the West German Sports Association had stood between the posts. Mutz himself recommended himself for the Niederrhein selection. In addition, he was in two competitive games for the handball department of his home club in goal.

Player career

In 1949 Mutz switched to the second-class VfB Marathon Remscheid . With the club he also made guest appearances at his later club at the Leverkusen stadium in the city park . So he recommended himself to move to SV Bayer 04 in 1951 .

As a goalkeeper, Mutz was one of the pillars and captain of the team of the Bayer 04 Leverkusen sports association in the first-class Oberliga West , which just missed out on the final round of the German championship in 1955. A year later, Mutz surprisingly relegated to the second division with the Werkself .

Despite attractive offers from top German clubs such as 1. FC Kaiserslautern , FC Schalke 04 , 1. FC Köln and Rot-Weiss Essen , Mutz and his club started the path to the second division, from which the SVB only came a year after his career ended rose again to the first-class league.

Important Bayer 04 goalkeepers (partition in the BayArena hotel)

Mutz played 281 league games and, according to the club, was said to have been in goal for the Werkself in 528 games before he was replaced by the future national goalkeeper and scandal player Manfred Manglitz .

Apart from four appearances in the western selection and one international B match against Luxembourg, Mutz was not considered in the national team due to the strong competition from Toni Turek and Heinrich Kwiatkowski . Since Mutz had slapped the referee in the game for Marathon Remscheid against VfL Lennep in 1947, his name was marked with a red question mark in national coach Sepp Herberger's notebook . An initially pronounced lifelong ban was converted into a one-year ban by the chairman of the DFB game committee in an amnesty procedure. Mutz, who didn't see a single yellow card in his career after that, was apparently unable to correct the bad impression on the national coach.

Work after your career

Mutz, who was counted among the best German goalkeepers in the 1950s, remained loyal to the club even after his career. After his active career, he worked as a functionary in the club and as a trainer for the neighboring BV Wiesdorf. Before he actually retired, Mutz founded the traditional Bayer 04 Leverkusen team in 1959, which he headed for 30 years.

Mutz was buried with a Bayer 04 jersey and mascot

He remained connected to the club until his death and, as long as his health permitted, accompanied by his second wife Hanni, he visited the home and drove with old companions like Emil Becks to his club's away games. At the express request he had himself buried in a jersey with a club mascot at the Reuschenberg cemetery in Leverkusen next to his first wife Lore, who had already died in the 1970s.

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b c} Hajo Schroeder: Well-known and popular athletes (16): Fredy Mutz (Bayer Leverkusen) . In: KSTA . February 24, 1956.
2. ↑ Alex Feuerherdt : Bayer 04 Leverkusen - The Football Chronicle , Göttingen 2011, p. 28.
3. ↑ Fredy Mutz: An idol turned 70 . In: Stadion Kurier . No. 12 (95/96) , March 23, 1996, pp. 25 .
4. ↑ Fredy Mutz - An Idol turns 70, in Stadion Kurier No. 12 from the season 95/96., P. 25.
5. ↑ Goalkeeper legend Fredy Mutz is dead, in: Local Information, from April 19, 2001.
6. ↑ Krieger, Ralf: Carried to the grave in a jersey . In: Leverkusener Anzeiger (KSTA) . Leverkusen April 2001.