Soccer World Cup 1962 / Germany

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This article deals with the German national soccer team at the 1962 World Cup in Chile .

qualification

The German team prevailed against Northern Ireland and Greece without losing points . The team achieved a historic success on October 26, 1960 in Belfast : never before had a national team from mainland Europe won in Northern Ireland.

rank country Gates Points
1 Germany Federal RepublicFederal Republic of Germany Germany 11: 5 8-0
2 Northern IrelandNorthern Ireland Northern Ireland 07: 8 2: 6
3 Kingdom of GreeceKingdom of Greece Greece 03: 8 2: 6
Date, city Stadion host guest Result Halftime score Gates
26th October 1960, Belfast Windsor Park Northern IrelandNorthern Ireland Northern Ireland Germany Federal RepublicFederal Republic of Germany Germany 3: 4 (1: 1) Goals: Brülls (7th), McAdams (27th, 57th, 90th), Seeler (53rd), Dörfel (55th, 79th)
November 20, 1960, Athens Panathinaic Stadium Kingdom of GreeceKingdom of Greece Greece Germany Federal RepublicFederal Republic of Germany Germany 0: 3 (0: 3) Goals: Dörfel (8th), Brülls (31st), Haller (42nd)
May 10, 1961, Berlin Olympic Stadium Germany Federal RepublicFederal Republic of Germany Germany Northern IrelandNorthern Ireland Northern Ireland 2: 1 (1: 0) Goals: Kreß (29th), Brülls (58th), McIlroy (69th)
October 22, 1961, Augsburg Rose Stadium Germany Federal RepublicFederal Republic of Germany Germany Kingdom of GreeceKingdom of Greece Greece 2: 1 (2: 0) Goals: Seeler (5th, 27th), Papaemmanouil (59th)

Contingent

At the beginning of 1962, the kicker readers voted for the so-called "Team of the People":
Tilkowski - Nowak , Schnellinger - Giesemann , Wilden , Szymaniak - Rahn , Brülls , Seeler , Haller , Dörfel .

Of these, Helmut Rahn (who now played for the Dutch sports club Enschede ) and Gert Dörfel (despite his qualification successes) were not at all in the team of the national coach, Tilkowski and Wilden were not used in Chile. Instead, national coach Sepp Herberger seriously thought of taking the 41-year-old Fritz Walter with him or at least being able to nominate him, which both the DFB and Walter himself rejected; In a letter he wrote to Walter after the World Cup, the coach regretted that he had not been able to assert himself on this issue and quoted the Swiss coach Karl Rappan , who had also advised him.

Number / name Association at the time birthday Caps / Goals (a) Sp. goal red
goalkeeper
22nd Wolfgang Fahrian TSG Ulm 46 05/31/1941 01 ( 00) 4th 0 0
21st Günter Sawitzki VfB Stuttgart 11/22/1932 09 ( 00) 0 0 0
1 Hans Tilkowski Westfalia Herne 07/12/1935 18 ( 00) 0 0 0
Defense
2 Herbert Erhardt SpVgg Fürth 07/06/1930 45 ( 01) 4th 0 0
15th Willi Giesemann FC Bayern Munich 09/02/1937 09 ( 00) 2 0 0
13 Jürgen Kurbjuhn Hamburger SV 07/26/1940 01 ( 00) 0 0 0
12 Hans Nowak FC Schalke 04 08/09/1937 03 ( 00) 4th 0 0
3 Karl-Heinz Schnellinger 1. FC Cologne March 31, 1939 20 ( 00) 4th 0 0
4th Willi Schulz FC Schalke 04 04/10/1938 08 ( 00) 4th 0 0
14th Jürgen Werner Hamburger SV 08/15/1935 02 ( 00) 0 0 0
5 Leo Wilden 1. FC Cologne 07/03/1936 06 ( 00) 0 0 0
midfield
10 Albert Brülls Borussia Monchengladbach 03/26/1937 18 ( 08) 4th 1 0
8th Helmut Haller BC Augsburg 07/21/1939 16 ( 04) 3 0 0
18th Günter Herrmann Karlsruher SC 09/11/1939 07 ( 01) 0 0 0
16 Hans Sturm 1. FC Cologne 09/03/1935 02 ( 00) 1 0 0
6th Horst Szymaniak Calcio Catania 08/29/1934 33 ( 00) 4th 1 0
attack
7th Willi Koslowski FC Schalke 04 02/17/1937 01 ( 01) 1 0 0
17th Engelbert Kraus Kickers Offenbach 07/30/1934 05 ( 01) 1 0 0
11 Hans Schäfer (C)Captain of the crew 1. FC Cologne October 19, 1927 35 (15) 4th 0 0
9 Uwe Seeler Hamburger SV 05/11/1936 30 (20) 4th 2 0
19th Heinz Strehl 1. FC Nuremberg 07/20/1938 00 ( 00) 0 0 0
20th Heinz Vollmar 1. FC Saarbrücken 04/26/1936 12 ( 03) 0 0 0
Trainer
  Sepp Herberger (national coach )   03/28/1897
  Helmut Schön ( assistant trainer )   September 15, 1915
(a) A international matches (international goals in brackets) before the start of the tournament

Games

Football World Cup 1962 / Germany (Chile)
Santiago de Chile (Q + VR + VF)
Santiago de Chile (Q + VR + VF)
Venues and district (Q)

Preliminary round

rank country Gates Points
1 Germany Federal RepublicFederal Republic of Germany Germany 4: 1 5: 1
2 ChileChile Chile 5: 3 4: 2
3 ItalyItaly Italy 3: 2 3: 3
4th SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland 2: 8 0: 6

Germany played in Group B.

Germany - Italy 0-0
Germany - Switzerland 2: 1 (1: 0)
Germany - Chile 2: 0 (1: 0)

Match reports

Germany - Italy
on May 31st at the Estadio Nacional in Santiago in front of 65,440 spectators, SR: Davidson (Scotland):

To the general surprise of the experts, the German goal was not the experienced Hans Tilkowski, but the young Wolfgang Fahrian, who was only playing his second international match.

The final score 0: 0 belies the true gameplay of time: while Herberger had set up the team only nominally in the 4-2-4 system, but in fact strengthened the defense and mustered only two real points, and Italy came into catenaccio -style with five defenders. However, the encounter was quite varied and with several chances on both sides: after 12 minutes it could have been 2-1 if Brülls, Seeler (crossbar) and Sívori had used their chances. In the further course, Fahrian had to clarify repeatedly, especially when Rivera came near the goal; on the other hand Haller still had a big chance, but his direct acceptance on pass from Schäfer missed the goal guarded by Lorenzo Buffon by inches.

However, as the game progressed, it became more and more an example of the unsportsmanlike nature and brutality that should characterize this World Cup so negatively. And even if in this respect Italy's Altafini ( playing for Brazil under the name Mazzola four years earlier in Sweden ) was particularly uncomfortable, it must be said that referee Davidson had several reasons on both sides to send players off. In the end, both opponents were satisfied with the draw - but that it would only benefit the Germans in the result was not foreseeable.

Switzerland - Germany
on June 3rd in the Estadio Nacional of Santiago in front of 64,920 spectators, SR: Horn (Netherlands):

Goals: 1-0 Brülls (45th) - 2-0 Seeler (60th), 2: 1 Heinz Schneiter (74th)

The day after the scandalous match between Italy and Chile, which was characterized by their overly tough pace, the Swiss and Germans tried to find a fairer pace. But there was a lot going on in this game: the loser barely had a chance to reach the quarter-finals, and the stakes were correspondingly high. Herberger had brought in Koslowski for Cologne's Hans Sturm, a third real striker, and Germany dominated the match in the first quarter of an hour. When Switzerland had to play for almost 15 minutes after a Szymaniak foul on Eschmann , the game slowly turned. Nevertheless, after half an hour of Seeler's long-range shot, the goalpost initially prevented the German lead before Brüll's goalkeeper defeated Elsener for the first time shortly before the break whistle. Towards the end of the first half Schnellinger injured his knee after Vonlanthen got on too hard , but he returned to the pitch after the restart, while the Swiss attacker Eschmann stayed in the dressing room and the Swiss ten (substitutions were not allowed in 1962) had to keep playing.
In the 60th minute, Uwe Seeler spitted an exemplary pass from Schäfer past the hopeless Karl Elsener into the goal and the game seemed decided. But the Swiss did not give up and were rewarded with Schneiter's goal after a weak defense by goalkeeper Fahrian. Then the Swiss had great opportunities to equalize, for example with Antenen's header shortly before the final
signal from referee Horn, but a brilliant reflex from goalkeeper Fahrian saved the narrow German victory, while the men of national coach Karl Rappan were already eliminated .

Chile - Germany
on June 6th in the Estadio Nacional of Santiago in front of 67,220 spectators, SR: Davidson (Scotland):

Goals: 1-0 Szymaniak (21st, FE) - 2-0 Seeler (82nd)

Both teams actually only needed one point from this game: Chile, already qualified for the quarter-finals, could then have continued to play in the capital, Germany also reached the round of the last eight teams. But then it did not come to a tactically determined game, but the clash developed into the best game of this preliminary group. The fact that the hosts were much more disciplined this time than in the "scandal game" against Italy and that the men in black and white did not have to fear too much for their health contributed to this. Chile coach Fernando Riera Bauza , who knew European football from his own experience (in the early 1950s he played for a while at Stade de Reims and FC Rouen ), was also confident: the offensive forces Jorge Toro and Alberto Fouilloux were injured out, but at least left winger Leonel Sánchez was allowed to play, because he had only received a reprimand, although the FIFA officials had watched the full length film of the tough game between Chile and Italy.

Herberger surprised the German public with two personnel changes compared to the Switzerland game (Giesemann and Kraus for Haller and Koslowski), which mainly criticized the lack of technically good Helmut Haller.
In the initial phase, the dense defensive bulwark, in which Schnellinger played an additional interceptor in front of the defense and Szymaniak had to work a lot backwards again - which left him little room to build up the game - to keep the hosts in check. Then, in one of the few German penalty box actions, Seeler was fouled and Szymaniak converted the penalty after deceiving goalkeeper Escuti. Up until the break, both teams had several chances without any countable results. The young Fahrian justified again at least on the goal line the trust Herberger had placed in him; In the penalty area, on the other hand, the kicker attested him "bad mistakes and insufficient fist defense".
In the second half Chile initially missed a great opportunity to equalize, then stormed against the German goal, but Nowak, Schulz and Erhardt proved to be insurmountable time and time again. And in the 80th minute only the goal frame prevented Landa from equalizing. The German offensive game was increasingly limited to the occasional counterattack; one of them led in the 82nd minute with a header from Seeler (after a cross from Brülls) to 2-0, which turned the game upside down, but Germany was the first in the group to save the way into the hot saltpeter desert of Arica .

After this encounter, national coach Herberger stated that Chile's team was "not up to the tactical task against our reinforced defense". This statement was felt to be extremely offensive in the country; as a result, the German team lost a lot of the sympathy and loud support that the Chilean spectators had shown them in the first two group games, as would prove to be in the subsequent quarter-finals.

Quarter finals

Germany - Yugoslavia
on June 10th in the Estadio Nacional of Santiago in front of 63,320 spectators, SR: Yamasaki (Peru):

Goal: 0: 1 Radaković (85.)

After 1954 and 1958 , these two teams faced each other for the third time in a row in a World Cup quarter-finals. In Yugoslavia, too, a new generation of players had replaced the familiar names of the 1950s ; the new stars were Šoškić , Jusufi , Skoblar and Šekularac from the big Belgrade clubs Red Star , Partizan and OFK . However, the goalscorer Radaković played for the "Provincial Club" NK Rijeka . Yugoslavia also came with the recommendation of winning gold medals at the Olympic Games in Rome (1960) .
Germany, again with Helmut Haller, started more offensively than in the preliminary round and had bad luck for the first time after three minutes when Seeler failed at the goal post for the third time in Chile. The varied game brought a lot of work to both goalkeepers , but Šoškić and Fahrian always showed themselves on the post. In the well-filled stadium in Santiago, applause broke out again and again and twice even goal celebrations: however, it was not aimed at the Europeans on the pitch, but for the Chilean team, who at the same time led 2: 1 in Arica, 2,000 km away, which many spectators with the help of their transistor radios pursued.

Shortly after the restart, a header duel between Seeler and Radakovic forced the Yugoslav to stop his heavy bleeding with a bandage. Both goalkeepers still had many opportunities to excel; however, the eleven from the Balkans managed to gain a slight overweight after about an hour. That did not prevent defender Karl-Heinz Schnellinger from appearing more and more often in the opponent's penalty area: from the 74th minute he was involved in two of the three German goalscoring opportunities, in particular his shot in the 83rd, which Šoškić was just able to fend off the goal line, almost made the decision.

Two minutes later, it actually followed, but in the other half of the field: Right runner Radaković caught a cross pass from Galić just before the German penalty area and shot the ball at full speed into the corner.

Generations of German football fans still remember the radio picture that was printed in all German newspapers the day after next: in the background a somewhat fuzzy player with a dark jersey and a bright white "turban", in the foreground the German keeper with the 22 on his back and completely, darting in vain in front the leather ball in the mesh of the goal net. The slightly happier two good teams had won, and unlike 1954 and 1958, this time it was Yugoslavia. Instead of the CSSR, the German team was waiting for an early return trip and Herberger was faced with a local press, which accused him of having hired his team too defensively. Individual players, especially Helmut Haller, also criticized the national coach after the World Cup; for Herberger it was the last World Cup on the coaching bench: two years later, his assistant Helmut Schön replaced him.

literature

  • Friedrich Hack / Richard Kirn, VII Soccer World Cup Chile 1962 Bertelsmann Gütersloh 1962.
  • Jürgen Leinemann, Sepp Herberger. A life, a legend Rowohlt Reinbek 1998 ISBN 3-499-60700-X .
  • Dietrich Schulze-Marmeling / Hubert Dahlkamp, The history of the soccer world championships The Göttingen workshop 2001 ISBN 3-89533-336-0 .
  • Frank Steffan (ed.), Such a day. The match reports of all World Cup games of the German national soccer team Ed. Steffan Cologne 1994 ISBN 3-923838-04-2 .
  • Matthias Voigt, Soccer World Cup 1962 Chile AGON Kassel 2002 ISBN 3-89784-200-9 .

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