Günter Bernard
| Günter Bernard | ||
| Personnel | ||
|---|---|---|
| birthday | November 4, 1939 | |
| place of birth | Schweinfurt , Germany | |
| size | 179 cm | |
| position | goal | |
| Juniors | ||
| Years | station | |
| 1954-1957 | 1. FC Schweinfurt 05 | |
| Men's | ||
| Years | station | Games (goals) 1 |
| 1957-1963 | 1. FC Schweinfurt 05 | 72 (1) |
| 1963-1974 | Werder Bremen | 287 (0) |
| 1974-1976 | SV Atlas Delmenhorst | |
| National team | ||
| Years | selection | Games (goals) |
| 1961–1962 | Germany U-23 | 4 (0) |
| 1962-1968 | Germany | 5 (0) |
| 1 Only league games are given. | ||
Günter Bernard (born November 4, 1939 in Schweinfurt ) is a former German soccer goalkeeper . He is the son of two-time national player Robert Bernard . In Oberliga times he played for 1. FC Schweinfurt 05 , in the Bundesliga he won the German championship with Werder Bremen in 1965. He was part of the German national football team , which was runner-up in England in 1966.
Club career
Günter Bernard began his career in 1954 as a field player at 1. FC Schweinfurt 05 . After two years he switched to goal and made his debut in the first team in the Oberliga Süd at the age of 18 . Since he did not qualify for the newly founded Bundesliga with Schweinfurt 05, he moved to Werder Bremen before the 1963/64 season , after also negotiating with 1. FC Nürnberg .
His first Bundesliga season was marked by bad luck with injuries. A meniscus operation followed a torn ligament. It wasn't until matchday 19 that it celebrated its comeback with a 2-0 win over 1. FC Kaiserslautern . In the next few games, however, he did not look happy. He caught a 40-meter shot against 1. FC Köln and several hits were also scored in the 7-0 swat against Eintracht Frankfurt . Nevertheless, the games, in which his objective goalkeeping game and his enormous reaction speed were in the foreground, predominated.
When Werder signed two new defenders in the form of Horst-Dieter Höttges and Heinz Steinmann before the 1964/65 season , Bernard stayed in 12 games without conceding a goal that season and the myth of "Bremen concrete" arose. This was also one of the reasons why Bernard, the only one of his team to have played all games, was able to celebrate the championship with Werder on the last matchday against 1. FC Nürnberg. In the following season he was still a great support and also convinced in the European Cup games . Werder Bremen ended the 1968 season in a good second place. In the following years, however, he was no longer undisputed in the club. Due to his height, Bernard repeatedly had problems controlling the penalty area, but compensated for this with perfect positional play and an unshakable calm. So he prevailed against Klaus Lambertz , Karl Loweg and Fritz Stefens .
In the 1970/71 season, Bernard experienced the strangest game of his career, when on matchday 27 against Borussia Mönchengladbach am Bökelberg in the 88th minute, after Bernard had previously secured the 1-1 with his team's great saves, the Gladbacher Herbert L ... when a header fell into the goal net, whereupon the wooden post broke and the goal collapsed. After the goal could not be straightened up again, the game was canceled and scored 2-0 for Bremen.
After the commitment from Dieter Burdenski , Bernard should actually move into the second member, but Burdenski suffered a broken fibula and so the skills of the now 33-year-old were in demand again. At that time he was the goalkeeper with the most Bundesliga appearances.
After this season he voluntarily took a seat on the bench and was bid farewell in 1974 with a farewell game against an international team in which players such as Franz Beckenbauer , Uwe Seeler , Uli Hoeneß and Enver Marić played. Bernard moved again to the amateur league club SV Atlas Delmenhorst and finally ended his active career there. Now he took a position as general agent for a sporting goods company.
National team
Günter Bernard came into contact with the DFB for the first time in 1961 and, despite strong competition from Manfred Manglitz and Wolfgang Fahrian, played four international matches in the U23 national team ; for the first time on March 15 in London in the 1: 4 defeat against England, the last time on May 6, 1962 in Aachen in a 3-0 win against France.
He made his debut in the senior national team in the second half against the selection of France on October 24, 1962 in front of 75,000 spectators in the Stuttgart Neckar Stadium , which ended 2-2. Another game followed that year. Due to the good performance in the Bundesliga, he came to two more missions in 1966, and he was appointed to the German squad at the 1966 World Cup , but remained there without a mission.
After the World Cup he was in the shadow of Sepp Maier . Günter Bernard made his last international appearance on May 9, 1968 in Wales when he came on in the 26th minute. He ended his career in the national team upset because he felt that he was treated unfairly towards Maier and Horst Wolter .
Bernard made a total of 5 internationals, but was on the bench for almost 25, so he was considered an "eternal reservist". Nevertheless, on July 30, 1966, he was awarded the silver bay leaf .
successes
National team
- 1966: Vice World Champion
society
- 1965: German champion
- 1968: German runner-up
Web links
- Günter Bernard in the database of fussballdaten.de
- Günter Bernard in the Munzinger archive
- Werder legend Günter Bernard - only eyes for Werder
literature
- BF Hoffmann : The great lexicon of the Bundesliga keepers. More than 300 biographies - from the beginning to the present. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-89602-526-0 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Information given to the Bundestag by the Federal Government on September 29, 1973 - Printed matter 7/1040 - Annex 3, pages 54 ff., Here page 59
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bernard, Günter |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German soccer goalkeeper |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 4, 1939 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Schweinfurt |