Günter Fürhoff

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Günter "Nobby" Fürhoff (born October 6, 1947 in Essen ; † January 25, 2016 ) was a German football player . The midfielder has played 153 games and scored 20 goals for Rot-Weiss Essen in the Bundesliga .

Career

Essen, until 1978

Fürhoff became an orphan at the age of six when his parents were killed in a tram accident. The midfielder, who came from Union Frintrop's youth, began his professional career in 1968 with Rot-Weiss Essen , who had been relegated from the Bundesliga the year before, in the Regionalliga West and was promoted to the Bundesliga after his first season with the club. Fürhoff made his debut on the third round matchday, September 1, 1968, in a 2-2 home draw in front of 20,000 spectators on Hafenstrasse against Bayer Leverkusen in the Regionalliga West. He came on in the 83rd minute for Herbert Weinberg . Under the coaches Kuno Klötzer and Willi Vordenbäum , he was used in 13 league games (1 goal) when he reached second place. In the successful BL promotion round, he had scored four goals in four games. In his first Bundesliga season 1969/70 he came to the side of teammates like Erich Beer , Egbert-Jan ter Mors , Diethelm Ferner and Georg Jung to 25 missions in which he scored four goals when he reached 12th rank. On the first match day, August 16, 1969, he made his debut in the Bundesliga in the 4-0 defeat at Bayern Munich. He came on for Helmut Littek in the 30th minute. After the second season he rose again with Rot-Weiss in the Regionalliga West. After relegation he had a strong year in 1971/72 ; he completed all 34 round matches and scored 24 goals when reaching the runner-up. Also in the BL promotion round, he put the stamp on his team's game with eight appearances and six hits. Equal points, each with 13: 3 points, the immediate BL return was just missed due to the poor goal difference against Kickers Offenbach . The rise was accomplished in a superior manner after the 1972/73 season . Under coach Horst Witzler , he contributed 11 goals in 31 games to the championship in the west and three in seven games in the BL promotion round.

In the 1975/76 season , Fürhoff, who had matured to become a midfield director, reached 8th place with the club from Hafenstrasse , the best Bundesliga placement in the club's history. In the following season, however, the club came last and was relegated again, this time to the second Bundesliga North, which has since been introduced. There he stayed with the club for one more season and reached second place . In the games for promotion against the second in the southern group, however, Essen was inferior to 1. FC Nürnberg .

For RWE he played 153 times in the Bundesliga and scored 20 goals. After the club legend Willi Lippens , he is the Essen player with the second most appearances. Other notable teammates in those years were the later international strikers Manfred Burgsmüller and Horst Hrubesch as well as Dieter Bast and Werner Lorant, who was notorious for his merciless toughness . RWE added 78 games in the then second-rate Regionalliga West with 36 goals, 19 games with 13 goals in the Bundesliga promotion rounds, and 38 games in the 2nd Bundesliga with three goals in total.

In the players' lexicon it is noted about him: "A technically fine and in the 2nd league goal-dangerous playmaker and driver."

Würzburg and end of career

In 1978 he moved to the second Bundesliga South for FV 04 Würzburg . There the Essen made his debut on July 29, 1978 in a 1-1 home draw against SpVgg Fürth in the Blue-Whites' league team from FV 04. In his first year in Würzburg, he made 37 second division appearances (eight goals), experienced with Rudi Kröner , Josef Becker and Helmut Siebert three coaches and finished 14th with his new team. In his second season 1979/80 , the Franconians finished 21st and last place and were relegated. Fürhoff, who belonged to the regular line-up of the team, had played another 32 second division games (1 goal) and then ended his professional career at the age of 32 after a total of 69 second division appearances with nine goals for Würzburg. In the relegation season, too, Würzburg wore three coaches: Heinz Bewersdorf , Helmut Siebert (interim) and Istvan Sztani . His most prominent teammates at Würzburg were probably Josef Weiß , who won the World Cup and European Cup with FC Bayern Munich in the 1970s , and Friedhelm Groppe , who won the 1966 European Cup Winners' Cup with Borussia Dortmund .

In the 1984/85 and 1985/86 seasons Fürhoff ran for FV Uffenheim in the A-class of the Frankenhöhe football district. In the 1986/87 season he played for SV Heidingsfeld in the third-class Bayernliga and supported Jürgen Suchanek as an assistant coach in the following season . After his career ended, he stayed in Würzburg and lived in a small apartment in the Grombühl district . Fürhoff later developed lung cancer , of which he died on January 25, 2016.

Others

His nickname "Nobby" was given to him by his teammate Willi Lippens and can be traced back to the English international Nobby Stiles . Fürhoff was married twice, including his first marriage from 1969 to 1980 with Ilka, the mother of comedian Ingo Appelt . Before Fürhoff became a footballer, he worked as a miner at the Amalie colliery in Essen-Altendorf .

literature

  • Georg Schrepper, Uwe Wick: “… RWE again and again!” The story of Rot-Weiss-Essen. Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2004, ISBN 3-89533-467-7 .
  • Christian Karn, Reinhard Rehberg: Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 9: Player Lexicon 1963-1994. Bundesliga, regional league, 2nd league. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2012, ISBN 978-3-89784-214-4 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Thomas Lelgemann: RWE legend Fürhoff “ate dust and dirt” . DerWesten.de , February 18, 2013, accessed on January 26, 2016.
  2. ↑ Tobias Mogdans, Peter Schuhmann: The Chronicle of the SVK: "50 years of sports club Kleinochsenfurt in 1999" . Website of the sports club Kleinochsenfurt 1929/49 e. V., 1999/2004, accessed on January 26, 2016.
  3. ↑ Compilation of match reports by Sportfreunde Dinkelsbühl on the encounter between Spfr. Dinkelsbühl - FV Uffenheim on September 8, 1985 , accessed on January 26, 2016 (PDF; 113 kB).
  4. ↑ Mourning in Würzburg and Essen: Soccer player Günter "Nobby" Fürhoff is dead . ( Memento from March 15, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) BR.de , January 26, 2016, accessed on January 26, 2016.
  5. ↑ 90 years of SV Heidingsfeld 1919 eV ( Memento of the original from January 26, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Website of SV Heidingsfeld 1919, accessed on January 26, 2016.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.sv-heidingsfeld.de
  6. ↑ Würzburg football club mourns Günter “Nobby” Fürhoff . Wuerzburgerleben.de, January 26, 2016, accessed on January 26, 2016
  7. ↑ RWE mourns “Nobby” Fürhoff . RW Essen website, January 26, 2016, accessed January 26, 2016.
  8. ↑ RWE legend Fürhoff has "eaten dust and dirt" . Derwesten.de, February 18, 2013, accessed on September 28, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Fürhoff, Günter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fürhoff, Nobby (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH October 6, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH eat
DATE OF DEATH January 25, 2016