Günter Jäger

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Günter Jäger (born December 21, 1935 ) is a former German national soccer player . From 1955 to 1963, the defensive player played 140 league games (1 goal) at Fortuna Düsseldorf in what was then the first-class football Oberliga West . On September 24, 1958, he came to Copenhagen in the friendly game of the national soccer team against Denmark in the 1-1 draw, the first international match after the 1958 World Cup in Sweden, used.

career

At VfB 03 Hilden , Günter Jäger started his career as a youth in 1946. In 1951 he joined VfL Benrath and was appointed to the youth national team by the DFB in 1954 . At the side of teammates such as Manfred Eglin (goalkeeper), Hermann Nuber , Ernst-Günter Habig and the outstanding goalscorer Uwe Seeler , Jäger played all six games in the UEFA youth tournament in April 1954 . On April 19, the final against Spain ended with a 2-2 draw. Spain won the tournament thanks to the better goal difference from the semifinals.

From the 1955/56 season Günter Jäger played at Fortuna Düsseldorf in the Oberliga West. Due to a broken leg in the transfer game against Benrath before the start of the round, he was only able to play one league game in his first year in Düsseldorf due to the consequences of injury. As a Fortune he took part as a substitute in the 1956 Olympic Games in Melbourne. In the 1: 2 defeat on November 24, 1956 in Melbourne against the eventual Olympic champion Soviet Union, he was not used. From the 1957/58 season he was a member of Fortuna Dusseldorf's top lineup in the Oberliga West. On May 26, 1957, he was appointed by the DFB for the first time in the junior national team U-23 . In the 1-1 draw in Bayreuth against Czechoslovakia, he formed the core of the defensive as a center runner with goalkeeper Fritz Ewert and the defenders Herbert Dienelt and Hermann Höfer . On February 26, 1958, he made his second appearance in the junior team at the international match in Wuppertal against Belgium (4-1).

After the World Cup in 1958, he made his debut on September 24 in a 1-1 draw against Denmark in the German national soccer team . But then no more assignments in the A-national team followed. With his third appearance in the U-23 selection on May 10, 1959 in Bochum against England (2-2), Jäger ended his international career.

In the last year of the old first-class Oberliga era, 1962/63, Fortuna Jäger missed the entire preliminary round due to an Achilles tendon tear. It was not until February 3, 1963 that he played his first round game. On the last round match day, May 11, 1963, he said goodbye with a 1-1 home draw against FC Schalke 04 from Düsseldorf. With the outrunners Hermann Straschitz and Manfred Krafft he fought the Schalke offensive with Reinhard Libuda , Hans Nowak , Willi Koslowski , Waldemar Gerhardt and Manfred Kreuz . With the 13th place in the table Fortuna Düsseldorf could not qualify for the new Bundesliga for the 1963/64 season. The defender joined the Wuppertaler SV in the new Football Regionalliga West in the summer of 1963 .

The round start took place on August 4, 1963 in the stadium at the zoo against Viktoria Cologne. WSV coach Robert Gebhardt had formed the domestic runner series with Erich Haase , Jäger and Vitus Sauer . It was enough for a 2-1 win against the team of coach Hennes Weisweiler . At the end of the lap, Jäger and his colleagues celebrated the runner-up behind Alemannia Aachen, ahead of Fortuna Düsseldorf in third place. The two qualifying games for participation in the promotion round to the Bundesliga against the Southwest runner-up FK Pirmasens were lost with 0: 2 and 1: 2 goals. In particular , the defensive of the Wuppertal was not up to the class of the two attackers Hugo Dausmann and Helmut Kapitulski . After a total of 52 regional league appearances for Wuppertal, Günter Jäger ended his high-class career in the summer of 1966.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Profile in the Fortuna archive
personal data
SURNAME Hunter, Günter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH December 21, 1935