Günter Jansen (soccer player)

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Günter Jansen (born January 20, 1932 in Duisburg ; † September 29, 2019 in Edenkoben ) was a German football goalkeeper who won the DFB Cup with Borussia Mönchengladbach in 1960 .

career

The amateur player from VfB Duisburg, Günter Jansen, switched to the 1952/53 round as a contract player for VfR Frankenthal in the Southwest Football League . He opened the season with his new team-mates on August 24, 1952 with a home game against VfR Kaiserslautern . On the next match day, Frankenthal was no longer a member of the Oberliga: the DFB Federal Court had ordered the club to be excluded and transferred to the 2nd Southwest League . A proven attempt at bribery from the 1951/52 season was the reason. The ex-Duisburg goalkeeper took second place with the blue-blacks in the second division and Frankenthal immediately returned to the top division. After their return, the VfR took ninth place in the southwest in the 1953/54 round with 38:45 goals. Günter Jansen had guarded the case behind the defense formation Wilfried Gaa, Manfred Graefenstein, Franz Löffler, Walter Blesch and Erich Rendler for all 30 games. Only the sovereign champions 1. FC Kaiserslautern (139: 33) and runner-up FK Pirmasens (73:30) had a better record of the goals conceded. After two years in Frankenthal, he signed a new contract with 1. FC Köln and moved to the football league west .

In two years at 1. FC Köln, the goalkeeper completed 58 games for the billy goats. While he more or less alternated in goal with Klaus Hartenstein in the first season , he was the regular goalkeeper under the new coach Hennes Weisweiler in the following year and played all 30 rounds. On the eighth game day, October 24, 1954, he made his debut in the away game at Schalke 04 in the goal of the "billy goat-Elf". Coach Kurt Baluses used him in a total of 20 league games. In his third round at 1. FC Köln, 1956/57, he had to be content with the reserve role behind the newcomer Günther Klemm .

That moved him to move to Borussia Mönchengladbach for the 1957/58 round, who were relegated to the second division in the summer of 1957. With coach Fritz Pliska and striker Albert Brülls (29 games - 23 goals) he formed the cornerstone for an immediate return to the football league. Günter Jansen played all 30 games in the promotion round and conceded the fewest goals in the II. Division in the west in the round 1957/58 with 37 goals conceded. In the next two rounds in the league, the goalkeeper also played all 30 league games for Borussia. The sporting highlight was the cup in 1960. First Gladbach - now with coach Bernd Oles - prevailed in the West German Cup in the semi-finals with a 4-3 win against Borussia Dortmund and then won the final 3-1 on August 24th Goals against 1. FC Cologne. Ulrich Kohn stood out as a goal scorer twice, and national player Albert Brülls once executed. Sensational then in the semi-finals of the DFB Cup on September 7th, the 2-0 success against the reigning German champions Hamburger SV . Here goalkeeper Jansen showed an outstanding performance against Uwe Seeler , Klaus Stürmer and Gert Dörfel in the neutral venue of Münster . In the final on October 5, 1960 in Düsseldorf against Karlsruher SC , Gladbach won 3-2 goals, Jansen was one of the top performers of the cup winners.

His experience of the European Cup atmosphere, on the other hand, was a bitter pill: On October 30, 1960, the Gladbachers lost the second leg against Glasgow Rangers with 8-0 goals in Ibrox Park . The Rangers later moved into the finals. After 71 league games - Manfred Orzessek came to Bökelberg in 1961 - Jansen moved to ETB Schwarz-Weiß Essen for the last league round in 1962/63 . The Uhlenkrug team took seventh place and Jansen had played 26 other league games. With a goal difference of 44:37 goals, Schwarz-Weiß was able to build on a solid defense with the formation of Jansen, Karlheinz Mozin , Günter Krafczyk , Richard Kulot , Heinz Steinmann and Heinz Ingenbold and only had as many goals as the champions 1. FC Cologne approved.

Overall, Günter Jansen completed 177 games in the football league from 1953 to 1963 and rose to the league twice in 1953 and 1958 as runner-up in the second division.

In later years he worked as an association trainer for the Southwest German Football Association.

literature

  • Werner Skrentny (Ed.): The fear of the devil in front of the pea mountain. The history of the Oberliga Südwest 1946–1963. Klartext, Essen 1996, ISBN 3-88474-394-5 .
  • Harald Landefeld, Achim Nöllenheidt (ed.): Helmut, tell me dat Tor ... New stories and portraits from the Oberliga West 1947–1963. Klartext, Essen 1993, ISBN 3-88474-043-1 .
  • Matthias Weinrich, Hardy Greens : Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 6: German Cup history since 1935. Pictures, statistics, stories, constellations. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2000, ISBN 3-89784-146-0 .
  • Hardy Grüne, Lorenz Knieriem: Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 8: Player Lexicon 1890–1963. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2006, ISBN 3-89784-148-7 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Horst Konzok: SWFV coach long-running Günter Jansen is dead . In: Die Rheinpfalz , October 1, 2019. Retrieved October 3, 2019.
  2. ↑ Werner Skrentny (ed.), Teufelsangst vorm Erbsenberg, The history of the Oberliga Südwest 1946-1963, page 123
personal data
SURNAME Jansen, Günter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer goalkeeper
DATE OF BIRTH January 20, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Duisburg
DATE OF DEATH 29th September 2019
Place of death Edenkoben