Günter Schröder (soccer player)

Günter Schröder
Personnel
birthday	August 11, 1940
position	Defense
Juniors
Years	station
0000-1961	Borussia Neunkirchen
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1961-1968	Borussia Neunkirchen	153 (2)
1 Only league games are given.

Günter Schröder (born August 11, 1940 ) is a former German football player . The defender played 60 league games for Borussia Neunkirchen from 1964 to 1966 in the Bundesliga .

Career

Günter Schröder, who came from his own offspring, made his debut on October 15, 1961 in the home game against BSC Oppau under coach Alfred Preißler in the local Ellenfeldstadion in what was then the first-class Southwest football league . In the 2-2 draw he formed the defensive of the team from the "City of Coal and Iron" together with Horst Kirsch (goalkeeper), Hans Schreier (defender) and the runner row with Achim Melcher , Erich Leist and Dieter Schock from Saarland won the championship and moved into the final round of the German football championship ; the junior player had played 21 league games and center forward Rudi Dörrenbächer scored 37 goals. In the final round, Schröder played in all three games against FC Schalke 04 (2: 3), 1. FC Nürnberg (2: 3) and Tasmania 1900 Berlin (0: 1). The Preissler protégés lost a 2-0 lead against Schalke and Nuremberg. In the last year of the old first-class league system, 1962/63, the Borussia came to the runner-up and Schröder had played in defense in 28 games. He and his teammates started in the 1963 finals on May 25 with a 3-0 win over Hamburger SV. His job was to guard Gert Dörfel , the left wing of the national team . With another home win - 2: 1 against the team of Max Merkel , 1860 Munich - and two draws against Borussia Dortmund and Hamburger SV, the Southwest runner-up achieved a respectable 6: 6 points. Schröder was active in all six group games. In the last two years of the first-class league era, 1961 to 1963, the defender played 49 league games and nine finals.

Since Neunkirchen had not been nominated for the debut round of the new Bundesliga, 1963/64, 1. FC Kaiserslautern and 1. FC Saarbrücken were included in the new league concentration from the southwest, Schröder and colleagues also played again at the start brought football regional league southwest . After 38 match days, Borussia under new coach celebrated Horst Buhtz with 106: 32 gates and 60:16 points, the championship and a place in the first division promotion round. Schröder had scored two goals in 36 regional league appearances. The start of the promotion round, however, went through a 1: 5 defeat on June 6, 1964 at Tasmania 1900 Berlin, under the direction of referee Rudolf Kreitlein , clearly wrong. Tas center forward Heinz Fischer scored three goals and was at the end of the promotion round, together with Walter Rodekamp from Hannover 96, with seven goals each time the record scorer. Schröder and Erwin Glod were the defenders before goalkeeper Willi Ertz . After the home defeat with 0-1 goals on June 14th against the promotion favorites FC Bayern Munich , the promotion move for Neunkirchen seemed to have run away after the third match day. The 2-0 win in the second leg in Munich on June 20, which was immediately successful, brought the Saarlanders back into the race. The defense around Ertz, Schröder, Schreier, Glod, Leist and Schock laid the foundation against the young talent Franz Beckenbauer and the two Bayern goalscorers Rainer Ohlhauser and Dieter Brenninger . Due to the sensational 3-0 defeat of Munich (goalkeeper Fritz Kosar stormed to the right wing) at Tasmania Berlin (two-time goalscorer: center forward Fischer) - the Borussia won their game at the same time with a goal in the 85th minute by Karl Ringel at FC St. Pauli with 1-0 goals - Neunkirchen pushed past FC Bayern by one point. On the last match day, June 28th, in front of 38,000 spectators in the Ellenfeldstadion, a 1-0 home win against the Berliners made the promotion perfect.

Schröder and Borussia started in the Bundesliga with 0: 6 points; against 1. FC Nürnberg (0: 2), Borussia Dortmund (1: 2) and defending champion 1. FC Köln (3: 4) there were three defeats at the start. In Cologne after a 2-0 lead. In the second home game, on September 12, 1964, a 3-1 win against Hamburger SV resulted in the first double point win in the Bundesliga. Schröder mainly fought the HSV substitute left winger Andy Mate . With another 3-1 home win on May 15, 1965, the Saarlanders ended the Bundesliga season 1964/65 in 10th place and Schröder, like teammates Erich Leist, Dieter Schock, Hans Schreier and Elmar May , had all 30 round matches for Borussia completed.

In the second Bundesliga year 1965/66 Neunkirchen could not repeat the performance of the previous year. Already on the fourth game day, September 4, 1965, there was the first major defeat; Neunkirchen lost 6-0 at newly promoted Bayern Munich. From the sixth matchday (6-0 defeat at Hannover 96) to the 13th matchday (6-1 home defeat against Eintracht Frankfurt) there were eight defeats in a row and Neunkirchen was in 17th place with 4:22 points. With a 1-0 home win against Karlsruher SC, Schröder and colleagues finished the round as penultimate on May 28, 1966 and were relegated to the Regionalliga Südwest. The defender had played 30 league games.

When he won the title in 1966/67 in the Southwest League, he was only able to play eight games due to injury. The first seven rounds he had been in use continuously; on October 9, 1966, Schröder suffered a protracted injury in the 3-2 home win against Eintracht Trier, which meant that he could only play his eighth round on February 12, 1967 at the home game against FC Homburg. In the successful promotion round, coach Željko Čajkovski acted with defenders Gerd Regitz and Peter Czernotzky ; Schröder was no longer used. 1967/68 was also played without a competitive game.

Between 1961 and 1968 he played for Borussia Neunkirchen in the Oberliga, the Regionalliga and the Bundesliga . With Borussia, he made it to the Bundesliga twice.

Others

Schröder worked as a builder and cabinet maker. After his career as a soccer player, he played soccer coach Wulff on the ARD series alongside Horst Niendorf and Kurt Schmidtchen . On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Bundesliga, Schröder was elected to a “Saarland Anniversary Elf” in 2013. All Saarlanders who had played in the Bundesliga since 1963 were up for a vote, which was organized by Ellenfeld eV and the Saarpark Center .

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 .
• Ulrich Homann (Hrsg.): Hellfire on Ascension. The history of the promotion rounds to the Bundesliga 1963–1974. Klartext, Essen 1990, ISBN 3-88474-346-5 .
• 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

• Günter Schröder in the database of fussballdaten.de
• Günter Schröder in the database of weltfussball.de
• Günter Schröder in the database of kicker.de
• Günter Schröder in the database of transfermarkt.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ sol.de: Saar football once shone in the Bundesliga , accessed on October 11, 2012.
2. ↑ Election of the Saarland jubilee team , accessed on July 6, 2018