Günter Weber (soccer player)

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Günter Weber (born July 11, 1952 in Cologne ) is a former German soccer player . The offensive player played 58 league games in the Bundesliga between 1974 and 1979 at 1. FC Köln and MSV Duisburg and scored three goals.

career

The striker, who grew up in Hürth-Alstädten , began in his youth at BC Hürth-Stotzheim, continued at BC Efferen in 1920, before he gained his first experience in the senior sector at SpVg Frechen 20 . At the end of the 1973/74 season, the attacker Weber - professionally he had completed his training as an industrial clerk - had drawn attention to himself from defending champion Frechen in the Mittelrhein association league as well as in the association selection. He was called “King “Schäfer brought to the FC amateur team in May / June 1974. For the 1974/75 season he, like Heinz-Theo Horst and Wolfgang Mattern, was accepted by manager Karl-Heinz Thielen into the billy goat elf's licensed players. Under coach Zlatko Čajkovski he was not used in the Bundesliga. Only in the second half of the 1975/76 season Weber came under Cajkovski's successor Georg Stollenwerk twice in the 1st Bundesliga and once in the UEFA Cup . He made his debut on March 6, 1976 in a 1: 2 away defeat at Hamburger SV in the Bundesliga. He formed the attack of the FC together with Dieter Müller and Johannes Löhr . Eight days later, on March 13, he came on for Herbert Neumann in the 48th minute in a 1-1 home draw against Werder Bremen . He made his debut for FC as a professional in a competitive game on November 5, 1975 in the UEFA Cup at a home game against Spartak Moscow (0-1). He was substituted on for Jürgen Glowacz in the 67th minute. For the 1976/77 season he moved to the Lower Rhine and signed a contract with MSV Duisburg .

Weber made his debut for the "Zebra Team" on August 14, 1976 in a 1-1 draw at Bökelberg against Borussia Mönchengladbach in the Bundesliga. He came on in the 77th minute for Klaus Thies . Rudolf Seliger and Ronald Worm were the two set storm peaks of the MSV, Thies and Weber the additions in the attack. Meiderich was 9th under coach Otto Knefler and Günter Weber had played 12 league games (1 goal). Even in his second round in Duisburg, 1977/78, he could not change the ranking in the MSV attack: Seliger and Worm were set, but now the Berlin Norbert Stolzenburg stormed for the "zebras". For Weber 14 league appearances were noted and the MSV reached the nomination for the UEFA Cup of the season 1978/79 with the 6th place .

In his third season at MSV Duisburg, 1978/79, Weber became a regular player with 30 league appearances and three goals under coach Rolf Schafstall . In the league they fought for relegation, played a successful round in the UEFA Cup , which culminated in the semi-finals. Weber ran in ten games in the European Cup and scored two goals in the 4-0 home win on December 6, 1978 against Racing Strasbourg. In the semifinals, Duisburg failed to Mönchengladbach (2: 2, 1: 4). The man from Alstädten-Burbach played his last Bundesliga game on June 9, 1979 in a 2-0 away defeat at Eintracht Frankfurt.

The literature on hand does not reveal anything about the sudden end of his footballing career.

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literature

  • Dirk Innschuld, Frederic Latz: With the billy goat on his chest. Publishing house Die Werkstatt. Göttingen 2013. ISBN 978-3-7307-0047-1 . Pp. 390/391.
  • Christian Karn, Reinhard Rehberg: Player Lexicon 1963–1994. Agon Sportverlag. Kassel 2012. ISBN 978-3-89784-214-4 . P. 533.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Günter Weber - player profile. Retrieved September 18, 2019 .
  2. ^ Jürgen Bitter: Germany's football. The encyclopedia. FA Herbig. Munich 2008. ISBN 978-3-7766-2558-5 . P. 776
personal data
SURNAME Weber, Günter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH July 11, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne