Günther Kasperski

Günther Kasperski
Personnel
birthday	November 7, 1936
place of birth	Germany
position	midfield player
Juniors
Years	station
1946-1955	Schalke 04
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1956-1958	SG Wattenscheid 09	23 (7)
1958-1959	TuS Neuendorf	30 (13)
1959-1962	1. FC Kaiserslautern	77 (22)
1962-1973	SSV Reutlingen	357 (14)
1 Only league games are given.

Günther Kasperski (born November 7, 1936 ) is a former German soccer player . From 1958 to 1963 he played a total of 137 competitive games as a midfielder in the first-class soccer leagues Southwest and South , scoring 35 goals. In the second -rate regional soccer league south he was led at SSV Reutlingen from 1963 to 1973 with another 327 league appearances and 14 goals.

career

Youth, 2nd division West and Oberliga, 1946 to 1963

In terms of football, Günther Kasperski grew up in the youth of FC Schalke 04 . The player, initially mostly used as a half-striker in the then common World Cup system , gained his first experience at a higher level in the rounds of 1956/57 and 1957/58 at SG Wattenscheid 09 in the 2nd League West. For the team from the Lohrheidestadion , he completed a total of 23 second division games under coach Heinz Flotho and scored seven goals. After the Wattenscheider relegated to the amateur camp in the summer of 1958, he accepted the offer from TuS Neuendorf from the Southwest Oberliga and moved to Koblenz . For the team from the Oberwerth stadium he made his debut on August 17, 1958 in a 2: 3 defeat at FV Speyer in the Oberliga Südwest and immediately entered the list of goalscorers. Neuendorf rose as 15th in the final table at the end of the round in the 2nd League Southwest. The newcomer from Wattenscheid had attracted attention with his 30 league appearances with his 13 goals and was able to switch to the former southwest series champion 1. FC Kaiserslautern .

In the “Red Devils”, only Horst Eckel and Werner Liebrich were still active from the “World Champions” from the 1954 World Cup in Switzerland . Coach Richard Schneider tried to carry out a “makeover” with Kasperski and young players from his own ranks such as Jürgen Neumann , Dieter Pulter , Winfried Richter , Wolfgang Schnarr and Dieter Schönborn. The FCK finished fifth at the end of the 1959/60 season and Kasperski had played all 30 rounds and scored eleven goals. In his second year in Lauter, 1960/61 , Kasperski scored five goals in 24 league games and the FCK reached fourth place. The last association game was played by the Betzenberg-Elf on April 22, 1961. The DFB Cup was played at the beginning of the first half of the 1961/62 season and Kasperski and his teammates moved in after successes against Heider SV (2: 0), Tasmania Berlin (2: 1 a. V.) and a 2: 1 away win Hamborn 07 into the final . However, this was lost on September 13, 1961, on a Wednesday evening under floodlights, in the Gelsenkirchen Glückauf-Kampfbahn against SV Werder Bremen with 0-2 goals. In his third season at FCK, 1961/62, the half-forward scored six goals in 23 league games and Lautern again took fourth place, but now with the new coach Günter Brocker . After a total of 72 competitive games in the Oberliga Südwest with 22 goals, Kasperski accepted the offer of the Red-Blacks from the foot of the Alb , the SSV Reutlingen from the Oberliga Süd and switched to the from before the last season of the old regional Oberliga first class, 1962/63 District Administrator Hans Kern as the “doer” team.

Under coach Georg Wurzer , the SSV and teammates such as Ulrich Biesinger , Karl Bögelein and Heinz Kostorz only finished 14th. Kasperski had played all 30 league games, but was now in defense. Since it was not enough for Reutlingen to be accepted into the newly installed Bundesliga for the 1963/64 season, he played in the regional Bundesliga substructure of the Regionalliga Süd from this season.

Regionalliga Süd, 1963 to 1973

In his first year in the Regionalliga Süd, 1963/64 , he finished fifth with Reutlingen. In the 1964/65 season Kasperski and colleagues reached the runner-up in the south behind champions and Bundesliga promoters FC Bayern Munich and were thus qualified for the Bundesliga promotion round. Kasperski had played in all 36 league games and scored five goals alongside striker Knut Tagliaferri (21 goals) and winger Rolf Thommes (15 goals). Before the actual group games of the Bundesliga promotion round, there was a qualifying game between the southern and northern runners-up because of the eighth participant. On May 16, the SSV lost with 0-1 goals at FC St. Pauli and on May 23rd in front of 12,000 spectators in the stadium at the Kreuzeiche with 4-1 goals after overtime against Ingo Porges- led St. Pauli team. In both games Kasperski was the right runner in action. Reutlingen turned out to be the toughest competitor in the six group games for the later promoted Borussia Mönchengladbach . The team from Niederrhein, the “foals” of trainer Hennes Weisweiler, prevailed by just one point over Reutlingen and were promoted to the Bundesliga together with Bayern Munich in 1965.

In the 1967/68 season , Reutlingen took third place, narrowly failing to return to the Bundesliga promotion round. Kaspersky had been in action in all 34 point games. In the next few years, Reutlingen was at first mediocre in the table, before relegation under coach Milovan Beljin could not be prevented in the 1972/73 season with 17th place . The 36-year-old veteran Kasperski (32 league games) and the reactivated former top performers Herbert Ammer and Rolf Schafstall could not prevent the crash into the amateur camp. With a total of 327 second-rate regional league games (14 goals), Günther Kasperski is listed as Reutlingen's record player in the statistics.

literature

• 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 .
• Dominic Bold: 1. FC Kaiserslautern. The Chronicle. Publishing house Die Werkstatt. Göttingen 2013. ISBN 978-3-7307-0046-4 .