Gerd Saborowski

Gerd Saborowski (1965)

Gerd Saborowski (born September 3, 1943 in Altendorf (Pomerania) ) is a former German football player who won the German football championship in 1967 as a striker for Eintracht Braunschweig .

career

Regionalliga Nord, 1963 to 1966

The attacking player of TSV Siems (Lübeck), who took part in the UEFA youth tournament in Romania with the German youth national team in 1962 , moved to Holstein Kiel in the new Regionalliga Nord for the 1963/64 round . On the sixth game day, September 15, 1964, he entered the list of goalscorers for the "Storks" for the first time. The newcomer contributed all three goals to the 3-0 home win against ASV Bergedorf 85 . He scored 14 goals in 22 appearances in the 1963/64 season. In his second year at Kiel, alongside Franz-Josef Hönig and Gerd Koll , he made a significant contribution to the championship with his 34 goals. With 94:41 goals and ten points ahead of runner-up St. Pauli , Holstein Kiel won the championship title in 1964/65 with North top scorer Saborowski and thus made it into the Bundesliga promotion round. It wasn't enough for the ascent. Borussia Mönchengladbach narrowly prevailed against SSV Reutlingen, Kiel and Worms, but Saborowski scored three goals in this round as well. In his third season with Kiel in the Regionalliga, 1965/66, he played 31 games and contributed 22 goals. The team of trainer Hellmut Meidt , he was replaced by Rudolf Faßnacht in March 1966 , but narrowly missed the renewed entry into the promotion round as third. Saborowski then moved to the 1966/67 round for Bundesliga club Eintracht Braunschweig. From 1963 to 1966 he had achieved 83 games with 70 goals for Holstein Kiel in the Regionalliga Nord .

Football Bundesliga, 1966 to 1971

Coach Helmuth Johannsen used the ex-Kieler on the start day of the Bundesliga round 1966/67, August 20, 1966, in the home game against SV Werder Bremen. Saborowski scored the 2-0 for Braunschweig in the 81st minute and the "Löwen" had a surprisingly good round in the next few months. Saborowski made 33 appearances and scored eight goals. With an exceptionally good defense and the offensive around Lothar Ulsaß , Eintracht Braunschweig won the German championship in 1967.

Success in the championship also paid off for Saborowski through three appearances in the DFB's U23 junior national team . He played the international matches in October 1966 against Turkey, in November 1966 against Romania and on May 3, 1967 in Mönchengladbach against Czechoslovakia. In the 3-1 success in the Bökelberg Stadium , he formed the German attack together with Herbert Wimmer , Günter Netzer , Jupp Heynckes and Horst Köppel .

In the 1967/68 round Braunschweig played in the European Cup . In the second leg against SK Rapid Wien on November 29, 1967, Saborowski scored the decisive goal for the 2-0 final score. His third appearance in the European Cup was the play-off on March 20, 1968 in Bern's Wankdorf Stadium against Juventus Turin . The team of coach Heriberto Herrera prevailed with a goal from Sweden's Roger Magnusson , against the Braunschweiger who competed without the injured Lothar Ulsaß and Horst Berg .

In the 1970/71 season, now Otto Knefler was working as a coach in Braunschweig , Saborowski came again to ten missions with two goals. He played his last Bundesliga game on May 1, 1971 in the 2-1 defeat at Hamburger SV. He moved back to Holstein Kiel in the Regionalliga Nord for the 1971/72 round and ended his career in German league football there in 1972. He stayed with the "Storks" until 1973. Then he let his career end with his home club TSV Siems.

literature

• Heinz Graßhof et al .: Eintracht Braunschweig. Portrait of a Bundesliga team . Graff and Grenzland, Braunschweig 1967, p. 36.
• Hardy Greens : Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 2: Bundesliga & Co. 1963 to today. 1st division, 2nd division, GDR Oberliga. Numbers, pictures, stories. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 1997, ISBN 3-89609-113-1 .
• Hardy Greens: Legendary football clubs. Northern Germany. Between TSV Achim, Hamburger SV and TuS Zeven. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2004, ISBN 3-89784-223-8 .
• Matthias Weinrich: The European Cup. Volume 1: 1955 to 1974. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2007, ISBN 978-3-89784-252-6 .