Gerd Schneider (soccer player, 1940)

Gerd Schneider
Personnel
birthday	December 18, 1940
place of birth	Germany
date of death	October 29, 1983
size	178 cm
position	Defense
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1960-1970	1. FC Kaiserslautern	219 (1)
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
	1. FC Kaiserslautern Am.
June 1973	1. FC Kaiserslautern
1 Only league games are given.

Gerd Schneider (born December 18, 1940 - October 29, 1983 ) was a German soccer player . The defensive player played 161 league games (1 goal) at 1. FC Kaiserslautern from 1963 to 1970 in the Bundesliga . In the last year of the old first-class soccer league south-west , 1963/64, he won the championship in the south-west with the “Red Devils” from Betzenberg.

Career

Gerd Schneider, who joined the youth department of FCK in 1956, played in the first team of 1. FC Kaiserslautern in the Oberliga Südwest from the 1960/61 season. He made his debut in the league on September 18, 1960 in a 0-0 home draw against SC Ludwigshafen under coach Richard Schneider as the right connector in the then mostly used World Cup system . At the end of the round, FCK finished fourth and Schneider had played eight games. From his second season in the league, 1961/62, the always reliable team player "Butzel" Schneider belonged to the regular cast. When he again occupied fourth place, he had played 29 league games alongside Werner Liebrich and Jürgen Neumann, mostly as the right wing runner. However, reaching the final of the DFB Cup in 1961 reached its climax . On September 13, 1961, the final took place in Gelsenkirchen against SV Werder Bremen. The North Germans prevailed under coach Georg Knöpfle with two goals from Willy Schröder against Kaiserslautern, who had been trained by Günter Brocker in the first year . In his third league year, 1962/63, Schneider and his teammates celebrated the championship in the southwest , the entry into the finals for the German soccer championship and the nomination in the new performance concentration of DFB soccer, in the Bundesliga from 1963/64. From 1960 to 1963 he played a total of 58 games (no goal) in the Oberliga Südwest - at that time the top division in German football. In the final round, Schneider was used in all six games against 1. FC Köln, 1. FC Nürnberg and Hertha BSC. With 3: 9 points it was only enough for 4th place in the group.

From 1963 to 1970 he played 161 times for FCK in the Bundesliga and scored one goal. With 15 DFB Cup games, he made a total of 240 competitive appearances and one goal in the jersey of the Palatinate. His Bundesliga debut took place on September 7, 1963 in a 2-2 away draw against Hertha BSC. With Dieter Pulter and Neumann he formed the runner row. In the first three Bundesliga rounds he played permanently with the FCK to stay up. In Gyula Lorant's second year of coaching, 1966/67 , the team from Betzenberg surprised by reaching 5th place in the final ranking. Although the two newcomers Gerhard Kentschke (26-8) (Karlsruher SC) and Otto Rehhagel from Hertha BSC (28-4) proved to be reinforcements, the good performance of the Palatinate team was still a surprise. On the fifth match day, after a 2-0 home win against Werder Bremen, FCK was in first place with 9-1 points, nobody had expected that and thought it was possible. On the 25th matchday, March 11, 1967, Schneider and colleagues also inflicted a 2-0 home defeat on the Betzenberg for the surprise champion Eintracht Braunschweig. Schneider had the special task of neutralizing the playmaker Hans-Georg Dulz , which he succeeded, and Kentschke scored both Lauterer hits.

A torn Achilles tendon in the game on November 29, 1969 against Hertha BSC ended his playing career after 161 Bundesliga games (1 goal).

At the beginning of the seventies, Schneider was a trainer for the FCK amateurs. In 1972/73 he sat for a game (34th matchday, 1: 4 against Hertha BSC ) on the coaching bench of the professional team, as the previous coach Dietrich Weise was suspended because he had already signed a contract for the next season with Eintracht Frankfurt .

In 1983, Gerd Schneider was elected treasurer of the FCK under President Udo Sopp , but can hardly carry out his last function in the service of the association. Only a few days later, the 42-year-old dies unexpectedly of a heart attack.

statistics

league	Games (goals)
Bundesliga (I)	161 0(1)
Oberliga (I)	058 0(0)
competition
DFB Cup	015 0(0)

literature

• Dominic Bold: 1. FC Kaiserslautern. The Chronicle. Publishing house Die Werkstatt. Göttingen 2013. ISBN 978-3-7307-0046-4 . P. 159.
• Matthias Weinrich: Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 3: 35 years of the Bundesliga. Part 1. The founding years 1963–1975. Stories, pictures, constellations, tables. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 1998, ISBN 3-89784-132-0 .
• Christian Karn, Reinhard Rehberg: Player Lexicon 1963–1994. Agon Sportverlag. Kassel 2012. ISBN 978-3-89784-214-4 . P. 449.
• Ulrich Merk, Andre Schulin: Bundesliga Chronicle 1963/64. Agon Sportverlag. Kassel 2004. ISBN 3-89784-083-9 .

Notes and individual references

1. ↑ ^{a b} www.der-betze-brennt.de player data sheet
2. ↑ for a clear usage statistics see list of players of 1. FC Kaiserslautern
3. ↑ Leibfried / Rauland: 100 years of 1. FC Kaiserslautern - tradition has a future , p. 86
4. ^ Leibfried / Kreilinger / Lenk: "Bastion Betzenberg", p. 96