Gerhard Strick

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Gerhard Strick
Personnel
birthday January 10, 1937
position goalkeeper
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1959-1961 Würzburger Kickers
1961-1965 1. FC Nuremberg 18 (0)
1 Only league games are given.

Gerhard Strick (born January 10, 1937 ) is a former German soccer goalkeeper . During his career he played with 1. FC Nürnberg from 1961 to 1965 in the soccer Oberliga Süd and the Bundesliga .

Career

The 1.86 m tall goalkeeper Gerhard Strick came in 1961 from the Würzburger Kickers of the 1st Amateur League Bavaria to the first division team of 1. FC Nürnberg . At his hometown club VfL Bad Neustadt he had been on the ball until 1955, before the high school graduate left for Würzburg to study law there. After his move to the reigning German champions, he was number 2 behind club goalkeeper Roland Wabra . For Nuremberg, the student goalkeeper played eleven league games in two league seasons and won the southern championship with the "Club" in 1962 and reached the runner-up in the last year of the old first-class league, 1962/63 , with the Franks under coach Herbert Widmayer . On the 23rd matchday, February 11, 1962, Strick made his debut in a 1-0 home win against VfR Mannheim in the Oberliga Süd. The club defense formed in front of Strick with Paul Derbfuß and Helmut Hilpert in the defender pair and with Josef Zenger , Ferdinand Wenauer and Stefan Reisch in the runner row. Eight later, on February 18, he was also in a 3-0 away defeat at Karlsruher SC in the case of 1. FC Nürnberg. Four days later, on February 22nd, the sporting highlight of his career followed: Strick also represented Wabra in the second leg in the European Cup at Benfica Lisbon . In front of 70,000 spectators at the Estádio da Luz , he experienced a furious assault run by coach Béla Guttmann's team in a clear 6-0 defeat, but the “fireworks” of the Benfica attack with José Augusto , Eusébio , José Águas , Mário Coluna and António Simões was a great art of football. Weinrich noted in his European Cup book about this game, among other things: "It was not due to the lack of the regular keeper Wabra, who was represented by the inexperienced Gerhard Strick, that the club was finally presented by the defending champion who was getting into a frenzy." In March 1962 he ran in the three league games against FC Bayern Munich (1: 2), BC Augsburg (3: 0) and FSV Frankfurt (2: 1) in his debut round in the Oberliga Süd at 1. FC Nürnberg.

In the quarter-final home game for the DFB Cup on August 8, 1962 against VfV Hildesheim (11: 0), he was in goal without employment; In the other successful games for the cup, including the final on August 29 against Fortuna Düsseldorf (2: 1 n.V.), Wabra guarded the goal. In his second league season, the law student came to six league appearances in 1962/63. He belongs to the circle of players who ended the old first-class Oberliga Süd as active on the field on April 28, 1963, the 30th game day. In the case of a 5-1 home win for the "Club", Strick was in the FCN housing. With his teammates Horst Leupold , Hilpert, Gustav Flachenecker , Wenauer and Reisch, he had formed the defensive of the runner-up.

With the introduction of the single-track first German division, the Bundesliga, Strick remained in the club's team. After two more years in Nuremberg, he had played six Bundesliga games, he left the club in 1965 and returned to the Würzburger Kickers in the Bavarian amateur camp. In Nuremberg Gyula Tóth took over the previous role from Strick as the second goalkeeper behind Wabra. In the first Bundesliga season, Strick's two direct appearances in April 1964 against the first Bundesliga champion 1. FC Köln stood out: On April 8, Nuremberg surprised with a very narrow 2: 3 away defeat after extra time in the DFB Cup at the “billy goat” Eleven ”, but three days later they clearly lost the league game with 5-0 goals. He played his last Bundesliga game on September 19, 1964 in a 3-2 home win under coach Gunther Baumann against FC Schalke 04.

literature

  • BF Hoffmann: The great lexicon of the Bundesliga keepers. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf. Berlin 2003. ISBN 3-89602-526-0 . P. 407.
  • Christian Karn, Reinhard Rehberg: Player Lexicon 1963–1994. Agon Sportverlag. Kassel 2012. ISBN 978-3-89784-214-4 . P. 497.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Matthias Weinrich: The European Cup, Volume 1, 1955 to 1974. Agon Sportverlag. Kassel 2007. ISBN 978-3897842526 . P. 106

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personal data
SURNAME Strick, Gerhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer goalkeeper
DATE OF BIRTH January 10, 1937