Gerhard Wanner (soccer player)

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Gerhard Wanner (born March 27, 1939 ; † March 30, 2020 ) was a German football player . The offensive player scored three goals in 16 league appearances for VfB Stuttgart in the debut year of the Bundesliga in 1963/64 .

career

Wanner played at TSV Hildrizhausen and won the district cup with the team in 1957/58. After the 1961/62 season in the 1st Amateur League North Württemberg with Sportvg Feuerbach , he was brought into the Oberliga Süd by VfB Stuttgart. At the club for movement games, the departures of national strikers Erwin Waldner (1960 to FC Zurich) and Rolf Geiger (1962 to AC Mantova) had to be replaced. The powerful attacker from Feuerbach scored on the first round match day 1962/63, on August 19, 1962, in a 2-1 home win against Ulm 46 as a center forward, his first upper league for the white-reds. The first half of the season did not go well for VfB, after the 15th matchday the club of coach Kurt Baluses was in a disappointing 13th place with 11:19 points. With the result of 21: 9 points in the second half of the season, VfB moved up to 6th place. Schwaben Augsburg was 15th in the table and VfB scored 49 goals, while VfB was a long way from the two leading southern clubs, Munich 1860 (72 goals) and 1. FC Nürnberg (87 goals). In his first year in the Oberliga Süd , Wanner made 26 league appearances with VfB and scored 12 goals. Together with Manfred Reiner, he was the most successful VfB goalscorer in the last league season and thus played a key role in VfB being accepted into the new single-track Bundesliga. He contributed a goal to the 3-2 home win against leaders 1. FC Nürnberg on January 27, as well as the 2-1 win against Karlsruher SC in front of 35,000 spectators on February 10, 1963, the 2-0 win against FC Schweinfurt 05 on March 17 and April 21, 1963 he was the winning goal scorer in the 1-0 home win against FC Bayern Munich. In front of 35,000 spectators, the inner striker Wanner had to do with the prominent Bayern runner row with Karl-Heinz Borutta , Herbert Erhardt and Willi Giesemann . As a two-time goalscorer, he distinguished himself in the 4-0 win against FC Bayern Hof and the 4-2 win against VfR Mannheim on April 28, 1963 in the away game. On June 8, 1963, he saw the performance of FC Santos with world star Pelé in a friendly match in the Neckar Stadium.

Geiger and Waldner returned to Stuttgart for the first round of the Bundesliga in 1963/64, and the competition in the VfB attack was significantly increased. Wanner ran in the new league for the first time on August 31, 1963 in a 2-0 home win against Hertha BSC. In front of 45,000 spectators, VfB managed to win at home with the attacking line-up Waldner, Hans Arnold , Wanner, Geiger and Manfred Reiner . During the season, Wanner played 16 times for Stuttgart and scored 3 goals. VfB finished fifth, level on points with fourth-placed Borussia Dortmund (both 33:27 points). In the second Bundesliga year, 1964/65, only two more games were added. When he played on April 30, 1965 in the 3-2 away win at Eintracht Frankfurt, as a center forward he contributed a goal, Wanner said goodbye to the Bundesliga. He went on a world tour with VfB from May 20 to June 17, with stops in Geneva, Cairo, Bombay, Saigon, Hong Kong, Sydney, Los Angeles, New York and London. For the 1965/66 season he joined the promoted team in the second -rate regional soccer league south , VfR Pforzheim .

He made his debut on August 15, 1965 in a 1: 5 home defeat against FC Schweinfurt 05 in the Regionalliga Süd. In the 2-3 home defeat against SpVgg Weiden on August 29, he scored both VfR goals. When he and the blue and white lawn athletes had to accept an over-clear 1:11 defeat on the Bieberer Berg against Kickers Offenbach on December 26, 1965 , he had brought the VfR 1-0 lead in the 3rd minute. For the team from the Holzhof stadium, he completed 22 games in 1965/66 under coach Gustav Mohn at the side of teammate Manfred Schwalm and scored nine goals. The attacker played his last regional league game on March 6, 1966 in a 1: 5 away defeat against FSV Frankfurt. He scored the consolation goal.

The former Bundesliga player lived in Kirchberg an der Murr , where he celebrated his 80th birthday on March 27, 2019. He died on March 30, 2020.

literature

  • Hardy Grüne , Lorenz Knieriem: Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 8: Player Lexicon 1890–1963. Agon-Sportverlag, Kassel 2006, ISBN 3-89784-148-7 . P. 408.
  • Hardy Greens: With the ring on your chest. The history of VfB Stuttgart. Publishing house Die Werkstatt. Göttingen 2007. ISBN 978-3-89533-593-8 .
  • Christian Karn, Reinhard Rehberg: Player Lexicon 1963–1994. Agon Sportverlag. Kassel 2012. ISBN 978-3-89784-214-4 . P. 531.
  • Ulrich Merk, Andre Schulin: Bundesliga Chronicle 1963/64. Agon Sportverlag. Kassel 2004. ISBN 3-89784-083-9 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Andreas Gauß: Rebellious boys become real creators on fupa.net, October 24, 2014
  2. ↑ Werner Skrentny (ed.): When Morlock still met the moonlight. The history of the Oberliga Süd 1945–1963. Klartext Verlag. Essen 1993. ISBN 3-88474-055-5 . P. 197
  3. ↑ Merk, Schulin: Bundesliga Chronicle 1963/64. P. 39
  4. ↑ VfB mourns Gerhard Wanner. In: vfb.de. Retrieved April 5, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Wanner, Gerhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH March 27, 1939
DATE OF DEATH March 30, 2020