Gerhard Zebrowski

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Gerhard Zebrowski (born April 25, 1940 in Bremen ; † April 30, 2020 ) was a German football player . The offensive player was in the second Bundesliga season 1964/65 with his club Werder Bremen German football champion .

career

Before founding the Bundesliga, until 1963

Zebrowski, who came from TuS Walle to the Werder Bremen green-whites as a teenager, had been a member of Werder Bremen's league team since 1959 . He made his debut under coach Georg Knöpfle on November 29, 1959 in a 7-0 home win against Bergedorf 85 in what was then the first-class league. The Werder attack consisted of Günter Wilmovius , Klaus Hänel , Willi Schröder , Helmut Schimeczek and Zebrowski on the left wing in the World Cup system at that time . He also scored his first league goal on his debut. The fast dribbler that can be used on both wings was runner-up with Werder four times in a row from 1960 to 1963. In the last year of the old first-class league, 1962/63 , he completed all 30 league games and scored 15 goals. Werder was again runner-up two points behind the series champions Hamburger SV, but scored the most goals this season with 102:44 goals. Center forward Dieter Meyer was the top scorer with 37 goals ahead of Uwe Seeler with 32 goals. By the time the Bundesliga was founded , Zebrowski made 71 appearances and 27 goals from 1959 to 1963.

Bundesliga career, 1963 to 1969

In the first Bundesliga season 1963/64 Gerhard Zebrowski made his league debut on the second match day (August 31, 1963) in the 3-0 defeat of his team at 1. FC Nuremberg . In his second outing a week later, he scored the first goal against VfB Stuttgart to make it 2-2. He completed 27 league games under Knöpfle's successor Willi Multhaup and scored ten goals for Werder when he reached tenth place in the table.

Appropriately strengthened by the newcomers Horst-Dieter Höttges , Klaus Matischak , Heinz Steinmann and Hans Schulz , Bremen achieved the surprising championship win in 1964/65. Zebrowski (28-11) and the new center forward Matischak with twelve goals led the club's internal goalscorer list in front of the all-rounder and captain Arnold Schütz . On March 10, 1965, the winger completed a mission in the B national team . In the 1-1 draw in Hanover against the Netherlands, however, he played in the unfamiliar position of left winger , as Rudolf Nafziger stormed on the right wing.

In the 1965/66 season, Zebrowski also played in three of the four Werder Bremen games in the European Cup. In his European debut on October 6, 1965 with the champions of Cyprus APOEL Nicosia , he scored his only goal to make it 5-0. Gerhard Zebrowski was unable to take part in the game at Partizan Belgrade because, as a soldier in the Bundeswehr, he was not given a travel permit for what was then Yugoslavia .

In total, the striker completed 145 Bundesliga games in six years and scored 40 goals before he left the club for the 1969/70 season for Bremerhaven 93 .

Regionalliga Nord, 1969 to 1972

From 1969 to 1972 he came in the football regional league North for Bremerhaven on 91 missions with 29 goals. In his first regional league year 1969/70 he finished sixth with Bremerhaven at the side of teammates Horst Grunenberg (goalkeeper), Horst Bertl and top scorer Willi Reimann (27-20) with 32 missions and twelve goals. In the summer of 1972, the 32-year-old went back to the amateur camp and moved to SV Hemelingen .

The trained freight forwarder published the stadium newspaper Werder-Echo for many years and lived with his family in Bremen- Grolland .

literature

  • Jens Reimer Prüß (Ed.): Bung bottle with flat pass cork. The history of the Oberliga Nord 1947–1963. Klartext, Essen 1991, ISBN 3-88474-463-1 .
  • 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 .

supporting documents

  1. ↑ Gerhard Zebrowski - player profile. Retrieved October 26, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Werder mourns the master player from 1965: Zebrowski died at the age of 80. In: Transfermarkt . May 5, 2020, accessed May 5, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Check. P. 229
  4. ↑ Arnd Zeigler : Lifelong green and white. Bremen 2006.
personal data
SURNAME Zebrowski, Gerhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH April 25, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Bremen
DATE OF DEATH April 30, 2020