Gustav Walenciak

Gustav Walenciak (born August 23, 1939 ) is a former German soccer player who played twelve games and scored seven goals for runner-up Meidericher SV in the first year of the Bundesliga, 1963/64 .

career

Amateur, until 1960

The young striker Gustav Walenciak drew attention to himself with his talent in the association league Niederrhein at SpVgg Sterkrade 06/07 in the rounds 1958/59 and 1959/60. DFB coach Georg Gawliczek nominated the 20-year-old for the national soccer team of amateurs for the German-German elimination games in September 1959 against the GDR national soccer team . He was not used in the two games in Berlin and Düsseldorf, he experienced the two successes of the DFB team from the bench. Gawliczek brought the attacker from Sterkrade but on March 5, 1960 in London in the international match against England in the amateur national team. With the storm formation Carl-Heinz Rühl , Alfred Glenski , Walenciak, Gerhard Neuser and Willibert Kremer , the German team scored a 1-1 draw with a goal from the Sterkrader debutants. On April 18, 1960, the Olympic qualifier against Poland followed in Warsaw. With the inner storm Walenciak, Otto Rehhagel and Günter Nauheimer there was a 1: 3 defeat and the dream of the Olympic football tournament in Rome in 1960 was over. In 1960/61 he signed a contract with Rot-Weiss Essen for the Oberliga West and met another newcomer, Otto Rehhagel, who had found his way to the Rot-Weisse on Hafenstrasse from TuS Helene Essen.

Rot-Weiss Essen, 1960/61

In the opening game of the 1960/61 season, on August 14, 1960, in the home game against Preußen Münster, coach Willi Multhaup immediately deployed the new attacker from Sterkrade in the major league. Essen started with a 3-0 win in the round and Walenciak entered the list of goalscorers with one goal. At the end of the round, the German champions of 1955 rose from the league and Walenciak had played in twelve games with three goals. After relegation, the ex-Sterkrader changed to Meidericher SV for round 1961/62.

Meidericher SV, 1961 to 1964

For the "Zebras" from Meidericher SV, Walenciak completed 50 games with 16 goals in the last two rounds of the Oberliga, 1961 to 1963, and thus contributed to the MSV's nomination for the new Bundesliga for the 1963/64 round. Coach Multhaup, who had also moved from Essen to Meiderich, immediately deployed the attacker in his storm formation on the start day of the 1961/62 round, August 6, 1961, in the 1-1 draw at Alemannia Aachen. Meiderich took fifth place in 1962. In the senior year of the league, the team around playmaker Werner Krämer came in third place and moved into the Bundesliga. Coach Multhaup accepted Werder Bremen's offer for the Bundesliga and Rudi Gutendorf was his successor at Wedau .

Gustav Walenciak played his first Bundesliga game on matchday eight, October 19, 1963. Meiderich won the home game against 1. FC Saarbrücken with 3-1 goals. Eight days later, he scored his first Bundesliga goal in a 3-3 draw against leaders 1. FC Köln. On April 18, 1964, on the 28th matchday, Walenciak played his 12th and last Bundesliga game. With the storm formation Helmut Rahn , Horst Gecks , Heinz Versteeg , Ludwig Nolden and Walenciak, the MSV did not get beyond a 0-0 in the home Wedau stadium. After the first Bundesliga season Meiderich was able to decorate himself with the runner-up. In the summer of 1964, Walenciak preferred the West Regional Football League to the Bundesliga and moved to Arminia Bielefeld.

Arminia Bielefeld, 1964 to 1966

Bielefeld finished fifth in the Regionalliga West with strikers Bernd Kirchner , Ulrich Kohn , Gerd Roggensack and Walenciak in 1965 and coach Hellmut Meidt . When coach Robert Gebhardt relapsed into midfield in 1966, Walenciak ended his career in contract football in the summer of 1966 and withdrew back into the amateur field. He had played 41 games with 12 goals in the Regionalliga in Bielefeld.

literature

• Hans Dieter Baroth : Boys, Heaven is yours! The history of the Oberliga West 1947–1963. Klartext, Essen 1988, ISBN 3-88474-332-5 .
• Ulrich Merk, André Schulin: Bundesliga chronicle 1963/64. Volume 1: Triumphal procession of the billy goats. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2004, ISBN 3-89784-083-9 .
• Hardy Grüne , Lorenz Knieriem: Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 8: Player Lexicon 1890–1963. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2006, ISBN 3-89784-148-7 .