Hans-Jürgen Bradler

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Jürgen Bradler
Personnel
Surname Hans-Jürgen Bradler
birthday August 12, 1948
place of birth Hordel (to Bochum ),  Germany
size 1.89 m
position goal
Juniors
Years station
1958-1961 BC Hordel
1961-1967 Tb Eickel
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1967-1970 TB 54 Eickel
1970-1975 VfL Bochum 66 (0)
1975-1982 Westfalia Herne 71 (0)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1970-1972 German national soccer team of amateurs 20 0(0)
1 Only league games are given.

Hans-Jürgen Bradler (born August 12, 1948 in Bochum ) is a former German soccer player who played 44 appearances in the Bundesliga from 1971 to 1975 as goalkeeper for VfL Bochum . Bradler first learned the profession of lathe operator at the Bochum club before devoting himself to his football career.

Career

VfL Bochum

From the youth of BC Hordel, via the station TB 54 Eickel in the Verbandsliga Westfalen, Südwest group, the goalkeeper's path led in the summer of 1970 to the defending champion of the Regionalliga West , to VfL Bochum. Routine coach Hermann Eppenhoff replaced the previous goalkeeper Theo Diegelmann with the talent from Eickel in the course of the 1970/71 round . Bradler guarded the goal of Bochum in 21 games in the Regionalliga. Together with the pre-stopper Manfred Rüsing from Lüner SV , Bradler stabilized the defense of VfL and was able to celebrate the title defense in front of Fortuna Düsseldorf and Wuppertaler SV . Bradler's achievements were also noticed at the DFB: On February 16, 1971, he was in the goal of the U23 junior national team in Elbasan against Albania. In the promotion round to the Bundesliga in the summer of 1971, he played all eight games against competitors VfL Osnabrück , FK Pirmasens , Karlsruher SC and Tasmania Berlin . In the first Bundesliga season of VfL Bochum, 1971/72, the 1.89 cm tall goalkeeper was an undisputed regular player. He completed all 34 games for the team from coach Eppenhoff. Together with the experienced players Werner Krämer , Reinhold Wosab , Dieter Zorc and the striker Hans Walitza , he played a key role in keeping the promoted team up. On the side, Bradler did his military service with Air Force Training Regiment 5 in Budel, the Netherlands, and so could not be available to VfL Bochum in training for three months, but still played all 34 season games. After completing his military service, he was transferred to the sports promotion group of the Federal Air Force in Essen-Kupferdreh. As part of the CISM military world championship, he completed three international matches for the German Air Force. For the 1972/73 season, Heinz Höher replaced ex-Schalke Eppenhoff on the coaching chair. VfL Bochum won the first game of the 1972/73 season at Eintracht Braunschweig 2-0 with Bradler in goal. Bradler injured his shoulder in the second game against Hertha BSC. He had to make way for goalkeeper Werner Scholz, who had come from Alemannia Aachen . After that, Hans-Jürgen Bradler had to be content with the reserve role. By 1975 he was only in ten other Bundesliga games in the goal of VfL Bochum in the team.

Westfalia Herne

For the 1975/76 season he moved to Westfalia Herne in the 2nd Bundesliga Group North. In his first year in the stadium at Schloss Strünkede , he was a regular goalkeeper under coach Heinz Murach . He was in 31 games in the goal of Westfalia. In the next three seasons there was an interplay with Lothar Matuschak. In the 1976/77 season Matuschak, in 1977/78 Bradler was again the goalkeeper of the club, which has now been renamed SC Westfalia Goldin Herne. When the 1978/79 derbies against DSC Wanne-Eickel were on the schedule, his team-mate and athletic rival Lothar Matuschak guarded the Westfalia goal in both matches. Bradler made six appearances in the 2nd Bundesliga North this season. Since the petrol empire of the sponsor Erhard Goldbach filed for bankruptcy during the second half of the season, the fifth placed Westfalia Herne returned his license and was placed in the amateur league. After that, Hans-Jürgen Bradler ended his career in the Bundesliga in the summer of 1979 at the age of 31. Until 1982 he played for Westfalia Herne in the Oberliga Westfalen.

Amateur national team, 1970 to 1972

As goalkeeper of the Westphalian league club TB Eickel, Bradler played two international matches in the amateur football team in the spring of 1970 . On April 7, he made his debut in the team coached by DFB coach Jupp Derwall in a 2-0 win in Vienna against Austria. This was followed by five inserts in a row up to and including the international match on November 18, 1970 in Zagreb against Yugoslavia. On November 21, 1970, Hans-Peter Schauber from Rot-Weiss Frankfurt got his probation chance against Greece in Athens. During the Africa tour at the turn of the year 1970/1971, the two goalkeepers Bradler and Schauber shared the stakes in a total of seven international matches. On August 25, 1971, Jürgen Muche from 1. FC Saarbrücken was a third candidate for the place in goal. With the debut of Günther Wienhold on January 12, 1972, the fight for the goalkeeper post for the 1972 Olympic team flared up again. After the last international match before the Munich Games, the 1: 2 defeat on July 30, 1972 in Lübeck against Finland's amateurs, personal consequences were drawn. Attacker Edgar Schneider from FC Bayern Munich was removed from the tournament squad. In the last preparation game in Coburg against VfB Coburg, Bradler sustained a serious head injury in a collision with Rainer Hollmann. Günter Wienhold was now number one in goal and Bradler was assigned the reserve role for the 1972 Olympic tournament in Munich. After losing 1: 4 goals against Hungary on September 6th, the VfL Bochum goalkeeper played his only tournament game two days later against the GDR . In front of 80,000 spectators in the Olympic Stadium, the GDR prevailed with 3-2 goals. Eberhard Vogel scored the winning goal in the 83rd minute. With this, his 20th assignment, Hans-Jürgen Bradler ended his career in the amateur national team.

After the career

In addition to his footballing career, Bradler had a degree in mechanical engineering as a graduate engineer. From 1996 to 2006 Bradler was the owner of a large lottery acceptance point in Witten , and until 2013 he ran a snack bar in Oer-Erkenschwick near the legendary Stimberg Stadium .

literature

  • Jürgen Bitter : Germany's football. The encyclopedia. Sportverlag, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-328-00857-8 .
  • KICKER, Football Almanach '93, Copress-Verlag, 1992, ISBN 3-7679-0398-9
  • 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 .
  • Matthias Weinrich: 25 years 2nd division. The second division almanac. All players. All clubs. All results. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2000, ISBN 3-89784-145-2 .
  • BF Hoffmann : The great lexicon of the Bundesliga keepers. More than 300 biographies - from the beginning to the present. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-89602-526-0 .
  • RevierSport series "... remembers": Jürgen Bradler, in: RevierSport 77/2012, p. 58f.
  • Heinz Formann, Deep in the West . The phenomenon VfL Bochum, Klartext-Verlag, 1994, ISBN 3-88474-177-2
  • Markus Franz, The boys from Castroper Strasse . The history of VfL Bochum, Verlag Die Werkstatt, 2005, ISBN 3-89533-506-1

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ BF Hoffmann: The large lexicon of the Bundesliga keepers. P. 42.
  2. ↑ WDR Documentation We are NRW: The Ruhr Area II
  3. ↑ Stimberg-Zeitung of August 25, 2011
personal data
SURNAME Bradler, Hans-Jürgen
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bradler, Jürgen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer goalkeeper
DATE OF BIRTH August 12, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Bochum