Hans Schäfer (soccer player)

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Hans Schäfer
Personnel
Surname Johann Schäfer
birthday October 19, 1927
place of birth Cologne ,  German Empire
date of death 7th November 2017
Place of death Cologne,  Germany
size 174 cm
position Midfield , storm
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1948-1965 1. FC Cologne 394 (254)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1952-1962 Germany 39 0(15)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
1966-1969 1. FC Köln (assistant coach)
1 Only league games are given.

Johann "Hans" Shepherd , called "De Knoll" (* 19th October 1927 in Cologne - ruler ; † 7. November 2017 in Cologne) was a German football player connected to the 1. FC Köln in 1962 and 1964 , the German Cup and with the national team , the 1954 FIFA world Cup won.

From 1949 to 1963, the left winger and later playmaker in the football Oberliga West completed 356 games for his club. With 223 hits he was the record scorer in the top division of the West German Football Association at the time , took part in three world championships and was voted Germany's Footballer of the Year in 1963 .

career

Clubs from 1937 to 1965

Cologne-Zollstock, Volkmarsen and promotion to the upper league, 1937 to 1949

His father Hugo, born in Kaiserslautern and a hairdresser by profession , was enthusiastic about football. So from 1937 son Hans was allowed to play soccer at DJK Rheinland Zollstock (later Rot-Weiss Zollstock), a club in the south of Cologne, when he wasn't helping his father in his parents' salon. His extraordinary talent for the offensive was quickly discovered and promoted there. After attending elementary and middle school, he completed an apprenticeship as a hairdresser and was drafted into military service as an anti-aircraft helper in 1943 at the age of 16 in World War II . He survived this time unscathed and returned in 1944 to his parents' house and to his old club in Zollstock.

Due to his outstanding footballing skills, he received offers from local big names to play for them in the club. The Spielvereinigung Sülz 07 tried hardest to get the player. His later change from Rot-Weiss Zollstock to 1. FC Köln took place via the VfR Volkmarsen in northern Hesse , allegedly to avoid a one-year transfer ban within the British occupation zone . Schäfer thus stayed in the game, played in Volkmarsen “for an apple and an egg”, in the truest sense of the word. In Cologne there was little post-war food for the population, while things looked better in the country. Shepherd lived with a farmer. On June 18, 1948 - the police reported back in Cologne.

During his year in North Hesse , he played for VfR Volkmarsen with Heinrich Trimhold, father of the future Bundesliga player Horst Trimhold . On January 25, 1948, Schäfer was also a member of the team for the north selection in the selection game between North Hesse and South Hesse on KSV-Hessen-Platz in front of 9,000 spectators, where club mate Heinrich Trimhold was in the middle and later national player Karl-Heinz Metzner was in action as the right wing runner were.

Schäfer signed with the new major club 1. FC Cologne, which was created on February 13, 1948 through the merger of Sülz 07 and Cologne BC. In his first season in 1948/49, the new left winger celebrated the championship in the Rheinbezirksliga under player- coach Hennes Weisweiler and, after two victorious games against Bayer 04 Leverkusen, he was promoted to the West Football League .

Oberliga West and Bundesliga, 1949 to 1965

The fast-paced, powerful, enthusiastic, tricky striker on the left wing equipped with a hard shot made his debut on September 4, 1949 in the away game against Rhenania Würselen in the Oberliga West. He played 27 league games and scored 17 goals. In May and November 1950 he was appointed to the regional selection of West Germany for representative games against North and South Germany. In Jupp Röhrig , Schäfer found a congenial teammate and ideal passer with an overview for his game from the 1950/51 round. The Cologne team thus had a "dream wing" that combined worth seeing and scored many goals.

On October 14, 1951, Schäfer was called to the squad for the DFB's B international match against Switzerland in Basel . Schäfer and Röhrig formed the left wing in the 2-0 success. On November 9, 1952, he made his debut for the senior team. This was followed by the title of top scorer in the Oberliga West in 1953 and 1954 with 26 goals each, and the surprising win of the 1954 World Cup in Switzerland, where he scored four goals in five appearances.

From the year of the Soccer World Cup in Sweden in 1958 , 1. FC Cologne dominated the Oberliga West. National coach Sepp Herberger first appointed Schäfer captain at the international match in Vienna against Austria on March 10, 1957, an award that he received in his club team only after Jupp Röhrig left in 1960. When he himself took on the role of the cleverly conducting semi-striker with his great national and international experience, the others “lived” from his art of using it and leading it in an encouraging way. He was now the absolute center of the Cologne game. He was the goal-scoring playmaker of President Franz Kremer's team, recognized by all teammates and decision-makers in the club, and at the same time the extended arm on the field for the respective coach. While Schäfer and colleagues had to be content with the runner-up in 1958 and 1959, the "billy goat eleven" was able to take the lead with four championships in a row from 1960 to 1963. When they entered the final of the German championship in 1960 , the Rhinelander were defeated by Hamburger SV with 3-2 goals. In 1962, 1. FC Köln won the championship trophy for the first time with a 4-0 final victory over 1. FC Nürnberg . Schäfer's dominant role in his club induced national coach Herberger to persuade the veteran to make a comeback in the national team in the run-up to the World Cup in Chile and to fly with him to South America as captain.

The criticized World Cup days in Chile with an unfamiliar defensive role, the 8-1 defeat on September 5, 1962 in the European Cup at Scottish champions FC Dundee and the 3-1 defeat in the final on June 29, 1963 in the last final For the German championship, however, Schäfer could not rank in the series of his many successes. However, this applies to the success with 1. FC Köln in the first Bundesliga round in 1963/64. Under coach Georg Knöpfle , captain Schäfer and his teammates brought the second German championship to Cologne in 1964. In 22 Bundesliga games he scored twelve goals and he led the attackers Karl-Heinz Thielen , Christian Müller , Wolfgang Overath and Heinz Hornig to their championship-ready offensive performances.

From November 28, 1964 to March 27, 1965 he was out of the season due to a protracted injury and was therefore unable to take part in the three European Cup games in February and March 1965 against Liverpool FC , which only became possible through the " coin toss of Rotterdam " were decided. He played his last game on May 15, 1965 in a 2-2 away draw at Borussia Dortmund , after which the 37-year-old ended his active career.

National team, 1951 to 1962

National coach Herberger had already seen Cologne's winger talent in the representative games of West Germany in May and November 1950, in the unofficial international match on April 4, 1951 in Essen against Saarland and in the B international match on October 14, 1951 against Switzerland, before Schäfer on November 9, 1952 in Augsburg against Switzerland for the first time in the senior national team. Then he stormed in the World Cup qualifiers against Norway and Saarland. At the World Cup in Switzerland, he was part of the German surprise team that won the title with 3-2 goals on July 4, 1954 in the final in Bern against the favored Hungarians. He was wearing the number 20 on his back. When the decisive goal was scored in the 84th minute, radio reporter Herbert Zimmermann commented as follows:

"Now Germany on the left wing through Schäfer - Schäfer's pass to Morlock is blocked by the Hungarians - and Bozsik, again and again Bozsik, the Hungarians right runner on the ball. He lost the ball ... - this time against Schäfer - Schäfer flanked inside - Header - blocked - Rahn should shoot from the background - Rahn shoots! Toooor! Goo! Goo! Tooor! "

In the AGON book about the soccer world championship in 1954 it is stated that the international press titled the Cologne man after the triumph with the headline “the best left winger in the world!”. Also Rudi Michel led to this classification. He wrote, "after the German team had become world champions with Schäfer in 1954, the critics voted him the best left winger."

When the defending champions Germany finished fourth at the 1958 World Cup in Sweden, Schäfer was captain in all six of the DFB-Elf's games and scored three goals. After an almost three-year break, he returned to the national team on April 11, 1962, in the last international match before the 1962 World Cup in Chile, against Uruguay in Hamburg. In South America he led the Herberger team as captain in all four World Cup games against Italy, Switzerland, Chile and Yugoslavia on the field. After his 39th international match, the 0-1 defeat on June 10 in Santiago against Yugoslavia, he finally ended his ten-year career in the national team.

Herberger praised his achievements in the national team with the following words:

"Of all the left wingers among our national players, Hans Schäfer was the most determined."

In addition to the playing career

On April 28, 1953, Hans Schäfer married Isis Wolf, the daughter of the then DFB referee chairman Degenhard Wolf, and planned the time after his active career. He became an intern in the perfumery department of a Kaufhof branch in Cologne. He later ran a gas station in Cologne on the corner of Lindenthalgürtel and Dürener Strasse. From 1966 to 1969 he was assistant coach at 1. FC Köln before he left the football business.

Grave site, October 2019

After his career, he devoted himself entirely to his work as the sole representative of a promotion and advertising service company that was originally founded by the FC club president and Schäfer sponsor Franz Kremer. Schäfer was an elected member of the six-member honorary council of 1. FC Köln. He lived in the Cologne district of Lindenthal and died on November 7, 2017 at the age of 90. His grave is in hall 22 on the south cemetery in Cologne-Zollstock.

Awards and honors

  • In August 2018, the "Hans-Schäfer-Südkurve" was unveiled in the RheinEnergieStadion before the home game of 1. FC Cologne against 1. FC Union Berlin.
  • At the gala for the 70th anniversary of the 1. FC Cologne club in November 2018, Schäfer was posthumously accepted into the club's newly established hall of fame .

statistics

successes

Movie

In the 2003 feature film The Miracle of Bern , Hans Schäfer was portrayed by Martin Bretschneider .

literature

  • Willy Thelen: Hans Schäfer: A thousand games - a thousand goals . Copress-Verlag, Munich 1963, without ISBN.
  • Thomas Hardt, Thomas Hohndorf, Bruno Morbitzer, Hubert Dahlkamp, ​​Hardy Grüne: Hennes & Co. The history of 1. FC Cologne . Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2004, ISBN 3-89533-470-7 .
  • Lorenz Knieriem, Hardy Grüne : Player Lexicon 1890 - 1963 . In: Encyclopedia of German League Football . tape 8 . AGON, Kassel 2006, ISBN 3-89784-148-7 .
  • Jürgen Bitter : Germany's national soccer player: the lexicon . SVB Sportverlag, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-328-00749-0 , p. 179 f .
  • Uwe Nuttelmann (Ed.): Der Deutsche Ligafußball 1903-2010 , Volume 2, Nuttelmann-Verlag, Jade 2010.
  • Helmut Eickelmann (arr.): The Shepherd Ballad . M. DuMont Schauberg, Cologne around 1963.
  • Hermann Schmidt: Left wing, The best wing runabouts in football history, Verlag Die Werkstatt, 2014, pp. 25–34, ISBN 978-3-7307-0092-1 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Erik Eggers: On the death of Hans Schäfer: "Schäfer, inwardly flanked". Spiegel Online , November 7, 2017, accessed November 7, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Probably a misunderstanding in the literature. With a regular change of club with approval, the ban would only have been three months. Presumably it was about bridging the compulsory embargo by moving to another zone.
  3. ^ Willy Thelen: Hans Schäfer. "A thousand games - a thousand goals" . P. 7.
  4. ↑ Horst Biese, Herbert Peiler: "Flanks, Goals and Parades". 100 years of football in Kassel. AGON-Sportverlag, Kassel 1993, p. 93, ISBN 3-928562-37-1 .
  5. ^ Matthias Arnhold: Johann Schäfer - Matches and Goals in Bundesliga . RSSSF . April 11, 2013. Retrieved November 7, 2017.
  6. ^ Andreas Bauer: Radio report by Herbert Zimmermann . das-wunder-von-bern.de, January 29, 2010, accessed on November 7, 2017.
  7. ^ Christian Jessen, Volker Stahl, Erik Eggers, Johann-Günther Schlüper: Football World Cup 1954 Switzerland. The miracle of Bern (= AGON World Cup history, 5). Kassel 2003, ISBN 3-89784-218-1 , p. 90.
  8. ↑ Rudi Michel: Germany is world champion . Südwest Verlag, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-517-06735-0 , p. 194.
  9. ^ Matthias Arnhold: Hans Schäfer - International Appearances. Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation , April 18, 2004, accessed April 24, 2013 .
  10. ↑ a b Jürgen Bitter : Germany's national soccer player: the lexicon . SVB Sportverlag, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-328-00749-0 , p. 415 .
  11. ^ Willy Thelen: Hans Schäfer. "A thousand games - a thousand goals" . P. 10.
  12. ↑ FC mourns Hans Schäfer. 1. FC Köln, November 7, 2017, accessed on November 7, 2017 .
  13. ↑ knerger.de: The grave of Hans Schäfer
  14. ↑ HALL OF FAME opened , fc.de, accessed on November 23, 2018
  15. ↑ The Miracle of Bern (2003): Full Cast & Crew .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Internet Movie Database , accessed November 7, 2017.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.imdb.de  
personal data
SURNAME Shepherd, Hans
ALTERNATIVE NAMES De Knoll (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH October 19, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne folding rule
DATE OF DEATH 7th November 2017
Place of death Cologne