Hans Walitza

Hans Walitza
Personnel
Surname	Hans Walitza
birthday	November 26, 1945
place of birth	Mülheim an der Ruhr ,  Germany
size	182 cm
position	striker
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
0000-1965	VfB Speldorf
1965-1969	Black and white food	100 0(48)
1969-1974	VfL Bochum	166 (112)
1974-1979	1. FC Nuremberg	127 0(71)
1979-1981	TSV Röttenbach
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1973	Germany U-23	3 00(1)
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
1979-1981	TSV Röttenbach (player coach)
2007-2008	SG Linden / Dahlhausen
1 Only league games are given.

Hans Walitza (born November 26, 1945 in Mülheim an der Ruhr ) is a former German football player .

Career

He played for Schwarz-Weiß Essen (1965–1969), VfL Bochum (1969–1974) and 1. FC Nürnberg (1974–1979). Walitza took part in a total of 108 Bundesliga games and scored 53 goals there. During his heyday he was courted by all Bundesliga teams, u. a. from Bayern Munich. Foreign top clubs such as Real Madrid or the 1970 World Cup winner Feyenoord Rotterdam also wanted to sign him. The veto of his club VfL Bochum prevented a lucrative move for him. He also played 3 international matches in the German U-23 national team .

In the early 1970s, Walitza was one of the key figures in VfL Bochum's first promotion to the Bundesliga as team captain and goalscorer. After further successful years in Bochum, he was sold to the second division club 1. FC Nürnberg in the summer of 1974. For the Franks, Walitza played nine more Bundesliga games in his last professional year in 1978/79.

Walitza coached the Bochum B-Kreisligisten SG Linden / Dahlhausen from 2007 to 2009. The association is based in the Bochum district of Linden , Walitza's current residence.

Career as a player

Black and white food

• RL West, 1965–69, 100 games - 48 goals

The young striker, who switched from VfB Speldorf to Schwarz-Weiß Essen in the summer of 1965, quickly drew attention to himself in the “Uhlenkrug” with his performance and goals. He impressed with his shot power, headball qualities and enthusiasm and had the gift of wanting to improve. With his hits in the rounds of 1967/68 and 1968/69 with 15 and 16 goals respectively, he also drew the attention of other clubs - especially those with ambitions for the Bundesliga. After 100 games and 48 goals for SW Essen, he moved to VfL Bochum in the summer of 1969.

VfL Bochum

• RL West, 1969–71, 67 games - 59 goals
• Bundesliga 1971–74, 99 games - 53 goals

The deserving president Ottokar Wüst from the Bochum club absolutely wanted to lead his club into the Bundesliga and to succeed he caught a storm talent from the Regionalliga West, whom he believed to be able to perform again in a better quality environment.

The president was supposed to be right. In the 1969/70 season his VfL became champions in the west and the new center forward had made a significant contribution with 31 goals. In the old regional league times, however, the promotion round was still ahead in the summer, and only after successfully passing the south, south-west, north and Berlin representatives could they be drawn into the Bundesliga. With too little vacation, short preparation and mostly plundered exchange market, it went to the elite league and the fight for survival could begin. In 1970 Bochum actually stood in the way of an even stronger opponent with Kickers Offenbach . The OFC had a top team together and not only made it into the Bundesliga, no, on August 29th, Egon Schmitt's team even won the DFB Cup with a 2-1 win against 1. FC Köln . Walitza was also the top scorer in the promotion round with his 8 goals, but thanks to the 2-1 home win on June 10th, the men from Bieberer Berg prevailed just ahead of VfL. In Bochum, however, the coaching veteran Hermann Eppenhoff continued success-oriented, the next championship in the Regionalliga West was in 1971. Again, Hans Walitza had also conquered the top scorer's crown with 28 goals. Now the disputes in the promotion round with Osnabrück, Pirmasens, Karlsruhe and Tasmania Berlin were still on the program. With 14: 2 points, the rivals were relegated to their places. Hans Walitza had not let his VfL down with seven goals in these games either. Bochum and Walitza had made it to the Bundesliga.

In the first season in the Bundesliga 1971/72 Walitza continued his outstanding performances seamlessly. He scored 22 goals and, together with Klaus Fischer from FC Schalke 04 , was second on the Bundesliga scorers list. For the first year in this league it was a great personal success. “Top scorer” was the goal wonder Gerd Müller with the super quota of 40 goals. But the balance sheets of the two subsequent rounds with 18 and 13 goals can also be shown, especially from the point of view of the performance of VfL Bochum in the Bundesliga.

In the summer of 1974 it was then sold to 1. FC Nürnberg for financial reasons - for the then horrific sum of DM 600,000. Bochum not only lost its star as a result, it also lost its crowd favorite. People in the football west still rave about this goalgetter who scored goals as well as he could cheer for them.

1. FC Nuremberg

• 2. Bundesliga South, 1974–78, 118 games - 71 goals
• Bundesliga, 1978/79, 9 games - 0 goals

For Hans Walitza, the time in Franconia was marked by the constant attempt to lead the new club into the 1st Bundesliga. Although he scored a remarkable 21 goals in the first three rounds from 1974/75 to 1976/77 for the “Club” on the Pegnitz, this did not result in total success in the table. Only in the fourth season, in the 1977/78 round, but now the striker was already 32 years old, could the second place be occupied and thus the right to the two playoffs against the group runner-up from the north, Rot-Weiss Essen can be obtained. As is so often the case with the famous “club”, internal “wars of nerves” had been waged before that. The reigning coach, Horst Buhtz , was dismissed in May 1978; they trusted in the young Werner Kern, who was supposed to look after the team in the two upcoming playoffs. On June 2, 1978, the home game against the guests from Essen was won 1-0 goals. The goal scorer in the 79th minute was Hans Walitza. Eight days later it went to Hafenstrasse and the red and whites mostly vehemently overran the Nuremberg housing. Again, the former Bochum-based man laid the foundation for the Franconians' success in the 58th minute of the game, with the result of 1: 2 goals. After the final score of 2: 2, the promotion for 1. FC Nürnberg was perfect. With this, Hans Walitza's order to shoot 1. FC Nürnberg into the Bundesliga was also successfully completed. In the following first division season he was only used sporadically. He was consistently a top scorer of stature, but also a player whom the audience loved through his demeanor and adored as a figure to identify with.

National team

On September 5, 1973 Walitza was appointed to the German U-23 national team. He played a total of 3 international junior matches. On October 24, 1973 he scored his only international goal in the junior international match against Denmark.

Remarkable

In 1972 the Spanish soccer player Santillana was threatened with the end of his career because he supposedly only had one kidney. For this reason, Real Madrid wanted to sign German striker Hans Walitza from VfL Bochum . Shortly before the contract was signed, the Real Madrid doctors found a second kidney in Santillana. Walitza's obligation was therefore dropped.

Career as a coach

From June 2007 to May 2009, Hans Walitza coached the Bochum soccer club SG Linden / Dahlhausen. There he did reconstruction work after the club was relegated from the regional league down to the district league B due to financial bottlenecks. Walitza managed to integrate some players from the club's own youth into the first senior team.

Through his many years of experience and his competent demeanor, he built a friendly relationship with the team and the community in the club. Under his leadership, the team did not achieve the longed-for promotion to the district league A for two years in a row, although they always played at the top and even reached the relegation games . At the beginning of 2009, Hans Walitza announced the end of his coaching activity at the end of the season in May.

swell

• Hans Walitza in the database of fussballdaten.de
• Hans Walitza in the database of weltfussball.de
• Hans Walitza at glubberer.de
• 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 .
• Jürgen Bitter : Germany's football. The encyclopedia. Sportverlag, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-328-00857-8 .
• 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 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Note in: RevierSport 97/2012, p. 62f.