Heinrich Kerscher

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Heinrich Kerscher (born September 17, 1961 in Hürth ) is a former German soccer player . The defensive player played five league games at 1. FC Köln in the 1980/81 season in the Bundesliga .

career

From the youth of SC Dirmerzheim in the 1976/77 round, the Middle Rhine and West German selection player Heinrich Kerscher joined the youth department of 1. FC Cologne. His first coach in the youth of the Bundesliga club was Erich Rutemöller , before the defensive talent in the A-youth under coach Josef Röhrig won the Middle Rhine championship in the 1977/78 season and thus qualified for the games for the German youth championship. In the games against Hertha 03 Zehlendorf , he faced the offensive artist Pierre Littbarski . Kerscher completed an apprenticeship as a car mechanic, did basic military service in the German Armed Forces and earned his first spurs in the senior division in 1979/80 with the FC amateurs in the Oberliga Nordrhein . For the 1980/81 season , like Frank Hartmann and Hermann Knöppel, he was included in the professional squad of coach Karl-Heinz Heddergott . Rainer Bonhof from Valencia CF and René Botteron from FC Zurich came to the cathedral city as prominent newcomers .

Kerscher made his debut under Heddergott on September 3, 1980 in a 3-0 home defeat against Hamburger SV in the Bundesliga. He came on as a substitute for Dieter Prestin in the second half . Before that, he had made his debut in a competitive game as a professional on August 30, 1980 in the first main round of the DFB Cup in a 6-0 away win against the amateurs of SpVgg Emsdetten . In front of goalkeeper Harald Schumacher with Roland Gerber , Gerd Strack and Thomas Kroth as right full-back he formed the defensive chain of FC. Under Heddergott, the former coaching instructor of the DFB, who was replaced by the Dutchman Rinus Michels on October 16, 1980 , the young player made further appearances in September 1980 : he was in 22nd place against MSV Duisburg (4-3). He came on as a substitute for Kroth in the minute and in the 2-2 draw against 1. FC Nürnberg he played the full distance over 90 minutes as a defender. This started a long time of waiting and only in the last two round match days, on June 6 and 13, 1981 against Fortuna Düsseldorf (1: 2) and FC Schalke 04 (2: 1), he was brought on again by Michels. In the entire first half of 1981/82 he was not taken into account and therefore moved to SG Wattenscheid 09 in the 2nd Bundesliga in winter 1981/82 . FC colleague Hans Faust also went to Lohrheide , where Jürgen Willkomm had landed in the summer of 1981.

Under coaches Klaus Hilpert and Fahrudin Jusufi , Kerscher completed 36 league games for the team from January 1982 to April 17, 1983 at the side of players such as Manfred Behrendt , Gerhard Drews , Peter Kunkel , Hans-Jürgen Zimmer , Vilson Džoni , Norbert Elgert and Waldemar Steubing SG Wattenscheid 09 in the 2nd Bundesliga, before he had to end his career in paid football early due to his second cruciate ligament tear .

He returned to Erftstadt in 1983 and worked in shifts in a chemical factory in Hürth for more than 25 years. Heinz Flohe persuaded him to make a comeback at TSC Euskirchen , so that Kerscher was again active in the association league from January 1984 to the end of the 1986/87 season. Then he played in the district league at Erfa 09 Gymnich. After the final end of his playing career (1994), he worked as a coach at various Erftstadt amateur clubs.

Since the end of the 1990s, Kerscher has lived with his family in the Hellenthal district of Kreuzberg in the Eifel.

literature

  • Christian Karn, Reinhard Rehberg: Player Lexicon 1963–1994. Agon Sportverlag. Kassel 2012. ISBN 978-3-89784-214-4 . P. 245.
  • Dirk Innschuld, Thomas Hardt, Frederic Latz: Under the sign of the billy goat. The history of 1. FC Köln. Publishing house Die Werkstatt. Göttingen 2004. ISBN 978-3-7307-0127-0 .
  • Dirk Innschuld, Frederic Latz: With the billy goat on his chest. All players, all coaches, all officials of 1. FC Köln. Publishing house Die Werkstatt. Göttingen 2013. ISBN 978-3-7307-0047-1 . P. 164.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Jürgen Bitter: Germany's football. The encyclopedia. FA Herbig. Munich 2008. ISBN 978-3-7766-2558-5 . P. 366

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personal data
SURNAME Kerscher, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH 17th September 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Huerth