Helmut Schiffer

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Helmut Schiffer (born August 14, 1928 ) is a former German soccer player. The goalkeeper played 206 league games at Alemannia Aachen from 1953 to 1961 in what was then the first-class football league West .

career

Alemannia Aachen, 1953 to 1961

With the Stolberger SV - previously he had the stations VfB Vicht and in 1948/49 a round at SG Düren 99 - the goalkeeper succeeded in the 1951/52 season, the promotion to the Landesliga Mittelrhein. After a round of competition experience in what was then the highest league in amateur football, Schiffer joined the upper division Alemannia Aachen for the round in 1953/54 and thus became a contract footballer. Due to the existing competition of fellow campaigners for the place in the goal of the black-yellows, Willi Schellberg and Wilfried Heinrichs , the man from Stolberg did not make his debut in the Oberliga West until matchday 18, January 3, 1954, under coach Hermann Lindemann . At Tivoli , Alemannia achieved a 4-2 home win against 1. FC Köln. There followed nine more league games for the ex-amateur and Aachen finished the round in ninth place.

From his second year of play, 1954/55, Schiffer was the undisputed number one in the goal of the "Colorado beetle". In the three rounds 1955/56 to 1957/58, the goalkeeper played in a row all 90 league games of the eleven from Tivoli. In his third season, 1955/56 , he and his teammates only narrowly missed the finals of the German soccer championship . On the last Bundesliga matchday, April 29, 1956, the team of coach Georg Knöpfle missed the home game against the 14th of the table, Westfalia Herne , with a 0-0 draw in front of 18,000 spectators. Hans Tilkowski demonstrated his outstanding goalkeeping talent and was one of the guarantors of the surprise success of coach Fritz Langner's team . Since at the same time FC Schalke 04 won their away game at Preußen Münster with 1-0 goals, the "Knappen" came to a tie with Aachen and moved past Alemannia to the runner-up with the better goal difference. In addition to Schiffer, Hans Coenen , Willi Krämer and Matthias Rossbach were on the ball in all 30 games in this successful round .

In 1958, the year of the soccer world championship in Sweden, 1957/58 , Schiffer and colleagues got off to an outstanding start with 18: 0 points and after 15 match days celebrated the autumn championship with 23: 7 points. In the second half of the season, however, Schalke 04 and 1. FC Köln overtook Aachen and the Knöpfle protégés had to settle for third place for the second time. The Aachen keeper was named the best goalkeeper in the Oberliga West after this round. Under the coaches Béla Sárosi and Helmut Kronsbein , however, it was no longer possible to fight for the top positions in the next few rounds. For Aachen from 1959 to 1961 it was only midfield. The goalkeeper played his last league game on April 23, 1961 in a 4-3 home win against Rot-Weiß Oberhausen.

In the summer of 1961 Schiffer ended his contract playing career after 206 appearances in the Oberliga West and Alemannia relied on Vladimir Beara as his successor in goal. Despite the other newcomers with Branko Zebec and Hans Löring , Aachen only came 11th in 1961/62.

literature

  • Hardy Grüne , Lorenz Knieriem: Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 8: Player Lexicon 1890–1963. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2006, ISBN 3-89784-148-7 .
  • Harald Landefeld, Achim Nöllenheidt (ed.): Helmut, tell me dat Tor ... New stories and portraits from the Oberliga West 1947–1963. Klartext, Essen 1993, ISBN 3-88474-043-1 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hardy Green, Lorenz Knieriem: Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 8: Player Lexicon 1890–1963. P. 334.

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personal data
SURNAME Schiffer, Helmut
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH August 14, 1928