Helmut Wagner (soccer player, 1959)

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Helmut Wagner (born June 7, 1959 ) is a former German soccer player who, as an amateur for Bundesliga club 1. FC Kaiserslautern , played an international match for the German national soccer team on November 8, 1978 in the 1978/79 season . As an active player from Mainz 05 , the midfielder won the German amateur championship in 1982 .

career

In footballing terms, Helmut Wagner went through the various training phases in the youth department of 1. FC Kaiserslautern from 1967 to 1977. From 1977 to 1979 he made his first steps in senior football in the amateur team of the Bundesliga club in the amateur league southwest . His chances of being accepted into the professional squad were slim. Under coach Karlheinz Feldkamp , the "Red Devils" took an excellent third place in the Bundesliga in the 1978/79 season and the midfield was very well filled with Jürgen Groh , Werner Melzer , Reinhard Meier , Johannes Riedl and playmaker Hans Bongartz . The fact that he played in the international match in The Hague against the Netherlands on November 8, 1978 in the German national soccer team of the amateurs was not really helpful. In the 2-0 defeat he was substituted on for Gisbert Paus in the second half . There were no further appointments afterwards. For the 1979/80 season, the FCK amateur joined the FK Pirmasens, also playing in the Oberliga Südwest .

With the blue-whites from the stadium on Zweibrücker Straße , Wagner took third (1980) and fourth (1981) places before he moved to Mainz 05 in the summer of 1981 in Rheinhessen. Under coach Herbert Dörenberg , Wagner belonged to the regular line-up of the zero five with 37 appearances and ten goals and reached the runner-up behind FC 08 Homburg with the Bruchweg-Elf with teammates such as Gerhard Bopp , Jürgen Janz , Karl-Helmut Mähn , Herbert Scheller and Ludwig Scherhag . In the games for the German amateur championship, Wagner and colleagues beat SC Viktoria Köln (4: 1, 4: 1), FC Hertha 03 Zehlendorf (1: 0.3: 2) and in the final on June 17, 1982 with 3: 0 against the amateurs of Werder Bremen and brought the title to Mainz. In the second round with Mainz he finished eighth under the replacing coaches Dörenberg (until March 6, 1983), Walter Ziehmer (for a game on March 13, 1983) and ex-national player Lothar Emmerich from the 29th match day. Wagner had scored nine goals in 38 games. In August and October 1982 he was also in the DFB Cup in the games against the amateurs of 1. FC Cologne (3-1) and the Bundesliga club FC Schalke 04 in action. Mainz lost to Schalke on October 16, 1982 in front of 9,000 spectators in the Bruchweg Stadium with 3: 6 after extra time. In midfield, Wagner and his colleagues Ott, Bopp and Scherhag had to deal with Ulrich Bittcher , Michael Opitz , Manfred Drexler and Hubert Clute-Simon . Due to injury, he could only appear in 19 matches in 1983/84. In total, Wagner is led at Mainz with 155 games and 44 goals.

After a six-month interlude at Borussia Neunkirchen, the former youth player of 1. FC Kaiserslautern continued his career in the league from January 1985 at Wormatia Worms . In the 1985/86 season he celebrated with Worms under coach Heiner Ueberle one point ahead of the tied teams from Salmrohr and Trier the championship . Outstanding team-mates in the championship round were Walfried Günther, Stephan Kuhnert (goalkeeper), Dieter Gutzler, Jürgen Klotz and Heinz-Jürgen Schlösser. Worms did not get a second division license from the DFB and was therefore not allowed to participate in the promotion round to the 2nd Bundesliga . In the games for the German amateur championship, he was eliminated with Worms in the semifinals. Promotion round successor Salmrohr rose to the 2nd division. In the following round in 1986/87 it was enough with Worms to runner-up. After a total of 82 league appearances with five goals for Worms, Wagner moved to the Hessen league for VfR Bürstadt . After two years in the Waldstadion with the Black and White, Wagner ended his playing career at SV Hochheim (near Worms), Blau-Weiß Worms and VfR Alsheim .

literature

  • 1. FSV Mainz 05 (ed.): From year to year 1925–2008. Author: Christian Karn. Self-published. 2008.
  • Karl-Heinz Heimann, Karl-Heinz Jens: Kicker-Almanach 1989, Copress-Verlag, Munich 1988, ISBN 3-7679-0245-1 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Heimann, Jens: Kicker-Almanach 1989. P. 125.
  2. ^ Christian Karn: From year to year 1925-2008. P. 114.
personal data
SURNAME Wagner, Helmut
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH June 7, 1959