Herbert Martin

Herbert Martin
Personnel
birthday	August 29, 1925
place of birth	Ensdorf ,  Saar area
date of death	29th September 2016
position	Storm
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1946-1950	FC Ensdorf
1950-1961	1. FC Saarbrücken	279 (215)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1950-1956	Saarland	18 00(6)
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
1961-1967	SV 09 woman speakers
1967-1974	Saarland Football Association
1974-1977	FC Ensdorf
1 Only league games are given.

Herbert Martin (born August 29, 1925 in Ensdorf , Saar area , † September 27, 2016 ) was a German football player . The offensive player of 1. FC Saarbrücken is the club's internal record player of the "blue-blacks" in the then first-class Oberliga Südwest , between 1951 and 1961 Martin scored a total of 215 goals in 279 league games. After winning the title in the Oberliga Südwest in 1952 , he stood with his club on June 22, 1952 in the final of the German soccer championship , which VfB Stuttgart won with a 3-2 win against Saarbrücken. For the Saarland national team , Martin , who was mostly a half-striker in the then usual World Cup system, completed 18 international matches and scored six goals, which together with Herbert Binkert makes him the national team's record goal scorer.

Player career

societies

Martin, who grew up in Ensdorf and is always the center of his life there, came into contact with football in free play in his early youth. Due to the Second World War , he lost years of targeted football training and competitive practice and returned home from the war with an injury. Nevertheless, it was not long before he started playing football at his hometown club FC Ensdorf - Ensdorf borders Saarlouis - after the end of the war. In the two rounds from 1948 to 1950 in what was then the first-class Saarland Honor League , the tricky and cunning attacker with scoring qualities was able to attract the attention of the major Saar clubs. He accepted the advertising from the state capital and joined 1. FC Saarbrücken, which was also very popular internationally at the time in 1950/51.

The FCS emerged from the 1st International Saarland Cup in 1949/50 with a 4-0 win in the final against Stade Rennais UC . Initially, he had played at home against 15 Western European and South American teams. In the 1950/51 season, VfB Neunkirchen was the second host team to take part in the competition. The qualifying matches were played back and forth. On February 21, 1951, the FCS had a 4-0 away win against Real Madrid . In May of that year, the British Football Festival drew 1-1 against host Liverpool . In June, a trip to Denmark and Sweden followed with six meetings, including a 6-3 at Elfsborg Boras and a 4-2 against IFK Norrköping . After the inclusion of Saarland football in the German league structure for the 1951/52 season was certain, interest in the 2nd International Saarland Cup flattened. The competition was not completed.

After returning to the German league system, the men around half-striker Martin started late on the fourth match day, September 9, 1951, with a 3-1 away win against Eintracht Trier in the top division season 1951/52. After the 1-0 home win on November 18, 1951 by a Martin hit against the "Walter-Elf" of 1. FC Kaiserslautern, the FCS led the table after nine games with 18-0 points. The team experienced the first defeat in the home game on December 9, 1951 with 1: 2 against FK Pirmasens when the blue-blacks had to compete without the goal scorer team Martin and Herbert Binkert . At the end of the round, the league returner won the championship in the southwest with a six point lead . Martin had scored 17 goals. In the final round of the German championship, Saarbrücken prevailed with 8: 4 points against competitors FC Schalke 04, 1. FC Nürnberg and Hamburger SV. Martin had played all six group games and scored three goals. Also at the final on June 22nd in Ludwigshafen, he met in the case of VfB Stuttgart; the "Schwaben-Elf" from coach Georg Wurzer prevailed 3-2 and the FCS returned to Saarland as German runner-up.

In the year of the football world championship in Switzerland in 1954, the man with the "eye for goal" and also a half-striker, who was an excellent opportunity-threader, won the top scorer's crown in all five German top leagues with 35 goals this season . His personal performance is underlined, as the FCS could only occupy fifth place in the final table. Due to the then sovereign Saarland, his participation in the German national soccer team under national coach Sepp Herberger was not possible. After two third places in the years 1955 and 1956 in the southwest, he reached the runner- up with the FCS in 1957 - thanks in part to his 23 goals this season - and thus made it to the finals for the second time. There he was active in the three games against 1. FC Nürnberg (2: 2), Duisburger Spiel-Verein (1: 3) and Hamburger SV (1: 2) and scored two goals. Before that, Martin and his colleagues were represented in the 1955/56 series as Saar representatives in the European Cup . On November 1, 1955, they sensationally won 4: 3 goals at AC Milan ; Martin had scored the winning goal in the 69th minute of the game. In the second leg on November 23rd, however, the men around Cesare Maldini , Nils Liedholm , Gunnar Nordahl and Juan Alberto Schiaffino prevailed with 4-1 goals and thus the European appearances were over. On December 31, 1955, Saarbrücken and 1. FC Kaiserslautern parted in the semi-finals of the Southwest German Cup in a very scoring game 7: 7 after extra time. Martin had contributed the equalizer in the 95th minute.

In his last league round , 1960/61 , the 35-year-old veteran scored 16 more goals and was next to national player Heinz Vollmar (19 goals) the second best goalscorer in Saarbrücken when he won the championship. In his last league game on April 23, 1961, he said goodbye with a 5-1 home win against local rivals Saar 05 befitting with two goals. He scored a total of 215 league goals in ten seasons, an average of 21.5 goals per season. In Lorenz Knieriem's ​​book on the typology of goal scorers, he is classified in the “clippers” category. These should be characterized by the ability to appear at the crucial point at the decisive moment and to shoot, poke, snip, toss ... in short: to snap the ball over the line without fuss. Successful “snapping” is also the result of constant rubbing and digging as well as the never-ending will to give the ball a little nudge even in the most hopeless situation. In the 1961 finals, the senior played all six group games against Eintracht Frankfurt, Hamburger SV and Borussia Dortmund and scored three more goals. He has played all 16 final round matches for his club in the three finals in 1952, 1957 and 1961, scoring nine goals. The almost “dreamlike” harmony with his strike partner Herbert Binkert contributed significantly to his goal danger.

National team

Martin played 18 times for the Saarland national team and, together with Waldemar Philippi, was the most frequently used player on the team. He was on the field in both the first international match in 1950 and the last game in 1956 and was only absent in two games in between. He is also the record scorer of the Saarland national team with six goals together with Herbert Binkert . The Saar eleven played their first official international match against Switzerland B on November 22, 1950. Martin scored twice in the 5-3 success. He scored two more goals on September 15, 1951 in the second leg in Bern in a 5-2 win against the Swiss B-Elf. The highlights were the four World Cup qualifiers for the 1954 World Cup in Switzerland against Norway and the German national soccer team. In the 1: 3 defeat on March 28, 1954 in front of 53,000 spectators in Saarbrücken in the second leg against the DFB-Elf, he scored the 1: 2 connection goal in the 67th minute of the game with a converted hand penalty. With a hard shot in the 17th minute, he had put his team in the lead in a well-managed opening phase; the referee had canceled the goal because of an alleged offside position. When the Saar-Elf ended the history of their international matches with a 2-3 defeat in Amsterdam on June 6, 1956 against the Netherlands, the man from Ensdorf was also part of the team of Saar coach Helmut Schön .

Coaching career

After the end of his playing career, Martin was still associated with football as a coach for years. Between 1961 and 1967 he coached SV 09 Fraulautern , a Saarlouiser district club, and won the Saarland Amateurs Championship with the club in 1962 , but failed in the promotion round to the II. Southwest Division , the "paid football", to Phoenix Bellheim and VfB Knowledge. Starting in 1967, Martin passed on his experience to the selected players of the Saarland Football Association (SFV) for seven years before he ended his coaching activity in 1977 after three years at his home club FC Ensdorf.

Others

Herbert Martin worked full-time as a tax officer in Saarbrücken and Saarlouis . He lived until the end in his birthplace Ensdorf and died on September 27, 2016 at the age of 91.

Web links

• Herbert Martin in the database of weltfussball.de
• Herbert Martin in the database of fussballdaten.de
• Herbert Martin in the database of the German Football Association
• Herbert Martin on ludwigspark.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Chronicle of the Saarland Football Association 1945–1956 . In: German Football Association (Ed.): 100 Years of the DFB - The History of the German Football Association . Sportverlag Berlin, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-328-00850-0 , pp. 88-91.
2. ↑ Werner Skrentny, Teufelsangst vorm Erbsenberg , pp. 40–41.
3. ↑ Werner Skrentny, Teufelsangst vorm Erbsenberg , pp. 156–175.
4. ^ Matthias Weinrich, Hardy Greens : Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 6: German Cup history since 1935. Pictures, statistics, stories, constellations. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2000, ISBN 3-89784-146-0 , p. 141.
5. ↑ Lorenz Knieriem: Goalscorer. A typology of the executor. P. 71.
6. ^ Raphael Keppel : Germany's international soccer games. Documentation from 1908–1989. Sport- und Spielverlag Hitzel, Hürth 1989, ISBN 3-9802172-4-8 , pp. 197-198.
7. ↑ Data from the history of “SV09 Fraulautern e. V. ". ( Memento of the original from November 12, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: sv09fraulautern.de , accessed on November 11, 2016.  
8. ↑ ^{a b} Wilfried Burr: Herbert Martin is 85 years old. In: SaarSport (August 2010), ISSN  0946-509X , pp. 38-39 ( online ).
9. ↑ Harald Klyk : Herbert Martin died. ( Memento of the original from October 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The  archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: saar-fv.de (September 29, 2016), accessed on November 11, 2016.
10. ↑ Obituary notice. In: Saarbrücker Zeitung from October 4, 2016 ( online  ( 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. ).  

literature

• Werner Skrentny (Ed.): The fear of the devil in front of the pea mountain. The history of the Oberliga Südwest 1946–1963. Klartext Verlag, Essen 1996, ISBN 3-88474-394-5 .
• Lorenz Knieriem: goalscorer. A typology of the executor. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2005, ISBN 978-3-89784-264-9 .
• Hardy Grüne , Lorenz Knieriem: Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 8: Player Lexicon 1890–1963. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2006, ISBN 3-89784-148-7 .