Herbert Scheller
Herbert Scheller (born May 19, 1948 in Gernsheim ) is a former German football player who always played on the position of defender.
career
Scheller came in 1970 from his home club SV 1911 Gimbsheim to 1. FSV Mainz 05 , for which he initially worked for six years. Before the 1976/77 season he was signed by 1. FC Kaiserslautern and was therefore used for the first time in the Bundesliga (a total of 21 times).
A year later Scheller switched to TSV 1860 Munich , who had just been promoted to the Bundesliga, where he was under contract for four years and had his most successful period personally. With the exception of the second division season 1978/79, in which Scheller was used in all 38 games and scored one goal, he completed 92 Bundesliga games in the remaining three years, in which he scored eleven goals. In the second half of the 1980/81 season alone, he was successful five times - and still couldn't prevent the sixties from relegating.
Scheller scored the most important goals of his career in a double pack.
He scored a double goal in the Bundesliga for the first time in the 3-1 win against FC Bayern Munich on matchday 15 of the 1977/78 season. A Munich derby had never taken place in the Bundesliga with the two clubs in a worse table situation. Before the game, 1860 was hopelessly in last place with only three points (from three draws and eleven defeats), while Bayern found themselves in an unfamiliar 14th place. While Bayern were overwhelmingly superior in the first half, but could only score one goal to make it 1-0, 1860 came out of the cabin as if transformed. In the first minute after the restart, Scheller overcame goalkeeper legend Sepp Maier with a hard shot from 20 meters. After Alfred Kohlhäufl had brought the lions 2-1 in the 84th minute with a free kick fired from 35 meters, Scheller set the final point to 3-1 with a penalty in the final minute. While the sixties were still in last place after the game, Bayern had slipped to 15th place.
Even more important than this derby victory was Scheller's double two and a half years later against his former club, 1. FC Kaiserslautern. It was the last home game of the 1979/80 season and in 1860 was once again in a relegation battle. In order to be able to travel to Frankfurt for the last away game , you absolutely needed a win against the Palatinate , who played a strong season and finished fourth. Already in the 14th minute, Scheller put his club in the lead with a brilliant volley from about 30 meters, but it did not last long. In direct return, Reiner Geye had equalized and ten minutes later for the Lautrer opening goal. After Erhard Hofeditz had equalized immediately after the restart, Scheller netted the winning goal for his lions in the final minute when he gave the Swedish world-class goalkeeper Ronnie Hellström no chance to defend from ten meters away. Immediately after the game, Scheller let his joy run wild at his team's early relegation and announced without any exaggeration: "This is the greatest day of my career."
Between 1981 and 1986 Scheller played again in Mainz. So he played in the 05er jersey for a total of eleven years and made 532 appearances, making him the Mainz record player at the same time. He then let his career end with his hometown club SV 1911 Gimbsheim.
Stations as a player
- 1970–1976 1. FSV Mainz 05
- 1976–1977 1. FC Kaiserslautern
- 1977–1981 TSV 1860 Munich
- 1981–1986 1. FSV Mainz 05
- 1986–1988 SV 1911 Gimbsheim
literature
- TSV Munich from 1860 e. V. (Ed.): Football history of a traditional club (Gotteswinter Verlag, Munich 1997), pages 178 and 191 / ISBN 3-00002204X
Web links
- Herbert Scheller in the online archive of 1. FSV Mainz 05
- Herbert Scheller is the record player of Mainz 05 (PDF file; 2.52 MB)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Herbert Scheller - player profile. Retrieved August 19, 2019 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Scheller, Herbert |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German soccer player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 19, 1948 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Gernsheim |