Horst Berg

Horst Berg (born September 8, 1941 in Troisdorf ) is a former German soccer player. He played 134 Bundesliga games for Borussia Neunkirchen , Eintracht Braunschweig , TSV 1860 Munich and Hannover 96 , scoring 14 goals.

career

In the southwest, 1962 to 1967

The later all-round player Horst Berg drew attention to himself in the 1961/62 season in the Association League Middle Rhine at his club SSV Troisdorf 05. The scouts from Borussia Neunkirchen signed the attacker of the black and whites from the sports field "Auf der Heide" for the 1962/63 season. On August 26, 1962, the newcomer from Troisdorf made his debut in the league team from the Ellenfeldstadion on the second match day of the Southwest Football League . The Borussia won the game with 2-1 goals at SC Ludwigshafen. Eight days later, Berg entered the goalscorer list for the first time. Under coach Hans Pilz he made 20 league appearances and scored ten goals. Neunkirchen moved into the finals for the German championship in 1963 as runner-up in the southwest. On the first day of the final round, May 25, 1963, at the home game in Saarbrücken's Ludwigspark in front of 40,000 spectators against Hamburger SV , in a 3-0 victory, together with Elmar May , Karl Ringel , Paul Pidancet and Günter Kuntz, Borussia attacked. Neunkirchen was not nominated for the new Bundesliga from the 1963/64 season. With coach Horst Buhtz , Neunkirchen moved into the promotion round as champions of the Southwest regional soccer league . The Saarlanders surprisingly prevailed against group favorites Bayern Munich and were promoted to the Bundesliga. Berg scored two goals in a 4-1 home win against St. Pauli on June 10th.

In the Bundesliga season 1964/65 he could not place himself in the circle of regular players - Horst Kirsch , Erwin Glod , Erich Leist , Achim Melcher , Dieter Schock , Hans Schreier , Günter Schröder , Günter Heiden , Günter Kuntz, Dieter Harig - and split up with Heinz Simmet (8-7) with his seven missions and one goal the role of the supplementary player.

That is why he preferred to take the step back to the 1965/66 round and joined the Southwest Regional Football League in Saar 05 Saarbrücken in the southwest. Under coach Otto Knefler , he made 60 regional league appearances from 1965 to 1967 and scored 27 goals. Coach Helmuth Johannsen from sensation champion Eintracht Braunschweig signed the man from Saar 05 for the 1967/68 round and Berg returned to the Bundesliga.

Bundesliga, 1967 to 1972

The man from the Middle Rhine was one of the defending champions in the 1967/68 season with 30 missions and three goals. The Eintracht could only occupy the ninth place. In the games of the national championship competition in the European Cup against Rapid Vienna and Juventus Turin , however, convinced the German champions of 1967. Berg succeeded in the first round match on January 31, 1968 in Braunschweig against Juventus in the 39th minute, the interim 3-1 lead. Like Lothar Ulsaß , he fell out for the decider against the Italians on March 20 in Bern. After 54 Bundesliga appearances with five goals for Eintracht Braunschweig, he accepted the offer from TSV 1860 Munich for the 1969/70 round and moved to Bavaria.

With the "Löwen" he experienced the coaching work of Fritz Langner (until November 12, 1969) and Franz Binder . However, both could not prevent the financially troubled ex-champions of 1966 at the end of the round as penultimate in the table had to start relegation to the regional soccer league south. Berg had scored a goal for the “lions” in 23 appearances. On the first match day, August 16, 1969, he had formed the Munich midfield together with Rudolf Zeiser and Rudolf Kölbl in the 0-0 draw at Alemannia Aachen. Due to a new contract with Hannover 96 for the 1970/71 round, Berg continued to play in the Bundesliga. Under his former Braunschweig trainer Helmuth Johannsen, he mostly formed the defense of the "Reds" with Peter Anders , Hans-Josef Hellingrath and Rainer Stiller . The 96ers finished ninth and Berg had played 32 games and scored five goals. In the second year in Hanover, 1971/72, after a weak start, coach Johannsen was dismissed on November 13, 1971 and replaced by Hans Hipp . Berg made another 18 Bundesliga appearances and scored two goals. After a total of 134 Bundesliga games with 14 goals, the 31-year-old ended the Bundesliga chapter in 1972 and joined SV Röchling Völklingen , who played in the Regionalliga Südwest, for the 1972/73 round.

Regionalliga Südwest, 1972 to 1974

In the Stadion am Köllerbach (until 1974), his old friend Helmuth Johannsen was in charge of the sport and Röchling actually won the runner-up and was promoted to the Bundesliga in 1973. Together with fellow players Jürgen Stars , Lothar Weschke , Klaus Hommrich , Walter Spohr , Jürgen Fuhrmann , Claus Schygulla and Hans-Werner Kremer , he took up the fight against competitors Rot-Weiss Essen, Darmstadt 98, VfL Osnabrück and Wacker 04 Berlin. Berg was used in all eight group games, but Essen prevailed over Darmstadt and Völklingen. In the year of the soccer world championship in 1974 it was not enough to get into the promotion round, with the SV, veteran Berg came fourth. From 1972 to 1974, Berg added 54 regional league games with three goals. Overall, he is led in the then second-rate Regionalliga Südwest with 122 appearances and 34 goals.

After three point games in the newly installed 2nd Bundesliga group south in the 1974/75 season, he ended his high-class playing career in 1975.

literature

• Ulrich Homann (Hrsg.): Hellfire on Ascension. The history of the promotion rounds to the Bundesliga 1963–1974. Klartext, Essen 1990, ISBN 3-88474-346-5 .
• Hardy Grüne , Lorenz Knieriem: Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 8: Player Lexicon 1890–1963. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2006, ISBN 3-89784-148-7 .

Web links

• Horst Berg in the database of fussballdaten.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Horst Berg - player profile. Retrieved February 18, 2020 .