Horst Bertram

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Horst Bertram
Personnel
birthday November 16, 1948
place of birth MunsterGermany
size 183 cm
position goal
Juniors
Years station
until 1966 SC Münster 08
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1966-1967 SC Münster 08
1967-1970 Prussia Munster
1970-1971 Kickers Offenbach 2 (0)
1971-1983 Borussia Dortmund 227 (0)
1983-1984 1. FC Bocholt 0 (0)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
Germany (youth) 15 (0)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
1983-1984 1. FC Bocholt (assistant coach)
1984-1989 SuS hips 09
1989-1991 SF Oestrich-Iserlohn
1991-1993 Hasper SV
1993-1998 VfB Schwelm
1999 SV Hüsten 09
2001-2002 Hasper SV
2007-2017 SV Holzwickede (goalkeeping coach)
1 Only league games are given.

Horst Bertram (born November 16, 1948 in Münster ) is a former German football goalkeeper and coach . In the 1970s he was at Kickers Offenbach and especially Borussia Dortmund 96 times in the Bundesliga between the posts.

career

youth

Horst Bertram laced his soccer boots for the first time for SC Münster 08. While still playing for this club, he was nominated as the successor to Norbert Nigbur for the German national youth team and played 15 selection games.

Profile career

In 1967 Bertram moved to local rivals Prussia Münster in the then second-class Regionalliga West . Started with ambitions for promotion, the ex-Bundesliga team was in acute danger of relegation in the 1968/69 season . On the other hand, this gave Bertram frequent opportunities to distinguish himself.

In this way he aroused the interest of many Bundesliga clubs, but decided to switch to Kickers Offenbach , then a regional league team with ambitions for promotion. Offenbach achieved the set goal, but instead of Bertram, Karlheinz Volz was in the gate because Bertram was out for a long time due to a severe herniated disc. Bertram was therefore already considered a bad purchase. Volz was also a regular goalkeeper in the Bundesliga season 1970/71 , while Bertram only made two appearances. One of them was on matchday 27 when he took on the injured Volz and was attested an impressive performance. Nevertheless, Offenbach was relegated at the end of the season and Bertram moved to Borussia Dortmund as number 2 - behind Jürgen Rynio . On the 8th matchday, Rynio had to be substituted prematurely due to a spinal injury, so that Bertram came to his third Bundesliga game shortly before the end of the game against Hertha BSC . After a few minutes he conceded the 1: 2. Bertram was also used in the next five games. Although only one game was lost, Bertram Rynio had to give way when he recovered. Before the last match day, when Bertram was allowed to play again and secured the 3-2 win against Hannover 96 , the relegation was already certain.

After the relegation and renewed disc problems of Rynio, Bertram established himself as a regular goalkeeper and was soon considered one of the best regional league keepers. Nevertheless, the attempt at direct resurgence failed. In the German Cup the 1973/74 season, it came very bitter for Bertram: On the snow-covered ground in the home stadium equating indebted three hits. He made the clearest mistake when he conceded a fourth goal, when he let a harmless touchdown slip under his body. So he had a share in the 1: 4 defeat against Hannover 96 . Rynio had since recovered and moved back into goal after Bertram's modest performance. Promotion to the Bundesliga was also denied this year, but the Borussia at least managed to qualify for the newly founded 2nd Bundesliga . Rynio left the club in the direction of Rot-Weiss Essen and Bertram became the undisputed number 1 in the Dortmunder Tor. Even with the new coach Otto Knefler , they did not make the promotion in the coming season. This only succeeded in the 1975/76 season , in which Bertram became one of the most important performers and brought himself into focus for the German B selection.

Finally back in the Bundesliga, Bertram made a name for himself in the furious 4-2 victory over Hamburger SV , because he offered an outstanding performance in this game and played a large part in the victory. Bertram was also able to distinguish himself in the next few games and swam on a wave of success with his club under coach Otto Rehhagel . However, this flattened out in the second half of the season and Bertram could not always build on the performance of the preliminary round.

In the following season, Bertram and his team played rather mediocre. His control of the penalty area was particularly criticized. This should have led to some goals, especially after corner kicks . Rehhagel then prescribed "bed training" for him, during which Bertram was supposed to prepare himself mentally for the enemy attacks before he went to sleep. However, the success of this training is questionable. Before the last game day of the season, Bertram von Rehhagel was put on hold, spared him the historic 0:12 defeat against Borussia Mönchengladbach . Peter Endrulat , who had been in goal that game, had to leave the club at the end of the season. For him, the 17-year-old national youth goalkeeper Eike Immel rose to the professional squad. This had to guard the goal in the first game of the 1978/79 season because Bertram had sustained a flesh wound. Immel attracted attention with spectacular parades. His soaring flight was over for the time being on the 6th matchday. The young goalkeeper was so important in the game against Hertha BSC that he was substituted for 30-year-old Bertram in the 60th minute. Bertram also performed well in the next few games, but he was always assumed to have weak nerves. Outstanding this season was his performance in the 2-0 win against 1. FC Nürnberg . Immel was only used again on the last day of the game, then came out on top as number 1 and became the national goalkeeper. Because of this, and because Immel never failed, Bertram only sat on the bench for all competitive games over the next four years.

Coaching career

Before the 1983/84 season he switched to amateur football for 1. FC Bocholt , but soon had to end his active career due to irreparable cartilage damage in his knee and was therefore never used, but instead took the role of assistant coach. He then became a coach at the Westphalian league club SuS Hüsten 09 , with whom he was promoted to the then third-class league in 1985 . Other coaching stations in the amateur area were the Sportfreunde Oestrich-Iserlohn , Hasper SV and VfB Schwelm . At the end of his coaching career he was goalkeeping coach at SV Holzwickede for ten years , before another knee operation forced him to end his career.

After the career

Since ending his career as a professional football player in 1983, Bertram initially ran a stationery store in Dortmund-Scharnhorst , and later moved to a store in Dortmund-Wickede , where he still runs a stationery store with a lottery acceptance and travel agency.

successes

Web links

literature

  • BF Hoffmann : The great lexicon of the Bundesliga keepers. More than 300 biographies - from the beginning to the present. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-89602-526-0 .

Individual evidence

  1. Borussia - The Members' Magazine , Issue 157 of April 13, 2019, p. 104
  2. ^ Note in: Borussia, Das Memberermagazin, issue 100, p. 18
  3. Borussia - The Members' Magazine , Issue 157 of April 13, 2019, p. 100 ff