Horst Brand

Horst Brand (born January 1, 1946 in Trier ) is a former German football player who played a total of 234 league games in the Regionalliga Südwest from 1963 to 1973 for the clubs Eintracht Trier and Borussia Neunkirchen and scored 118 goals. The attacker won the championship in the Regionalligaverband Südwest twice with Neunkirchen in 1971 and 1972 and has also recorded 16 games with seven goals in two Bundesliga promotion rounds. With 118 goals, he was the top scorer in the second-rate Regionalliga Südwest from 1963 to 1974.

career

Trier, 1956 to 1969

Horst Brand, who grew up only 100 m away from the Moselle stadium , quickly developed his offensive talent in the youth department of Eintracht and made his debut in the 1963/64 season in the Southwest Regionalliga at the age of 17. In addition to teammates like Dieter Brozulat , Erich Hermesdorf , Lothar Kleim and Peter Scholtes , the A-Junior gained playing experience in 13 league games in the blue-white-blacks and scored his first three goals in the second division at the time. The team of coach Janos Gerdov finished in 5th place after 38 round match days with 43:33 points, whereby the 23:15 points in the second half of the season were the decisive factor for the placement in the first third. In the 1964/65 season Trier finished third with 48:20 points, two points behind runner-up Wormatia Worms. This successful round was significantly influenced by the quality of the newcomers Josef Hehl (goalkeeper), Siegfried Kohr, Anton Rudinski and Wolfgang Schwierzke and the young player Horst Brand only made five appearances (1 goal). But when Brozulat and Rudinski said goodbye to Eintracht in 1965/66, Brand came to far more missions. The young hope was used by coach Gerdov in 16 games in which the attacker scored four goals. However, Eintracht dropped to 13th place.

At the age of 20, in the 1966/67 season, with 26 league games and nine goals he clearly belonged to the original formation of Eintracht Trier, which finished 5th at the end of the round. Returnees Paul Pidancet and the newcomer Joachim Roepert from Bremerhaven 93 made a significant contribution, as did the 16-time goalscorer Peter Scholtes. Brand increased his performance from round to round, his goal danger and hit quality secured Eintracht Trier to a large extent the achieved midfield ranks in 1968 and 1969. In the 1967/68 season he came in 25 league games on 14 and 1968/69 in 29 league appearances on 17 goals. In 1969, he was fourth in the list of goals for the Südwest-Regionalliga, behind Dieter Weinkauff (26 goals), Lorenz Horr (24 goals) and Karl-Heinz Vogt (18 goals). The team from Weinkauff, FK Pirmasens scored 65, master Alsenborn with Horr 69 and third place 1. FC Saarbrücken with Vogt, 71 goals. Trier scored 47 goals in 30 games and finished 10th. After a total of 114 regional league games with 48 goals, Brand accepted Borussia Neunkirchen's offer for the 1969/70 round and moved to Saarland.

Neunkirchen, 1969 to 1973

In the black and whites of the Ellenfeldstadion after the fifth place in 1968/69 under the new coach Kurt Sommerlatt , the Trier goal scorer hope, and the previous amateurs Heinz Histing and Gerd Zewe to be able to build on better times. Brand fulfilled expectations with 17 goals and in particular the technically strong combination soccer player Zewe was able to underline his talent and keep the hope for better times in Ellenfeld alive. Nevertheless, the distance to defending champion Alsenborn with 10 points was too clear to be satisfied with the fourth place.

In fact, Neunkirchen increased in 1970/71 and was able to win the regional league championship in the southwest with 44:16 points - tied with runner-up FK Pirmasens. Brand led the internal goalscorer list with 21 goals, followed by Ludwig Lang with 15 goals. Only Manfred Lenz (25) and Bernd Hoffmann (23) scored more goals in the league round. In the promotion round he was on the pitch for the team of coach Sommerlatt in all eight matches against competitors Fortuna Düsseldorf, FC St. Pauli, 1. FC Nürnberg and Wacker 04 Berlin. With 9: 7 points, the southwest champion took second place behind promoted Düsseldorf. In front of 32,000 spectators, Brand and his teammates Willi Ertz (goalkeeper), Gerd Schley , Heinz Histing , Werner Martin , Norbert Heß , Heinz-Jürgen Henkes , Erich Hermesdorf , Gerd Zewe, Jochen Dries and Ludwig Lang started on May 26, 1971 with a 1 : 0 home win in front of 32,000 spectators against 1. FC Nürnberg in the promotion round. The round ended on June 27 with a 2-2 home draw against Fortuna Düsseldorf. Brand had his best day on June 20, when he scored all three goals for Neunkirchen in a 3-0 home win against FC St. Pauli.

With the new coach Alfred Preißler , he successfully defended his title in the southwest in 1971/72; superior with 48:12 points, seven points ahead of runner-up SV Röchling Völklingen, they won the championship again. Jürgen Papies led the Borussia goalscorer list with 25 goals, Horst Brand followed in second place with 16 goals. In the promotion round, Wuppertaler SV prevailed with 16: 0 points, with Neunkirchen taking third place with 6:10 points. The Südwestmeister lost both games against WSV: the home game with 0: 2, in Wuppertal with 2: 3. Brand had played in all eight games. In the 10-0 home win on June 7th against Tasmania 1900 Berlin, he scored three goals. In his fourth year in Neunkirchen, 1972/73, he put on the internal top scorer's crown again with 16 goals, Papies only managed one goal and therefore Gerd Schley followed in second place with ten goals. Compared to the 80 goals of the new champions FSV Mainz 05, the 59 goals from Neunkirchen looked modest, the result was fifth. Brand had played 120 rounds and scored 70 goals for Neunkirchen in four rounds; for the 1973/74 season he returned to Trier, the Eintracht was relegated to the amateur league Rhineland .

Finishing off as a player, coach, official

Brand ran three rounds in the Rhineland League with Eintracht. In the first year, 1973/74, it was only enough for the runner-up behind SV Leiwen, in 1975 and 1976 Brand won the championship with Trier. In the second attempt in 1976 , he was promoted to the 2nd Bundesliga South. He then moved to FSV Salmrohr as a player coach. He led President Peter Rauen's team from the district class to the highest division in the Rhineland. In the 1980/81 season he was active at the Luxembourg club Spora Luxemburg and was used in the European Cup Winners' Cup in a 6-0 defeat against Sparta Prague . In later years (1982–1987) he looked after his home club as a coach, where he was also vice president and sporting director in the 2nd Bundesliga for Eintracht. He was also a coach at Borussia Neunkirchen (1990/91) in the Oberliga Südwest, where he discovered the future world star Jay-Jay Okocha .

Professionally, Brand ran a freight forwarding and trading agency.

literature

• Christian Karn, Reinhard Rehberg: Encyclopedia of German League Football. Player Lexicon 1963–1994. Agon Sportverlag. Kassel 2012, ISBN 978-3-89784-214-4 , p. 69.
• German Sports Club for Football Statistics (DSFS): Südwest-Chronik. Football in southwest Germany 1963/64 to 1968/69. Berlin 2014.
• German Sports Club for Football Statistics (DSFS): Südwest-Chronik. Football in southwest Germany from 1969/70 to 1973/74. Sulingen 2017.
• 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 Greens : Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 2: Bundesliga & Co. 1963 to today. 1st division, 2nd division, GDR Oberliga. Numbers, pictures, stories. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 1997, ISBN 3-89609-113-1 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ fupa.net: When Jay-Jay Okocha celebrated Easter in Butzweiler ... (Jan. 1, 2016) , accessed on September 21, 2018