Horst Kirsch (soccer player, 1939)

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Horst Kirsch
Personnel
birthday July 20, 1939
place of birth Merchweiler ,  Germany
date of death 5th October 2018
position goalkeeper
Juniors
Years station
1951–195? Prussia Merchweiler
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
195? -1959 Prussia Merchweiler
1959-1960 Sportfreunde 05 Saarbrücken
1960-1969 Borussia Neunkirchen
1969-1972 SV Röchling Völklingen
1972-1973 SC 07 Heiligenwald
1973-1976 Eintracht Bad Kreuznach
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1962 Germany U-23 1 (0)
1 Only league games are given.

Horst Kirsch (born July 20, 1939 in Merchweiler ; † October 5, 2018 ) was a German football goalkeeper . From 1959 to 1963 he was in the Soccer League Southwest , from 1963 to 1974 in the Soccer Regionalliga Southwest , from 1964 to 1966 and again in 1967/68 for Borussia Neunkirchen in the Bundesliga and 1975/76 in the 2nd soccer -Bundesliga active.

Career

After moving from Merchweiler to Sportfreunde Saarbrücken in the summer of 1959, Kirsch made his debut on the third matchday, August 30, 1959, in the 5-1 away defeat at FV Speyer in the Southwest Football League. With Horst Zingraf (14 missions) he shared the 30 league games and finished 10th in the table with the Sportfreunde at the end of the round. Through his achievements he had aroused the interest of the runner-up Borussia Neunkirchen and accepted the offer of the team from the Ellenfeldstadion in the 1960/61 round . There it came to a sporting duel with Ladislav Jirasek for the place in the Borussentor. With just 17 to 13 appearances, Kirsch was ahead of the game when he again won the runner-up in 1961. When Neunkirchen won the championship in the 1962 World Cup in Chile in front of FK Pirmasens and 1. FC Saarbrücken with a goal difference of 102:29 goals - Rudi Dörrenbächer scored 37 goals - Kirsch guarded the goal in all 30 league games. He was invited to courses at the sports schools in Duisburg and Karlsruhe by the trainers Herberger and Schön . In 1962 he was part of the 40-man squad for the World Cup in Chile, but was ultimately not part of the team. In the last year of the old first-class league, 1962/63, Neunkirchen was runner-up behind 1. FC Kaiserslautern and Kirsch had again been in goal in all 30 league games. On October 24, 1962 he was appointed by national coach Herberger to the junior national team U 23 for the international match in Lyon against France. Despite the strikers Karl-Heinz Thielen , Rudi Brunnenmeier and Horst Trimhold , the German team failed to score and the game was lost with 0-1 goals. In total, Kirsch completed 93 rounds in the Oberliga Südwest from 1959 to 1963, 16 for Saarbrücken and 77 for Neunkirchen.

Since the two clubs 1. FC Kaiserslautern and 1. FC Saarbrücken were nominated for the new elite class of the Bundesliga for the 1963/64 season from the southwest, Kirsch played in this round with the team from the "City of Coal and Iron." "in the newly installed Southwest Regional Football League . The Borussia prevailed in a three-way battle against FK Pirmasens and Wormatia Worms and celebrated the championship and thus entry into the first Bundesliga promotion round in 1964. Willi Ertz was his deputy in the championship round . When the team of coach Horst Buhtz , Borussia Neunkirchen, surprisingly prevailed in the promotion round against southern vice FC Bayern Munich , Kirsch guarded the goal of the Saarland climber in two and Ertz in four games. In the first year in the Bundesliga, Kirsch led the internal duel against Ertz again with 20 versus 10 appearances. Neunkirchen finished tenth with a negative goal difference of 44:48 hits. In the second year, 1965/66, when the Buhtz troupe was relegated to the regional league as the penultimate, Ertz made 21 appearances and Kirsch had to be content with 13 Bundesliga games.

From 1969 to 1972, the goalkeeper at Röchling Völklingen was played 60 times and again in 1973/74 at Eintracht Kreuznach another 28 games in the Southwest Regional Football League. In between he played from 1972 to 1973 for the SC 07 Heiligenwald . Overall, he is led in the regional league with 135 games. With the association selection of the Southwest, he won the national cup in Meppen in 1975 on penalties against North Baden . For Kreuznach, the veteran 1975/76 completed 13 other league appearances in the 2nd Bundesliga .

From 1960 to 1969 he was in goal at Borussia Neunkirchen and played three seasons in the Bundesliga between 1964 and 1968 .

literature

  • Hardy Grüne , Lorenz Knieriem: Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 8: Player Lexicon 1890–1963. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2006, ISBN 3-89784-148-7 , p. 190.
  • Werner Skrentny (Ed.): The fear of the devil in front of the pea mountain. The history of the Oberliga Südwest 1946–1963. Klartext, Essen 1996, ISBN 3-88474-394-5 .
  • 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 .
  • 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 , pp. 204-207.

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personal data
SURNAME Kirsch, Horst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH July 20, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Merchweiler , Germany
DATE OF DEATH 5th October 2018