Horst Saida

Horst Saida (born October 29, 1939 ) is a former German soccer player . He graduated from 1961 to 1963 in the Oberliga Süd , the top division at the time, 44 games for Karlsruher SC and then played for the club in 69 matches in the Bundesliga . Saida, who mostly played on the left runner position, was always one of the top performers in his team, but had to end his career as a footballer early in the fall of 1966 due to an injury.

career

Youth, amateur, Oberliga Süd, until 1963

From the KSC youth to the amateur team, Horst Saida's path led to the 1961/62 round in the league team of Karlsruher SC in the Oberliga Süd . Coach Eduard Frühwirth first trusted the qualities of the technically well-trained junior player on November 19, 1961 in the away game on the Bieberer Berg against Kickers Offenbach and brought him to use as a left wing runner. National player Horst Szymaniak moved to Italy in the summer of 1961, Heinz Beck and Bernhard Termath had ended their careers and the Wildpark-Elf was in a state of upheaval. At the end of the round, KSC was in ninth place in the table and Horst Saida had played 15 games. In the last year of the major leagues - 1962/63 - he was part of the regular line-up of the new coach Kurt Sommerlatt with 29 points games , who led Baden to fifth place and thus also into the new Bundesliga for the 1963/64 season. In total, Horst Saida played 44 games in the Oberliga Süd from 1961 to 1963. On June 23, 1963, the KSC player belonged to a DFB junior team (southern selection) that won 5-0 goals against Japan in Augsburg. Saida was the right runner in action and, according to the sports magazine of June 24, 1963, convinced as "the most invigorating element of the German game". In the same report, national coach Sepp Herberger is quoted with the following statement: "Saida has developed well."

Football Bundesliga, 1963 to 1967

At the premiere match day of the new league top in German football on August 24th, 1963, Meidericher SV and coach Rudi Gutendorf and world champion Helmut Rahn were guests in the Wildparkstadion , Horst Saida acted as the right runner in the 1: 4 defeat against the "Zebras" the Wedau. He played 24 of the 30 games in the Bundesliga debut season for KSC and scored two goals. One each in the 3-2 win against Hertha BSC and the 2-2 draw against the first Bundesliga champions 1. FC Köln . Until the 16th match day of the 1965/66 round , on December 11, 1965 at Eintracht Braunschweig , he was a member of the regular line-up of Baden. In the 0: 2 lost game against the team of coach Helmuth Johannsen , he suffered a fracture of the kneecap and was therefore unable to play a game for KSC in the entire second half of the season. At this time, Saida had 69 Bundesliga games to book. With all coaches of this period in Karlsruhe - Kurt Sommerlatt, Helmut Schneider , Werner Roth and Paul Frantz - he was undisputedly one of the small circle of top performers despite the constant battle for relegation.

Since the consequences of injuries from the Braunschweig game prevented a Bundesliga player from being fully resilient in the future, Horst Saida's career was over after the fourth match day of the 1966/67 season. He played his last game on September 10, 1966 in a 6-1 home defeat by Bayern Munich .

After the career

Saida lives today (2008) in the Alb valley in Marxzell and counts the world trips with KSC in 1962 and 1963 to his special experiences and usually attends the monthly meetings of the Friends of VfB Mühlburg .

literature

• Werner Skrentny (Ed.): When Morlock still met the moonlight. The history of the Oberliga Süd 1945–1963. Klartext, Essen 1993, ISBN 3-88474-055-5
• Matthias Weinrich: Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 3: 35 years of the Bundesliga. Part 1. The founding years 1963–1975. Stories, pictures, constellations, tables. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 1998, ISBN 3-89784-132-0 .
• Sport-Magazin , Nuremberg, 25 / A, June 24, 1963, page 18

Web links

• Horst Saida at Fußballdaten.de