Jörg Albracht

Jörg Albracht
Personnel
birthday	November 30, 1963
place of birth	Hilden ,  Germany
size	186 cm
position	goalkeeper
Juniors
Years	station
	VfB Hilden
	VfL Benrath
	1. FC Cologne
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1980-1987	Union Solingen	13 (0)
1987-1994	Wuppertal SV	78 (0)
1994-1996	FC Schalke 04	2 (0)
1 Only league games are given.

Jörg Albracht (born November 30, 1963 in Hilden ) is a former German soccer goalkeeper and today managing director of the association of contract soccer players .

Career

After Jörg Albracht had run through the youth teams of VfB Hilden , VfL Benrath and 1. FC Köln , he switched to the squad of the then second division Union Solingen at the age of 17 . There he was initially in the shadow of Helmut Pabst and later by Volker Diergardt and thus only made 13 appearances in the second division in this club from 1980 to 1987. After switching to the then North Rhine-Upper Division Wuppertaler SV , he was able to assert himself as a regular goalkeeper for the first time and after three years made it with his team to qualify for the promotion round to the 2nd Bundesliga . Albracht then had particular influence on this qualifying round, because he received the red card in the promotion match against VfB Oldenburg after a fight with an opponent and was banned for two weeks. Since Wuppertaler SV did not have an adequate replacement for Albracht, they had no chance in the promotion round.

Two years later, the missed promotion was made up and Albracht became one of the best second division goalkeepers this season. In the following year, however, Albracht was not free from mistakes either. The best-known example of this comes from the 5-0 home defeat against FC Carl Zeiss Jena , in which Albracht was overcome from the sidelines. Despite this and despite the relegation, he was one of the better players on his team.

Albracht drew the appropriate consequences from the relegation and the associated austerity course of the Wuppertaler SV . He signed a two-year contract with Bundesliga club FC Schalke 04 . However, he was hardly available to his new club in the first season due to a torn cruciate ligament . Also at the beginning of the next season he was unlucky because he suffered from a meniscus contusion for weeks . During this time he was represented by the then young man Mathias Schober . With this he then fought about the game on the 8th matchday against 1. FC Kaiserslautern after regular goalkeeper Jens Lehmann threatened to fail. Jens Lehmann, freshly operated on, was toying with his mission again. Only in a one-on-one conversation was Albracht Lehmann able to convince him to leave this one game to him. After 16 months as a reserve, Albracht played his first Bundesliga game at the age of 31. Another one should follow in which he even remained without conceding a goal. So his career ended with a sense of achievement, but also involuntarily due to another injury in his already damaged knee.

successes

• 1992 promotion to the 2nd Bundesliga

After the career

Albracht had already trained as a tax officer during his career. After the end of his career, the disabled athlete continued his studies in business administration , which he had begun in 1992 , and was the first German professional footballer to receive funding from the employers' liability insurance association . He did his doctorate with a focus on finance and taxation.

Web links

• Jörg Albracht in the database of fussballdaten.de
• Jörg Albracht in the database of weltfussball.de
• Jörg Albracht on 100schalkerjahre.de
• Association of Contract Football Players

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 .