Jakob Balzert

Jakob "Jockel" Balzert
Personnel
birthday	January 6, 1918
place of birth	Köllerbach ,  Prussia
date of death	June 23, 1997
position	Center forward , left runner , half left , left winger
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
0000-1938	Sportfreunde Köllerbach
1938-1955	FV / 1. FC Saarbrücken
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1951-1953	Saarland	6 (0)
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
1946-1947	FV 08 Püttlingen
1 Only league games are given.

Jakob "Jockel" Balzert (born January 6, 1918 in Köllerbach ; † June 23, 1997 ) was a German football player who was with the FV / 1. FC Saarbrücken was twice in the final of the German soccer championship in 1943 and 1952 .

life and career

Club career, 1938 to 1955

Balzert was born in Köllerbach and initially played for the Sportfreunde Köllerbach . From the 1938/39 round he dominated the left side at FV Saarbrücken. With technical sophistication and cunning ideas, "Jockel" Balzert repeatedly provided impulses over the left flank for impulses in the offensive game of the black and blue from Kieselhumes . The playmaker's first sporting climax came in the 1942/43 round of war with the Saarbrücken championship success in the Gauliga Westmark and the associated entry into the final round of the German football championship . After successes against FC Mülhausen , SV Victoria Köln , VfR Mannheim and in the semifinals against First Vienna FC , he moved into the final on June 27, 1943 in Berlin against Dresdner SC with the "Molschdern" . On the side of the players Wilhelm Sold , John Herberger and coming in before the season from Karlsruhe Striker Herbert Binkert he could the championship success of Saxony about the axis Willibald Kress , Herbert Pohl , Walter Dzur , Helmut Schubert , Richard Hofmann and Helmut Schoen does not prevent, however, .

In the post-war period the Saarland became independent again. The 1. FC Saarbrücken , successor of the dissolved in November 1945 FV Saarbrücken, initially remained active in the German gaming operations and contributed in the northern group of up to 1948 his round matches Oberliga Southwest from. When this was no longer possible from the 1948/49 round, the blue-blacks were given a starting place in the second French division after long negotiations . Under the name “FC Sarrebruck” Balzert and colleagues played out of competition in the French game operations and took first place there (unofficially) ahead of Racing Lens and Girondins Bordeaux . After 37 games, coach Oskar “Ossi” Müller's team had won 26 games, drawn seven times and lost four times; the goal difference was 148: 50, Balzert had scored ten of Saarbrücken's goals. However, this placement does not appear in any final table of the French association to this day. After this "travel round" - the Malstatter traveled 23,314 kilometers by train - the Saarbrücken team withdrew from the game of the Fédération Française de Football (FFF) and in the following two years only played friendly games, including the one for the lucrative one from the FCS itself organized International Saarland Cup .

This was another highlight for Balzert and 1. FC Saarbrücken. In the competition for the trophy from September 1949 to May 1950 and the prize of two million Saar francs , 1. FC Saarbrücken played at home against 14 top European teams and a team from Santiago de Chile. In the final round, Saarbrücken prevailed on June 10, 1950, first in the semifinals with a 1-0 win with a goal from Balzert against Hajduk Split and won the cup on the following day in the final with a 4-0 win against Stade Rennes . In the 1950/51 season, VfB Neunkirchen was the second host team to take part in the competition. The qualifying matches were played back and forth. After the inclusion of Saarland football in the German league structure for the 1951/52 season, interest in the International Saarland Cup flattened and the French high commission cut funding for the final round, so that the competition was not completed.

In the early 1950s Balzert toured half of Europe with 1. FC Saarbrücken, played many friendly matches and 1. FCS was described in the press as “the most interesting team in Europe”. The 4-0 win at Real Madrid on February 21, 1951 was sensational . Real's home defeat at the Nuevo Estadio Chamartín (today Estadio Santiago Bernabéu ) sealed Balzert, Kurt Clemens , Herbert Binkert and Henry Prieur . When 1. FC Saarbrücken was again eligible to play in the Oberliga Südwest in the 1951/52 season , Balzert and colleagues celebrated under the direction of coach Auguste "Gustl" Jordan with six points ahead of TuS Neuendorf and even nine points behind 1. FC Kaiserslautern won the championship straight away. The two Saarland teams experienced the start of the series in the southwest late on the fourth match day. In the 3-1 away win against Eintracht Trier, Balzert took the 1-0 lead and scored the first goal for 1. FC Saarbrücken in the single-track Oberliga Südwest. After the twelfth game day, the blue-blacks had only played nine games, Saarbrücken was already at the top of the table without losing points. At the end of the season, Balzert and his colleagues were finally able to celebrate the championship and thus their entry into the final round of the German football championship.

In the final round of the German soccer championship in 1952 , which took place from April 27th to June 22nd, the 34-year-old veteran played as a left wing runner in the group matches against FC Schalke 04 , 1. FC Nürnberg and Hamburger SV , at the end of which there was qualification for the final. He also belonged to the 3-1 victorious Malstatter Elf in the decisive group game on June 8, 1952 in front of 35,000 spectators at Kieselhumes against 1. FC Nürnberg and passed the duel against Max Morlock , who stormed half right at the "Club". Despite the outstanding indoor trio with Herbert Martin , Herbert Binkert and Peter Momber , the blue-blacks lost the final 2: 3 against VfB Stuttgart . In 1953 and 1955, the senior Balzert took third place in the Oberliga Südwest twice with 1. FC Saarbrücken. The filigree technician played his last league game on February 27, 1955 at the age of 37 against FV Speyer , when they parted ways with a 1-1 draw in the cathedral city. In total, Balzert is led with 126 league games and 19 goals. In addition, he was still in the final round of the German championship in twelve games with three goals in action.

National team, 1951 to 1953

“Jockel” Balzert made six international matches for the Saarland national team . On May 27, 1951, the Köllerbacher made his debut under Auguste Jordan in a 3-2 win against Austria B on the side of Leibenguth , Binkert, Martin and picture . Outstanding were his last two games for the national team in qualifying for the 1954 World Cup against Germany and Norway under national coach Helmut Schön . Although at the age of 35 he was no longer at the zenith of his ability in October and November 1953, his ball technique and overview still contributed to the fact that, on the one hand, the Herberger-Elf against the outsider from the Saar at 3: 0 success in Stuttgart's Neckarstadion was far more difficult than the result suggests and, on the other hand, the Norwegians in Saarbrücken only came to a flattering 0-0.

Next to the square

In the season 1946/47 Balzert trained the FV 08 Püttlingen in the probation class Saar, Group West and rose with the team at the end of the season in the honor division. In June 1997 Balzert died “after a long suffering” at the age of 79. He was buried in his birthplace Köllerbach.

literature

• Werner Skrentny (Ed.): The fear of the devil in front of the pea mountain. The history of the Oberliga Südwest 1946–1963. Klartext Verlag, Essen 1996, ISBN 3-88474-394-5 .
• Hardy Greens : Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 1: From the Crown Prince to the Bundesliga. 1890 to 1963. Agon Sportverlag, Kassel 1996, ISBN 3-928562-85-1 .
• Hardy Grüne, Lorenz Knieriem: Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 8: Player Lexicon 1890–1963. Agon Sportverlag, Kassel 2006, ISBN 3-89784-148-7 .

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b} Gerhard Reuther: Footballers mourn Jockel Balzert. In: Saarbrücker Zeitung from June 26, 1997.
2. ↑ Martin Neu: The 44 national players of the SFB from A for Altmeyer to Z for Zegel. In: saar-nostalgie.de (December 31, 2016), accessed on January 1, 2017.
3. ↑ Dominique Rossi: The leader of the blue-black post-war heroes. In: Saarbrücker Zeitung of October 2, 2003.
4. ↑ Gerhard Reuther: "The most interesting eleven in Europe!" In: Werner Skrentny (Ed.): Teufelsangst vorm Erbsenberg. The history of the Oberliga Südwest 1946–1963. Klartext Verlag, Essen 1996, ISBN 3-88474-394-5 , pp. 40-41.
5. ^ Stefan Haas, Rainer Freyer: The 1. FC Saarbrücken from 1945 to 1959. In: saar-nostalgie.de , accessed on November 26, 2019.
6. ^ Reinhard Klektiven , Herbert Günther: Die Molschder 1903-2003. 100 years of 1. FC Saarbrücken. Saarbrücken 2003, ISBN 3-00-012542-6 , p. 57.
7. ↑ Wilfried Burr: Triumphant reception for the losers. In: Saarbrücker Zeitung from February 14, 2013.
8. ↑ Werner Skrentny (Ed.): Teufelsangst vorm Erbsenberg. The history of the Oberliga Südwest 1946–1963. Klartext Verlag, Essen 1996, ISBN 3-88474-394-5 , p. 197.
9. ↑ Saarland Football Association (ed.): Saarfußball. 5 years in FIFA. Saarbrücken 1957, [without ISBN], pp. 56–57.
10. ↑ 110 years of FV 08 Püttlingen: Moving history not just on the ball. In: saarbruecker-zeitung.de , accessed on November 26, 2019.