Johann Zeitler

Johann "Hans" "Jumbo" Zeitler (born April 30, 1927 in Bindlach ; † March 1, 2018 ibid) was a German soccer player who was an active member of the German amateur soccer team at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki and the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne took part.

Career

societies

The only 1.66 m short center forward (who was called “Jumbo” for that very reason) played for VfB Bayreuth and SpVgg Bayreuth during his active time . In 1951/52 he was promoted to the Bayern League with VfB, where he was able to assert himself with the promoted team in 1952/53. From the 1953/54 season to 1957/58, the compact and fast goalscorer then played with his club in the amateur league of Northern Bavaria. With 26 goals, Zeitler was the top scorer in Northern Bavaria in 1954. Two years later, in 1956, the powerful center forward was able to celebrate the championship, but it was not enough for promotion. But he experienced this after his move to city rivals SpVgg Bayreuth in the 1958/59 season. With the veteran Zeitler, the game association was promoted to the 2nd League South. In his first year in the second division, 1959/60, the 32-year-old striker was still active.

Selection / national team

With the Bavarian association selection, the center forward Hans Zeitler won the amateur country cup four times in a row between 1952 and 1955 . For the Bayern selection, he played 30 games. When national coach Sepp Herberger put together an amateur national team for the Summer Olympics in Helsinki in 1952 , the VfB Bayreuth striker was one of his top performers from the start. He played six of seven international matches in 1952. There were also the missions at the Olympics in 1952 against Brazil, Yugoslavia and Sweden. In the years 1953 to 1955, four more games followed. He played his eleventh and last international match for the DFB amateurs on November 24, 1956 in Melbourne at the 1956 Olympic Games against the later Olympic champion, the Soviet Union . The German team was eliminated from the tournament after the 1: 2 final result after the first game. Zeitler played eleven amateur international matches from 1952 to 1956, scoring seven goals.

National coach Sepp Herberger subjected the planned attack of the new amateur national team in the international match on April 20, 1952 in Luxembourg to an international test. Except for the injured right winger Matthias Mauritz , the attack of the DFB amateurs played in the 3-0 success: Georg Stollenwerk , Zeitler, Willi Schröder and Kurt Ehrmann . On May 14, 1952, this attack made its debut in the first international match of the amateurs in the 2-1 win in Düsseldorf against Great Britain with two goals from the man from Bayreuth. Since he only played in a third-rate club, no further appearances in the senior national team followed .

Others

One of the reasons for the sought-after striker to play under amateur conditions in Bayreuth and not to switch to the major league as a contract player was not least his position as a surveyor for the city's electricity company. As A youth coach , Hans Zeitler led the team of 1. FC Bayreuth in 1967 with a 5-2 win against FV 04 Würzburg to win the Bayern title.

Web links

• Johann Zeitler in the database of weltfussball.de
• Hans Zeitler on dfb .de
• Johann Zeitler in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ^ SpVgg Bayreuth mourns Jumbo Zeitler. In: spvgg-bayreuth.de. Retrieved April 17, 2018 . 

literature

• Lorenz Knieriem, Hardy Grüne : Player Lexicon 1890 - 1963 . In: Encyclopedia of German League Football . tape 8 . AGON, Kassel 2006, ISBN 3-89784-148-7 .
• 50 years of the Bavarian Football Association. Vindelica Publishing House, 1996.
• Jürgen Bitter : Germany's national soccer player: the lexicon . SVB Sportverlag, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-328-00749-0 .