Josef Elting

Josef Elting
Goalkeeper Josef Elting (below) during the game against Ajax Amsterdam, March 1969
Personnel
birthday	December 29, 1944
place of birth	Bocholt ,  Germany
size	180 cm
position	goalkeeper
Juniors
Years	station
	1. FC Bocholt
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1962-1964	1. FC Bocholt	44 0(0)
1964-1970	FC Schalke 04	64 0(0)
1970-1974	1. FC Kaiserslautern	87 0(0)
1974-1975	Real Murcia	21 0(0)
1976-1977	Wuppertal SV	16 0(0)
1979-1980	1. FC Bocholt
1 Only league games are given.

Josef "Jüppken" Elting (born December 29, 1944 in Bocholt ) is a former German soccer goalkeeper . The goalkeeper played a total of 151 Bundesliga games for FC Schalke 04 and 1. FC Kaiserslautern between 1965 and 1974 . With 1. FC Kaiserslautern he was in the DFB Cup final on July 1, 1972 against his old club FC Schalke 04 (0: 5).

career

"Jüppken" Elting came to Schalke Knappen in 1964 as a 19-year-old from the regional division 1. FC Bocholt and played for the Schalke amateur team for the 1964/65 season. For the round 1965/66 he was accepted into the professional squad and pushed the experienced Horst Mühlmann out of the gate in the course of the round . On the first day of the round, coach Fritz Langner started with Mühlmann in a 0: 1 away defeat at VfB Stuttgart in goal, on the second day of the match the young Elting made his debut on August 21, 1965 in a 0: 0 draw against Karlsruher SC in the Bundesliga and on The third matchday was veteran Josef Broden in the Schalker goal. From the eighth matchday on, October 16, 1965, Schalke won the home game against Hamburger SV 2-1, Elting was then number 1. Before the start of the round, Schalke had to cope with the loss of several top performers - Willi Schulz , Egon Horst , Reinhard Libuda , Hans Nowak , Waldemar Gerhardt , Willi Koslowski - and in return the squad consisted mainly of amateurs, youth players and regional league players such as Klaus Fichtel , Heinz-Dieter Lömm , Heinz Pliska , Dieter Bedürftig , Gerhard Neuser , Klaus Senger , Siegfried Werner , Werner Weikamp and the former Herner Oberliga player Alfred Pyka . That the relegation succeeded with 27:41 points was a great achievement and the young goalkeeper Elting played his part.

Two years later something similar happened to Elting when Norbert Nigbur, a younger goalkeeper, came along and contested his regular place. Ironically on the 18th matchday of the 1966/67 round, January 7, 1967, Elting stood for Nigbur in the game on the Bökelberg against Borussia Mönchengladbach in the Schalker Tor. The men around Herbert Wimmer , Herbert L Bäumen , Jupp Heynckes , Günter Netzer and Bernd Rupp overran the “Royal Blues” 11-0. Elting played six games in 1966/67, Nigbur as number 1 the remaining 28 games and Schalke took 15th place. In 1970 he moved to 1. FC Kaiserslautern and succeeded Wolfgang Schnarr on the Betzenberg . In the first five games of the 1970/71 season, however, his rival Bratislav Đorđević was in the FCK goal, from the sixth matchday coach Gyula Lóránt put on the man from Schalke. At the end of the lap, Lautern finished eighth and Elting had completed 27 rounds. Under Lorant's successor Dietrich Weise , Elting was the clear number 1 in 1971/72 with 32 appearances, took seventh place with the Palatine and won the DFB Cup with successes against Wuppertaler SV (1: 2, 3: 2 afterwards). , 5: 3 a.s.), VfB Stuttgart (3: 4, 3: 1), Rot-Weiß Oberhausen (1: 3, 5: 0 a.s.) and in the semifinals with two 2: 1 wins against SV Werder Bremen the final on July 1, 1972.

In the 1972/73 season, Elting's two appearances in the UEFA Cup against the Stoke City team stood out. In Stoke he lost 3-1 with 1. FCK and saw the goalkeeper legend Gordon Banks in action; In the second leg - Stoke started without Banks - Elting and colleagues prevailed with a surprising 4-0. Geoff Hurst failed because of the Lauter defense around Dietmar Schwager and Ernst Diehl , the 1966 world champion failed to score. Elting also stood u. a. on October 20, 1973 in the legendary 7: 4 of his Lauterer against FC Bayern Munich in goal, when the hosts were able to turn a 1: 3 half-time deficit. After 1. FCK signed the Swedish goalkeeper Ronnie Hellström for the 1974/75 season , Elting went to Spain to Real Murcia . Murcia was relegated to 18th from the 1st division.

In the 1976/77 season he played 16 games for Wuppertaler SV in the 2nd Bundesliga after his return from Spain . Josef Elting ended his career in 1980 with his home club 1. FC Bocholt with the championship in the Oberliga Nordrhein .

His cousin Friedel Elting was also a soccer player and coach.

literature

• FC Schalke 04 (Ed.): Royal Blue. The history of FC Schalke 04. Verlag Die Werkstatt. Göttingen 2015. ISBN 978-3-7307-0204-8 .
• Dominic Bold: 1. FC Kaiserslautern. The Chronicle. Publishing house Die Werkstatt. Göttingen 2013. ISBN 978-3-7307-0046-4 .
• Christian Karn, Reinhard Rehberg: Player Lexicon 1963–1994. Agon Sportverlag. Kassel 2012. ISBN 978-3-89784-214-4 . P. 121.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Jürgen Bitter: Germany's football. The encyclopedia. FA Herbig. Munich 2008. ISBN 978-3-7766-2558-5 . P. 177

Web links

• Josef Elting in the database of fussballdaten.de
• Portrait at 100-schalker-jahre.de