Josef Hofmeister (soccer player)

Josef Hofmeister
Personnel
birthday	May 8, 1946
place of birth	Aschaffenburg ,  Germany
size	178 cm
position	Storm
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
0000-1967	SV Stockstadt
1967-1969	Borussia Dortmund	6 0(1)
1969-1970	SV Darmstadt 98	27 0(6)
1970-1972	Freiburg FC	55 (15)
1972-1973	Eintracht Frankfurt	10 0(1)
1973-1974	VfR Mannheim
1974–0000	SV Stockstadt
1 Only league games are given.

Josef Hofmeister (born May 8, 1946 in Aschaffenburg ) is a former German football player . The winger has played a total of 16 Bundesliga games with two goals in the Bundesliga at Borussia Dortmund (6/1) and Eintracht Frankfurt (10/1).

Career

Hofmeister played at SV Stockstadt in the lower-class amateur area until he was 21, before moving to Borussia Dortmund in the Bundesliga for the 1967/68 season. In addition to Hofmeister, the 1966 European Cup winner signed Klaus Brakelmann , Werner Köddermann and Horst Koschmieder. Author Dietrich Schulze-Marmeling notes: “The commitment policy for the 1967/68 season was even more cautious than in the previous year. Only actual or perceived talent was brought in. ”He played two seasons in the Bundesliga for BVB, playing three games each time. The attacker, who can be used on both wing positions, made his debut under coach Heinz Murach on matchday 23, February 17, 1968, in a 5-0 home win against Karlsruher SC in the Bundesliga and also scored his first goal on the right wing at the same time for Dortmund. The BVB attack was in the formation with Hofmeister, Horst Trimhold , Sigfried Held , Willi Neuberger and Lothar Emmerich . Since Reinhard Libuda and Reinhold Wosab also belonged to the offensive division of the Black-Yellows, the newcomer could not establish himself in the regular eleven. Hofmeister played his last Bundesliga game for Dortmund on October 30, 1968 in a 1: 4 away defeat against Bayern Munich. He came on in the 46th minute for Dietmar Erler .

He left the Ruhr area after two years and then played one year for SV Darmstadt 98 in the second -rate regional soccer league south in 1969/70 . He scored five goals in 27 games for the blue-whites from Böllenfalltor, but was relegated to the amateur camp under coach Heinz Lucas as 18th alongside teammates such as Uwe Ebert , Wolfgang Mühlschwein , Jürgen Rohweder and Wolfgang Solz . He lost the decisive game for relegation with the "Lilien" on May 20, 1970 1: 4 on the Bieberer Berg against Kickers Offenbach. Hofmeister stayed in the regional league with his move to Freiburg FC . In addition to Hofmeister, defender Hubert Windsperger signed with the Möslestadion team and the career of goalkeeper Hubert Birkenmeier began. Under coach Hans Pilz and at the side of players like Werner Anzill , Karl-Heinz Bente , Hans Linsenmaier , Karl-Heinz Mießmer , Helmut Siebert and Hans-Günter von de Fenn , he finished 9th with the FFC; Hofmeister had scored six goals in 25 league games. In the second year in Freiburg, 1971/72, he increased his personal record to 31 regional league appearances in which he scored nine goals. With storm colleague Siebert, he led the internal goalscorer list together. The FFC finished in 6th place under the returning coach Hans Wendlandt and the new defense chief Blagomir Krivokuća played a major role in this. Because of his dribbling skills, Hofmeister had earned the nickname "Hakensepp" during his two rounds at the FFC. For Freiburg he scored 15 goals in 56 games in two seasons from 1970 to 1972.

In particular, his performances in the 1971/72 season had made the winger interesting again for the Bundesliga. He got a contract with Eintracht Frankfurt for the 1972/73 season and played again in the upper house of German football. In addition to Hofmeister, Uwe Kliemann , Günther Wienhold , Raimund Krauth and Karl-Heinz Körbel joined coach Erich Ribbeck's team as newcomers. On October 21, 1973 he made his debut at Eintracht in the away game at RW Oberhausen in the Bundesliga. He came on in the 84th minute in a 0-1 defeat for Bernd Hölzenbein . Eight days later, on October 28th, he played his first full Bundesliga game with the Elf vom Riederwald. He stormed in a 2-2 home draw against Werder Bremen on the right wing, Thomas Parits as a center forward and Ender Konca on the left wing. In total, he completed ten other Bundesliga games and scored another goal. He was also in the league cup against Borussia Neunkirchen and Fortuna Köln, in the DFB Cup against Eintracht Braunschweig (0-1, 2-2), and in the UEFA Cup on September 26, 1972 in a 0-0 home draw against FC Liverpool have been on duty.

After a year at Eintracht, he played a season for VfR Mannheim in 1973/74 in the last year of the old second-rate Regionalliga Süd , where he was only able to score two goals in 14 league appearances due to injuries. His last game with the blue-white-reds under coach Gunther Baumann was the local derby on March 16, 1974 against Chio Waldhof. It ended with a 7: 4 goal for Waldhof and Hofmeister had formed the VfR attack with Ludwig Hartmann and Bernd Detterer . In the 61st minute he was replaced after an injury and could not play in the last round games. From 1974/75 he played again in the amateur field at his home club SV Stockstadt.

literature

• Christian Karn, Reinhard Rehberg: Player Lexicon 1963–1994. Agon Sportverlag. Kassel 2012. ISBN 978-3-89784-214-4 . P. 210.
• Ulrich Matheja: Schlappekicker and sky striker. The story of Eintracht Frankfurt. Publishing house Die Werkstatt. Göttingen 2004. ISBN 3-89533-427-8 . P. 346.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Jürgen Bitter: Germany's football. That lexicon. FA Herbig. Munich 2008. ISBN 978-3-7766-2558-5 . Pp. 314/315
2. ↑ Dietrich Schulze-Marmeling: The fame, the dream and the passion. The story of Borussia Dortmund. Publishing house Die Werkstatt. Göttingen 2011. ISBN 978-3-89533-810-6 . P. 140
3. ^ Freiburg football club (ed.): 100 years of FFC. A piece of Freiburg city history. Freiburger Grafische Betriebe GmbH & Co. Freiburg 1997. p. 91

Web links

• Josef Hofmeister in the database of fussballdaten.de
• Josef Hofmeister in the database of kicker.de