Josef Rasselnberg

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Josef Rasselnberg (born December 18, 1912 in Düsseldorf , † February 9, 2005 ) was a German football player and coach . He is mainly remembered for the 1934 World Cup qualifier against Luxembourg, in which he became the first German scorer in a World Cup match. The first World Cup goal for the DFB came a few months later Stanislaus Kobierski in the first German participation in the tournament in Italy .

Career

He played for VfL Benrath (Düsseldorf) in the 1930s . He became (again) known through Michael Ballack's four goals on May 27, 2004 in the friendly before the European Championship in Portugal in the 7-0 victory of the German national team in Freiburg against Malta. This was a reminder of his four goals in the game against Luxembourg on March 11, 1934 in the 9-1 victory in the World Cup qualification for the finals in Italy. At the age of 21, he is one of the youngest players on a German national team to score four goals in one game.

After the successful qualifying game against Luxembourg, however, he suffered a protracted knee injury and was therefore unable to take part in the 1934 World Cup in Italy. He was also unable to contest the final round of the 1934 German soccer championship for his club, VfL Benrath. Without the goal-threatening striker, VfL landed only one point behind FC Schalke 04 in the group games in second place. Schalke became German champions on June 24, 1934 with a 2-1 win against 1. FC Nürnberg . It was not until May 12, 1935 that he celebrated his comeback in the national team against Spain . With his club he played in the group matches of the finals in 1935, but then failed in the semifinals on June 2 with a 2: 4 defeat at VfB Stuttgart . On December 4, 1935, he played his last international match for the DFB in the 3-0 defeat against England in London. His companion was the center forward Karl Hohmann in the club and in the national team .

He played a total of nine times for the German Football Association and scored eight goals.

From 1937 he played for Eintracht Bad Kreuznach in the southwest. After the war he applied for a name change to Josef Rasselenberg . With Kreuznach he managed as a "player-coach" in 1950 in the playoffs against Herdorf the league promotion. As a coach he was in the Oberliga Südwest until 1961 at Eintracht. In 1956 he had passed the coach exam to become a soccer teacher. Exam colleagues were: Reinhold Fanz senior, Georg Lechner senior, Ernst Fuhry , Robert Gebhardt , Willy Keim, Alfons Remlein , Horst Schade .

Rasselnberg, who had married a woman from Kreuznach, ran a cigar and cigarette wholesaler in the small town on the Nahe.

literature

  • Jürgen Bitter : Germany's national soccer player: the lexicon . SVB Sportverlag, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-328-00749-0 .
  • Jürgen Bitter: Germany's football. The encyclopedia. Sportverlag, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-328-00857-8 .
  • Werner Skrentny (Ed.): The fear of the devil in front of the pea mountain. The history of the Oberliga Südwest 1946–1963. Klartext, Essen 1996, ISBN 3-88474-394-5 .
  • Klaus Querengässer: The German football championship. Part 2: 1948–1963 (= AGON Sportverlag statistics. Vol. 29). AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 1997, ISBN 3-89609-107-7 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Matthias Arnhold: Josef Rasselnberg - Goals in International Matches . RSSSF . September 1, 2016. Retrieved September 8, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Rasselnberg, Josef
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH December 18, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Dusseldorf
DATE OF DEATH February 9, 2005