Josef Strauss (soccer player)

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Josef "Peps" Strauss , also "Pepi" or "Peppi" Strauss (born September 21, 1928 , † September 13, 2012 ) was a German soccer goalkeeper . From 1948 to 1960 he made 222 appearances in the football league , 118 for TSV 1860 Munich and 104 for the Stuttgarter Kickers .

TSV 1860 Munich

On October 31, 1948, Strauss played for TSV 1860 Munich in adult football for the first time. Ironically, for the derby against FC Bayern , he replaced Hans-Helmuth Sembritzki , the previous goalkeeper of the Lions . After this 2-0 defeat, he stayed in the goal of TSV 1860 and was an integral part of the team in the following years, even if he was never the undisputed first goalkeeper.

By the end of his first season , Strauss was used nine times in the league. In 1949/50 he made his first appearance on the sixth match day, before Werner Kisker and Hans Holzmüller had guarded the lion's gate . He then played every league game until the end of the season. In the 1950/51 season , Strauss was the undisputed number 1 of the sixties , he was used in all 34 games. In 1951/52 he played 25 times, in November and December he was replaced by Otto regulator . He also started the season 1952/53 as a regular goalkeeper. After a 1: 6 defeat against the Stuttgarter Kickers on the fourth match day, Helmut Hammerl was set up as goalkeeper in the following games. On the eleventh game day - TSV 1860 was meanwhile in relegation position 15 - Strauss again guarded the goal. He remained the first goalkeeper until the end of the season, but could not prevent the team from being relegated from the league for the first time in 1953. He stayed in Munich and joined the 2nd Division in 1953/54 with 1860 . He guarded the Sechzger gate 28 times , in September Rudolf Forster stood in the gate once, from January to March Helmut Hammerl five times.

In addition to the 118 first and 28 second division games, he was also used once in the South German Cup and the BFV Cup . In total, he played 148 games for the Munich Lions . This makes him the goalkeeper with the seventh most appearances in the football history of TSV 1860 since 1945.

Stuttgart Kickers

For the 1954/55 season he joined the Stuttgarter Kickers, who played in the Oberliga Süd. On the 14th game day he replaced Gerhard Bechtold , who had been in the Kickers' squad since 1948. In his club debut he lost 4-1 at VfR Mannheim , but Strauss remained number 1 in the two following seasons 1955/56 and 1956/57 , he remained first goalkeeper, Bechthold was used in only seven games, the one in the summer of 1957 Strauss went the opposite way and joined TSV 1860 Munich. In the season 1958/59 he played all 29 games for the Kickers - the first game of the season was not played due to a game suspension and counted against the Kickers. At the end of the season Strauss was relegated to the II Division for the second time. In the 1958/59 season he was not used, Manfred Eglin was set up in all games as the goalkeeper of the Kickers, who managed the immediate promotion to the top division. In 1959/60 Strauss remained a substitute goalkeeper, but at the end of the season he made his last five league appearances, the last being at the end of the season at 1. FC Nürnberg , when the relegation was already certain. The second division season 1960/61 was his last for the Stuttgarter Kickers, he played 24 times, Eglin ten times.

Overall, he was used in the Kickers in 104 major league and 24 second division games. In addition, there was at least one appearance in the South German Cup.

After the league career

After leaving the Kickers, he stayed in Baden-Württemberg . In 1960/61 he was part of the SV Germania Bietigheim squad , after which he ended his active career. As a trainer, he then looked after the FV Zuffenhausen and VfL Schorndorf, among others . In the season 1964/65 he was coach at the then fourth-class VfR Aalen . From 1969 to 1972 he was a coach at 1. FC Eislingen . After a serious traffic accident, he ended his coaching engagement. Later he ran a tennis center in Köngen .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ex-lion keeper Strauss is dead on tz .de. September 21, 2012, accessed October 17, 2014
  2. ↑ 1860 Munich - Eintracht Frankfurt 1950/51 on eintracht-archiv.de
  3. ↑ Hardy Grüne , Claus Melchior: Die Löwen. Die Werkstatt, 2012, ISBN 978-3-89533-905-9 , p. 425
  4. ↑ 1957/58 in kickersarchiv.de
  5. ↑ a b Josef "Peps" Strauss in kickersarchiv.de (with photo)
  6. ↑ History on vfr-aalen.de
  7. ^ Chronicle of 1.FC Eislingen 1914 eV ( Memento from October 22, 2014 in the Internet Archive )

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personal data
SURNAME Strauss, Josef
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Strauss, Pepi; Strauss, Peppi; Ostrich, peps (nicknames)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH September 21, 1928
DATE OF DEATH September 13, 2012