Jozsef Burjan

Jozsef Burjan (born April 20, 1935 in Budapest , † December 26, 2017 ) was a Hungarian football player and coach. The offensive player completed a total of 104 games with 25 goals in the old first-class football Oberliga West and football Oberliga Süd for Alemannia Aachen and KSV Hessen Kassel from 1958 to 1963. In the debut year of the second -rate regional football league South , 1963/64 , he won the championship with Hessen Kassel under coach Walter Müller and moved into the Bundesliga promotion round in 1964. In the Regionalliga Süd, Burjan, who came to Germany from Honvéd Budapest via VfR Heilbronn, played a total of 44 league games for Kassel from 1963 to 1965, in which the winger scored nine goals.

career

Budapest, Heilbronn and Aachen, until 1961

“Joschi” Burjan played in the youth team of Honvéd Budapest in the Kispest district of his hometown . With the later 72-time national striker Lajos Tichy - Tichy was a month older than Burjan - he played together in the Hungarian youth team. Burjan was doing his military service when the Hungarian uprising broke out in his hometown in 1956. He fled to the Federal Republic of Germany via Vienna , ended up in Heilbronn and joined the VfR there. In the 1957/58 season he finished fourth with Heilbronn in the 1st Amateur League Württemberg . Since the attacker wanted to prove his skills in the Oberliga, he accepted the contract offer from Alemannia Aachen from Oberliga West for the round in 1958/59 and moved from Württemberg to the triangle of Germany-Belgium-Netherlands.

In the “potato beetles” from Tivoli , the soulful flank giver made his debut on August 17, 1958, in a 2-1 home win against Viktoria Köln , on right winger in the league. In the World Cup system that was used at the time, he held the position of three attacking leaders in the team of his compatriot and coach Béla Sárosi, together with center forward Josef Martinelli and left winger Manfred Frauencron . At the end of the round, Aachen finished tenth and Burjan had played all 30 league games and scored nine goals. From October 1959, the man from Budapest saw Helmut Kronsbein's training work . He mostly formed the right wing with the half-forward Theodor Laumann, who had come from VfR Mannheim . In the table, the improvement in 1959/60 was only minimal, Aachen was ninth and Burjan had played 28 league games (3 goals). In his third year, 1960/61, he had a brilliant first half of the season with 19:11 points and took the lead after the preliminary round. With the new striker Willi Bergstein (25 goals), the “potato beetles” seemed to be serious contenders for the title. In the second half of the season things didn't go well anymore, Alemannia fell back to eighth place. Burjan had played alongside Bergstein, Laumann, Martinelli and Alfred Glenski in 26 league games and scored nine goals. On the recommendation of player agent Dr. Ratz ended "Joschi" Burjan after three years, before the 1961/62 season, in Aachen after 83 league appearances with 23 goals and joined Hessen Kassel in the 2nd League South .

Hessen Kassel, 1961 to 1965

Hessen Kassel had under coach Willibald Hahn and with the two newcomers Peter Velhorn and Klaus-Peter Jendrosch in the 2nd League South 1960/61 occupied fourth place and wanted to move up in the 1961/62 round in the Oberliga Süd. Therefore, in addition to Burjan, Árpád Fazekas and Erich Hahn came to Northern Hesse as further newcomers . In fact, Kassel delivered a convincing round: In the 1961/62 season , the championship was won and thus promotion to the Oberliga Süd , the top division in German football at the time. KSV opened the season with a 15: 1 score. An average of 17,000 spectators attended the home games in the Auestadion . The most successful goal scorers of the championship team were Jendrosch (21 goals), Hahn (20), Velhorn and Burjan with 17 goals each. The two veterans Karl Hutfles (captain) and Walter Müller ensured the necessary seriousness in the squad. The team in the 2nd League South included the two goalkeepers Karl Loweg and Árpád Fazekas, as well as field players such as Hans Alt , Hans Michel , Dieter Vollmer, Theo Berning, Rolf Bertram and Lothar Kleim. The audience and teammates valued Burjan for his flank art, sophisticated technique and his team-friendly game, completed all 34 league games in the promotion round and scored 17 goals. After the promotion to the Oberliga Süd, four newcomers, Helmut Zatopek , Wolfgang Simon , Horst Assmy and Ernst Kuster, joined the penultimate champions of the 2nd League South. At the beginning, Kassel Munich welcomed the team of trainer Max Merkel in 1860 . The game was lost on August 19, 1962 against the eventual southern champions 0-1. Burjan stormed alongside Assmy, Jendrosch, Kuster and Simon on the left wing. In the duels he mostly had to deal with the right defender of the Munich “Lions”, Hans Reich . With 0: 6 points and 1:18 goals after three games, the start of the season failed completely. Then coach Hahn was dismissed and replaced by Walter Müller, who was ending his playing career. At the end of the lap, Kassel took tenth place with 29:31 points. Burjan had played 20 league games and scored two goals.

After founding the Bundesliga in 1963, the man from Budapest played with KSV Hessen in the second-rate Regionalliga Süd. Playmaker Rolf Fritzsche , stopper Heinrich Dittel and left winger Gerd Becker came to KSV as newcomers . Burjan personally started the regional league season with a 4-2 away win on September 1, 1963 at FC Bayern Hof . The Hessians had lost the two previous games against Schwaben Augsburg (2: 7) and Bayern Munich (2: 3) and were under pressure. After a 0-1 half-time deficit, coach Müller's team prevailed 4-2 in the second half and Burjan scored the final score with his goal. The attacker was also in action in the outstanding 6-1 home win on December 8, 1963 in front of 30,000 spectators against Kickers Offenbach .

After 38 rounds of games, Kassel won the championship in the Regionalliga Süd with 116: 61 goals and 55:21 points in the 1963/64 season. FC Bayern Munich and Kickers Offenbach, who were clearly favorites before the round, came in second and third respectively. In the following round of promotion to the Bundesliga, the southern champion failed at the northern vice-runner Hannover 96 , who won both games against Kassel: On June 6th in front of 37,000 spectators in the Auestadion with 2: 1 and on June 28th in front of 70,000 spectators in the Niedersachsenstadion with 3: 1. The predominantly used as a winger "Joschi" Burjan had completed 25 games in the league with six goals and three appearances in the promotion round.

In the second regional league year, 1964/65, another 19 games with three goals were added for Burjan under the new coach Herbert Widmayer . In the DFB Cup , the Hungarian, who had made his home in Kassel, experienced another sporting highlight on January 16, 1965 in a 2-0 home defeat against Hamburger SV in front of a sold out house (30,000 spectators). With goals from Uwe Seeler and Gert Dörfel , the Bundesliga team prevailed 2-0. With Karl-Heinz Bente , Burjan had formed the right wing.

In the summer of 1965 "Joschi" Burjan ended his high-class playing career and took over the position of player-coach at TSV Sandershausen. At TSV Rothwesten and TSV Oberzwehren he later worked as a part-time coach in Kassel amateur football. In addition, "Joschi" withdrew into the old men 's team of the KSV, in which he played for a full two decades - with some of the teammates of the past (Metzner, Fritzsche, Dinger, Burose).

Job and hobby

Burjan headed the sports therapy department in the Baunatal handicapped workshop for over 20 years . In 1998 he retired. He tried to keep fit for as long as possible with leisure activities such as table tennis, volleyball and bicycle tours. Burjan, married in 1962, lived in Fuldabrück-Bergshausen .

literature

• Horst Biese, Herbert Peiler: 100 years of football in Kassel. Agon Sportverlag. Kassel 1993. ISBN 3-928562-37-1 .
• Christian Karn, Reinhard Rehberg: Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 9: Player Lexicon 1963-1994. Bundesliga, regional league, 2nd league. Agon-Sportverlag, Kassel 2012, ISBN 978-3-89784-214-4 .

Web links

• Alemannia Aachen player archive

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Oliver Zehe: Mourning for Joschi Burjan. KSV Hessen Kassel, December 30, 2017, accessed December 30, 2017 .