Karl Gussner

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Karl Gußner (born June 10, 1908 , † August 18, 1985 ), also called "Räber", was a German football player.

Career

The trained Flaschner Karl Gußner moved in 1924 at the age of 16 from FC Stein from the small neighboring town of Nuremberg to Zerzabelshof to 1. FC Nürnberg. After the club's generation of the Roaring Twenties resigned from the football stage when five German championships were brought to Nuremberg, the “Räber”, as he was called, made his debut in the first team in 1930, for which he was to appear a total of 441 times by 1939 .

The fast Gussner jumped 6.88 meters and ran the 100 meters in 10.8 seconds. He could as this speed winger ideal play. He was still standing on the right wing in the shadow of the master and national player Baptist Reinmann . But in 1932 he had finally ousted him from the first team. From 1934 he formed the right wing together with Max Eiberger .

After the Gussner DM final in 1934 had to see how the club lost a 1-0 lead in the last three minutes, he and his teammates were able to fill in the big footsteps that the successful clubbers of the 1920s had for the first time by winning the Tschammer Cup in 1935 Years left behind. 1. FC Nürnberg won this newly created national cup competition thanks to Gussner's shooting technique. The goalkeeper of FC Schalke 04 could not hold on to his long-range shot, Georg Friedel used the rebound to make the decisive 2-0.

Gussner played an even more decisive role in the 1936 championship title . In the final against Fortuna Düsseldorf , Gußner broke a finger in the first half, but continued to play and scored the 2-1 winner with a shot from 25 meters away in the last minute of extra time.

Gussner and the FCN could not win another championship in the 1930s. In 1937, the team with Gussner's participation was defeated in the final Schalke 04, which also dominated German football in the following years. However, Gußner was able to celebrate a second cup victory: the late final of the Tschammerpokal 1939 the club won 2-0 against SV Waldhof Mannheim in May 1940, thanks in part to a great performance by Gußner . In contrast, despite a goal by Gussner, the club lost the final of the Tschammerpokal in 1940 against Dresdner SC a few months after this triumph .

Gußner was never appointed to the German national soccer team, although in the 1930s he belonged to the "crème de la crème of the German winger". But the shadow of the record national player and goalscorer Ernst Lehner was too big. Gußner not only had speed, tricks and good shooting technique to offer, but was also just as dangerous as his 18 goals in a total of 37 appearances in the final round of the German championship.

Gussner ended his career in 1941 because of a war injury that at times even threatened his eyesight. After the Second World War he still played in the Nuremberg old men team.

successes

Others

At the beginning of the 2006/07 season, 1. FC Nürnberg was the first Bundesliga club to name 35 stadium blocks of its stadium after famous and well-deserved players; Block 3b was named after Karl Gussner.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Christoph Bausenwein, Harald Kaiser, Bernd Siegler: 1. FC Nürnberg. The legend of the club. Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 1996, ISBN 3-89533-163-5 , here: p. 397.
  2. ↑ a b c d e f Lorenz Knierim, Hardy Grüne: Encyclopedia of German League Football. Player Lexicon 1890–1963. Agon Sportverlag, Kassel 2006, ISBN 3-89784-148-7 , p. 122.
  3. ↑ Bausenwein et al., P. 98 f.
  4. ↑ Bausenwein et al. P. 101 f.
  5. ↑ Bausenwein et al. P. 108 ff.
  6. ↑ "Club honors deserving players who are mentioned in the stadium blocks"

literature

  • Gußner, Karl in: Lorenz Knieriem, Hardy Green: Encyclopedia of German League Football. Player Lexicon 1890–1963. Agon Sportverlag, Kassel 2006, ISBN 3-89784-148-7 , p. 122.
personal data
SURNAME Gussner, Karl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gussner, Räber
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH June 10, 1908
DATE OF DEATH August 18, 1985