Karl Mai (soccer player)

Karl May
Personnel
birthday	July 27, 1928
place of birth	Fürth ,  German Empire
date of death	March 15, 1993
Place of death	Fuerth ,  Germany
position	midfield
Juniors
Years	station
1942-1948	SpVgg Fürth
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1948-1958	SpVgg Fürth	192 (20)
1958-1961	FC Bayern Munich	67 0(2)
1961	FC Young Fellows Zurich	15 0(0)
1962-1963	FC Dornbirn 1913
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1958	Germany B	1 0(0)
1953-1959	Germany	21 0(1)
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
1963-1964	ESV Ingolstadt
1964-1966	MTV Ingolstadt
1966-1968	FC Wacker Munich
1 Only league games are given.

Karl Mai (born July 27, 1928 in Fürth ; † March 15, 1993 ibid.), Also called Charly , was a German football player and coach . As a player, he became world champion with the senior national team in 1954 .

Player career

societies

Mai joined the youth department of the traditional club SpVgg Fürth on April 1, 1942 at the age of 13 . In 1944 he was drafted into the Wehrmacht and became a prisoner of war, from which he was released at the end of 1946. He continued playing football in Fürth and in 1948, at the age of 20, moved up to the first team that had been relegated to the second-rate Bayern amateur league a season earlier . In his first season in the senior division, he contributed ten second division games and three goals to the return to the Oberliga Süd . In his first season in the top German division at the time, he won the South German Championship with the team straight away in 1950 and that with just one league game. The following season , in which he played ten league games and scored two goals, he finished with the team as runner-up and was thus a participant in the final round of the German championship in 1951 in which he played five of six games; certainly a first high point in the career of the young talent. From 1951 to 1958 he remained with the team first class, but, except for third place (1953) and fourth (1958), only in the middle of the table. For the game association, he played 182 league games and scored 17 goals in these.

For the 1958/59 season he switched to league rivals FC Bayern Munich , for whom he played 67 point games in three seasons and scored two goals in these. In his first season for Bayern , he played 26 of 30 league games and made his debut on August 16, 1958 (1st matchday) in a 3-1 win in the away game against FSV Frankfurt . In the following season he played 28 of 30 point games, in which he met for the first time for Bayern . In the 6: 4 victory on September 27, 1959 (6th matchday) in the city ​​derby against TSV 1860 Munich , he scored the goal to 4: 3 in the 55th minute.

Then he moved to Switzerland , where he played 15 games in the 1961/62 season for the national league club FC Young Fellows Zurich . He ended his footballing career in 1963 at FC Dornbirn in Austria in 1913 as the champion of the Regionalliga West , which also meant promotion to the state league .

National team

National coach Sepp Herberger became aware of him in 1952 because of his above-average club performance. This later resulted in the appointment to the national team, for which May made his debut on October 11, 1953 - of all things in the important qualifying game for the 1954 World Cup in Switzerland against the Saarland national team in Stuttgart . In the 3-0 win, he played alongside his club teammates Herbert Erhardt and Richard Gottinger and the goalscorer Horst Schade and Max Morlock, who only moved to 1. FC Nürnberg in the summer of 1953 .

After successfully qualifying, Mai was one of the eleven players who became world champions with the senior national team in Bern on July 4, 1954 . It was used in five out of six tournament games; he was only a spectator in the tactical already game of the group phase on June 20 against Hungary's selection , which was lost 3: 8. He belonged in the two games against the selection of Turkey to the team, sat down in the quarter-finals at the 2: 0 win with the inner storm of Yugoslavs ( Mitic , Vukas , Bobek ) and the two outer runners Čajkovski and Boškov apart and was also in the semi-finals here , when Austria's selection was defeated 6-1. The highlight was his man marking against the top scorer of the World Cup, the 11 times successful shooter before the final, Sándor Kocsis . This good headball player and technician scored both goals to make it 4-2 for Hungary in the semifinals against the defending champions Uruguay in extra time. He also scored two goals in the quarter-finals against Brazil . Mai did not allow another goal of the striker. On May 20, 1959, Mai ended his career in the national team with a 1-1 draw against Poland in Hamburg as a player for FC Bayern Munich . As a left wing runner , he played 21 international matches for the senior national team between 1953 and 1959 , scoring a goal that he won on May 28, 1955 in Hamburg in a 2-1 win over Northern Ireland with the decisive 2-0 in the 63 . Minute succeeded.

Coaching career

Under Dettmar Cramer he acquired the B and later also the A trainer license . His first coaching stations were MTV Munich and FC Kempten. In the 1963/64 season he coached ESV Ingolstadt , then moved to local rivals MTV Ingolstadt , which he led from the district league to the Bayern league within two years .

Since he and his wife, whom he married in 1954, ran an office supplies business with a tote and lottery point of sale in Munich, he looked for a club in the immediate vicinity. He took over FC Wacker Munich , which he led to the final of the German amateur championship in 1968 .

With Schwaben Augsburg, FC Deisenhofen, MTV Ingolstadt, TSV Neustadt / Aisch, SpVgg Fürth A-Jugend, SV 73 Süd Nürnberg, 1. FC Bamberg, FSV Erlangen-Bruck, TSV Johannis 83 Nürnberg, MTV Grundig Fürth, he trained other teams before his coaching career came to an abrupt end in 1975 due to a serious gastrointestinal disease. He then gave up his business and returned to his hometown.

Others

In the early 1990s, as a smoker, his right lung was removed. He died of leukemia on March 15, 1993, at the age of only 64 . Not far from the venerable Ronhof , where he discovered his “love for football”, he found his final resting place on March 22, 1993 in the Fürth cemetery.

In October 2004, his hometown honored him with the renaming of the district sports facility on the so-called Schießanger to Charly Mai sports facility .

Web links

• Karl Mai in the database of weltfussball.de
• Karl Mai in the database of fussballdaten.de
• Karl Mai in the database of National-Football-Teams.com (English)
• Biography on kleeblatt-chronik.de
• Karl Mai: The Unknown Hero of Bern ( Memento from July 21, 2014 in the Internet Archive )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The 1958/1959 season at a glance ( Memento of the original from August 13, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on südkurve.com 
2. ↑ An overview of the 1959/1960 season ( memento of the original from October 13, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on südkurve.com 
3. ^ Matthias Arnhold: Karl 'Charly' Mai - International Appearances . RSSSF . February 23, 2017. Retrieved March 6, 2017.