Karl Waldmann (soccer player)

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Karl Waldmann (born May 3, 1935 in Münster , Hessen ) is a former German football player on the position of defender . For Kickers Offenbach from the defenders graduated in the first class Oberliga South 1955-1963 a total of 106 league games (1 goal) and stood with the Kickers in 1959 in the final of the German football championship .

career

Waldmann began his football career with his home club SV 1919 Münster, with whose A youth team he was district champion in 1952.

In 1955 Waldmann was committed by Kickers Offenbach, with whom he was under contract until 1963. His greatest success with the Kickers was reaching the final of the German championship in 1959 , which was lost to arch rivals and neighbors Eintracht Frankfurt 3: 5 after extra time . He made his first league debut under coach Paul Oßwald on October 30, 1955 in a 2: 3 away defeat at Jahn Regensburg. From the 1957/58 season he belonged to the inner circle of the league team, from 1958/59 he was a regular player. After the southern vice championship in 1959 behind Eintracht Frankfurt, Waldmann had completed 27 league games that season, he and his teammates made an impressive appearance in the group stage for the German championship. Against the group opponents Hamburger SV (3: 2, 0: 1), Tasmania 1900 Berlin (2: 2, 3: 2) and Westfalia Herne (4: 1, 2: 1) they made it into the final of the German championship. With the standard defense with goalkeeper Walter Zimmermann , the defender couple Waldmann and Alfred Schultheis and the runner row Heinz Lichtl , Helmut Sattler and Ernst Wade in the then common World Cup system , they had successfully played the first five group games. In the home win against Tasmania 1900 - a 0-2 deficit was turned over to success in the last three minutes - defense chief Sattler was sent off and was thus suspended in the final.

The final in the Berlin Olympic Stadium in front of 75,000 spectators took place against local rivals Eintracht Frankfurt. At halftime it was 2-2, in extra time Eintracht prevailed 5-3 with their attack with Richard Kreß , István Sztani , Eckehard Feigenspan , Dieter Lindner and Alfred Pfaff . Waldmann played the last league game on May 5, 1963 in a catch-up game against VfB Stuttgart (1: 1).

literature

  • Lorenz Knieriem, Hardy Grüne : Player Lexicon 1890 - 1963 . In: Encyclopedia of German League Football . tape 8 . AGON, Kassel 2006, ISBN 3-89784-148-7 , p. 405 .

successes

  • German runner-up: 1959

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Poker and Razors (July 21, 2012 article)
  2. ^ Karl Waldmann in the database of sport.de
personal data
SURNAME Waldmann, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH May 3, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Munster , Hessen , Germany