Klaus Schmidt (soccer player)

Klaus Schmidt (born June 27, 1941 ) is a former German soccer player who won the championship in the Regionalliga Südwest three times in a row with SV Alsenborn from 1968 to 1970 .

career

Association, 1951 to 1973

For the 1964/65 round, the 23-year-old amateur footballer Klaus Schmidt from Ludwigshafen moved to SV Alsenborn in the 1st Southwest Amateur League. From 1960 to 1962 he had previously played 24 games at SV Phönix Ludwigshafen in the Oberliga Südwest and in 1962 was relegated to the 2nd League Southwest. He quickly developed in Alsenborn as a center runner to the center of the defense and was thus a guarantee for the free development of the offensive game around playmaker and goalscorer Lorenz Horr . The village club won the championship in front of FSV Schifferstadt and rose to the 1965/66 round in the Regionalliga Südwest and finished there in ninth place. In the second round - 1966/67 - the defensive department headed by defense chief Klaus Schmidt was able to reduce the number of goals against in 30 association games from 55 (1966) to 43 goals. In the third year of membership in the regional league - 1967/68 - the team of coach Otto Render won the first championship in the Regionalliga Südwest with 87:21 goals and thus moved into the promotion round to the Bundesliga. There, the Palatinate took third place behind the promoted Hertha BSC and Rot-Weiss Essen , but ahead of Göttingen 05 and FC Bayern Hof . The Alsenborner defended the title in the southwest in 1969 with 25 goals against them, moved back into the promotion round and landed again in third group position (one point behind the promoted Rot-Weiß Oberhausen and the Freiburg FC ). After the second championship, captain Horr was drawn to Hertha BSC in the Bundesliga and since long-time coach Otto Render had also died in a tragic traffic accident, the SVA faced serious personnel changes before the 1969/70 round. So it was good that the geology and sports student Klaus Schmidt guaranteed continuity, at least on the defensive. In fact, Alsenborn and the new coach Heiner Ueberle achieved the title hat trick in 1970 with only 23 goals in 30 rounds in the southwest. In the promotion round Alsenborn remained true to itself, again took third place behind Arminia Bielefeld and Karlsruher SC and Klaus Schmidt ended his engagement in Alsenborn after five successful years with 135 regional league games and four goals and signed for VfR Heilbronn in the 1970/71 round Football Regional League South .

The defensive specialist played two rounds with outstanding positional play in Neckarstadt in the Unterland at VfR Heilbronn in the Regionalliga Süd and finished eighth with coaches Frantisek Bufka and Fred Hoffmann . From a sporting point of view, however, the 2-0 home win in front of 15,000 spectators on December 12, 1970 in the first round of the DFB Cup in 1971 against the cup defender Kickers Offenbach stood out. Libero and Ausputzer Schmidt and his defense comrades kept the OFC attackers around Horst Gecks , Erwin Kremers and Winfried Schäfer in check. In Heilbronn there were another 50 regional league games with three goals for Klaus Schmidt. For the round 1972/73 he moved to his home in the Electoral Palatinate and joined the VfR Mannheim . With the Mannheim lawn players he celebrated the championship in the 1st amateur league North Baden and through the success in the promotion round against FC 08 Villingen , SSV Ulm 1846 and SC Baden-Baden also promotion to the Regionalliga Süd for the 1973/74 round. In the summer of 1973, Klaus Schmidt ended his career at the age of 32.

Selection appointments, 1967 to 1969

On September 20, 1967, at the international match against Austria in Regensburg , the SV Alsenborn stopper made his debut in the German national soccer team of amateurs . About the turn of the year 1967/68 he took part in the Asian tour of the DFB amateurs with the international appearances against Thailand, Malaysia, Hong Kong, Philippines and Japan in December 1967 / January 1968, where he held the middle position in the five victorious friendly games. Klaus Schmidt played his eleventh and last international match with the amateur national team on May 1, 1969 in Hamm against France. Friedhelm Schulte was in goal and Erhard Ahmann , Hartwig Bleidick , Dieter Mietz and Friedhelm Haebermann completed the defense.

literature

• Hardy Greens : Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 2: Bundesliga & Co. 1963 to today. 1st division, 2nd division, GDR Oberliga. Numbers, pictures, stories. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 1997, ISBN 3-89609-113-1 .
• Jürgen Bitter : Germany's football. The encyclopedia. Sportverlag, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-328-00857-8 .
• Ulrich Homann (Hrsg.): Hellfire on Ascension. The history of the promotion rounds to the Bundesliga 1963–1974. Klartext, Essen 1990, ISBN 3-88474-346-5 .
• Hardy Grüne, Lorenz Knieriem: Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 8: Player Lexicon 1890–1963. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2006, ISBN 3-89784-148-7 .