Klaus Senger

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Klaus Senger
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Klaus Senger, 2008
Personnel
birthday October 19, 1945
place of birth Castrop-Rauxel, 
size 168 cm
position Defender
Juniors
Years station
FC Schalke 04
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1965-1971 FC Schalke 04 101 (3)
1971-1973 Fortuna Dusseldorf 26 (0)
1973-1976 Red and white food 53 (0)
1976 TuS Klosterhardt
1 Only league games are given.

Klaus Senger (born October 19, 1945 in Castrop-Rauxel) is a former German football player . The player, who was mainly used on the defensive, played a total of 180 (3 goals) games in the Bundesliga with the clubs FC Schalke 04 , Fortuna Düsseldorf and Rot-Weiss Essen from 1965 to 1975 . Senger was in the 1969 DFB Cup final with Schalke 04 .

Career

Klaus Senger played at FC Schalke 04 when he was young . After the A-youth he did not make the leap into the Bundesliga team and played in the Schalke amateur team. With the newly promoted Senger took 11th place in the Association League Westphalia in 1964/65 . After Schalke had to cope with the departures of top performers such as Reinhard Libuda , Willi Koslowski , Waldemar Gerhardt , Hans Nowak , Egon Horst , Willi Schulz and Gyula Tóth after the 1964/65 season in the Bundesliga squad , Senger was coached by Fritz Langner together with goalkeeper Josef Elting promoted from the amateurs to the professional team. In addition, the additions of Klaus Fichtel , Gerhard Neuser , Alfred Pyka and Heinz Pliska were made. Senger had his first Bundesliga appearance on February 26, 1966 in the Revierderby against Borussia Dortmund . With Karl-Heinz Bechmann , Neuser and Harald Klose three players were missing at Schalke due to injuries, so that the attack of the "Royal Blues" consisted of Siegfried Werner , Günter Herrmann , Werner Weikamp , Manfred Kreuz and Senger. However, the game was lost 7-0 and the former amateur stormed the left winger without success. In the Bundesliga chronicle it is recorded that "Reinhard Libuda played the two Schalke defenders Friedel Rausch and Hans-Jürgen Becher dizzy, while the Schalke strikers practically played no role at all."

Senger had his breakthrough on the 2nd match day of the 1966/67 season, when the regular defenders Hans-Jürgen Becher and Friedel Rausch were absent due to injury and Senger was used more regularly. In the 1967/68 season he was a regular player, initially under coach Karl-Heinz Marotzke and after his dismissal also under coach Günter Brocker . In 1969 he reached the DFB Cup final under coach Rudi Gutendorf . Although the final was lost to the German champions FC Bayern Munich , Senger was able to play his first European Cup matches with Schalke in the European Cup Winners' Cup in 1969/70 . Schalke made it to the semi-finals, where the club was eliminated by Manchester City . Senger was seriously injured in the quarter-finals against Dinamo Zagreb and was no longer used in the semi-finals.

In 1971 Senger moved to Fortuna Düsseldorf, where he experienced his most successful season in 1972/73. Under coach Heinz Lucas and alongside teammates like Reiner Geye , Dieter Herzog , Gerd Zewe and Klaus Budde , he was third in the Bundesliga with Düsseldorf . At the end of this season he moved to Rot-Weiss Essen , where he was a regular player for two years alongside Werner Lorant , Günter Fürhoff , Dieter Bast , Manfred Burgsmüller and Willi Lippens under the coaches Horst Witzler and Diethelm Ferner . When Ivica Horvat became trainer for Essen, Senger lost his regular place and was not used at all in the 1975/76 season. Since he was involved in the Bundesliga scandal as a Schalke player , he, now a player from Essen, was banned by the DFB from February 21 to June 30, 1976.

He then ended his active career at TuS Klosterhardt and began training as a medical lifeguard. In addition to working as a lifeguard in a hospital in Castrop-Rauxel , Senger coached smaller clubs and, as team boss, coordinates the games of the traditional FC Schalke 04 team. Here he plays with former colleagues such as Klaus Fichtel , Rolf Rüssmann and Klaus Fischer .

literature

  • Christian Karn, Reinhard Rehberg: Player Lexicon 1963–1994. Agon Sportverlag, Kassel 2012, ISBN 978-3-89784-214-4 , p. 472.
  • FC Schalke 04 (Ed.): Royal Blue. The history of FC Schalke 04. Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2015, ISBN 978-3-7307-0204-8 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Klaus Senger - player profile. Retrieved August 22, 2019 .
  2. ^ Jürgen Bitter: Germany's football. The encyclopedia. FA Herbig, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-7766-2558-5 , p. 672.
  3. ^ Ulrich Merk, Andre Schulin, Heinz Fricke: Bundesliga chronicle 1965/66. Agon Sportverlag, Kassel 2005, ISBN 3-89784-085-5 , p. 141.

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personal data
SURNAME Senger, Klaus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH October 19, 1945