Klaus Wolf (soccer player)

Klaus Wolf (born July 3, 1948 ) is a former German football player. From 1974 to 1982 the offensive player played 265 league games in the 2nd Bundesliga for the clubs SC Göttingen 05 , Preußen Münster , Westfalia Herne , Rot-Weiß Lüdenscheid , Rot-Weiß Oberhausen and SG Union Solingen and scored 101 goals.

career

For the debut season of the 2nd Bundesliga, 1974/75, the former amateur footballer of the JTSV Bramwald Ellershausen signed a contract with Göttingen 05. He made his debut on August 3, 1974 in a 5-2 home win at the Jahnstadion against DJK Gütersloh in the now playing in two seasons Substructure of the soccer Bundesliga. In addition to "Ede" Wolf, the other newcomers Friedel Mensink , Dieter Hochheimer and Frank-Michael Schonert came to the 05ers from trainer Reinhard Roder in the university town in southern Lower Saxony.

Göttingen was tenth at the end of the round and the man from Ellershausen had scored 13 goals in 36 missions alongside strike partners Walter Plaggemeyer and Schonert in the 4: 3: 3 system that was common at the time. In his second season, 1975/76, the lightning-fast winger was no less successful with the Black-Yellows with his 36 games and 14 goals and Göttingen came in eleventh. Now the newcomer Horst Hayer had stormed for the departed Schonert in the middle of the attack, in addition to Plaggemeyer and Wolf on the wings . With the 4-1 home win on May 29, 1976 against SpVgg Erkenschwick, the goal-threatening attacker said goodbye after two rounds in Göttingen with 72 second division appearances and 27 goals and switched to league rivals Preußen Münster.

Under coach Rudolf Faßnacht , the Bundesliga founding member Preußen Münster opened the 1976/77 round on August 14, 1979 with a 2-2 away draw at Wacker 04 Berlin. The Prussian attack consisted of the three newcomers Alfred Seiler , Volker Graul and "Ede" Wolf. Wolf completed all 38 rounds of matches and scored 17 goals. From April 1, 1977 Werner Biskup had replaced coach Faßnacht and the Eagle Bearers took sixth place. In his second year in Münster, 1977/78 , Wolf and his teammates and coach Biskup - who had introduced space coverage on the defensive - narrowly missed promotion to the Bundesliga with 49:27 points as third in the table. After the 2-0 home win on January 6, 1978 against Rot-Weiss Essen in front of 30,000 spectators, the Prussians had led the table with a five point lead over Essen and Uerdingen with 30:10 points. In the second year he had played all 38 league games in Münster and scored 14 goals. After the end of the season he was drawn to the USA for a short time, where he played nine games for San Diego in the NASL and scored four goals. He immediately returned to Germany and joined Westfalia Herne in the 2nd Bundesliga.

He made his debut on September 1, 1978 in a 3-1 away win at Viktoria Köln in the team of patron Erhard Goldbach . Under coach Gerhard Prokop , the team from the stadium at Schloss Strünkede and their teammates Klaus Beverungen , Lutz Gerresheim , Hans Fritsche and Franz-Josef Laufer finished fifth after the round, but had to be voluntary due to the "Goldin" bankruptcy for financial reasons make their way to the amateur camp. After 23 appearances in the second division for Herne, Wolf found a new employer in the second division, scoring five goals in the successor Rot-Weiß Lüdenscheid for the 1979/80 season.

Wolf made his debut on August 9, 1979 in the 1: 4 away defeat against OSV Hanover in the Red-Whites of the Nattenberg Stadium . The left winger scored the goal for the team from the Sauerland. At the side of the teammates Heinz-Josef Koitka , Manfred Lopatenko and Ranko Petkovic , he completed 32 league games and scored 14 goals. Lüdenscheid achieved relegation with 16th place. In the last season of the two-tier 2. Bundesliga, 1980/81, Wolf chased the ball in Lüdenscheid's dress until matchday 14, October 17, 1980. He scored the goal for the Red-Whites for a 1-0 home win against Prussia Münster. In all 14 games he had accrued and scored five goals. Eight days later, on October 24, 1980, he stormed for the league competitor from the Landwehr, Rot-Weiß Oberhausen. Under coach Manfred Rummel and his teammates Manfred Mannebach and Hans-Jürgen Wloka , he played in the remaining 28 point games of the round for the “Kleeblattelf” from Niederrhein and scored 13 more goals. RWO came in 14th place and was therefore not qualified for the single-track 2nd Bundesliga from the 1981/82 season.

After relegation, Wolf played the first half of the first half of the season in the Oberhausen football league in North Rhine-Westphalia , where he scored eleven goals in 14 games and also had two appearances in the DFB Cup in August and October 1981 against Tuspo Ziegenhain and Göttingen 05 before joining the Winter break moved to Union Solingen. The experienced offensive player came on January 9, 1982 in the 4: 4 home draw against the Stuttgarter Kickers for the first time with the blue-yellow of Union Solingen for the next use in the 2nd Bundesliga. The three-way attack by the team from the city of blades was occupied by Werner Lenz , Wolfgang Krüger and Wolf and the winter newcomer scored the 1-0 lead for the team from coach Erhard Ahmann in the 10th minute . On matchday 24, February 12, 1982, the team from the Ohligser Stadion on Hermann-Löns-Weg beat table leaders FC Schalke 04 in front of 14,000 spectators with 1-0 goals. Union Solingen ended the round on May 29, 1982 with a 1-0 home win against Bayer Uerdingen and was in 16th place. "Ede" Wolf, the attacker shortly before his 34th birthday, had played 20 league games from January and scored five goals. Overall, the striker is led in the 2nd Bundesliga with 265 competitive games and 101 goals. In the 1982/83 season he was declared a sports disabled and ended his playing career.

literature

• Christian Karn, Reinhard Rehberg: Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 9: Player Lexicon 1963-1994. Bundesliga, regional league, 2nd league. Agon-Sportverlag, Kassel 2012, ISBN 978-3-89784-214-4 .
• Hardy Greens: Between stronghold and province. 100 years of football in Göttingen. Publishing house Die Werkstatt. Göttingen 1998. ISBN 3-89533-219-4
• Hubert Dahlkamp, ​​Dietrich Schulze-Marmeling: Preußen Münster. Football between felt and fans. Publishing house Die Werkstatt. Göttingen 1995. ISBN 3-89533-141-4

Web links

• Klaus Wolf in the database of fussballdaten.de
• Klaus Wolf in the database of weltfussball.de

Individual evidence

1. ^ Matthias Arnhold: Klaus Wolf - Matches and Goals in Bundesliga . Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. October 3, 2013. Retrieved October 7, 2013.