Leo Wilden

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Leo Wilden (born July 3, 1936 in Düren) is a former German soccer player . From 1959 to 1966 he played for 1. FC Köln , with whom he won the German championship in 1962 and 1964 , and in 1969 ended his career in the then second-rate regional league at Bayer 04 Leverkusen . Between 1960 and 1964 he played 15 times for the national team. At the 1962 World Cup, he was in the squad, but was not used.

Athletic career

Club career

Until the 1957/58 season, Leo Wilden was a player in VfL Cologne 1899 in the Mittelrhein Association . For the round in 1958/59 he received a contract from 1. FC Köln - Karl-Heinz Schnellinger also came to the cathedral city from Düren 99 - and from then on played as a contract player in the football Oberliga West . Wilden made his debut on the first game day, August 17, 1958, in a 2-2 home draw against Borussia Mönchengladbach in the major league. Together with Josef Röhrig and Günther Mühlenbock , he formed the runner row of coach Péter Szabó's team . In the preliminary round only three more missions were added. But since the defender was able to convince in the last three league games in April 1959 against Düsseldorf, Meiderich and Schalke at the side of Fritz Breuer and Mühlenbock, he was in his first final of the German football championship 1959/60 in the four games against Werder Bremen and Eintracht Frankfurt used. He had contributed to the runner-up in the West in seven games in 1958/59 and in the final round he had played four games. 1. FC Köln won the Western Championship four times in a row from 1960 to 1963. Leo Wilden - he was now a member of the regular eleven - was a guarantor of defensive performance as a middle runner . He was ascribed a great overview, excellent positional play, relentless duel behavior and the stimulation of his own offensive. After Wilden failed with the "billy goats" in the 1960 final at Hamburger SV with 2: 3 goals, it worked with the German championship in 1962. In the three successful group games against Eintracht Frankfurt, Hamburger SV and FK He had convincingly taken Pirmasens center forward Erwin Stein , Uwe Seeler and Klaus Matischak out of the game. In the final on May 12th in Berlin in front of 82,000 spectators, Heinz Strehl from 1. FC Nürnberg had no chance in a 4-0 win against the Cologne defender.

The title defense succeeded in 1962/63 in the western league, but in the final of the German championship , the western runner-up Borussia Dortmund prevailed with a 3-1 win against Cologne. From 1958 to 1963 Leo Wilden had completed 119 games in the Oberliga West for Cologne and scored one goal. In the finals of the German championship, he played 26 games for Cologne from 1959 to 1963. Internationally, he made his debut with the Cologne city selection in 1961 in the trade fair cup and in 1962 played in the two games in the European Cup against FC Dundee . Leo Wilden recalls the 8-1 defeat at the Scots:

“ We came up in sparkling white jerseys, according to the motto: 'We are Germany's Real Madrid !', And then we got eight! We were too arrogant. Back then a scout flew over, watched a game, and came back. He then said to the Tschik: 'Don't go crazy, this is not a team.' And what a team that was! They played like a machine. "

When the Bundesliga started playing in the 1963/64 season, Wilden was one of the players who got the new German elite class up and running on August 24, 1963. He played 29 games in his debut year and won the first Bundesliga championship with 1. FC Köln. From 1963 to 1966 he played 63 Bundesliga games. Leo Wilden said goodbye to the Bundesliga when he played in the away game against FC Schalke 04 on February 12, 1966 . Wilden reports about the trainer at the time, Georg Knöpfle :

“ The Knöpfle also had its advantages, but there was something military about it, as if we had to stand at attention in front of it. Tschik Cajkovski, on the other hand, was someone who we Rhinelanders love, who could cheer us on and inspire us. He arrived before the game and said: 'Here Leo, you kiss upstairs today, but kick downstairs!' That wasn't a tactician, but he was able to motivate us! We Rhinelander, on the other hand, had nothing to do with the kind of Knöpfle. He always stood before us like a sergeant. But if you resisted it, it was of course critical. I just couldn't get on with him. "

From 1963 to 1966 he also played 14 games for his club in the European Cup.

From 1966 to 1969, Leo Wilden played three more rounds in the West Regional Football League at Bayer 04 Leverkusen and ended his career in 1969 after 95 regional league appearances with three goals. In 1968 Wilden won the western championship with the "Werkself" and thus qualified for the promotion round for the Bundesliga. In the promotion round, Bayer 04 finished second behind Kickers Offenbach . He later trained, among others, the Pulheimer SC and SC Köln West .

Selection bets

In the national soccer team Wilden made his debut on March 23, 1960 in Stuttgart in the international match against Chile, when he was substituted on for captain Herbert Erhardt . In the two decisive World Cup qualifiers against Northern Ireland - two wins with 4: 3 and 2: 1 goals for the German team - he held the middle position. Under national coach Sepp Herberger , he was part of the DFB's 1962 World Cup squad in Chile , but was never used. In all four German games, Herberger relied on the Fürth stopper Herbert Erhardt.

With his 15th international match on April 29, 1964 in Ludwigshafen against the vice world champion Czechoslovakia, Wilden said goodbye to the national team. In the 3: 4 defeat, he formed the German defensive together with goalkeeper Wolfgang Fahrian and defense colleagues Hans Nowak , Fritz Pott , Willi Schulz and Wolfgang Weber . On March 10, 1965, the Cologne man conducted the German B national team in Hanover in a 1-1 draw against the Netherlands.

successes

  • 1962, 1964: German champion
  • 1960, 1963: German runner-up
  • 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963: West German champion
  • Champion of the Regionalliga-West and participation in the promotion round to the Bundesliga in 1968

Further career

Professionally, Leo Wilden ran several Toto Lotto tobacco shops in Cologne and is still very close to the association.

literature

  • Matthias Kropp: Germany's great football teams, part 10: 1. FC Cologne , Agon-Verlag, 1997, ISBN 3-928562-96-7 .
  • Hardt / Hohndorf / Morbitzer / Dahlkamp / Grüne: Hennes & Co., The history of 1. FC Cologne , Verlag Die Werkstatt, 2005, ISBN 3-89533-470-7 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Leo Wilden - player profile. Retrieved September 28, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Thomas Hardt et al. a., "Hennes & Co.", The history of 1. FC Cologne, pp. 85/86.
  3. ↑ Thomas Hardt et al. a., "Hennes & Co.", The history of 1. FC Cologne, p. 92/93.
  4. ↑ THE 1960s. Bayer 04 Leverkusen, accessed on February 9, 2019 .
  5. ^ Matthias Arnhold: Leo Wilden - International Appearances . RSSSF.com . March 12, 2020. Accessed March 25, 2020.
personal data
SURNAME Savages, Leo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH July 3, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Düren