Lothar Ulsaß

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Lothar Ulsaß (born September 9, 1940 in Hanover , † June 16, 1999 in Vienna ) was a German football player who won the German championship with Eintracht Braunschweig in the 1966/67 season . From 1965 to 1969, the offensive player completed ten international matches in the German national soccer team and scored eight goals.

career

Associations, 1950 to 1976

Before the Bundesliga, until 1964

At the age of 10 the student Lothar Ulsaß began his football career in the youth department of Sportfreunde Ricklingen . His outstanding ball technique in connection with a distinctive finishing quality led him to runner-up SV Arminia Hannover after the 1959/60 season - Ricklingen was 15th in the amateur Oberliga Ost in Lower Saxony . With the "blues" he celebrated the championship in 1960/61 and 1961/62 respectively - in 58 games he scored 53 goals - in the west season and in 1962 in the second attempt, promotion to the north football league . In 1961 he failed with Arminia in the playoff at Bremer SV 06. With the association selection Lower Saxony, he moved in the promotion season 1961/62 in the national cup of amateurs after victories over Schleswig-Holstein and Saarland in the semi-finals against Westphalia, which the team on March 4th 1962 in Hanover against the eventual cup winners with 2: 5 goals.

In this season, the talent was then appointed by the DFB on September 20, 1961 in the junior eleven U 23 and on April 7, 1962 in the German national football team of amateurs . “A storm talent is growing up here that has rarely been seen in recent years. Ulsaß combines good technique (how does he cover the ball when he leads it!) With a straight pull to the goal, ”said the later editor -in- chief Karl-Heinz Heimann in kicker in 1961 after a test match between the German amateurs and Japan.

The last year of the soccer Oberliga Nord (1962/63) ended Ulsaß with Arminia Hannover in tenth place. In 26 league appearances, he scored 23 goals. Outstanding for the offensive hope were the games against the North German top teams Hamburger SV, Werder Bremen and Eintracht Braunschweig as well as the local derbies against Hannover 96. With the introduction of the Bundesliga (from 1963/64), the two Hanoverian clubs belonged to the Regional Football League North on. FC St. Pauli secured the championship ahead of runner-up Hanover 96  - the "Reds" prevailed in the promotion round and were promoted to the Bundesliga - and Arminia Hanover, third in the table. Ulsaß was the outstanding player in the "Blauen" from Bischofsholer Damm and scored 29 goals in 32 league games. He was a game designer and goalscorer rolled into one. The Bundesliga clubs from Braunschweig and Hamburg competed for him. He opted for Eintracht - not least because of 96 coach Helmut Kronsbein , who had found him “at most regional league” - and switched to the Bundesliga for the 1964/65 season.

Bundesliga, 1964 to 1971

Under the guidance of the coach Helmuth Johannsen , the development of the man from Ricklingen went smoothly under the increased performance requirements and Ulsaß also impressively implemented his skills in the highest class of German football. In his first season, 1964/65, he completed all 30 league games and scored twelve goals. In the second year - he also benefited from winger Erich Maas , who tied defensive potential with his opponents with eleven hits - he increased his number of hits to 17. Despite his final qualities, his ball skills and talent for combination were far more formative for the playing line of his team, when he was dependent on the preparation of his teammates as a goal scorer The team benefited from the outstanding individual skills of the offensive player and he, on the other hand, from the unity and cohesion of the team, which amazed the experts round after round based on good physical condition, discipline and a clear tactical specification. The culmination of the development of Eintracht Braunschweig and Lothar Ulsaß was the German championship in 1967, when the Johannsen troop landed two points ahead and a goal difference of 49:27 in front of TSV 1860 Munich . Ulsaß played 32 of the 34 games and scored 15 goals. Nobody had the blue-yellow Eintracht on the bill before the round, not even in Braunschweig: "Finally not tremble", Eintracht's star striker Lothar Ulsaß had put on record as a goal before the start of the season. Looking back, Braunschweig's master trainer Johannsen commented on his director:

“Lothar Ulsaß was our beaming man, who had a positive influence on the entire team and was always ready to have fun. Even outside of the field, he represented a personality that was respected by everyone. "

When the BTSV made its international appearance in the European Champions Cup in 1967/68 , Ulsaß struggled with muscular problems and was only able to play 19 games in the league, in which he scored ten goals. After they had prevailed against Rapid Vienna , Ulsaß and his teammates met the Italian champions Juventus Turin in the quarter-finals . Ironically, when the replay was due on March 20, 1968 in Bern, a torn muscle fiber in the thigh prevented the best Eintracht attacker from participating.

In the last two seasons of coach Johannsen at Eintracht (1968-1970) Ulsaß no longer shone primarily as a goalscorer, he rather withdrew into midfield and tried to steer the game from the depths of the room. Under Johannsen's successor Otto Knefler , Ulsaß went on the hunt for goals again and set a personal scoring record with 18 goals in his seventh Bundesliga round in 1970/71; at the age of 30 he was at the height of his scoring art - Jaro Deppe with eleven and Dietmar Erler with seven goals internally in ranks two and three.

Lothar Ulsaß's Bundesliga career was ended prematurely by the discovery of the Bundesliga scandal that arose over the relegation battle in the 1970/71 season and which was on the edge of Braunschweig through the game on June 5, 1971 against Oberhausen. Since the BTSV "third party promised an additional victory bonus and was partially paid out", the DFB sports court issued a ban from August 7, 1971 to January 1, 1973 against the Eintracht negotiator in order to obtain the additional bonus a license for foreign countries from August 16, 1972 (with a fine of 2,200 DM) was converted. Bitter notes:

“He was actually a pretty small fish in the whole affair, but the DFB still put him on hold. Whereupon Lothar Ulsaß lost his job as an authorized signatory in an electrical company. He turned his back on German football bitterly and switched to the Vienna Sports Club, where he played until 1974. "

Wiener SC, 1972 to 1975

Since 1972 Ulsaß has played for the Wiener Sport-Club . With the Viennese he appeared in two first division seasons in 38 games between 1972 and 1974 and scored 17 goals; the team reached places in the midfield. But after the league was reduced to 10 clubs in 1974 and only two teams from Vienna were allowed, the sports club became second class, which Ulsaß took as an opportunity to end his playing career early. However, he came in the 1974/75 season to 16 missions and four goals in the National League, which was introduced in 1974 as the second division. He was also used in 1975/76 (see website: Match report for April 3, 1976: Kapfenberg - Wr. Sportclub 2-1, where he scored the goal of the guests; also in the ÖFB Cup on April 9, 1976 at 2: 1- Victory of the sports club at Grazer AK and the 1: 3 at SV Rapid Lienz on May 4, 1976; "Football in Austria" - also in the championship match at home against Rapid Lienz 1: 1 on May 16, 1976 according to the list in "Osttiroler Boten" from May 19, 1976).

Balance sheet

Lothar Ulsaß played a total of 201 games for Eintracht Braunschweig in the Bundesliga from 1964 to 1971, scoring 84 goals. He is still the most successful Bundesliga scorer in the Braunschweig today. He is considered the best-known player in the championship team and was the crowd favorite of the Eintracht supporters of the time. It is noted about him in the players' dictionary:

“After the attacker, who was mostly in the right half-forward position, drew attention to himself in Ricklingen, he began to cause a sensation at Arminia Hannover with his inspiring mixture of ball aesthetics and straightforward offensive power and was eventually to become one of the big Bundesliga stars in the dress of Eintracht Braunschweig of the 1960s. "

In the ranking of German football created by the kicker , Ulsaß was listed from summer 1965 to summer 1971. In the international class it is listed there in the winter of 1965/66, in the summer of 1967, in the winter of 1967/68 and in the winter of 1968/69. First as a half-forward and later as a center forward.

National team, 1965 to 1969

National coach Helmut Schön changed for the first time the new Brunswick striker in the test match of the national soccer team against the English professional team Sheffield Wednesday on October 6, 1964 in Düsseldorf. After that, Ulsaß was also on the squad for the World Cup qualifier against Sweden on November 4th in Berlin. On March 10, 1965, the national coach tested him in the international B match in Hanover against Holland. The German attack played at 1-1 in the cast: Rudolf Nafziger , Ulsaß, Walter Rodekamp , Günter Netzer and Gerhard Zebrowski . Heinz Strehl and Franz Beckenbauer came on for Ulsaß and Netzer during the game. Six weeks later, on April 24, 1965, Ulsaß made his debut in the international match in Karlsruhe against Cyprus in the national team. In his second international match on October 9, 1965 in Stuttgart against Austria, he was the decisive player in the 4-1 win. He put three goals into the net for Austria goalkeeper Gernot Fraydl in the second half and "got" the penalty in the 33rd minute by dribbling, which Sieloff converted to make it 1-1. Nevertheless, the Braunschweig player was unable to play in the next five international matches in the 1965/66 World Cup against Cyprus, England, Holland, Ireland and Northern Ireland. The national coach used Dortmund's newcomers Lothar Emmerich and Sigfried Held and reactivated Albert Brülls from AC Brescia, who had not worn the national jersey since the days of the 1962 World Cup in Chile. Ulsaß was on the list of 40s reported by the DFB to FIFA at the end of May 1966 and played against Romania on June 1 in Ludwigshafen - on May 28, the 1965/66 Bundesliga season ended with the 34th matchday and the Braunschweig player had 17 out of a total of 49 Goals scored - his third international match. With the attacking line-up Grabowski, Ulsaß, Seeler, Overath and Hornig it was enough to win 1-0, but the team could not convince. In the 22-man squad for the World Cup in England, Beckenbauer, Haller, Overath, Brülls, Held, Emmerich, Krämer, Hornig, Seeler and Grabowski were ten players on the offensive, which is why the national coach on Peter Grosser and Lothar Ulsaß and on the midfield routinier Horst Szymaniak waived. From November 19, 1966 to March 26, 1969, Ulsaß completed seven more international matches and scored five goals. With the 1-1 draw on March 26, 1969 in Frankfurt against Wales, his international career ended after a total of ten missions and eight goals in the national team.

A national games

  • April 24, 1965, Karlsruhe, Cyprus, 5-0, WMQ
  • October 9, 1965, Stuttgart, Austria, 4-1, 3 goals
  • June 1, 1966, Ludwigshafen, Romania, 1-0
  • November 19, 1966, Cologne, Norway, 3-0, 2 goals
  • February 22, 1967, Karlsruhe, Morocco, 5-1, 2 goals
  • April 8, 1967, Dortmund, Albania, 6-0, EMQ
  • October 13, 1968, Vienna, Austria, 2: 0, WMQ
  • December 18, 1968, Santiago, Chile, 1: 2, 1 goal
  • December 22nd 1968, Mexico City, Mexico, 0-0
  • March 26, 1969, Frankfurt a. M., Wales, 1: 1

Next to the square

The trained wholesaler worked for many years in his new home in Vienna as a general agent for a sporting goods company and died there in 1999 of a stroke. He was buried at the Hernalser Friedhof in Vienna.

Web links

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 .
  • 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 national soccer player: the lexicon . SVB Sportverlag, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-328-00749-0 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Hardy Greens: Bundesliga & Co ; P. 33.
  2. ^ Jürgen Bitter: Germany's national soccer player. The encyclopedia. P. 506.
  3. ^ Hardy Greens: Bundesliga & Co ; P. 30.
  4. ^ Jürgen Bitter: Germany's national soccer player. The encyclopedia. P. 507.
  5. ^ Matthias Arnhold: Lothar Ulsaß - Matches and Goals in Bundesliga . RSSSF . June 28, 2017. Retrieved July 5, 2017.
  6. ↑ Hardy Green, Lorenz Knieriem: Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 8: Player Lexicon 1890–1963. P. 398.
  7. ^ Matthias Arnhold: Lothar Ulsaß - Goals in International Matches . RSSSF . June 28, 2017. Retrieved July 5, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Ulsaß, Lothar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH September 9, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover
DATE OF DEATH June 16, 1999
Place of death Vienna