Lothar Wesseler

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Lothar Wesseler
Personnel
birthday January 21, 1954
size 186 cm
position striker
Juniors
Years station
0000-1972 SV Rotthausen
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1972-1973 Eintracht Gelsenkirchen 29 0(7)
1973-1978 SC Fortuna Cologne 103 (18)
1978-1980 Wormatia worms 53 (23)
1980-1982 Hertha BSC 74 (19)
1982-1983 1. FC Saarbrücken 1 0(0)
1 Only league games are given.

Lothar Wesseler (born January 21, 1954 ) is a former German soccer player . In the 1973/74 season, the striker completed 17 games for SC Fortuna Köln in the Bundesliga and scored four goals.

Career

The 18-year-old from Wessel came to Eintracht Gelsenkirchen from SV Rotthausen for the 1972/73 season in the West Regional Football League . On the first day of play, July 30, 1972, he made his debut under coach Heinz Murach in a 2-2 away draw against Borussia Dortmund in the Regionalliga West. At the side of Günter Thon and Günter Pangerl , the offensive talent completed 29 games and scored seven goals. Runner-up and Bundesliga promoted Fortuna Köln signed the attacker after only one season Regionalliga West for the Bundesliga season 1973/74 . Wesseler played his first game in the Bundesliga on matchday 17, in a 2-1 home win against Kickers Offenbach . President Hans Löring's team was attacked by Helmut Bergfelder , Wesseler and Rolf Kucharski . Then Wesseler was in 16 of 17 games of the rest of the season in the starting lineup. At the end of the season, Wesseler and Fortuna, who had changed coach twice during the season - initially Volker Kottmann , then Jean Löring and finally Willi Holdorf , were the second to last place in the table and rose tied with Wuppertaler SV in 2 . Bundesliga off. Until the 1977/78 season , Wesseler remained loyal to Fortuna and played with her in the northern season, the 2nd Bundesliga. After a total of 86 second division games with 14 goals for Cologne, he moved to Wormatia Worms in the winter change period in January 1979 .

In December 1978 coach Eckhard Krautzun and goalkeeper Thomas Zander moved from Worms to TSV Munich 1860. In addition, goal scorer Werner Seubert - he had scored 19 goals in 18 games for Wormatia - joined Wacker Innsbruck in Austria. On the side of the teammates Hans Wulf (goalkeeper), Egon Bihn , Gerd Dier , Walfried Günther , Peter Klag , Horst Raubold , Heiner Schmieh , Hans-Dieter Seelmann , Dragoslav Stepanović and Helmut Zahn , the man from Cologne played in the second half of the season for Worms 17 League games and scored eight goals. The Wormatia finished under the Krautzun successors Arkoc Ozcan (up to 4/79) and Bernd Fischer behind Master 1860 München and vice SpVgg Bayreuth, the third rank . In his second season in Worms, 1979/80, Wesseler scored 15 goals in 36 games, but Wormatia slipped into midfield to tenth place. After two years with 53 games in the 2nd Bundesliga with 23 goals, he moved in 1980 for two more years to Bundesliga relegated Hertha BSC .

On the Spree he came in third place with Hertha in 1981 under coach Uwe Klimaschefski , having scored ten goals in 40 games alongside goal scorers Werner Killmaier (36) and Thomas Remark (22). In his second year, 1981/82 , Hertha managed to return to the Bundesliga with the runner-up. Coach senior Georg Gawliczek had replaced Klimaschefski in December 1981 and Wesseler had scored nine goals in 34 games. After the promotion, his contract was not extended and for Wesseler followed a year at 1. FC Saarbrücken in the 2nd Bundesliga, where he could only play one league game due to injury and ended his career as a licensed player.

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 .
  • Matthias Weinrich: Second League Almanac. All players. All clubs. All results. Agon Sportverlag, Kassel 2001, ISBN 3-89784-190-8 .

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personal data
SURNAME Wesseler, Lothar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH January 21, 1954