Manfred Eglin

Manfred Eglin
Personnel
birthday	October 10, 1935
place of birth	Karlsruhe ,  German Empire
date of death	August 11, 2001
Place of death	Zermatt ,  Switzerland
position	goalkeeper
Juniors
Years	station
0000-1947	FV Daxlanden
1947-1953	Karlsruhe FV
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1953-1957	Karlsruhe FV	69 (0)
1957-1963	Stuttgart Kickers	100 (2)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1954	Germany U18	5 (0)
1955-1959	Germany amateurs	5 (0)
	Germany students	7 (0)
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
	FC Germania Friedrichstal
	FC Alemannia Eggenstein
1 Only league games are given.

Manfred Eglin (born October 10, 1935 in Karlsruhe ; † August 11, 2001 in Zermatt ) was a German soccer player who played 33 games with two goals as an active member of the Stuttgarter Kickers in the Oberliga Süd from 1957 to 1960 .

career

Clubs, 1947 to 1963

Karlsruher FV, until 1957

The student Manfred Eglin, son of a public prosecutor, went through all the youth teams of the former German soccer champions Karlsruhe FV in his hometown . The goalkeeper was appointed to the DFB team for the 1954 FIFA tournament as a junior . Together with Ernst-Günter Habig , Günter Jäger , Ludwig Landerer , Hermann Nuber and Uwe Seeler , he reached the final on April 19, 1954 in Cologne against Spain after successes against Saarland, Northern Ireland, Hungary and in the semifinals against Turkey. The final ended after extra time a 2-2 draw and Spain was declared the tournament winner because of the better goal difference from the semifinals. Eglin played five international youth matches in 1954 and has already played for the Karlsruher FV in the 2nd League South. But football was not everything in the life of the versatile young athlete: In addition to football, he became German youth champion in canoe racing, graduated from high school and studied sports.

With the Red-Blacks at the KFV-Platz at the Telegrafenkaserne in Karlsruhe's Weststadt, the KFV, he experienced the slow retreat into the amateur camp in the 2nd League South. On November 12, 1955, the DFB carried out the only amateur international match of the year. The game took place in Hendon against England. Manfred Eglin guarded the goal of the German national soccer team of the amateurs in their 3-2 away win. With the KFV he was able to avert relegation as 15th in the final table of the 1955/56 season. When old master Kurt Ehrmann also found his way to the Brötzinger Tal to 1. FC Pforzheim for the round in 1956/57 , the descent of the Karlsruher FV could not be prevented even with the amateur goalkeeper Manfred Eglin in the case. In November 1956, despite the sporting misery at the Karlsruhe FV, he was with the DFB amateurs at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne. In the game against the Soviet Union on November 24th, it was lost with 1: 2 goals against the eventual Olympic champion, but he was on the bench. Albert Görtz from Düsseldorf guarded the goal of the amateur national team supervised by DFB coach Georg Gawliczek . The 22-year-old Eglin did not stay in Karlsruhe after the relegation of the KFV, at Karlsruher SC they still bet on Rudi Fischer in goal, he moved to the Oberliga Süd to the Stuttgarter Kickers.

Stuttgarter Kickers, 1957 to 1963

With the blue-whites in the Degerloch stadium, the sports student - he completed seven student national games - came in the 1957/58 round in a team that was not up to the demands of the Oberliga Süd in terms of sport. In the previous year, the Kickers escaped relegation at the last moment thanks to a 2-0 win at FSV Frankfurt on the last match day and thanks to the better goal difference compared to TSV Schwaben Augsburg with equal points . After the season, however, the Kickers had to replace five seasoned top division players with Rolf Geiger , Hans Eberle , Siegfried Kronenbitter , Helmut Rühle and Helmut Zatopek . Only with Lothar Weise was an established player added, as well as goalkeeper Manfred Eglin from the 2nd League South. Edmund Herr and Walter Hüttenhofer came from the Württemberg amateur camp, from the SportVgg Feuerbach and the FV Ravensburg. The round turned into a sporting fiasco for Eglin and the Stuttgarter Kickers. The “blues” were relegated from bottom of the table with only four games won and the talented goalkeeper from Karlsruhe had only made seven appearances in the major league. But the most astonishing thing is: He did not play a single game in the Kickers goal - Josef Strauss remained in the 1957/58 round - in February / March / April 1958 the sporty all-rounder Eglin played seven games in the Oberliga Süd in the Sturm der Stuttgart Kickers. The Karlsruher stayed with the Kickers even after relegation and celebrated the immediate resurgence with the championship in the 2nd League South in the 1958/59 round in front of Bayern Hof and Freiburg FC . In the summer of 1959, Pál Csernai from FC La Chaux-de-Fonds and Karl-Heinz Kott from SV Waldhof Mannheim came to strengthen the league . But even in 1959/60 the Stuttgarter Kickers had no real chance to keep the class. With only five victorious games against VfR Mannheim, FC Schweinfurt 05, Viktoria Aschaffenburg, Ulm 1846 and at 1860 Munich - Eglin guarded the Kickers goal - the Stuttgart team reached the goal of the Oberliga Süd in the summer of 1960 as bottom of the table. Eglin made 26 appearances and was the goalkeeper in the 1959/60 round. In the next three rounds he played with his team in the 2nd League South and helped the Stuttgarter Kickers to qualify for the Regional League South for the round 1963/64 by reaching sixth place in the senior year of the 2nd Division, 1962/63 . In the summer of 1964 he ended his playing career.

In the football district of Karlsruhe he worked successfully as a coach at the clubs FC Germania Friedrichstal and FC Alemannia Eggenstein .

German national soccer team of amateurs, 1959

In the 1959/60 season, the DFB amateurs had two qualifying games against the GDR in September 1959 to take part in the 1960 Olympic qualification . According to an agreement between the two National Olympic Committees, both games took place in camera and are not included in the official statistics of the amateur international games of the DFB. On September 16, 1959 - Eglin had just completed the first four match days in the Oberliga Süd with the Stuttgarter Kickers - the first match took place in Berlin. DFB coach Georg Gawliczek relied on the defense with goalkeeper Manfred Eglin, defenders Werner Olk and Jürgen Kurbjuhn , as well as the runner row with Matthias Mauritz , Herbert Schäfer and Willi Schulz . In fact, the defense was excellent, the game won the DFB team with 2-0 goals. Eglin also justified the coach's trust in the 2-1 home win in the second leg eight days later in Düsseldorf. In November he came to two more official appearances in the amateur country team at the Olympic qualifiers against Finland and Poland. When the qualification was continued in the spring of 1960 - Poland prevailed - the goalkeepers Peter Kunter and Wolfgang Tillich were deployed. With the amateur national team, Manfred Eglin took part in the 1956 Olympic Games in Melbourne, was in goal in German-German qualifying games in 1959 and completed a total of five official international matches.

In addition to football

In 1970, the sports teacher at the Karlsruhe Helmholtz-Gymnasium was appointed to the Federal Committee for Competitive Sports (BAL) as an employee of Richard Möll in Frankfurt. He stayed there as coordinator for sailing, canoeing and amateur boxing until he retired in 1999. He was also responsible for the German University Sports Association within the German Sports Association. Eglin, who lives in the Karlsruhe district of Knielingen , has also distinguished himself as the ring speaker for the BR Knielingen at many amateur boxing tournaments.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Arnd Krüger : Sport and Politics. From gymnastics father Jahn to state amateur. Torch bearer, Hanover 1975, p. 134 ff.

literature

• Hardy Greens : Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 1: From the Crown Prince to the Bundesliga. 1890 to 1963. German championship, Gauliga, Oberliga. Numbers, pictures, stories. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 1996, ISBN 3-928562-85-1 .
• Jürgen Bitter : Germany's football. The encyclopedia. Sportverlag, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-328-00857-8 .
• Werner Skrentny (Ed.): When Morlock still met the moonlight. The history of the Oberliga Süd 1945–1963. Klartext, Essen 1993, ISBN 3-88474-055-5 .
• Hardy Grüne, Lorenz Knieriem: Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 8: Player Lexicon 1890–1963. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2006, ISBN 3-89784-148-7 .
• LIBERO, No. D 12, 1995, GDR football 1959, IFFHS.