Manfred Greif

Manfred Greif (born October 14, 1939 in Kiel ; † April 3, 1999 ) was a German soccer player who played 61 Bundesliga matches as a striker for 1. FC Nürnberg from 1964 to 1967 , scoring ten goals.

career

Kiel, until 1964

From the amateur camp of Union-Teutonia Kiel , the "yellow shirts" from Professor-Peters-Platz, the attacking talent Manfred Greif switched to the "Störchen" from Holstein Kiel in the Oberliga Nord in 1961 . The attacker, who can be used on both wings, made his debut on August 20, 1961 in a 5-2 away win at Altona 93 in the Oberliga Nord. Greif formed together with Gerd Koll , Eitel Galle , Horst Martinsen and Alfred Bornemann the attack of the Kiel “Storks”, who scored a total of 84 goals and thus finished fifth in the table in the north. In his second year with Holstein Kiel, the talents Fritz Boyens and Manfred Podlich were added to the attack . Again, Kiel achieved fifth place. Overall, Greif came to 56 league games and scored 16 goals. After the ninth matchday of the 1962/63 Oberliga round - a 4-1 home win against Arminia Hannover - the Kiel winger made his debut on October 24, 1962 at the international match in Lyon against France in the German U-23 national team. Together with Karl-Heinz Thielen , Werner Ipta , Rudolf Brunnenmeier and Horst Trimhold , he formed the attack of the DFB team in the 0-1 defeat. Since the three teams of Hamburger SV , Werder Bremen and Eintracht Braunschweig had been nominated from the Oberliga Nord for the new performance class of the Bundesliga for the 1963/64 season , Holstein Kiel played its point games in the Regionalliga Nord. Manfred Greif mostly formed the left wing with newcomer Gerd Saborowski and completed all 34 rounds and scored nine goals. Kiel took fifth place for the third time in a row and Greif accepted the offer from 1. FC Nürnberg for the 1964/65 season and moved to Franconia.

Bundesliga, 1964 to 1967

After the "Club" had experienced turbulence in the first year of the Bundesliga, 1963/64, and the first coach replacement - Herbert Widmayer was released on October 30, 1963 - 1. FC Nürnberg went with coach Gunther in the summer of 1964 Baumann and the offensive hopes Anton Allemann , Rolf Wüthrich and Greif in the second year of the Bundesliga. Allemann and Greif made their debut on August 22, 1964 in the 2-0 home win against Borussia Neunkirchen in the Bundesliga. With the attacking peaks Allemann, Heinz Strehl and Greif, the Nürnberger came in sixth place in the table. Greif had 26 games with three goals. For the round of 1965/66, center forward Franz Brungs, a dangerous striker from Dortmund, came to Noris and the talented winger Georg Volkert opened his promising career with 13 appearances. The ex-Kieler was used by coach Jenő Csaknády in 24 games where Greif scored five goals. In the Messe Cup, Greif was in the club's two matches against Everton in September and October 1965. In the home game on September 29, he gave Nuremberg a 1-0 lead in the 24th minute. In the third year in Nuremberg, Greif only made eleven appearances with two goals. After his first appearance on the fifth match day - September 17, 1966 - in a 1-0 away win at Hamburger SV, he even scored the 1-0 winner at Bayern Munich on the seventh match day, October 1, 1966 . He was part of the regular team in this round of Nuremberg with three coaches - Csaknady until November 7; Jenő Vincze until December 31, 1966 and Max Merkel from January 1, 1967 - no more. Greif played his last Bundesliga game on April 15, 1967 in a 1-0 home win against Borussia Mönchengladbach , where he formed the attack of coach Merkel's team with Heinz Müller, Strehl, Brungs and Volkert. In September / October 1966 he had played in the two Messe Cup games against Valencia CF. After 61 Bundesliga games with ten goals, Greif changed in the summer of 1967 and moved to Hertha BSC on the Spree .

Berlin, 1967 to 1970

Hertha BSC won the championship in Berlin in 1967/68 with 104: 11 goals and 55: 5 points. Coach Helmut Kronsbein used Greif in 16 games and the man from Kiel scored four goals. In the successful Bundesliga promotion round 1968 Greif was only used on May 26, 1968 in the 1: 2 away defeat at SV Alsenborn . Hertha was promoted to the Bundesliga, while Greif stayed in the Berlin Regionalliga by signing with Wacker 04 for the 1968/69 round . At the side of Bernd Fetkenheuer, Manfred Kipp , Reinhardt Lindner and Bernd Sobeck he finished fourth in 1969 and fifth in 1970 with Wacker 04 and completed 54 games with 29 goals.

From 1971 Manfred Greif exercised the position of player-coach in his home club Union-Teutonia Kiel.

literature

• Jens Reimer Prüß (Ed.): Bung bottle with flat pass cork. The history of the Oberliga Nord 1947–1963. Klartext, Essen 1991, ISBN 3-88474-463-1 .
• Matthias Weinrich: Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 3: 35 years of the Bundesliga. Part 1. The founding years 1963–1975. Stories, pictures, constellations, tables. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 1998, ISBN 3-89784-132-0 .
• Hardy Grüne , Lorenz Knieriem: Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 8: Player Lexicon 1890–1963. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2006, ISBN 3-89784-148-7 .