Manfred Klein (soccer player)

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Manfred Klein
Personnel
birthday December 8, 1935
date of death March 3, 2004
position Midfield , defense
Juniors
Years station
FC Phoenix 09 Kleinblittersdorf
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1955-1956 SC Halberg Brebach
1956-1960 SV Saar 05 Saarbrücken 118 (16)
1960–1962 SV Waldhof Mannheim 56 0(7)
1962-1966 1. FC Saarbrücken 93 0(5)
1966-1968 AS Sarreguemines (player-manager) 6 0(0)
1 Only league games are given.

Manfred Klein (born December 8, 1935 - March 3, 2004 ) was a German soccer player . The midfielder was used as an outside runner or half-forward in the World Cup system practiced at the time . As an active member of SV Saar 05 Saarbrücken , SV Waldhof Mannheim and 1. FC Saarbrücken , he played a total of 203 league games in the first-class soccer leagues Southwest and South between 1956 and 1963 . In his debut year of the Bundesliga , 1963/64 , he played 19 games for 1. FC Saarbrücken.

Career

Klein came to the 1956/57 season from the amateur club SC Halberg Brebach to the Südwestoberligisten SV Saar 05. He made his debut on the first round matchday, September 2, 1956, in a 3-2 away win against FV Speyer as a left wing runner in the league. Striker Fritz Altmeyer scored two goals in Saar 05's away win. There were the derbies against 1. FC Saarbrücken and the Sportfreunde . At the end of the round, he finished seventh with Saar 05 and had played 28 games (1 goal) alongside teammates Kurt Clemens and Klaus Sinn . After four rounds with a total of 118 league appearances and 16 goals, he joined SV Waldhof in the Oberliga Süd for the 1960/61 season.

The man from Saarbrücken made his debut for the blue-blacks from the stadium on Alsenweg on August 14, 1960 in a 2-2 away draw against Schweinfurt 05 alongside teammates such as Wolfgang Höfig , Rolf Lederer and his former Saar 05 colleague Klaus Sinn in the Oberliga Süd. In the local derbies against VfR Mannheim he got to know the class of Hans Arnold and Rudolf Bast on the part of the lawn athletes. At the end of the round he finished 13th with Waldhof and had completed 29 games with six goals. The last five round games of the 1961/62 season lost Waldhof and rose after the final 2: 5 defeat at Kickers Offenbach on April 15, 1962 in the 2nd League South. After a total of 57 league appearances (7 goals) for SV Waldhof, Klein returned to Saarland for the last season of the old first-class league, 1962/63, and joined 1. FC Saarbrücken.

Under coach Helmuth Johannsen , 1. FC Saarbrücken led the half-time table in the Oberliga Südwest after the 15th matchday with 23: 7 points. At the end of the lap, however, it was only enough for fifth place. Klein had scored a goal in 28 games and his new club had been accepted as a representative of the southwest in the new Bundesliga for the 1963/64 season. Together with new arrival Heinz Steinmann and center runner Werner Hesse , he formed the runner row of the Saarlanders under Johannsen's successor Helmut Schneider on the start day of the Bundesliga, August 24, 1963, at the home game against 1. FC Cologne. In front of 35,000 spectators, the later first Bundesliga champion from Cologne with the attacking line-up Karl-Heinz Thielen , Hans Schäfer , Christian Müller , Wolfgang Overath and Heinz Hornig prevailed with 2-0 goals. On the last day of the match, May 9, 1964, Klein and his club said goodbye to the Bundesliga with a 1-1 draw against FC Schalke 04 in front of 6,000 spectators. With Werner Rinass and Steinmann, Klein had formed the runner-up and fought the prominent attack by the “miners” with Willi Koslowski , Günter Hermann , Klaus Matischak , Waldemar Gerhardt and Reinhard Libuda . Klein played 19 games in the Bundesliga in 1963/64 alongside other players such as Volker Danner , Erich Rohe , Dieter Krafczyk , Erich Maas and Heinz Vollmar .

In the first season in the Regionalliga Südwest , 1964/65 , the Bundesliga relegated with coach Schneider and Klein started on August 9, 1964, with a 1: 3 defeat at Eintracht Trier. From February 1965 Jupp Derwall took over the coaching office and the men around goal scorer Emil Poklitar (27 goals) won the championship with 58:10 points and a goal difference of 92:33 goals. Klein had scored four goals in 28 games. The Southwest champion started the Bundesliga promotion round with a 1: 2 defeat in front of 30,000 spectators at the Tivoli in Aachen . Danner (goalkeeper), Remark, Port, Diehl, Hesse and Klein formed the defense of the Saarlanders. Among the black and yellow hosts, Erwin Hermandung , Josef Martinelli , Christian Breuer , Alfred Glenski and Wilhelm Bergstein stood out as top performers . In the first home game, on June 5, 1965 in front of 24,500 spectators, Klein and colleagues achieved a surprising success against the promotion favorites FC Bayern Munich with a goal from Poklitar in the 43rd minute. The South German champions won the second leg on June 19 with 5-0 goals and rose to the Bundesliga with Sepp Maier , Franz Beckenbauer , Rainer Ohlhauser and Gerd Müller . Klein had played all six games in the promotion round and scored one goal. To the runner-up in 1965/66 he contributed with ten missions and came again in the promotion round in 1966 to two missions.

At the end of his career he was a player-coach at AS Sarreguemines.

literature

  • Werner Skrentny (Ed.): The fear of the devil in front of the pea mountain. The history of the Oberliga Südwest 1946–1963. Klartext, Essen 1996, ISBN 3-88474-394-5 .
  • 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 .
  • Ulrich Homann (Hrsg.): Hellfire on Ascension. The history of the promotion rounds to the Bundesliga 1963–1974. Klartext, Essen 1990, ISBN 3-88474-346-5 .

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personal data
SURNAME Klein, Manfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH December 8, 1935
DATE OF DEATH March 3, 2004