Manfred Krei

Manfred Krei (born September 2, 1946 ) is a former German soccer goalkeeper who won the championship in the second-rate Southwest Regional League three times in a row with SV Alsenborn from 1968 to 1970 . From 1966 to 1974 he played a total of 118 regional league games for Alsenborn and SV Waldhof Mannheim (1972-74), as well as with Waldhof in addition to ten games in the second Bundesliga in the 1974/75 season .

career

SV Alsenborn, 1966 to 1970

In Alsenborn, the captain of the 1954 world championship team, Fritz Walter , allowed himself to be persuaded to take on a "supervisory and advisory role" at the local SVA in his new residence. The Alsenborn rose every year. For the 1965/66 round , the SVA completed its first season in the Regionalliga Südwest. The team of coach Otto Render finished in the debut round with the ninth place a midfield place.

In the second regional league year, 1966/67 , they finished eighth. The goalkeeper Manfred Krei, who came from the amateurs of Eintracht Frankfurt, made his debut on August 22, 1966 in a 2-0 away win at Wormatia Worms in the Regionalliga Südwest. He replaced the veteran Willi Hölz in the gate of Alsenborn and guarded the gate of the village club in 29 games. In addition to Krei, Werner Mangold and Jürgen Schieck were joined by two other new players. The excellent combination player and technician Franz Schmitt and playmaker and goalscorer Lorenz Horr had made a significant contribution to the secure midfield position with 14 goals each.

When in the third year, 1967/68, Josef Sattmann, a fast winger, strengthened the offensive and the tall center forward Schieck conquered the top scorer's crown in the southwest with 31 hits , the team from the stadium at Kinderlehre won the championship . Again, Krei had been in the goal of the new Southwest Champion in 29 games. He was an essential part of the defensive, which had only allowed 21 goals against in 30 league games. In the promotion round , the village team was third behind Hertha BSC and Rot-Weiss Essen with 8: 8 points. Krei had played all eight promotion round matches against Hertha BSC, Rot-Weiss Essen, SC Göttingen 05 and FC Bayern Hof . The quality of the offensive players in the ranks of opponents such as Willi Lippens , Helmut Littek , Herbert Weinberg , Dieter Krafczyk , Werner Ipta , Siegfried Stark , Wolfgang Breuer and Heiner Klose were challenges of a special kind. The home games against Hertha stood out from the crowd BSC in front of 36,000 and Essen in front of 40,000 spectators in the Südweststadion in Ludwigshafen. The climax was the final game on June 23, 1968 against the promoted Hertha BSC (1: 1) in front of 78,000 spectators in the Berlin Olympic Stadium. The Alsenborner defense with goalkeeper Krei, the defender couple Roland Kirsch and Fritz Fuchs , as well as the runner row with Erwin Rödler , Klaus Schmidt and Wolfgang Röhring was able to stand up to Hertha, especially in connection with the half-strikers Horr and Schmitt.

Before the 1968/69 season , Alsenborn had to cope with the loss of goal scorer Schieck, and met this personality by signing talent from the amateur camp such as Werner Adler , Manfred Lenz , Franz Schwarzwälder , Erwin Schwehm , Matthias Volk and Alban Wüst . In sporting terms, however, the situation for the previous goalkeeper Krei changed massively. He was in goal in the first three rounds against Worms, Mainz-Weisenau and Neuendorf as usual, but after the following four appearances by the young and highly talented goalkeeper Franz Schwarzwälder, the ranking in the goal of the SVA was turned upside down. Black Forest became number one in Alsenborn. At the end of the round, Krei had completed six regional league games and Black Forest players 24. More tragic was the accidental death of trainer Render in April 1969. Horr and stopper Klaus Schmidt led the training interim in the following weeks and Alsenborn moved into the promotion round for the second time as defending champion from the southwest . Here, one point behind Rot-Weiß Oberhausen and Freiburg FC , they failed to make it into the Bundesliga. Krei was not used in the 1969 promotion round.

The third Southwest title won Krei and colleagues in 1970 with Alsenborn before FK Pirmasens. That with Heiner Ueberle as the new coach and Karel Nepomucký as the successor to playmaker Horr, who had switched to the Bundesliga at Hertha BSC. In this round Manfred Lenz made the breakthrough with 24 league games and 12 goals and Reinhard Meier also strengthened the squad. Schwarzwälder was consistently in the first half of the season and also at the start of the second half of the season. After a car accident in early April he was in hospital for months and Krei returned to the Alsenborn goal in the last seven rounds. He then also played all eight games in the promotion round against Arminia Bielefeld, Karlsruher SC, Tennis Borussia Berlin and VfL Osnabrück. Alsenborn did not have a serious chance to intervene in the race for promotion on the third attempt. For round 1970/71 Krei joined the FV 09 Weinheim in the 1st amateur league North Baden.

Weinheim and SV Waldhof Mannheim, 1970 to 1975

With the Black-Reds from Bergstrasse in 1971, however, they did not defend their title in North Baden (5th place) and also in his second year in Weinheim, 1971/72 , Krei and his teammates had to make do with 2nd place. SV Waldhof Mannheim was the sovereign champion with 59: 5 points and also prevailed in the promotion round to the Regionalliga Süd. The achievements of Krei had drawn the master and climber's attention, the goalkeeper signed a contract with Waldhof for the round 1972/73 and moved to the city of squares.

It was the time of "Chio" -Waldhof and Krei immediately became number one in the goal of coach Klaus Sinn's team . On the start of the round, July 30, 1972, the blue-blacks lost 2-1 at FC Schweinfurt 05, but the promoted team played a good round and came in seventh. With 44 goals conceded in 34 rounds, the defense with goalkeeper Krei, the former Alsenborner had stood in the Waldhof goal in 33 games, guaranteed the good season result. Darmstadt 98, Karlsruher SC and TSV München 1860 took the first three places in RL Süd. For the last regional league year of the old second-class era, 1974/74, Walter Pradt from Bayreuth was a serious goalkeeper rival at Alsenweg. Waldhof again finished seventh and Pradt had just won the internal race in goal with 20 appearances against 14 von Krei. Nothing changed in the debut year of the newly installed 2nd Bundesliga in 1974/75 . Coach Philipp Rohr also stuck to the goalkeeper order in the Waldhof goal when he reached eighth place in the 2nd Bundesliga. Krei made ten appearances in the 2nd Bundesliga and ended his higher-class career.

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 .
• 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 .
• Fritz Walter: SV Alsenborn. Rise of a dor team. Books on Demand GmbH. ISBN 3-8311-1846-9 .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Karn, Rehberg: Spiellexikon 1963-1994. P. 278
2. ^ Fritz Walter: SV Alsenborn. The rise of a village team. P. 101