Manfred Reichert

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Manfred Reichert
Personnel
birthday October 28, 1940
place of birth Koenigsberg ,  Germany
size 170 cm
position Defense
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1963-1974 Wuppertal SV 363 (62)
1 Only league games are given.

Manfred "Manni" Reichert (born October 28, 1940 in Königsberg ; † April 10, 2010 in Remscheid ) was a German football player . In the Bundesliga he was active as a defender at Wuppertaler SV .

Career

Reichert grew up in Remscheid after the Second World War and played football with the local 1. Spvg., The VfB Marathon and BV 08 Lüttringhausen . While he was doing his military service (1962/63 season), he competed for 1. SC Göttingen 05 in the second-rate amateur league Lower Saxony-East. From there, the 22-year-old, who was also interested in Bundesliga clubs such as Eintracht Braunschweig , 1. FC Cologne and 1. FC Nürnberg , came to Wuppertaler SV, where he initially worked under coach "Zapf" ​​Gebhardt together with Emil, who was also newly signed Meisen formed a dangerous pair of half-strikers . In his first season for the WSV, the 1963/64 season , “the ambitious technician and intelligent game designer” secured a regular place and scored 17 goals in 36 games in the Regionalliga West . He was also on the pitch in the semi-finals of the DFB Cup , in which HSV goalkeeper Horst Schnoor prevented Reichert from taking Wuppertal's opening goal in the 5th minute. From 1963 to 1972 he completed 297 league games for the WSV in the Regionalliga, scoring 60 goals.

From the 1968/69 season, the new coach Horst Buhtz placed him as a full-back in the defense, where he was a "modern offensive defender". In the 1971-72 season , at that time he was already captain of the team, he went with the Wuppertal SV - Striker and striker Günter Pröpper presented with 52 goals set a record - in the Bundesliga. In the promotion round, the Buhtz team prevailed unbeaten with 16-0 points against the competitors from Osnabrück , Neunkirchen , Hof and Berlin . As a newcomer, the WSV qualified for the UEFA Cup at the end of the 1972/73 season as fourth behind champions FC Bayern Munich, 1. FC Cologne and Fortuna Düsseldorf ; Reichert was in the team in the 5: 4 win at Stadion am Zoo in the second leg against Ruch Chorzów ( Jürgen-Michael Galbierz replaced him in the first leg ) and scored the last goal of the game. He was used for the WSV in 67 of 68 possible games of the Bundesliga seasons 1972/73 and 1973/74 , scoring two goals. Reichert played a total of eleven years for the Red-Blue from the Bergisches Land. After the end of his active professional career in 1974, he returned to the club as a consultant in 1983 and twice briefly took over the coaching position for the first team of the WSV in the Oberliga Nordrhein.

Life outside the football stadiums

In his main occupation, Manni Reichert worked as a plant manager at the automotive supplier Delphi , from the mid-1980s in Pforzheim , Berlin and Neumarkt in the Upper Palatinate . He passed his retirement in Bad Füssing before returning to Remscheid in 2006 . Reichert was also successful in tennis ; he played for Rot-Weiß Passau , was Bavarian champion in his age group in 2000 and third in the senior European championship. He succeeded in this despite a serious illness, which he fought against for almost 20 years, for which his arm had to be amputated and which he finally succumbed on April 10, 2010.

literature

  • Manfred Osenberg: The WSV will never go under! 50 years of the Wuppertal Sports Club 1954–2004. Edition Osenberg, Wuppertal 2004 ISBN 3-9808059-4-8

statistics

  • Bundesliga (67 games / 2 goals)
  • Regional league (296 games / 60 goals)
  • DFB-Pokal (13 games / 1 goal)
  • European Cup (1 game / 0 goals)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Article from the Remscheider General-Anzeiger from April 12, 2010
  2. ↑ Osenberg, p. 102
  3. ↑ Ulrich Homann (ed.): Bauernköppe, miners and a pascha. The history of the Regionalliga West 1963–1974. Volume 1, Klartext, Essen 1991, ISBN 3-88474-345-7 , p. 64.
  4. ↑ Jürgen Eschmann, “The heart of the WSV promotion self is no longer beating” , WZ Newsline of April 11, 2010
  5. ↑ Osenberg, pp. 103 and 109
  6. ↑ Achim Nöllenheidt (ed.): Fohlensturm am Katzenbusch. The history of the Regionalliga West 1963–1974. Volume 2, Klartext, Essen 1995, ISBN 3-88474-206-X , p. 131.
  7. ↑ Osenberg, pp. 33 and 103
  8. ↑ a b Osenberg, p. 104
  9. ↑ DFL (Ed.): Bundesliga Lexikon. The official reference work. Europa, Zurich 2003, ISBN 3-9522779-0-8 , p. 244
personal data
SURNAME Reichert, Manfred
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Reichert, Manni
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH October 28, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Königsberg (Prussia)
DATE OF DEATH April 10, 2010
Place of death Remscheid