Manfred Reiner

Manfred Reiner
Personnel
Surname	Manfred Reiner
birthday	September 16, 1937
place of birth	Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt ,  Germany
position	striker
Juniors
Years	station
	SV Germania Bietigheim
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
0000-1958	SV Germania Bietigheim
1958-1961	Karlsruher SC	24 (11)
1961-1967	VfB Stuttgart	107 (31)
1967-1968	Stuttgart Kickers	27 0(5)
1968-1969	SV Germania Bietigheim
1 Only league games are given.

Manfred Reiner (born September 16, 1937 in Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt ) is a former German soccer player and coach. The offensive player played 52 league games at VfB Stuttgart from 1963 to 1967 in the Bundesliga and scored six goals.

career

Reiner played his entire youth and the beginning in the senior area at SV Germania Bietigheim in the Swabian amateur area. For the 1958/59 season, the talented dribbler was signed by the South German champions of 1958, Karlsruher SC , for the Oberliga Süd . With the team from the Wildparkstadion , the competition in the attack with Heinz Beck , Günter Herrmann , Ernst Kunkel , Klaus Matischak , Willy Reitgaßl , Heinz Schmitt and Oswald Traub was quantitative as well as qualitative, so that the newcomer from Bietigheim in his first league year only in four League games (1 goal) could prove his talent. He made his debut on September 14, 1958 in a 2-4 home defeat against Eintracht Frankfurt as a center forward in the Oberliga Süd.

When KSC won the championship in the Oberliga Süd again in 1959/60 , Reiner had eight goals in twelve appearances alongside Rudi Fischer , Wilhelm Dimmel , Gustav Witlatschil , Heinz Ruppenstein , Bernhard Termath , Horst Szymaniak , Reitgaßl, Reinhold Wischnowsky , Friedel Späth , Herrmann, Schmitt, Matischak and Beck scored. In the final round of the German championship he was only used on June 4 in a 2-2 away draw against Borussia Neunkirchen on the left wing. Since Reinhold Nedoschil (22 games, 15 goals) was bet on Reinhold Nedoschil (22 games, 15 goals) in the round of 1960/61 at KSC on the left wing , Reiner did not make more than eight more league appearances with two goals and therefore accepted an offer from VfB Stuttgart for the round in 1961/62 and returned to Swabia .

At VfB, the attacker immediately belonged to the regular cast. On the start day of the 1961/62 round, August 6, 1961, he made his debut in a 1: 3 away defeat at FC Bayern Hof in the league eleven of the white-reds from Cannstatter Wasen. He contributed four goals to the 8: 4 home win on September 24, 1961 against FC Schweinfurt 05. At the end of the round, he and Rolf Geiger , both of whom had 14 hits, instructed VfB's internal goalscorer list. The VfB reached the 5th place and the KSC landed on the 9th place. In May 1962 VfB went on a long journey: The trip took the kickers to Indonesia, where two games were played against the Indonesian national team (5-0, 2-0). In the last year of the old first-class league era, 1962/63, he again led the VfB scorer list. But now with 12 hits and together with newcomer Gerhard Wanner . With the achieved 6th place VfB was nominated for the Bundesliga starting from 1963/64. In two rounds, Reiner completed 55 league games at VfB and scored 26 goals.

Preparing for the first Bundesliga season also included a game against FC Santos (1: 3) with world star Pelé . Reiner belongs to the circle of players who got the new league up and running on August 24, 1963. He stormed to the left in the away game against FC Schalke 04, which he lost 2-0 and had to do with national defender Hans Nowak in the duels . In the course of the further round, however, coach Baluses clearly relied on the wingtips Erwin Waldner (20-5) and Dieter Höller (28-15) and Reiner only made seven Bundesliga appearances in 1963/64. When after the last touchstone before the start of the 1964/65 season against Arsenal London after a deserved 1: 1 in front of 32,000 spectators, Arsenal coach Billy Wright explicitly mentioned Stopper Sieloff and the dribbling ex-Karlsruhe man Manfred Reiner in his praise, one could from one expect Reiner's better second BL year. But nothing came of it, even in the second Bundesliga year the attacker was not part of the VfB regular line-up with eight appearances and two goals. The dream trip to Vietnam, Hong Kong, the Philippines, Singapore, Australia, Tahiti and New Caledonia with the VfB entourage was more pleasing after the round. Under coach Rudi Gutendorf, Reiner played 26 league games in 1965/66 and scored three goals, while VfB came in 11th. The internal goalscorer list was headed by Hans-Otto Peters with seven goals, followed by six goals by Stopper Sieloff. With a total of 42 lap goals, the yield of the offensive was sparse. “Desperately looking for a goal scorer,” it was said with regularity at VfB games. Green notes in more detail: “Manfred Reiner's thoughts were on building a professional future as an electrical wholesaler, 33-year-old Waldner showed obvious signs of fatigue, Dieter Höller had left after a row with the board and Huttary, Arnold and Siebert were struggling to maintain their shape . “When in the 1966/67 season everything should get better with Gilbert Gress , Bo Larsson and Horst Köppel , Reiner left the Bundesliga with eleven season appearances (1 goal). The VfB took the disappointing 12th place and coach Gutendorf was replaced on December 6, 1966 by Albert Sing .

Under coach Georg Wurzer Reiner reached fourth place in the 1967/68 season with the Stuttgarter Kickers in the second -rate regional soccer league South . He had scored five goals in 27 league appearances alongside teammates like Herbert Dienelt , Peter Schäffler , Dieter Schurr , Rolf Steeb , Helmut Fürther , Rainer Eisenhardt and Erich Schmeil . In the summer of 1968 he ended his career with his hometown club Germania Bietigheim.

After his active career, Manfred Reiner initially trained both youth teams and the first team of Germania Bietigheim. Later he was a trainer in Ingersheim, Botnang, Eppingen and Tamm. The trained baker was a passionate tennis player in his native Tamm , where he celebrated his 80th birthday on September 16, 2017.

literature

• Christian Karn, Reinhard Rehberg: Player Lexicon 1963–1994. Agon Sportverlag. Kassel 2012. ISBN 978-3-89784-214-4 . P. 404.
• Hardy Greens: With the ring on your chest. The history of VfB Stuttgart. Publishing house Die Werkstatt. Göttingen 2007. ISBN 978-3-89533-593-8 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Hardy Greens: With the ring on the chest. P. 92
2. ↑ Hardy Greens: With the ring on the chest. P. 100
3. ↑ Hardy Greens: With the ring on the chest. P. 102
4. ↑ Hardy Greens: With the ring on the chest. P. 105
5. ^ Bietigheimer Zeitung: Germania Bietigheims best man

Web link

• Manfred Reiner at kickersarchiv.de