Manfred Schaefer (soccer player)

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Manfred Schaefer (also: Manfred Schäfer ; born February 12, 1943 in Pillau in East Prussia ) is a former German-Australian soccer player and coach . In 1974 the angular defender took part in the soccer world championship in Germany.

Born in Germany, he grew up with two siblings in Quelkhorn after fleeing East Prussia , and immigrated to Australia with his family in 1957. His main job of milkman, which had no longer existed since the mid-1980s, was legendary, supplying households in the suburbs with fresh milk every morning and covering enormous distances - which in turn was responsible for his consistently excellent fitness.

His football career began in 1960 with the Australian club Blacktown in northwest Sydney , for which he played until 1963. Then he went to 1975 for the St. George-Budapest in the south of Sydney. There he played alongside other great Australian stars of the era such as Attila Abonyi and Johnny Warren . He was with the club in 1967, 1971, 1974 and 1975, four times champion of New South Wales , which was the highest achievable goal in the absence of a national championship competition. He won his last title as a player-coach. In 1967, 1972 and 1975 he won the State Cup trading as the Ampol Cup , as well as the State Federation Cup in 1964 and 1972.

Schaefer received his first appointment to the Australian national soccer team in 1967. Manfred Schäfer played a total of 73 times, including 49 international matches, in the dress of the Australian national team and scored one goal. Schäfer played his last three international matches at the 1974 World Cup in Germany, where he met the teams from Chile, the GDR and the Federal Republic of Germany. The end of the international career was followed a year later by the end at the national level.

Since then, Schaefer has worked as a football coach in Australia. From 1975 to 1977 he coached St. George-Budapest, between 1982 and 1986 he was twice Australian runner- up with Sydney Olympic . In 1989 he coached Brunswick United in the State League of Victoria, 1989 to 1991 and 1995 APIA Leichhardt Tigers and from 1992 to 1994 Sydney United . In the 1995 to 1997 season he was with Marconi Fairfield and led the club in 1996 in the Grand Final of the Australian Championship , but lost there to Melbourne Knights FC with 1: 2. In 1998/99 he coached Adelaide Sharks and from 2002 to 2004 he was an assistant coach at Parramatta Power .

In 1999 he was inducted into the FFA Hall of Fame .

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Australian national player Manfred Schaefer in the "home village" . Rotenburger Rundschau. August 29, 2001. Retrieved July 24, 2015.
  2. ↑ Maik Gizinski: Our story - When the World Cup came to the north , first broadcast: June 11, 2014 NDR
  3. ↑ Australia's amateur troop 1974: locksmith, painter and a milkman . The mirror . June 10, 2010. Accessed July 24, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Schaefer, Manfred
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schäfer, Manfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Australian soccer player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH February 12, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Pillau , East Prussia