Manfred Schneider (soccer player)

Manfred Schneider (born March 26, 1934 ; † May 15, 2009 ) was a German football player who completed two international matches (1 goal) in the German amateur football team in the 1955/56 season . In the 1959/60 round, the offensive player, who was mostly left winger, played 16 league games with three goals for 1. FC Kaiserslautern in what was then the first-class Southwest football league .

career

In the 1954/55 season, the amateur soccer player Manfred Schneider and his club VfB Coburg took fifth place in the first amateur league in Northern Bavaria alongside the outside runner Heinz Ruppenstein . With the Bavarian amateur selection of the left wing striker Coburg moved in the competition of länderpokal after successes on the selection teams Südbaden (3: 1), South West (5: 1) and in the final against Nordbaden (4: 0) in the final on the second July 1955 in Augsburg against the representation of Westphalia. There Bayern won their fourth consecutive victory (1952-55): The BFV team with players like Fritz Semmelmann , Willy Reitgaßl , Hans Zeitler and Manfred Schneider prevailed on the left wing with 5-2 . In the 1955/56 season, Ruppenstein had switched to the Oberliga Süd to Karlsruher SC and striker Reitgaßl had come from SpVgg Landshut to the Red-Whites in Upper Franconia, Schneider landed with VfB again in fifth place in Northern Bavaria. At the end of the round, he was called on May 19, 1956 in Freiburg in the amateur national team of the DFB in the international match against France. In the 3: 3 draw of the German amateur selection, he and Matthias Mauritz formed the wing tongs in the team around captain Herbert Schäfer . Two days later, on May 21, the DFB amateurs played another international match in Munich against the amateur representation from Scotland. The man from Coburg stormed the left wing again and scored a goal in the 4-1 victory of the DFB amateurs. In the attack, the German team in the World Cup system was made up of Matthias Mauritz, Herbert Schäfer, Ernst-Günter Habig , Manfred Kreß and Schneider. It was the last international match before the 1956 Olympic Games in Melbourne. When the German amateur national team lost 2-1 to the Soviet Union in Melbourne on November 24, 1956 and was eliminated from the Olympic football tournament, Schneider was no longer a member of the Olympic squad. In the 1958/59 round, the winger signed a contract with Borussia Fulda and played in the 2nd League South . With the Red-Blacks from the episcopal city and there at home in the Johannisau sports park, Schneider experienced a round of fighting to stay in the league. This was not passed by Borussia, Fulda was relegated to the amateur camp as penultimate (17th place).

The third in the Oberliga Südwest 1958/59 , 1. FC Kaiserslautern, the "Red Devils" from Betzenberg, who missed the final round for the first time since 1953, and above all because Fritz Walter's career ended with his farewell game on June 21, 1959 against Racing Paris (4: 2), a glamorous era ended, faced a rebuilding before the 1959/60 season. Former master coach Richard Schneider was only left with Horst Eckel , Werner Liebrich and, with some restrictions, goalkeeper Willi Hölz from the successful era of the former "Walter Elf". In addition to their own young talent such as Winfried Richter , Jürgen Neumann , Dieter Pulter , Dieter Schönborn and goalkeeper Wolfgang Schnarr , they are trying in Kaiserslautern with the newcomers Rolf Ringer (VfR Heilbronn), Günther Kasperski (TuS Neuendorf) and Manfred Schneider from Borussia Fulda. Of the external commitments in the course of the round - the Lauterer reach 5th place - only Kasperski can make a name for himself as a regular player with 30 appearances (all league games) and eleven goals. Ringer (18-3) and Schneider (16-3) fell by the wayside during the second half of the season. Wrestlers and tailors experience the start of the 1959/60 orienteering round on August 16, 1959, with a 0-1 away defeat at Eintracht Kreuznach, on the grass, on half right and left winger. In the second round game, on August 23, a 3-1 home win against FSV Mainz 05, Schneider brought FCK 1-0 up in the fifth minute. On the third match day, August 30, Schneider scored the opening goal again, but now Kaiserslautern lost the away game 2: 3 at TuRa Ludwigshafen. On the fourth match day, September 6, Schneider scores his third round goal in a row. Lautern wins the home game against FV Speyer with 4-0 and Schneider ends the scoring in the 87th minute with the 4-0. After that, however, he did not meet in any of his subsequent 12 league appearances. His last league appearance was on January 10, 1960 with a 1-0 away win in Mainz. He played for 1. FC Kaiserslautern in 16 league games and scored three goals. After only one season in Kaiserslautern, Schneider ended his contractual relationship and joined VfR Heilbronn in the 1st Amateur League North Württemberg in the 1960/61 season .

After his footballing career, Schneider worked for many years at Städtische Werken Überlandwerke Coburg . Schneider died on May 15, 2009, four days after his wife Erika.

literature

• Dominic Bold: 1. FC Kaiserslautern. The Chronicle. Publishing house Die Werkstatt. Göttingen 2013. ISBN 978-3-7307-0046-4 .
• Hardy Grüne , Lorenz Knieriem: Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 8: Player Lexicon 1890–1963. Agon-Sportverlag, Kassel 2006, ISBN 3-89784-148-7 , p. 345.
• Karl-Heinz Heimann, Karl-Heinz Jens: Kicker-Almanach 1989. Copress-Verlag. Munich 1988. ISBN 3-7679-0245-1 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} trauer.infranken.de: Manfred Schneider - Obituaries , accessed on February 2, 2019
2. ↑ Hardy Green, Lorenz Knieriem: Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 8: Player Lexicon 1890–1963. P. 345.