Manfred Wacker

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Manfred Wacker (born April 10, 1932 ; † unknown) was a German football player. The defensive player completed a total of 190 league games in which he scored three goals at Duisburg SpV from 1954 to 1962 in what was then the first-class football Oberliga West . In addition there were 96 games (4 goals) in the 2nd division West from 1951 to 1954 and 1962/63, as well as 18 games (1 goal) in the debut year 1963/64 in the second-rate Regionalliga West . In the round of 1956/57 Wacker was runner-up with DSV in the Oberliga West and therefore entered the final round of the German soccer championship .

Career as a footballer

Manfred Wacker went through the youth department of the West German old master (11 times West German champion from 1904 to 1927) and made his debut in the 1951/52 season in the DSV league team in the 2nd West Group 2 under coach Fred Harthaus and at the side of Teammates like Josef Broden (goalkeeper) and Willi Koll (21 goals), he gained his first experiences in high-class league football in eleven league appearances. In his second year, 1952/53, he already belonged to the narrow circle of regular players with 30 appearances; In both rounds the DSV reached 3rd place. In the third attempt, in 1953/54 , the "red blouses" managed to return to the top league. With 42:18 points and only 34 goals conceded in 30 league games, the club from the south of the city won the championship, three points ahead of Westfalia Herne. Team senior Hans "Hennes" Hoffmann pulled the strings as director, Josef Broden guarded the goal, Willi Koll scored eleven goals in 30 appearances and Wacker contributed to the security of the defense in 27 games (1 goal).

In the first two years after the league return, 1954 to 1956, the DSV reached 4th place and Wacker had completed 54 league games with one goal. In the third year, 1956/57 , Wacker and colleagues played an outstanding first round with 24: 6 points, leading the table. At the end of the round, the “Red Blouses” saved themselves tied with 39:21 points against 1. FC Köln for the runner-up. In the catch-up game on April 18, 1957, the “billy goats” were beaten 3-1 in front of 30,000 spectators in the Wedau Stadium . With Ernst Wechselberger they got a reinforcement for the offensive, but the main part of the runner-up was the defensive. With Koll and Walter Münnix in 28 missions, Wacker had formed the runner row in the World Cup system of that time.

In the final round of the German championship, the west runner-up competed against Hamburger SV, 1. FC Saarbrücken and 1. FC Nürnberg. Unfortunately, the DFB shortened the final round to three matches per team and also had all games played on neutral courts. The “kicker” did not spare criticism and wrote of a two-fold bankruptcy: “Firstly, to the supporters of the final teams, those who remained loyal to the club through heat and cold, even against less glamorous opponents, and to whom it was not financially and temporally It is possible to travel three times, on the other hand, the finalists who do not make it to the finals will be disappointed in the end with their business results ”. The DSV did not lose a game, but with 4: 2 points they took second place after the three games behind Hamburger SV with 5: 1 points. 40,000 spectators watched the first game in Berlin on June 2nd against HSV; the match ended 1: 1 and the Duisburg runner row with Wacker, Koll and Fritz Bermel had held their own against the Hamburg inner storm with Walter Schemel , Uwe Seeler and Gerd Krug . On June 9th, DSV won 3-1 in Frankfurt am Main against 1. FC Saarbrücken. The game was followed by 40,000 spectators in the Waldstadion and saw two goals from Wechselberger to lead 2-0 at halftime. In the third and final group game, the vice-runner in the west competed against the southern champions 1. FC Nürnberg in Ludwigshafen's Südweststadion . In front of 35,000 spectators, the men around Koll and Wacker led 2-1 up to the 83rd minute of the game, before the "club" scored 2-2. Manfred Wacker had occupied the right outer runner role in each of the three finals.

The level of these three very good years could no longer be maintained by the DSV in the next few years. Center forward Wechselberger moved to Switzerland and goalkeeper Broden to FC Schalke 04 and the inner-city competition with the Hamborner "Löwen" and the "Zebras" from Meidericher SV was getting tougher, the number of spectators decreasing, the debts increased, on the other hand, with the DSV went it down. The low point of the downturn came in the 1961/62 season , when the men around Wacker (27 games, 1 goal) were relegated to the second division with a miserable 10:50 points as bottom of the table.

With 28 league appearances and three goals in 1962/63 under coach "Hennes" Hoffmann, Wacker once again belonged to the regular line-up, but after the debut year of the newly introduced Regionalliga West in 1963/64, after 18 games (1 goal) under coach Hermann Lindemann, his 13th -year membership in the league team of Duisburger SpV.

literature

  • Lorenz Knieriem, Hardy Grüne : Player Lexicon 1890 - 1963 . In: Encyclopedia of German League Football . tape 8 . AGON, Kassel 2006, ISBN 3-89784-148-7 , p. 403 f .
  • Ralf Piorr (Ed.): The pot is round. The lexicon of Revier football: The clubs. Klartext Verlag. Essen 2006. ISBN 3-89861-356-9 . Pp. 61-74.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ KLorenz Knieriem, Hardy Grüne : Spiellexikon 1890 - 1963 . In: Encyclopedia of German League Football . tape 8 . AGON, Kassel 2006, ISBN 3-89784-148-7 , p. 404 .
  2. ^ German Sports Club for Football Statistics (DSFS): West Chronicle. Football in West Germany 1945–1963. P. 231 (vol. 1945–1952), pp. 20, 62 (vol. 1952–1958), p. 219 (vol. 1958–1963)
  3. ↑ Hardy Greens: 100 Years of the German Championship. Publishing house Die Werkstatt. Göttingen 2003. ISBN 3-89533-410-3 . Pp. 313/314
personal data
SURNAME Wacker, Manfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH April 10, 1932
DATE OF DEATH 20th century or 21st century