Matthias Hemmersbach

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Matthias Hemmersbach (born July 26, 1941 in Hürth - Efferen , † June 14, 1997 ) was a German football player . The midfielder and defender played 249 league games with 13 goals in the Bundesliga from 1963 to 1973 for 1. FC Köln . Before that, he had already played 44 league games with ten goals for the billy goat Elf in the last two rounds of the old first-class football league west . Hemmersbach won the German football championship with Cologne in 1962 and 1964 and the DFB Cup in 1968 .

career

The defender played for 1. FC Köln for twelve years and was almost always a regular. A symbol of reliability. As the most successful shooter of his club BC Efferen , he came to FC in 1961. At the end of his first season with the billy goats, he became German champion, who was later converted into a defender. Hemmersbach made his debut on August 6, 1961 in a 5-3 home win against SV Sodingen in the Oberliga West. Together with Leo Wilden and Karl-Heinz Schnellinger , he formed the FC runner row. At the end of the round he was able to celebrate the championship with Cologne one point ahead of FC Schalke 04 in the Oberliga West. He had scored six goals in 20 league games. In the final round of the German championship, he played in the two group matches against Hamburger SV (1-0) and FK Pirmasens (10-0) before he and his teammates played 4-0 in the final on May 12 in Berlin against the defending champion 1. FC Nürnberg. Before goalkeeper Fritz Ewert he formed the defensive of the new German champions with Fritz Pott , Schnellinger, Wilden and Hans Sturm . In his first round at 1. FC Köln, 1961/62, he was also used in the European trade fair cup competition . In the games against the top European team Inter Milan with Giacinto Facchetti , Gerry Hitchens and Luis Suárez , the former amateur footballer ran on September 27, 1961 (4: 2 home win; a goal by Hemmersbach) and in the 0: 2 away defeat on 11 October for Cologne. In the last year of the first-class Oberliga, 1962/63, the Oberliga West defended its title - Hemmersbach had scored four goals in 24 league games - but the final of the German championship was lost 3-1 to West runner-up Borussia Dortmund without Hemmersbach. Hemmersbach was appointed by the DFB on October 24, 1962 in Lyon in a game against France (0: 1) in the junior national team U 23 . Matching this round was also the appearance on September 5, 1962 in the European Cup for the Scots from FC Dundee : The German champions lost 8-1. Only the early injury of goalkeeper Fritz Ewert from the 4th minute of the game and his replacement in the second half by field player Toni Regh could make this drastic slump a little more understandable. On the flight back from Scotland commented coach "Tschik" Cajkovski his emotional state with the words: "Better, plane crashes" Hemmersbach, Cajkovsi and 1. FC Köln survived and won in 1963/64 under new coach Georg Knöpfle the championship in the new soccer Bundesliga. Hemmersbach made his debut in the Bundesliga on September 21, 1963 in a 3-0 away win against Hertha BSC. He played stoppers for the prevented Leo Wilden. He made 17 league games to win the German championship title. On April 29, 1964, he played his second international match in the U23 against Czechoslovakia (1: 0) and during this period he also played in the two semi-finals in the 1963/64 trade fair cup against CF Valencia (1: 4, 2: 0) for use.

When Hemmersbach and 1. FC Köln had to settle for the vice championship as defending champion in the Bundesliga in 1964/65, the three encounters in the quarter-finals of the European Cup against Liverpool in February and March 1965 stood out. He was in the extremely competitive match on March 17th in the second leg at Anfield Road in front of 48,948 spectators as a representative of the sick Leo Wilden in action as a stopper. But Hans Schäfer and center forward Christian Müller were also missing . The 90 minutes developed into a single defensive battle of the billy goats, which had their outstanding actors in Toni Schumacher, Wolfgang Weber and the actual reservist Hemmersbach. After two goalless games with 0-0, it went to a decider on March 24, 1965 in Rotterdam. Again Hemmersbach represented the regular stopper Wilden and the game ended after extra time 2-2. Liverpool moved into the semi-finals by flipping a coin.

The DFB Cup was a special chapter in Hemmersbach's career. In 1968 he won the cup 4: 1 against VfL Bochum, but lost the finals in 1970 against Kickers Offenbach (1: 2) and in 1971 against FC Bayern Munich again with 1: 2, but now in extra time . In the 1971/72 competition he was part of the 1. FC Köln team in the semi-finals on May 30 and June 10, respectively, against FC Schalke 04, which was lost to the eventual cup winners 5-6 after a dramatic penalty shoot-out in Schalke. 16 players took part in the penalty shoot-out before Bernhard Cullmann hit the post and brought Schalke into the final.

His coaches included Zlatko Čajkovski , under whom he started at FC, Georg Knöpfle and Gyula Lóránt . His teammates included the icons of 1. FC Cologne Wolfgang Overath , Hans Schäfer , Heinz Flohe , Josef Röhrig , Hans Sturm and Wolfgang Weber . His last Bundesliga game completed Hemmersbach in the 1972/73 season when he reached the runner-up under coach Rudi Schlott . With the catch-up game on May 22, 1973 against FC Schalke 04 (2-2), he said goodbye to the Bundesliga.

For the 1973/74 season he moved to arch rivals Bayer 04 Leverkusen in the Mittelrhein Association League. After two championships succeeded 1975, Bayer rise in the 2nd League, wherein the Routinier 1975/76 again completed 23 second division games. At the end of his active career, he stepped again for his home club, the BC Efferen.

societies

statistics

Matthias Hemmersbach after the coin toss in Rotterdam (center)

successes

  • 1962 German champion
  • 1963 German vice-champion
  • 1964 German champion
  • 1965 German vice-champion
  • 1968 DFB Cup winner
  • 1970 DFB Cup final
  • 1971 DFB Cup final
  • 1973 German vice-champion
  • 1973 DFB Cup final

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Matthias Hemmersbach - player profile. Retrieved February 21, 2019 .
  2. ^ Jürgen Bitter: Germany's football. The encyclopedia. FA Herbig. Munich 2008. ISBN 978-3-7766-2558-5 . P. 295
  3. ↑ Klaus Qurengässer: The German Football Championship, Part 2: 1948-1963. Agon Sportverlag. Kassel 1997. ISBN 3-89609-107-7 . Pp. 132-133
  4. ^ Matthias Kropp: Triumphs in the European Cup. Agon Sportverlag. Kassel 1996. ISBN 3-928562-75-4 . P. 27
  5. ↑ Thomas Hardt, Thomas Hohndorf, Bruno Morbitzer, Hubert Dahlkamp, ​​Hardy Green: Hennes & Co. The history of 1. FC Cologne. Publishing house Die Werkstatt. Göttingen 2005. ISBN 3-89533-470-7 . P. 85
  6. ^ Matthias Kropp: Triumphs in the European Cup. Agon Sportverlag. Kassel 1996. ISBN 3-928562-75-4 . P. 38
  7. ^ Matthias Weinrich: The European Cup, Volume 1, 1955 to 1974. Agon Sportverlag. Kassel 2007. ISBN 978-3897842 526 . P. 186
  8. ^ Matthias Weinrich, Hardy Green: German Cup History since 1935. Agon Sportverlag. Kassel 2000. ISBN 3-89784-146-0 . P. 267
personal data
SURNAME Hemmersbach, Matthias
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH July 26, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Huerth - Efferen
DATE OF DEATH June 14, 1997