Matthias Rossbach

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Matthias Roßbach (born January 14, 1929 - July 2, 2004 ) was a German football player. The offensive player completed a total of 207 league games at Alemannia Aachen from 1953 to 1961 in what was then the first-class football Oberliga West, in which he scored 59 goals.

Career as a footballer

The attacker came to the league club Alemannia Aachen for the 1953/54 season via the youth and amateur stations SC Aachen 10 and VfB 08 Aachen. Right away, "Bub" Roßbach played himself in the Oberligaelf of the black and yellow, trained by Hermann Lindemann . In his first league round, the striker completed 21 league games and scored nine goals; Alemannia took 9th place. In round two (1954/55) and three ( 1955/56 ) Roßbach played all 60 league games and was thus also a member of the team that in 1956 tied with runners-up FC Schalke 04 - both teams came in 41:19 points - on 3rd place. Rank landed. Roßbach had contributed 17 goals under coach Georg Knöpfle and led the internal scorers list of the "potato beetles" from the triangle before Josef Martinelli and Fred Jansen (13 goals each). On the last day of the match, Alemannia lost the second place they believed to be safe to the Schalke miners who were better off in goal difference with a 0-0 win against the relegated Westfalia Herne (13th place, 23:36 points) and thus missed the finals the German soccer championship . When Aachen again reached 3rd place in the west in 1957/58, Roßbach and colleagues had taken 1st place with 23: 7 points after the 15th first round matchday, one point ahead of Schalke 04 (2nd place) and eight points before 1st place FC Köln in 9th place. After the 22nd matchday, Aachen won 2-1 against Duisburger SpV , the table was still led with 33: 9 compared to 31:13 points from Schalke 04. After that, the black and yellow experienced a dramatic negative series and only achieved 3rd place with 37:23 points. Rossbach had scored five goals in 29 missions.

In his three other senior league years with Alemannia, 1958/59 to 1960/61, it was no longer enough to make it to the top of the table. At Tivoli, the coaches Béla Sárosi and Helmut Kronsbein were mediocre (10th, 9th, 8th place). In the summer of 1961, Roßbach ended his activity at Alemannia Aachen after eight league rounds and joined FC Biel in Switzerland as a player-coach. From 1963 to 1967 the station FC Thun followed , before he returned to the Aachen area as coach of Borussia Brand in 1967 . Later he also worked at Alemannia in the youth sector, amateur camp and as a scout.

The manager of a car rental company who last lived in Dürwiß was also still active as chairman of the traditional Alemannia team.

literature

  • Harald Landefeld, Achim Nöllenheidt (ed.): "Helmut, tell me that goal ..." New stories and portraits from the Oberliga West 1947–1963. Kartext publishing house. Essen 1993. ISBN 3-88474-043-1 . Pp. 44-50.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Lorenz Knieriem, Hardy Grüne : Spiellexikon 1890 - 1963 . In: Encyclopedia of German League Football . tape 8 . AGON, Kassel 2006, ISBN 3-89784-148-7 , p. 322 .
personal data
SURNAME Rossbach, Matthias
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH January 14, 1929
DATE OF DEATH July 2, 2004