Matthias Volk

Mathias Volk (born February 21, 1947 ) is a former German football player who played 93 league games with 21 goals as a striker at SV Alsenborn from 1968 to 1973 in the second-rate Regionalliga Südwest . The versatile attacker won the championship in the Southwest twice with Alsenborn in the rounds of 1968/69 and 1969/70 and played ten games with the SVA in the Bundesliga promotion rounds . Between 1968 and 1974, Volk played 117 regional league games with 22 goals at the clubs SV Alsenborn, Wormatia Worms and Freiburg FC .

career

Volk went through the entire youth stations at Karlsruher SC . From 1965 to 1967 he then gained his first experience in the senior sector in the first amateur league in North Baden under coach Bernhard Termath . With teammates like Günther Cuntz , Werner Hösl , Hans-Peter Lamparth and David Scheu , he reached the runner-up in North Baden in the 1966/67 season . In his third senior year, 1967/68, he drew the attention of the SV Alsenborn scouts at the Karlsruhe district club FC Neureut and joined the "Dorfverein" near Kaiserslautern for the 1968/69 round . In Alsenborn, the captain of the 1954 world championship team, Fritz Walter , allowed himself to be persuaded to take on a "supervisory and advisory role" at the local SVA in his new residence. The "Dorfmannschaft" rose annually from 1963 to 1965 from the A-Class West Palatinate, via the 2nd Amateur League West Palatinate and 1st Amateur League Southwest , up to the 1965/66 season in the Regionalliga Southwest. In the third regional league season 1967/68 the SVA succeeded for the first time in winning the championship and entering the promotion round to the Bundesliga .

Before the 1968/69 season , Alsenborn had to cope with the loss of goalscorer Jürgen Schieck , and met this personality by signing talent from the amateur camp such as Werner Adler , Manfred Lenz , Franz Schwarzwälder , Erwin Schwehm , Werner Fuchs , Bernhard Oberle , Alban Wüst and Matthias Volk. In terms of sport, the situation was well received by the team and coach Otto Render . The 21-year-old attacker made his debut on September 2, 1968, in a 1-1 draw at TuS Neuendorf in the then second-rate Regionalliga Südwest. Alsenborn joined the attack line-up with Manfred Feldmüller , Lorenz Horr , Volk, Franz Schmitt and Josef Sattmann and the former amateur from Karlsruhe distinguished himself as a goal scorer.

His first year in the Regionalliga was overshadowed by strokes of fate: In the last days of October 1968, the fast winger Josef Sattmann was involved in a car accident, where he suffered a severe fracture of the base of the skull and other head injuries. Due to the severity of the injuries and the long-term consequences, the hopeful talent could no longer continue his sporting career. On April 11, 1969, the deserving trainer Render had a fatal car accident.

Nevertheless, Alsenborn celebrated defending his title at the end of the round and moved back into the Bundesliga promotion round. New signing Volk had scored four goals in 15 appearances. In the promotion round he was used in the games against VfB Lübeck, Freiburg FC and Hertha Zehlendorf.

In his second round at Alsenborn, 1969/70, he came under the new coach Heiner Ueberle and at the side of Horr's successor Karel Nepomucký only to three missions. The SVA won the third championship in a row. In the promotion round, however, followed for Volk against Arminia Bielefeld , Tennis Borussia Berlin , VfL Osnabrück and the Karlsruher SC seven appearances. From 1970/71 to 1972/73 he was part of the regular line-up in Alsenborn with 75 league appearances in three rounds with 17 goals. In the 1971/72 season , with third place, the renewed entry into the Bundesliga promotion round was missed. In his fifth season at SV Alsenborn, 1972/73, he was used in all 30 round matches under coach Horst Kunzmann and scored seven goals alongside fellow players such as Franz Schwarzwälder (goalkeeper), Walter Frosch , Peter Cordes, Bernd Krebs, Bernhard Oberle , Klaus Schmidt , Reinhard Meier , Wolfgang Röhring , Karel Nepomucký, Werner Kadel , Ernst Hodel and Otmar Ludwig . With a goal to the 3: 3 home draw on May 6, 1973 against Eintracht Trier, he ended his league use in Alsenborn and joined the old second-rate regional league, 1973/74, Wormatia Worms.

In the Nibelungenstadt it only held him until the beginning of October 1973 (6 RL games), before he was on October 27 in a 1: 2 away defeat at VfR Mannheim in the ranks of the Freiburg FC under coach Hans Hipp in the regional soccer league south debuted. At the end of the round, the team from the Möslestadion was relegated to the amateur camp in southern Baden; Volk had scored a goal in 19 missions.

Volk ended his playing career from 1975 to 1979 in the 1st Amateur League Southwest with the amateurs of 1. FC Kaiserslautern. He then continued to work in football as a coach for the clubs FK Clausen, VfR Kaiserslautern, FCK-Amateuren and FC Quaidersbach.

literature

• Christian Karn, Reinhard Rehberg: Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 9: Player Lexicon 1963-1994. Bundesliga, regional league, 2nd league. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2012, ISBN 978-3-89784-214-4 .
• Ulrich Homann (Hrsg.): Hellfire on Ascension. The history of the promotion rounds to the Bundesliga 1963–1974. Klartext, Essen 1990, ISBN 3-88474-346-5 .
• Fritz Walter: SV Alsenborn. Rise of a dor team. Books on Demand GmbH. ISBN 3-8311-1846-9 .

Web links

• Entry in the player database of VfR Wormatia 08 Worms

Individual evidence

1. ^ Karn, Rehberg: Spiellexikon 1963-1994. P. 523