Norbert Nigbur

Norbert Nigbur
Norbert Nigbur (1974)
Personnel
Surname	Norbert Heinrich Nigbur
birthday	May 8, 1948
place of birth	Gelsenkirchen ,  Germany
position	goal
Juniors
Years	station
1960-1966	SV Gelsenkirchen-Hessler
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1966-1976	FC Schalke 04	289 (0)
1976-1979	Hertha BSC	101 (0)
1979-1983	FC Schalke 04	104 (0)
1984	VfB Hüls
1984-1985	Red and white food	27 (0)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1965-1966	DFB youth selection	13 (0)
1966	Germany amateurs	2 (0)
1974-1980	Germany	6 (0)
1975-1981	Germany B	5 (0)
1 Only league games are given.

Norbert Heinrich Nigbur (born May 8, 1948 in Gelsenkirchen ) is a former German soccer goalkeeper who played for FC Schalke 04 and Hertha BSC , among others . He was used six times in the German senior team .

Career

societies

Norbert Nigbur initially wanted to train as a harness racing driver , but played football for SV Gelsenkirchen-Hessler in his youth and was initially used as a center forward. After replacing the expelled goalkeeper in a game and saving two penalties , he was only used as a goalkeeper. On his 18th birthday, his father signed the first professional contract with Schalke's President Fritz Szepan , as his son was not yet of legal age . For the 1966/67 Bundesliga season , Nigbur was the second man behind regular goalkeeper Josef Elting in the FC Schalke 04 squad. On September 3, 1966 in the game against 1. FC Nürnberg , he replaced Elting and advanced to number 1 at the age of 18.

In 1969 Schalke lost with him the final of the DFB Cup against FC Bayern Munich with 1: 2. The team around Nigbur, Klaus Fichtel , Rolf Rüssmann , Klaus Fischer and Reinhard Libuda became runner-up in 1972 . Norbert Nigbur was the Bundesliga keeper with the fewest goals this season. He didn't concede a goal over 555 minutes. This record lasted for over ten years. Schalke won the DFB Cup 5-0 against 1. FC Kaiserslautern . This was the first national title for Nigbur and the first for the club since the 1958 championship . The semi-final second leg against 1. FC Köln (first leg 1: 4), in which Nigbur, after 5: 2 in regular time, saved his team with a saved penalty in the penalty shootout, was also remarkable in this cup triumph . Here “the wild cat” Nigbur went one better: He saved two more penalties and even shot one against Cologne goalkeeper Gerhard Welz . After a nerve-wracking game with a total of 21 penalties, Schalke moved into the final. Alongside Sepp Maier from FC Bayern Munich , Wolfgang Kleff from Borussia Mönchengladbach, Rudi Kargus from Hamburger SV and Gerhard Welz from 1. FC Köln, Nigbur was the best Bundesliga goalkeeper of the 1970s.

He was not affected by the Bundesliga scandal , in which several Schalke players were involved. In the "postponed" game against Arminia Bielefeld , which was lost on April 17, 1971 1-0, he did not take part due to an injury. Dieter Burdenski was deployed in his place .

On September 14, 1974, during the Bundesliga game against VfL Bochum, it was overlooked that Nigbur was still in the dressing room after the end of the half-time break at the time of the restart. He was initially prevented by a police officer from entering the field of play and intervening in the game that had already been resumed. Although the Schalke goal was unoccupied in the first minutes of the second half, no goal was conceded.

After disputes with coach Max Merkel and President Günter Siebert about the extension of his contract, he was fired in 1976. Nigbur joined Hertha BSC for the 1976/77 season . With this club he reached the finals for the club cup against 1. FC Cologne in 1977 and against Fortuna Düsseldorf in 1979 . His Berlin interlude lasted three years and only in one league game did Nigbur not play before he reconciled with Siebert and returned to Schalke in 1979.

In the 1980/81 season Schalke rose with 88 goals conceded in the 2nd Bundesliga . Nigbur remained loyal to the club and contributed with his performance to the immediate resurgence. After that, however, there was a falling out with the new manager Rudi Assauer , Nigbur was deleted from the squad. Even today he has a tense relationship with his former club Schalke 04, for whom he was between the posts in a total of 466 competitive games. Over the short six-month interlude at VfB Hüls , for which he first appeared on February 5, 1984, he moved to Rot-Weiss Essen in the then third-class Oberliga Nordrhein , where he played 27 league games. In the subsequent promotion round he was no longer used, so that he ended his long career after the 1984/85 season.

National team

Norbert Nigbur (left, bottom row) with the German national team after winning the 1974 World Cup in Munich

Using the channel selection came Nigbur in the DFB youth team , for which he got 13 times used: the first time on March 21, 1965 in Oberhausen at the 1: 2 defeat to the selection of Hungary, the last time on 25 May 1966 in Pristina at the 3-1 defeat by Spain in the preliminary round of the UEFA youth tournament in Yugoslavia . On February 23, 1974 Nigbur made his debut in the senior team in the 0-1 defeat against Spain in Barcelona . He was a member of the national team that won the world title in 1974 , but was only a substitute goalkeeper behind Sepp Maier and was not used. On April 2, 1980, he played his last of a total of six international matches against Austria in Munich . For the 1980 European Championship in Italy he was scheduled to be the goalkeeper, but had to cancel due to a serious injury. Then Toni Schumacher became a regular goalkeeper, Nigbur did not return to the national team.

As a member of the squad of the German national soccer team at the soccer world championship 1974 he received the silver laurel leaf on September 23, 1974 for winning the world championship with the team.

After retirement

Today (2010) has Nigbur real estate and a busy team , further he is involved today even in the Schalke golf circuit.

Remarkable

In the mid-1970s, Nigbur took a trip to the hit business. He released the single, produced by Jack White , Wenn Schalke 04 weren't (the Parkstadion would always be empty) (A-side) / Oh Fata Morgana (B-side). All proceeds from this went to the cancer foundation. In 1979 he recorded a second single. The titles were: 44 legs (A-side) / That's why you don't know anything about me (B-side).

successes

National team

• World Champion 1974, replacement behind Sepp Maier

society

• Vice-Cup winner 1969, 1: 2 against FC Bayern Munich
• EC semi-final of the cup winners 1970
• Cup semi-finals 1971, 2: 3 against 1. FC Köln
• Vice-champion and German Cup winner 1972, 5-0 against 1. FC Kaiserslautern
• Vice-Cup winner 1977, 1: 1 n.V. and 0: 1 against 1. FC Köln
• Third in 1978, behind 1. FC Köln and Bor. Mönchengladbach
• Vice-Cup winner 1979, 0: 1 nV against Fortuna Düsseldorf
• UC semi-finals 1979
• Cup semi-finals 1980, 2-0 against 1. FC Köln
• Promotion to the Bundesliga in 1982

Awards

• Kicker Goalkeeper of the Year: 1979

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Peter Müller: Norbert Nigbur: Schalke can become champions . WAZ. May 8, 2018. Retrieved May 8, 2018.
2. ^ ^{A b c} Westfälische Nachrichten : Forget in the cabin - football: “goalkeeper of the century” Nigbur turns 65 / six international matches , sport, Düsseldorf, dpa , May 8, 2013.
3. ^ Matthias Arnhold: Norbert Nigbur - Matches and Goals in Bundesliga . Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. June 4, 2015. Accessed June 19, 2015.
4. ↑ Note in: RevierSport 87/2012, S, 45.
5. ^ Matthias Arnhold: Norbert Nigbur - International Appearances . Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. June 4, 2015. Accessed June 19, 2015.
6. ↑ DFB NEWS: Article by Udo Musas on September 23, 1974: Heroes of Bern, losers from Brussels: .... September 23 .... 40 years ago, world champions Germany was honored: .. The entire squad received from the Federal President Walter Scheel in Bonn the silver bay leaf ...
7. ↑ Norbert Nigbur - If Schalke 04 weren't there (the Parkstadion would always be empty) at Discogs (English)
8. ^ Reviersport.de: Conversation with Norbert Nigbur, viewed May 7, 2013

Web links

• Norbert Nigbur in the database of weltfussball.de
• Norbert Nigbur in the database of fussballdaten.de
• Norbert Nigbur in the database of National-Football-Teams.com (English)