Oskar Lotz

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Oskar Lotz (born April 23, 1940 in Rödermark ) is a former German football player . From 1965 to 1969, the striker played 97 games in the Bundesliga with Eintracht Frankfurt and scored 19 goals.

career

The young attacker's talent was noticed early on at his home club Viktoria Urberach . Already at the age of 18 he belonged to the vice-championship eleven of Viktoria in the Hessian amateur league in 1957/58. He already played in the Hessen team and was part of the team that won the Hessen Cup final against VfL Marburg on June 29, 1958 . Lotz played for Viktoria Urberach until the Viktoria were relegated from the 1st amateur league Hessen in 1961 . This was followed by the striker Kickers Offenbach , who played in the top division, the Oberliga Süd , until the introduction of the Bundesliga in 1963 , and then from 1963 in the second -rate regional football league South . The fast and dangerous dribbler celebrated his debut on the wing in the Oberliga Süd on the first match day of the 1961/62 round, on August 6, 1961, in the 4-2 home win at Bieberer Berg against Schwaben Augsburg as a right winger. The Kickers finished fourth at the end of the round and "Ossi" Lotz had scored seven goals in 26 league games. His outstanding talent is underlined by the three appointments of national coach Sepp Herberger to the junior national team U 23 of the DFB. Lotz made his first appearance on September 20, 1961 in Odense in a 1-0 win against Denmark. He formed the German attack line together with Gustav Flachenecker , Lothar Ulsaß , Jürgen Schütz and Gerhard Elfert . In his first round Oberliga Süd, he was appointed to two more games in the DFB's junior team: on October 8, 1961 in Gelsenkirchen against Poland and on May 6, 1962 in Aachen against France, where he won a 3-0 victory formed the left wing together with club mate Siegfried Gast . In the last year of the old first-class football league, 1962/63, Lotz came seventh with the OFC in the south, he had scored six goals in 23 games. Offenbach, however, was not nominated for the new first-class soccer Bundesliga for the 1963/64 round.

In the first two rounds of the newly installed regional football league south from 1963 to 1965, he stormed alongside Sigfried Held and Siegfried Gast and scored twelve goals in 43 league appearances. However, it was not enough for Offenbach in both years to get promoted to the Bundesliga, both the 1963/64 and 1964/65 season , the Kickers finished with third place, and thus failed to make it into the promotion round.

In the summer of 1965 Lotz received an offer from the neighbor and Bundesliga club Eintracht Frankfurt . For the "Adler" he played 97 games (19 goals) in the Bundesliga in the following four seasons and was featured in 16 games in the European Trade Fair Cup , in which he was successful seven times. Under coach Elek Schwartz , the wing racer made his debut in the Bundesliga on the first day of the 1965/66 round . In front of 52,000 spectators, Eintracht started the season with a 2-0 home win against Hamburger SV. The new coach tried the 4: 2: 4 system and Jürgen Grabowski , Wilhelm Huberts , Istvan Sztani and "Ossi" Lotz formed the attack. In the course of the round, Wolfgang Solz asserted himself on the left wing and Lotz had to be content with 17 appearances and three goals in his first Bundesliga round .

In his second year at Eintracht, 1966/67 , he played with his teammates for the championship for a long time. In the second half of the season, the top game took place on February 11, 1967 at the same point Eintracht Braunschweig . The team of coach Helmuth Johannsen won the game with 3-0 gates and surprisingly won the championship race at the end of the round. From the 18th to the 33rd match day, Eintracht Frankfurt was in second place. It was not until the 1: 2 defeat at 1860 Munich on the final day of the round, June 3, 1967, that Frankfurt fell back to fourth place in the table. Oskar Lotz was the only Eintracht player to have played all 34 rounds and scored eight goals. Mostly Jürgen Grabowski, Wolfgang Solz, Siegfried Bronnert and Walter Bechtold stood by his side in the attack. But the man from Urberach also had a successful season internationally. In the Messestädte Cup he was in the games against Drumcondra Dublin, Hvidovre Copenhagen, Ferencvaros Budapest, FC Burnley and in the semifinals against Dinamo Zagreb in all ten games with six goals. In the second international competition, the International Football Cup , Lotz was again in all twelve games against Lanerossi Vicenza, FC La-Chaux-de-Fonds, Feyenoord Rotterdam, IFK Norrköping, Zaglebie Sosnowiec and in the two finals in May and June 1967 against Inter Bratislava in action and won the International Football Cup 1966/67 with a 3-2 away win and a 1-1 draw after extra time in the Waldstadion . In 1967/68 the winger was also a regular player with 33 Bundesliga appearances and scored six goals. The first half of the season failed the Eintracht and was with 14:20 points in 14th place, in the second half of the season with a point yield of 24:10 points, they moved up to sixth place. The other Eintracht attackers Jürgen Grabowski (17-3), Walter Bechtold (21-12), Wolfgang Solz (13-5) and Bernd Hölzenbein (11-2) were clearly behind "Ossi" Lotz.

Under the new coach Erich Ribbeck , the situation changed for Lotz in 1968/69 . Grabowski, Hölzenbein and Bernd Nickel were on the offensive and there were only 13 missions left for him, where he scored two goals. He had his last Bundesliga appearance on March 22, 1969 in the 0-1 defeat at 1. FC Nürnberg, where he came on for Hölzenbein in the 46th minute. In the Messe-Cup he played four games against Wacker Innsbruck, Juventus Turin and Atletico Bilbao.

He let his career in high-class football come to an end in 1968/69 with the regional division FSV Frankfurt . He completed 35 league games for the team from Bornheim and scored seven goals. After the relegation of the FSV, Oskar Lotz's high-class career was over.

literature

  • Ulrich Matheja: Schlappekicker and sky striker. The story of Eintracht Frankfurt. Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2004, ISBN 3-89533-427-8
  • Hardy Grüne , Lorenz Knieriem: Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 8: Player Lexicon 1890–1963. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2006, ISBN 3-89784-148-7 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Oskar Lotz - player profile. Retrieved June 11, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Hardy Greens: Legendary Football Clubs. Hesse. Between FC Alsbach, Eintracht Frankfurt and Tuspo Ziegenhain. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2005, ISBN 3-89784-244-0 , p. 217.
  3. ↑ Heimann / Jens: Kicker Almanach 1989, Copress-Verlag, Munich 1988, ISBN 3-7679-0245-1 , page 141

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personal data
SURNAME Lotz, Oskar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH April 23, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Roedermark