Petar Radenković

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Petar Radenković
Personnel
birthday October 1, 1934
place of birth Belgrade ,  Kingdom of Yugoslavia
size 187 cm
position goalkeeper
Juniors
Years station
1949-1951 Sumadija
1951-1952 Red Star Belgrade
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1952 Red Star Belgrade 1 (0)
1952-1960 OFK Belgrade 96 (0)
1961–1962 Wormatia worms 13 (1)
1962-1970 TSV 1860 Munich 245 (0)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1956 Yugoslavia 3 (0)
1 Only league games are given.

Petar Radenković ( Serbian - Cyrillic Петар Раденковић ; born October 1, 1934 in Belgrade ), known as "Radi", is a former Yugoslav goalkeeper and was one of the first foreign players in the German Bundesliga .

With him, TSV 1860 Munich achieved its greatest successes to date: 1964 DFB Cup winner , 1965 participation in the European Cup Winners' Cup and 1966 German champions . After the relegation of TSV 1860 Munich from the Bundesliga, Radenković ended his football career in 1970 after playing 215 Bundesliga games.

Life

Radenković's father was a folk singer and guitarist (stage name Rascha Rodell ), and he and his wife often went on trips abroad. Because of the outbreak of the Second World War , the parents could not return from the USA, so Petar was raised by his grandparents in Belgrade.

Here he attended high school and graduated in 1953 with the Abitur. In 1949 he joined the football club Šumadija. Here he started in the youth team as a field player, later he switched to goal. In 1951 he went to Red Star Belgrade , a year later to OFK Belgrade . In 1953 and 1955 he won the cup twice with the previous club, BSK . By 1958 he played 93 games for BSK / OFK Belgrade, for which he played until 1960.

On June 29, 1955, he married Olga Borić, a basketball player for the Yugoslav national team. In 1956 he won the silver medal in Melbourne with the Yugoslav Olympic selection . The final on December 8, 1956 in Melbourne in front of 86,716 spectators was his second international match, and he met goalkeeper legend Lev Yashin in the victorious team of the USSR. According to Bausenwein, Yashin is said to have come to Radenković when he said goodbye in the Olympic village and gave him his gloves. Radenković tried the game with gloves on and was so impressed with the new feeling of catch that he never wanted to do without it again. Overall, it brought Radenković to 3 full international matches. In 1958 he was drafted into the military , which prevented his participation in the World Cup . After the end of the military service he tried to move to the top club Red Star Belgrade, but this was prevented by functionaries. For OFK Belgrade he only came to three missions in the 1959/60 season.

Therefore, Radenković left Yugoslavia for Germany in 1960. First he played in the 1961/62 season at Wormatia Worms in the Southwest Football League . Due to his one-year ban, he could only intervene in the league in the second half of the season. The former keeper of OFK Belgrade made his debut on matchday 18, December 17, 1961, at the home game against VfR Kaiserslautern in the Oberliga Südwest. Horst-Dieter Strich had played the first 17 rounds for Wormatia and Worms had achieved 18:16 points. With Radenković in goal, Worms got 19: 7 points in the remaining 13 games, and the goalkeeper from Belgrade converted a foul penalty on March 25, 1962 in the away game against Mainz 05. Coach Max Merkel brought the "catcher" to the last league round in 1962/63 in 1860 Munich in the football league south . The table seventh of the round 1961/62 was under increased pressure to perform because of the Bundesliga nomination for the 1963/64 season. "Radi" made his debut on August 19, 1962 in a 1-0 away win at Hessen Kassel in the Oberliga Süd - but in the first round of the 1962 DFB Cup he had his first on July 28, in a 6-1 home win against Kassel Competitive game for the traditional club from Giesing - and completed all 30 league games in his first season for the "Löwen". With a three point lead over defending champion 1. FC Nürnberg, the Merkel protégés won the championship in the south and were thus accepted as a founding member of the Bundesliga. The local rivals FC Bayern Munich , on the other hand, did not achieve their third place, the "Reds" competed in the second -rate regional soccer league in 1963/64 .

Bundesliga 1963-1970

Radenković is one of the 176 football players who played on the first day of the Bundesliga, August 24, 1963. Besides Radenković, there were only three other foreigners among them . 1860 Munich took seventh place in the first round of the Bundesliga and the goalkeeper had played all 30 round games together with Rudolf Steiner , Manfred Wagner and newcomer Otto Luttrop from Westfalia Herne. With an average rating of 2.67, he was ranked 9th in the table of players in the entire league, while Luttrop was listed as the second best "lion" player with 2.90. The round was crowned by winning the DFB Cup in 1964. In the semi-final success on June 3rd at Altona 93 with a 4-1 win after extra time, the goalkeeper's performance was particularly emphasized:

“ Munich coach Max Merkel was able to thank goalkeeper Petar Radenković, who prevented the possible 2-0 for Altona with numerous brilliant saves. "

- Matthias Weinrich

In the second Bundesliga year, 1964/65, “Radi” was missing in only one game and the “Lions” took fourth place. In the European Cup Winners' Cup , however, the Munich team set international accents and reached the final over three games in the semi-finals against AC Turin . The first leg on April 20, 1965 at the Stadio Comunale in Turin was lost with 2-0 goals, but the Munich goalkeeper received excellent reviews:

“ With a few exceptions, the game went in one direction - that of the 60 goal, which was well guarded by Petar Radenković. "

- Matthias Weinrich

The “Löwen” goalkeeper was also certified in world-class form in the play-off won 2-0 on May 5, 1965 in Letzigrund in Zurich. After losing 2-0 in the final against West Ham United in London on May 19, "Radi" Radenković summarized:

“ We lost. But the great experience of playing in a final at Wembley and looking good is something that nobody takes away from us. "

- "Radi" Radenković

When the Merkel-Elf brought the championship title to Munich in the 1965/66 season , "Radi" was in the goal of the new German champions in all 34 rounds. He was the constant on the defensive, and the offensive scored 80 goals, the most goals this Bundesliga season. In the year the title was defended, 1966/67, a runner-up was added, but the later downward slide of the "lions" began due to the internal turbulence. Peter Grosser , the captain at the time, is quoted as saying:

“It was also thanks to Merkel that we won the cup in 1964 and made it to the European Cup final a year later. But we became champions despite Merkel. "

Merkel's deficits in the area of ​​leadership - the obligation of Wolfgang Fahrian to be able to keep the rebellious “Radi” small - and the accumulated “mountain of debt”, which severely impaired the association's ability to act, escalated with the separation from Merkel December 10, 1966. When it went into the seventh Bundesliga round in 1969/70, the "blues" could only fall back on Željko Perušić , Manfred Wagner and Rudolf Zeiser from the championship team from 1966 in addition to the goalkeeper . Although two reactivated players were added with Alfred Heiss and Wilfried Kohlars from November 7th , the relegation could no longer be prevented under the new coach Franz Binder . "Radi" guarded the goal again in 32 league games and on March 7, 1970 still experienced the 2-1 victory against the reigning German champions, FC Bayern Munich, in the derby against the "Reds". On matchday 34, May 3, 1970, the goalkeeper played his last league game for 1860 Munich in a 0-0 home draw against Rot-Weiss Essen . After eight rounds for the "Lions", the Belgrade-born player ended his playing career in the summer of 1970 at the age of 35. In legends in white and blue it is recorded “that despite Max Kob he was certainly the best goalkeeper in the history of TSV 1860 and in his time probably also the most popular goalkeeper in the Bundesliga, according to his own assessment he was anyway 'the best goalkeeper in the world'. "

He thrilled the audience with the then completely unusual long excursions from the penalty area. Bausenwein describes this with the phrase “the most famous goalkeeper field player in Germany was certainly Petar Radenković from 1860 Munich”. In the 1962/63 season, on the sixth match day in the derby against Bayern Munich, he made the first of his later famous excursions: with the ball on his foot, he dribbled into midfield. "Radi" was the first footballer in Germany to see the stadium lawn as a real show stage. He knew that it wasn't just about good sport, success and victory, but also about effects. He had his distinctive style. The "Radi" did more than just catch the balls and throw them back at his colleagues' feet. He was a soccer entertainer. But the basis of his sometimes stage-ready comic performances was his years of above-average goalkeeping skills. This was based on a first-class positional play, responsiveness, bounce, security with flank balls, forward-looking assessment of the game situation, ball handling that enabled him to move safely with the ball outside the penalty area and thus to get his own game going, as well as qualities to organize the defensive formation.

Career next to and after football

Radenković took on records in the mid-1960s (" Bin i Radi, bin i König ") and achieved a circulation of 400,000 during his athletic career. After his sporting career, he worked as a hotelier and restaurateur in Munich . Seven years after the end of his career, 28,000 spectators came to the Olympic Stadium in 1977 for his farewell game to see how the championship team from 1966 defeated the current lion squad 4-1.

Petar Radenković has two daughters. After the death of his wife in 2009, Radenković moved back to Belgrade. There he got married again.

Publications

  • Bin i Radi… , Moewig-Verlag, Munich 1965
  • The playing field is my kingdom. Radis football course , Munich 1966

literature

  • Hardy Grüne , Claus Melchior: Legends in White and Blue . 100 years of football history for a traditional Munich club. Publishing house Die Werkstatt. Göttingen 1999. ISBN 3-89533-256-9
  • Lorenz Knieriem, Hardy Grüne : Player Lexicon 1890 - 1963 . In: Encyclopedia of German League Football . tape 8 . AGON, Kassel 2006, ISBN 3-89784-148-7 .
  • Bavarian Football Association (Hrsg.): Münchner Fußball Gschichtn. People, myths and moments. Knürr Verlag GmbH. Munich 2008. ISBN 978-3-928432-42-9 , pp. 8-14
  • Holger Jenrich (Ed.): Radi, Buffy and a Sputnik. Foreigners in the Bundesliga 1963–1995. Klartext, Essen 1996, ISBN 3-88474-280-9 , pp. 14-16

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Official viewership http://de.fifa.com/tournaments/archive/tournament=512/edition=197067/matches/match=32408/report.html ( Memento from April 19, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) , in another source 120,000 spectators are named [1]
  2. ↑ Christoph Bausenwein: The last men . On the genre history and soul science of the gatekeeper. Publishing house Die Werkstatt. Göttingen 2003. ISBN 3-89533-425-1 , p. 124
  3. ^ Matthias Weinrich, Hardy Greens : Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 6: German Cup history since 1935. Pictures, statistics, stories, constellations. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2000, ISBN 3-89784-146-0 , p. 185.
  4. ^ Ulrich Merk, André Schulin: Bundesliga chronicle 1963/64. Volume 1: Triumphal procession of the billy goats. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2004, ISBN 3-89784-083-9 , p. 152.
  5. ^ Matthias Weinrich, Hardy Greens: Encyclopedia of German League Football. German cup history since 1935. AGON Sportverlag. Kassel 2000. ISBN 3-89784-146-0 , p. 197
  6. ^ Matthias Weinrich: The European Cup. Volume 1: 1955 to 1974. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2007, ISBN 978-3-89784-252-6 , p. 195.
  7. ^ Matthias Weinrich: The European Cup. Volume 1: 1955 to 1974. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2007, ISBN 978-3-89784-252-6 , p. 197.
  8. ↑ Green / Melchior: Legends in white and blue . P. 129
  9. ↑ Green / Melchior: Legends in white and blue . P. 330
  10. ↑ Bausenwein: The last men. P. 139
  11. ↑ Holger Jenrich (Ed.): Radi, Buffy and a Sputnik . P. 14
  12. ↑ Holger Jenrich (Ed.): Radi, Buffy and a Sputnik. P. 15
  13. ↑ dpa from October 1, 2014
  14. ↑ Note in: Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung from October 1, 2014, page Sport
personal data
SURNAME Radenković, Petar
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Radi
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Yugoslav football goalkeeper
DATE OF BIRTH October 1, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Belgrade