Peter Momber

Peter Momber
Personnel
birthday	January 4, 1921
date of death	23rd January 1975
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1947-1948	VfB Neunkirchen
1948-1956	1. FC Saarbrücken
1956-1957	SV St. Ingbert
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1950-1956	Saarland	10 (1)
1 Only league games are given.

Peter Momber (born January 4, 1921 , † January 23, 1975 ) was a German soccer player who made ten international matches and scored one goal in the then Saarland national soccer team from 1950 to 1956 .

career

Associations until 1958

The all-round player Peter Momber grew up sporty - depending on the coach's wishes and the teams' needs, he occupied the positions of center forward, half-forward, outside runner and middle runner - in the Ellenfeldstadion of VfB Neunkirchen . With the black and white from the "City of Coal and Iron" he played after the Second World War from 1945/46 to 1947/48 in the then Oberliga Südwest , Gruppe Nord. At the side of goal scorer and player- coach Erich Leibenguth , he came to 56 league games and scored 63 goals. The championship titles went to 1. FC Saarbrücken and 1. FC Kaiserslautern . Due to the momentous decisions of the French Football Association - chairman of FIFA President Jules Rimet - which stated that from May 20, 1948, no friendlies between the Saar clubs and German clubs were possible, and thus the four top division clubs 1. FC Saarbrücken, Borussia Neunkirchen, Saar 05 and SG Völklingen were allowed to play the 1947/48 season to the end, but then had to retire from the league, the league play in the DFB of the Saarland clubs was prevented for the next three years.

Since the Saar rival 1. FC Saarbrücken for the 1948/49 round in the 2nd French division was able to take part in the round games instead of AS Angoulême out of competition and could therefore use a sporting reinforcement of the Momber caliber, the all-rounder and dreaded distance shooter joined the Coach Oskar “Ossi” Müller's team. The man from Neunkirchen contributed 27 goals to the unofficial championship with a five point lead, Herbert Binkert took the top scorer's crown with 41 goals. The Saarlanders were then refused entry for the 1949/50 season. Since the first team of the club did not want to participate in the weak honor league Saarland , the International Saar Cup was launched.

It was another highlight for Momber and 1. FC Saarbrücken. In the competition for the trophy and the prize money of two million francs, 1. FC Saarbrücken played at home against 14 top European teams and a team from Santiago de Chile. It was held from September 1949 to May 1950. In the final round, Saarbrücken prevailed in the semi-finals on June 10, 1950 with a 1-0 victory with a goal by Jakob Balzert against NK Hajduk Split and won the final on June 11 with a 4-0 win against Stade Rennais UC - Momber was among the goalscorers - the trophy.

In the 1950/51 season, VfB Neunkirchen was the second host team to take part in the competition. The qualifying matches were played back and forth. After the inclusion of Saarland football in the German league structure for the 1951/52 season, interest in the International Saarland Cup flattened and the French high commission cut the financing of the final round, so that the competition was not completed.

Momber toured half of Europe with 1. FC Saarbrücken in the early 1950s, played many friendly matches and 1. FCS was described in the press as "the most interesting team in Europe". The 4-0 win at Real Madrid on February 21, 1951 was sensational.

When 1. FC Saarbrücken was again eligible to play in the Bundesliga Southwest in the 1951/52 series , Momber and colleagues celebrated, under the direction of coach Auguste Jordan , six points ahead of TuS Neuendorf and even nine points behind 1. FC Kaiserslautern the championship straight away. However, the "black Peter" was with two signatures in Neunkirchen and Saarbrücken before the round, after a long back and forth before the sports jurisdiction, for the first time on the 25th matchday, on February 24, 1952, in the 2-1 home win against SpVgg Weisenau again for the "Malstatter" in the game operation as a middle runner in action. In the final round of the German football championship in 1952 - from April 27 to June 22 - the straightforward and incredibly powerful half-left played all six group games against FC Schalke 04 , 1. FC Nürnberg and Hamburger SV and also scored when moving into the final four goals. Despite the outstanding internal trio with Herbert Martin , Herbert Binkert and Momber, the blue-blacks lost the final with 2: 3 goals against VfB Stuttgart . In 1953, 1955 and 1956 Momber took third place in the Oberliga Südwest three times with 1. FC Saarbrücken. From 1951 to 1956 he played 99 league games and scored 16 goals. When the European championship was first played in 1955/56 , 1. FC Saarbrücken was eligible to play for FIFA member Saarland. Momber was active in both games against AC Milan . Outstanding was the performance in the surprising 4-3 away win on November 1, 1955 in the Milan team led by Juan Schiaffino . At the age of 35 he joined SV St. Ingbert for the 1956/57 round in the 2nd Southwest League in the summer of 1956 . He immediately celebrated the championship and promotion to the league. The 37-year-old - he also worked as a player-coach for a while - completed all 30 rounds of matches in 1957/58 and scored four more goals in the league, but was unable to prevent SV's immediate relegation despite support on the offensive by national striker Heinz Vollmar . Overall, Peter Momber is led in the Oberliga Südwest with 185 games and 83 goals.

Saarland national soccer team, 1950 to 1956

The Saarland Football Association (SFB) became an independent FIFA member on June 23, 1950. Immediately after acceptance, the new SFB President Hermann Neuberger signed Helmut Schön as national coach for the equivalent of 800 marks a month , arranged international matches and ensured Saarland participation in the 1954 World Cup qualification. 20,000 fans were there, as the Saarland national team, which was supervised by Helmut Schön made her international debut on November 22, 1950. The team, which consists exclusively of players from the two clubs not involved in the honorary league game, 1. FC Saarbrücken (Strempel, Biewer, Schmidt, Berg, Momber, Philippi, Clemens, Martin) and VfB Neunkirchen (Follmann, Leibenguth, Schirra) beat a Swiss B selection with 5: 3 goals and also won their second international match on May 27, 1951 with 3: 2 goals against Austria B. In the two debut games, Peter Momber acted as head of defense on the middle runner position. The Saar-Elf achieved a sensation with their defensive boss Momber at the World Cup qualifier against Norway on June 24, 1953 in Oslo's Bislet Stadium. For the injured middle runner, Helmut Schön's ok came after an injection minutes before the game started. Despite the quick 2-0 lead by the hosts and the injuries to Philippi (torn muscle) and Puff (fracture of the fibula), the Saar-Elf won the first qualifying game after goals from Binkert, Otto and Siedl with 3-2 goals. Momber was also in action in the two games against Germany and the second leg against Norway. With his tenth international game on May 1, 1956 in Saarbrücken in the 1-1 draw against Switzerland, he ended his international career.

After the career

After the end of his football career, Peter Momber ran a newspaper and tobacco shop near Saarbrücken central station.

literature

• Werner Skrentny (Ed.): The fear of the devil in front of the pea mountain. The history of the Oberliga Südwest 1946–1963. Klartext, Essen 1996, ISBN 3-88474-394-5 .
• Hardy Greens : Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 1: From the Crown Prince to the Bundesliga. 1890 to 1963. German championship, Gauliga, Oberliga. Numbers, pictures, stories. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 1996, ISBN 3-928562-85-1 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Martin Neu: The 44 national players of the SFB from A for Altmeyer to Z for Zegel. In: saar-nostalgie.de (December 31, 2016), accessed on January 1, 2017.
2. ↑ Werner Skrentny (ed.), Teufelsangst vorm Erbsenberg, The history of the Oberliga Südwest, p. 148.
3. ↑ Werner Skrentny (ed.), Teufelsangst vorm Erbsenberg, The history of the Oberliga Südwest, p. 40.
4. ↑ Werner Skrentny (Ed.), Teufelsangst vorm Erbsenberg, p. 42.

Web links

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• Before the miracle of Bern - When Saarland played against Germany