Peter Wulf (soccer player)

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Peter Wulf (born March 13, 1938 in Hamburg ; † July 28, 1995 ) was a German football player who won the German championship in 1960 and the DFB Cup in 1963 as an active member of Hamburger SV .

career

Oberliga Nord until 1963

The lanky offensive all-rounder moved from Viktoria Harburg in 1957 to Hamburger SV's “Rothosen”. In the first year 1957/58 he played in the amateur team. From the round 1958/59 he was a member of the HSV league team. He made his debut on the third match day, August 31, 1958, in a 1-0 home win against VfL Wolfsburg in the Oberliga Nord football league . Coach Günther Mahlmann brought Wulf to his first league round in 14 games and the ex-Harburger scored five goals. From 1958 to 1963 he was a member of the HSV team, which won five titles in a row in the Northern League. As the men around Uwe Seeler and Klaus StürmerIn the final round of the German soccer championship in 1960 - Wulf had played 22 games and scored ten goals in the league season - was able to prevail against competitors Borussia Neunkirchen , Karlsruher SC and Westfalia Herne and thus qualified for the final, Wulf was in the group stage been used in five games. In the victorious final on June 25, 1960 in Frankfurt against 1. FC Cologne , he was not used.

When Hamburg made it to the semi-finals of the European Cup in 1960/61 , he was active in the home game and the playoff against FC Barcelona in April / May 1961. He brought HSV on April 26th in front of 75,000 spectators in the sold-out Volksparkstadion in the second leg in the 58th minute with a directly converted free kick from 18 meters 1-0 lead. Goalkeeper Antoni Ramallets had no chance of defense against the "cracker". In Brussels he and his teammates lost the play-off with a goal from Evaristo with 0-1 goals. In the 1962 World Cup in Chile, he scored 22 goals in 23 league appearances and was the second best HSV goalscorer. Overall, Wulf completed from 1958 to 1963 for the team with the diamond 94 league games with 58 goals. In addition, there were another 23 games with three goals in the finals for the German championship.

Bundesliga 1963 to 1966

In the Bundesliga’s debut year , 1963/64, the semi-finals and the final in the 1963 DFB Cup were played immediately before the start of the first half of the newly installed Bundesliga. On August 7, 1963, Wulf and colleagues first won the semifinals at Wuppertaler SV 1-0 and the final in Hanover against Borussia Dortmund on August 14 with 3-0 goals . In both games, Wulf acted as the right link in the HSV attack. On August 24, 1963 , he opened the Bundesliga chapter for the Hanseatic League as an active player with a 1-1 draw at Preußen Münster . After 44 Bundesliga appearances with 15 goals, he ended his Bundesliga career on May 14, 1966 against 1. FC Köln. Hamburg lost the away game in Cologne with 1: 5 goals with the new coach Josef Schneider and the attacking line-up Bernd Dörfel , Peter Wulf, Uwe Seeler, Manfred Pohlschmidt and Gert Dörfel .

Regionalliga Nord and the end

In the 1967/68 round, the ex-HSVers Horst Dehn , Erwin Piechowiak , Rolf Schwartau and Peter Wulf, under the direction of coach Walter Kuse, attracted attention in the preliminary round at the Green-Whites of Sperber Hamburg in the Regionalliga Nord. The "birds of prey" from the Sperber Sportplatz Alsterdorf got off to a start with 18: 4 points and were therefore a serious contender for entry into the Bundesliga promotion round. On October 22nd, 1967 they won in the course of this series with defending champions SV Arminia Hannover with 2-1 goals and were only stopped on November 12th by the 1-3 defeat at St. Pauli. Peter Wulf scored eleven goals in 29 regional league appearances and Sperber came in tenth in the final table after a sobering second half of the season. For the Hamburger followed in the 1968/69 series still a round in the Swiss National League A at FC La Chaux-de-Fonds before he ended his career.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Peter Wulf - player profile. Retrieved October 24, 2019 .

Web link

Players A – Z (bung bottle) , visited on March 17, 2020

personal data
SURNAME Wulf, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH March 13, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH July 28, 1995