Rainer Schönwälder

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Rainer Schönwälder (born February 29, 1940 in Gelsenkirchen ) is a former German football player . The offensive player belongs to the group of active players who got the ball rolling in the debut round of the Bundesliga in 1963/64 . He has scored eleven goals in 24 Bundesliga appearances for 1. FC Saarbrücken .

Athletic career

At the age of ten, Schönwälder played at Schalke 04 . In the 1960/61 season he played at Eintracht Gelsenkirchen in the 2nd League West . Under coach Jean Paffrath , the striker scored six goals in 18 games. With team - mates like Karl-Heinz Bente , Willi Kostrewa and Franz-Josef Sarna , he finished 4th with Eintracht. He then moved to the first-class Southwest soccer league for 1. FC Saarbrücken. In his first year with the Schwarz-Blauen, 1961/62, he scored 14 goals in 25 league appearances at the side of national striker Heinz Vollmar and 1. FCS reached 3rd place. In the last year of the old first-class league, 1962/63, the team from the state capital reached 5th place and was nevertheless accepted into the new Bundesliga. In addition to Dieter Krafczyk (29 goals), he scored 13 goals in 27 appearances.

In the Bundesliga season he scored eleven goals in 24 games with the relegated team under coach Helmut Schneider . He was with Krafczyk (13 goals) the most accurate attacker of the Saarlanders; Werner Rinass followed beaten with four goals. Schönwälder scored two goals on four match days: On September 7, 1963 in a 2-2 home draw against Eintracht Braunschweig; at the start of the second half of the season on January 11, 1964 in a sensational 3-1 away win against the eventual champions 1. FC Köln; in the 4-2 home win on February 29th against 1. FC Kaiserslautern and on March 24th in the 2-2 away draw against Karlsruher SC. Together with Volker Danner , Werner Hesse , Erich Rohe , Heinz Steinmann , Hans-Dieter Diehl , Werner Rinass, Dieter Krafczyk, Heinz Vollmar and Erich Maas , Schönwälder belonged to the regular formation of 1. FC Saarbrücken. After relegation to the Bundesliga, he joined Alemannia Aachen for the round in 1964/65 in the second -rate regional football league West .

With the black and yellow from the old Tivoli stadium , he finished second behind champions and Bundesliga promoted Borussia Mönchengladbach. Schönwälder contributed all four goals to the 4-0 away win on October 18, 1964 at Viktoria Köln. At the side of top performers Christian Breuer , Josef Martinelli , Alfred Glenski , Herbert Gronen , Erwin Hermandung , Heinz-Gerd Klostermann and Branko Zebec , he scored 14 goals in 23 regional league appearances. In the Bundesliga promotion round, the attacker only ran on June 13 in the 1: 2 away defeat at Bayern Munich as a right winger. After the failed promotion to the Bundesliga, he played for another round in the Regionalliga West at Preußen Münster in 1965/66 and scored seven goals in 19 games alongside Erwin Kostedde and Klaus Ackermann . For the round 1966/67 he went to the Regionalliga Südwest at Eintracht Trier , where he was only able to play seven games with one goal due to injuries on the side of Horst Brand , Wilhelm Haag and Paul Pidancet . After Trier, his sporting path led to Union Luxemburg in Luxemburg . There he was the top scorer in 1967/68 with 28 goals in 21 league games and finished third with Union. After a stint at the Belgian FC Tongeren, he ended his career at the Dutch club Roda Kerkrade .

After the end of his football career, Rainer Schönwälder trained the A-Juniors from Alemannia Aachen and Düren 99 . He later played and trained tennis . Today he devotes himself to the game of golf .

Private

Schönwälder has lived in Düren since the 1970s . Until his retirement he worked as a pharmaceutical representative .

literature

  • Christian Karn, Reinhard Rehberg: Player Lexicon 1963–1994. Agon Sportverlag. Kassel 2012. ISBN 978-3-89784-214-4 . P. 454.
  • Ulrich Merk, Andre Schulin: Bundesliga Chronicle 1963/64. Agon Sportverlag. Kassel 2004. ISBN 3-89784-083-9 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.aachener-zeitung.de/lokales/dueren/wenn-der-enkel-den-opa-auf-der-kicker-dvd-entdeck-1.708112
  2. ↑ Merk, Schulin: Bundesliga Chronicle 1963/64. P. 29
personal data
SURNAME Schönwälder, Rainer
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH February 29, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Gelsenkirchen