Richard Schneider (soccer player)

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Richard Schneider (born December 16, 1919 in Kaiserslautern , † April 28, 1982 ) was a German football player and coach. From 1950 to 1961 he was a coach at 1. FC Kaiserslautern , with whom he won the German soccer championship in 1951 and 1953 .

career

From the school team, Richard Schneider played in the FCK youth team with Fritz Walter , who was a year younger . Nothing changed when they both played together in the Gauliga in 1939. Two meniscus operations led to the end of Richard Schneider's playing career. After the end of the Second World War , he began his coaching activity as a youth coach at the Southwest German Football Association in 1947. He was also the youth leader at 1. FCK. After successfully completing his training as a soccer teacher at the German Sport University Cologne in 1950 - together with Helmuth Johannsen - under the direction of Sepp Herberger , the former player took over the 1. FC Kaiserslautern team as a coach for the 1950/51 round in the soccer league southwest .

Together with the outstanding playmaker Fritz Walter, Schneider won the championship six times in the southwest in 1951 and in a row from 1953 to 1957. The highlights, however, were the two German championship titles that he won with his team in the 1951 and 1953 finals . In 1954 and 1955 he was in the final two more times with the Walter Elf . The cooperation of his players Fritz Walter, Ottmar Walter , Werner Liebrich , Horst Eckel and Werner Kohlmeyer in winning the 1954 World Cup in Switzerland can be counted among the fruits of his coaching work. Years later, Richard Schneider said of the successes in this era with Kaiserslautern: “Everything was just right. I had players of rare class. Technically, tactically and physically, this team from the 1950s was unique. The spirit of the troupe was right and there was harmony in the club management - a great mix. "

For the round 1961/62 he finished his coaching activity at 1. FC Kaiserslautern and took over in the football league West Prussia Münster . With fourth place in the last league round in 1962/63 , Schneider led Westphalia into the new Bundesliga . In the first year of 1963/64 he could not achieve relegation with the Prussians with 23:37 points as fifteenth place - one point behind Hertha BSC and Karlsruher SC. For two years he tried to get back to the Bundesliga with Münster from Regionalliga West. This succeeded the "man of the quiet tones", who preached harmony and team spirit, but not and so he accepted an offer from SSV Reutlingen from the Regionalliga Süd in 1966/67 and switched to Swabian. In January 1969 he returned to Münster as technical director and finally ended his coaching career there in November 1970 after he had to undergo hip surgery in 1969.

Richard Schneider returned to Kaiserslautern seven years before his death. He found his final resting place there in the forest cemetery.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jürgen Bitter: The master makers. 2004, p. 80.
  2. ↑ Jürgen Bitter: The master makers. 2004, p. 81.
  3. ↑ Dirk Leibfried, Wolfgang Kreilinger, Peter Lenk: Bastion Betzenberg . Dasbach Verlag, Taunusstein 1994, ISBN 3-928231-15-4 , p. 176 .
personal data
SURNAME Schneider, Richard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH December 16, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH Kaiserslautern , Germany
DATE OF DEATH April 28, 1982