Richard Weber (soccer player)

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Richard Weber (born June 27, 1938 ) is a former German soccer player who played 29 games in the Bundesliga for Eintracht Frankfurt between 1963 and 1966 . As an amateur footballer at VfL Marburg , the defensive player was appointed by the DFB in 1960 to the amateur national team and in 1961 to the junior national team U 23 .

career

In the 1958/59 season Richard Weber won the championship in the first amateur league Hessen with VfL Marburg . The club from the university town narrowly prevailed against the club of the goal scorer Erwin Stein , SpVgg Griesheim 02 . In the promotion round to the 2nd League South Richard Weber failed with his teammates but on the promoted SpVgg Bayreuth . With the selection of Hessen Weber was twice in the years 1959 and 1960 in the competition for the state cup in the final. Both games were lost against Hamburg (1959) and the Middle Rhine (1960). On May 26, 1960 Weber was appointed to the German national soccer team for the international match against France in Saarbrücken. DFB coach Georg Gawliczek played the friendly game with defenders Weber and Jürgen Kurbjuhn and won the game with 6-2 goals. In the 1960/61 season, the defender of VfL Marburg was also used in the junior national team U 23 at the international match on May 13, 1961 in Waterschei against Belgium. Gustav Flachenecker , Helmut Haller and Otto Hartz scored the goals for the 3-1 success . Richard Weber then accepted the offer from Eintracht Frankfurt from the Oberliga Süd and became a contract player for the "Eagle Bearers" for the 1961/62 season.

Due to his transfer suspension, he was not eligible to play for the competitive games in the top division round 1961/62, in friendly games, however, he could play for Eintracht. So on October 19, 1961 with a 1: 3 defeat against Sheffield United and especially during the month-long trip around the world in May / June 1962. It went through Athens, Cairo, Bombay, Calcutta, Bangkok, Kuala Lumpur, Tokyo, Hawaii, America , Vancouver, Winnipeg, Toronto and New York, before the Eintracht expedition returned to Frankfurt on June 15 after 33 days. In the last year of the old first-class league in 1962/63, the Marburger came to nine missions. He celebrated his debut on October 7, 1962 in a 2-0 home win against TSV 1860 Munich as a left defender and successfully fought Alfred Heiß in the "Löwen" storm. Eight days later the defender underwent an own goal in the 84th minute when he played against FC Schweinfurt 05 to make it 3: 3. Due to a good performance in a 7-0 away win at VfR Heilbronn on February 24, 1963 in a game for the South German Cup, he played his way back into the closer upper division squad. In the last seven back-round encounters against 1. FC Nürnberg, Karlsruher SC, SpVgg Fürth, Ulm 1846, BC Augsburg, SSV Reutlingen and Schwaben Augsburg, Weber then came alongside Egon Loy (goalkeeper), Friedel Lutz , Hermann Höfer , Alfred Horn and Ludwig Landerer are used as left runner. After the 29th matchday, Eintracht finished tied with Nuremberg, the rivals for the runner-up had 39:19 points each, in 3rd place. At the end of the lap, Weber and colleagues from Schwaben received Augsburg, who were in 15th place with 17:41 points and could not calculate any chances. But Eintracht lost the game with 1: 2 goals and slipped back to 4th place. On May 11, Weber was also part of the team that lost 2-1 at Hessen Kassel in the southern German cup quarter-finals and experienced the special class of the Brazilian super striker Pelé in a friendly against FC Santos on June 5, when they lost 5-2 - four goals by Pelé - active as left outside runner on the stadium lawn.

In the Bundesliga he came on the third match day, September 7, 1963, against 1. FC Nuremberg under coach Paul Oßwald in a 2-3 home defeat to his first game. With Hermann Höfer he formed the defender couple in front of 50,000 spectators. This was followed by the missions against Borussia Dortmund, Hertha BSC and on April 25, 1964, his fourth and last round appearance in a 3-1 home win against 1. FC Saarbrücken. As a defense attorney, he competed with Hans-Walter Eigenbrodt , Willi Herbert , Friedel Lutz and Josef Weilbächer . In the DFB Cup , he represented the Eintracht colors on May 20, 1964 in a 2-1 home win in the quarter-finals against FC Schalke 04. After the end of the round he took part in the South Africa trip with games in Bloemfontein, Cape Town, Durban Addington FC, Johannesburg Highland Parks , Arcadia United Pretoria and Windhoek.

In the second season he was 1964/65 with the team of coach Ivica Horvat with 24 league games of the regular line-up in the Eintracht defense. Usually he formed the defender couple together with Hermann Höfer or Peter Blusch . As an active player, he experienced the rupture of the Achilles tendon from Uwe Seeler on February 20, 1965 in a 2-1 home win. In September 1964 he had also participated in the two games in the trade fair cup against FC Kilmarnock.

When the new coach Elek Schwartz introduced the 4: 2: 4 system in Frankfurt in the 1965/66 season, Weber completed his last Bundesliga game on January 29, 1966 in a 0-0 draw at 1. FC Nürnberg. Together with Dieter Stinka , he formed the midfield. In Buenos Aires he was also used on April 13, 1966 in a friendly against the Argentine national team in a 3-1 win. At the beginning of the round he was in the Intertoto round in the games against FC La Chaux-de-Fonds, IFK Nörrköping and PSV Eindhoven for Eintracht.

Weber had successfully pursued a pedagogy course during his football career in Marburg and Frankfurt and went back to his hometown Marburg as a teacher in 1967 and joined the blue and white “Schimmelreitern” of the local VfL as an amateur.

literature

  • Ulrich Matheja: Schlappekicker and sky striker. The story of Eintracht Frankfurt. Publishing house Die Werkstatt. Göttingen 2004. ISBN 3-89533-427-8 .
  • Werner Skrentny (Ed.): When Morlock still met the moonlight. The history of the Oberliga Süd 1945–1963. Klartext, Essen 1993, ISBN 3-88474-055-5 .
  • Matthias Weinrich: Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 3: 35 years of the Bundesliga. Part 1. The founding years 1963–1975. Stories, pictures, constellations, tables. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 1998, ISBN 3-89784-132-0 .
  • Kicker, Football Almanac 1993, Copress-Verlag, 1992, ISBN 3-7679-0398-9 .
  • Christian Karn, Reinhard Rehberg: Player Lexicon 1963–1994. Agon Sportverlag. Kassel 2012. ISBN 978-3-89784-214-4 . P. 534.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Jürgen Bitter: Germany's football. The encyclopedia. FA Herbig. Munich 2008. ISBN 978-3-7766-2558-5 . P. 777
  2. ^ Karl-Heinz Heimann, Karl-Heinz Jens: Kicker Almanach 1989. Copress-Verlag. Munich 1988. ISBN 3-7679-0245-1 . Pp. 119, 141
  3. ↑ Ulrich Matheja: Schlappekicker and Himmelsstürmer. P. 191
  4. ^ Matthias Kropp: Germany's great football teams, part 7: Eintracht Frankfurt. Agon Sportverlag. Kassel 1995. ISBN 3-928562-53-3 . Pp. 114/115
  5. ↑ Ulrich Matheja: Schlappekicker and Himmelsstürmer. P. 197
personal data
SURNAME Weber, Richard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH June 27, 1938