Robert Birner

Robert Birner (born February 16, 1958 ) is a former German soccer player who played 127 games and scored 40 goals in the 2nd Bundesliga between 1975 and 1985, primarily for FC Augsburg , SC Freiburg and SSV Ulm 1846 .

career

In the second A youth year 1975/76, the center forward of FC Augsburg completed six international matches in the youth national team of the DFB together with Klaus Augenthaler , Rudi Bommer , Rudi Gores and Karlheinz Förster . Due to an injury, the friendly match against Denmark on May 11, 1976 in Copenhagen was his last appearance in the DFB youth team. In the back series of this game year, the offensive talent had completed his first two games on February 21 and April 9, 1976 alongside teammates Helmut Haller , Willi Hoffmann and Edgar Schneider in the 2nd Bundesliga for Augsburg. Since Birner had to fight more with various injuries than with the opposing competition in the following seasons, only ten more second division appearances for the team from the Rosenaustadion were added by the end of the round in 1977/78 .

The attacker then tried it with the amateurs of VfB Stuttgart and came on June 6, 1979 in Cadiz in the game against Spain (juniors) in the 4-0 victory of the protégés of DFB coach Erich Ribbeck to a use in the national football team of the amateurs and scored a goal. In the summer of 1979 he got, like goalkeeper Uwe Greiner , a contract for the VfB license team. Birner switched back to the VfB amateurs during the season.

In the 1980/81 round, the offensive player signed a contract with SC Freiburg in the 2nd Bundesliga and moved from Swabia to the Black Forest in southern Baden. On the second game day, August 10, 1980, Birner completed his first league game for the SC. His new team from Breisgau won 1-0 goals at his home club FC Augsburg. Under the coaches Norbert Wagner - until February 1981 - and Karl-Heinz Bente , he scored ten goals in 25 appearances and was the top scorer of the team from the Dreisamstadion . With his teammates Günther Wienhold , Karl-Heinz Wöhrlin , Reinhard Binder and Herbert Reiss , he finished seventh in the last year of the two-part second division. In his second year in Freiburg, 1981/82, he scored twelve goals in 29 games and was again the most successful SC attacker. Under coach Werner Olk , he was only able to play three games in 1982/83 due to an injury and was not available for the SC in the entire second half of the season. After quarrels with trainer Fritz Fuchs in the preliminary round 1983/84, he joined the league competitor SSV Ulm 1846 in October 1983 . His last appearance for Freiburg was the 1-0 home win on October 1 against Rot-Weiß Oberhausen. On October 16, he was working for the Ulm “Spatzen” for the first time. Ulm played a 2-2 draw against Hertha BSC . With coach Paul Sauter and teammates Walter Modick , Walter Kubanczyk , Dieter Kohnle , Günter Berti and Erich Steer , Ulm was 13th in the table. Birner personally increased in the second Ulm season 1984/85 to 33 appearances with 13 goals, but SSV 1846 rose from the second division. Fritz Fuchs, of all people, took over from Hannes Baldauf in December 1984 as a trainer in the Danube Stadium and could not prevent the fall into the amateur camp. In the summer of 1985, Robert Birner's career in licensed football ended.

literature

• Heimann / Jens, Kicker-Almanach 1989, Copress-Verlag, 1988, ISBN 3-7679-0245-1
• Matthias Weinrich: Second League Almanac. All players. All clubs. All results. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2001, ISBN 3-89784-190-8 .