Roland Gerber (soccer player)

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Roland Gerber
Personnel
birthday May 20, 1953
place of birth Gerlachsheim ,  Germany
date of death February 24, 2015
Place of death Tauberbischofsheim , Germany
size 176 cm
position Defense
Juniors
Years station
FV Lauda
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1975-1981 1. FC Cologne 127 (8)
1981-1982 SV Darmstadt 98 16 (0)
1982-1983 VfL Osnabrück 33 (2)
1983-1984 FV Lauda 9 (1)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
1996-1997 Würzburger Kickers
1997-1998 SV Distelhausen
1999-2003 DFB base coach in Walldürn
2003 SV Westernhausen
2006-2007 VfB Bad Mergentheim
1 Only league games are given.

Roland Gerber (born May 20, 1953 in Gerlachsheim ; † February 24, 2015 in Tauberbischofsheim ) was a German football player. As a player for 1. FC Köln , he won the DFB Cup in 1977 and 1978 and the German football championship in the 1977/78 season .

Career

societies

In 1973/74 and 1974/75 Gerber played in the 2nd amateur league Odenwald at FV Lauda before he was signed by Bundesliga club 1. FC Köln, where he was used as a central defender and libero from 1975 to 1981 .

Under coach Zlatko Čajkovski he made his debut on September 13, 1975 - the seventh matchday of the season - in a 2: 3 away defeat at SV Werder Bremen in the Bundesliga . When the score was 2-2 goals, he was substituted on for Gerd Strack in the 65th minute . Against the other competitors on the Cologne defense such as Bernhard Cullmann , Herbert Hein , Harald Konopka , Wolfgang Weber and Herbert Zimmermann , he was initially unable to assert himself in the course of the further round in 1975/76, but came to six more missions towards the end of the season.

For the 1976/77 season, Hennes Weisweiler , Cologne veteran, who had fallen out of favor with FC Barcelona , was hired as a coach at 1. FC, who used Gerber as a libero from the start. In 1977 the club won after a 1-0 final over Hertha BSC - according to the rules of the time, a replay was necessary after a 1-1 draw in the first final - and the following year, they won the DFB Cup with a 2-0 win over Fortuna Düsseldorf . In 1978 he was also German champion with the team. Gerber was not missing in any championship game and scored two goals in the 34 league games. In the semi-finals of the 1978/79 European Cup , 1. FC Köln played with Gerber 3: 3 against the eventual winners Nottingham Forest , but it was not used in the second leg, which was lost 0: 1. When 1. FC Köln became runner-up under Dutch coach Rinus Michels in 1981/82 , Gerber was initially part of the squad, but was no longer used in the Bundesliga, as well as in the DFB Cup.

Gerber played 127 Bundesliga games for 1. FC Köln in which he scored eight goals. In the European Cup , Cup winners and the UEFA Cup , he made another 20 games for 1. FC Cologne. The 1974 world champion Wolfgang Overath , Heinz Flohe , Bernhard Cullmann , Bernd Schuster and goalkeeper Harald "Toni" Schumacher were among the most prominent comrades-in-arms of his time at 1. FC Köln .

After the start of the 1981/82 season, he moved to the newly promoted Bundesliga SV Darmstadt 98 , for which he played 16 games. The change from coach Werner Olk to Manfred Krafft did not prevent the club from relegating as 17th. In the 1982/83 season Gerber ended his professional career in the 2nd Bundesliga at VfL Osnabrück , with whom he reached tenth place under coach Carl-Heinz Rühl with teammates such as Erwin Kostedde , Guido Szesni and Detlef Olaidotter and scored two goals in 33 league games .

Due to injury, he could not continue his professional career and returned in 1983/84 to his home club FV Lauda in the amateur league Baden-Württemberg. Under player- coach Martin Kübler and his successor Richard Saller , he played nine competitive games in which he scored a goal.

Selection teams

During his successful time at 1. FC Köln, the defense organizer was appointed to eight international matches in the B-national football team by the DFB. He made his debut in the selection on April 26, 1977 in a 2-1 success in Aachen against Belgium as a Libero on the side of goalkeeper Dieter Burdenski and the two defensive players Charly Körbel and Ditmar Jakobs .

Trainer

After his playing career, Roland Gerber had various engagements as a coach at lower-class clubs and at a DFB base. In 1996/97 he coached the Würzburger Kickers in the fifth-class Bavarian State League , which rose first at the end of that season.

Gerber died on February 24, 2015 of complications from cancer .

successes

literature

  • Matthias Kropp: Germany's great football teams. Part 10: 1. FC Cologne. Agon Sportverlag. Kassel 1997. ISBN 3-928562-96-7 .
  • Christian Karn, Reinhard Rehberg: Encyclopedia of German League Football. Player Lexicon 1963–1994. Agon Sportverlag. Kassel 2012. ISBN 978-3-89784-214-4 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The FC mourns Roland Gerber . Report on the 1. FC Köln website, accessed on February 26, 2015.

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Gerber, Roland
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH May 20, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Gerlachsheim
DATE OF DEATH February 24, 2015
Place of death Tauberbischofsheim