Roland Kirsch (soccer player)

Roland Kirsch (born October 31, 1943 ) is a former German soccer player who played 174 league games with five goals in the second-rate Regionalliga Südwest from 1965 to 1972, mainly as a full-back in the then World Cup system at SV Alsenborn . Kirsch won the championship three times in a row with Alsenborn from 1968 to 1970 and therefore played 22 games with the SVA in the respective Bundesliga promotion rounds.

SV Alsenborn, 1964 to 1972

From the amateurs of Bundesliga club 1. FC Kaiserslautern , with whom he competed in the 1. Amateur League Southwest, defender Roland Kirsch moved to SV Alsenborn in 1964. The 21-year-old defensive player won with his new club in 1964/65 the championship in the amateur league southwest and rose to the regional league southwest. In Alsenborn, the captain of the 1954 world championship team, Fritz Walter , allowed himself to be persuaded to take on a "supervisory and advisory role" at the local SVA in his new residence. The Alsenborn rose every year. Erwin Rödler , Willi Herbert and Franz Schmitt came to round 1965/66three newcomers to coach Otto Render's team . Rödler and goalkeeper Willi Hölz ​​brought experience and routine into the squad around playmaker and goal scorer Lorenz Horr . Kirsch completed all 30 league games (1 goal) and the climber from Alsenborn took ninth place in the middle of the field.

In the second regional league year, 1966/67, they finished eighth and the regular defender was missing in only one of 30 league games. With Werner Mangold , goalkeeper Manfred Krei and Jürgen Schieck, three new players joined the squad. When in the third year, 1967/68, Josef Sattmann, a fast winger, strengthened the offensive and the tall center forward Schieck conquered the top scorer's crown in the southwest with 31 hits , the team from the stadium at Kinderlehre won the championship . In the promotion round , the village team was third behind Hertha BSC and Rot-Weiss Essen with 8: 8 points. Kirsch had played all eight promotion round matches against Hertha BSC, Rot-Weiss Essen, SC Göttingen 05 and FC Bayern Hof . The duels against strikers with the quality of Willi Lippens , Helmut Littek , Herbert Weinberg , Dieter Krafczyk , Werner Ipta , Siegfried Stark , Wolfgang Breuer and Heiner Klose were challenges of a special kind. In terms of spectators, the home games against Hertha were 36,000 or eating out in front of 40,000 spectators in the Südweststadion in Ludwigshafen. The climax was the final game on June 23, 1968 against the promoted Hertha BSC (1: 1) in front of 78,000 spectators in the Berlin Olympic Stadium. The Alsenborn defensive with goalkeeper Manfred Krei, the defender couple Kirsch and Fritz Fuchs , as well as the runner row with Erwin Rödler, Klaus Schmidt and Wolfgang Röhring could stand up to Hertha, especially in connection with the half-strikers Lorenz Horr and Franz Schmitt.

Before the 1968/69 season, Alsenborn had to cope with the loss of goal scorer Schieck, and met this personnel by signing talent from the amateur camp such as Werner Adler , Manfred Lenz , Franz Schwarzwälder , Erwin Schwehm , Matthias Volk and Alban Wüst . From a sporting point of view, the situation was coped well, captain Horr scored 24 goals in 29 league games and Kirsch was, as usual, a reliable constant in defense in 28 league games (1 goal). However, the accidental death of trainer Render in April 1969 was tragic. Horr and stopper Klaus Schmidt led the training interim in the following weeks and Alsenborn moved into the promotion round for the second time as the defending champion from the southwest . Here, one point behind Rot-Weiß Oberhausen and Freiburg FC , they failed to make it into the Bundesliga. The 3-0 away defeat on the last game day of Alsenborn, on June 22nd, against the Berlin representative Hertha Zehlendorf was one of the deciding factors for the point deficit against Oberhausen and Freiburg. The lack of playmaker and goalscorer Lorenz Horr was successfully compensated for in the 2-0 home win on June 18, but in Berlin he was noticeably missed in the duel against Helmut Faeder and colleagues. Kirsch had completed all 16 games in two promotion rounds.

Kirsch won the third southwest title in 1970 with Alsenborn in front of FK Pirmasens. That with Heiner Ueberle as the new coach and Karel Nepomucký as the successor to playmaker Horr who had moved to the Bundesliga at Hertha BSC. In this round Manfred Lenz made the breakthrough with 24 league games and 12 goals and Reinhard Meier also strengthened the squad. Defender Kirsch helped the team in 29 league appearances (1 goal) to the third championship. In the third round of promotion he could not seriously intervene with the SVA against Arminia Bielefeld and Karlsruher SC in the race for promotion.

In March 1970, the student of physics, mathematics and sports received a special award. He was used by the DFB in the international match of the amateur national team in Meppen against the Netherlands. Club colleague Klaus Schmidt made his debut with the DFB amateurs in 1967. Kirsch was substituted on for Klaus Hommrich and played in the 1-1 draw in front of goalkeeper Friedhelm Schulte at the side of Friedhelm Haebermann , Dieter Mietz and Dieter Zorc . For the defender from Alsenborn, who is characterized by speed and elasticity, it remained with this international appointment.

A severe knee injury with meniscus damage and a ruptured capsule prevented him from playing throughout the first half of the 1971/72 season and resulted in the SV Alsenborn's top performers after only four appearances in the second half of this season against Pirmasens, southwest Ludwigshafen, Mainz 05 and FV Speyer , had to end his career.

literature

• Christian Karn, Reinhard Rehberg: Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 9: Player Lexicon 1963-1994. Bundesliga, regional league, 2nd league. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2012, ISBN 978-3-89784-214-4 .
• Ulrich Homann (Hrsg.): Hellfire on Ascension. The history of the promotion rounds to the Bundesliga 1963–1974. Klartext, Essen 1990, ISBN 3-88474-346-5 .
• SV Alsenborn. Books on Demand GmbH. ISBN 3-8311-1846-9 .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Karn, Rehberg: Spiellexikon 1963-1994. P. 248