Rolf Geiger

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Rolf Geiger
Personnel
birthday October 16, 1934
place of birth Marbach am Neckar ,  Germany
size 171 cm
position Storm
Juniors
Years station
1945– FC Marbach
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
0000-1953 FC Marbach ? 0(?)
1953-1955 FV Salamander Kornwestheim ? 0(?)
1955-1957 Stuttgart Kickers 35 0(6)
1957-1962 VfB Stuttgart 116 (59)
1962-1963 AC Mantova 24 0(5)
1963-1967 VfB Stuttgart 70 (19)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1956-1957 Germany (amateurs) 2 0(0)
1956-1964 Germany 8 0(2)
1 Only league games are given.

Rolf Geiger (born October 16, 1934 in Marbach am Neckar ) is a former German soccer player who participated as an active member of the German amateur soccer team at the 1956 Olympic soccer tournament in Melbourne.

Career

The striker began his football career at FC Marbach , then laced his boots for FV Salamander Kornwestheim , then played (1955–1957) in the Oberliga Süd for the Stuttgarter Kickers (35 games, 6 goals) and then switched “from the blues to the Reds ”, so to VfB Stuttgart under its coach Georg Wurzer .

With the exception of the 1962/63 season at AC Mantua in Italy, Geiger remained loyal to this club until the end of his career (1967), both in the Oberliga (116 games, 59 goals) and in the Bundesliga (70 games and 19 goals between 1963 and 1967). In 1958 he was the German Cup winner .

Between 1956 and 1964, Rolf Geiger wore the national jersey eight times (two goals), one of which was for the Kickers and seven times for VfB. After his successful debut in the national team on December 23, 1956 in Cologne in a 4-1 win over Belgium, his path to the DFB's squad for the 1958 World Cup in Sweden seemed mapped out. But it didn't happen that way: on July 13, 1957, he was banned from Stuttgart by the sports court of the Württemberg Football Association for seven months because it was proven that he had paid the cash, which was forbidden at the time, before he switched from Stuttgarter Kickers to local rivals VfB. Only after the world championship - in October 1958 for the course in Frankfurt - did Geiger reappear in a squad of Sepp Herberger.

Since he didn't think he'd have a chance of getting a regular place at the World Cup tournament in Chile in 1962 , four years later he sent the national coach a rejection of the invitation to the final course at the Schöneck sports school . The prevented World Cup participant moved to the 1962/63 round in Lombardy for AC Mantua. In Serie A he had a prominent coach in the former Hungarian national player Nándor Hidegkuti .

With the start of the Bundesliga in 1963, he returned to VfB Stuttgart and then made three more appearances in the national team in 1964. With the 4-1 win on June 7, 1964 in Helsinki against Finland (also Herberger's last game), in which Geiger scored a goal, his international career ended. This also includes two amateur and one junior international matches and participation in the 1956 Olympic Games in Melbourne . On November 24, 1956, the German national soccer team of the amateurs competed there against the eventual Olympic champion Soviet Union , but was eliminated from the tournament after the 1: 2 final result after the first game.

Others

Rolf Geiger, who had learned the trade of a bricklayer in his younger years, became a building contractor and real estate agent in Stuttgart after finishing his football days.

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personal data
SURNAME Geiger, Rolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH October 16, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Marbach am Neckar