Rolf Höfert

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Rolf Höfert
Personnel
birthday February 8, 1949
place of birth Hamburg ,  Germany
position Defense
Juniors
Years station
USC Paloma
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1969-1971 HSV Barmbek-Uhlenhorst 65 0(2)
1971-1979 FC St. Pauli 237 (50)
1979-1988 FC Bern
1 Only league games are given.

Rolf Höfert (born February 8, 1949 in Hamburg ) is a former German soccer player . The midfielder and libero won the championship in the 2nd Bundesliga North with FC St. Pauli in the 1976/77 season . In the 1977/78 season he completed 23 games (3 goals) in the Bundesliga with the newcomer .

Career

Höfert played in the youth of USC Paloma and came in 1969 from Wellingsbüttel to HSV Barmbek-Uhlenhorst . Höfert made his debut in the then second -rate regional soccer league under coach Edgar "Edu" Preuss on the first day of the 1969/70 season, on August 17, 1969, in a 3-2 away win against VfL Osnabrück. The debutant played on half-left at the side of veterans Willi Giesemann and Harry Behre . In his second season at BU, 1970/71, he finished fifth with his teammates Ernst Kreuz and Klaus Fock and after two rounds had completed a total of 65 league games with two goals for the blue-yellows.

For the 1971/72 season he went to FC St. Pauli with coach "Edu" Preuss . He celebrated championship successes with his new teammates in 1972 and 1973 and was runner-up in the last year of the regional league second division, 1973/74. In three rounds of the Regionalliga, the attacking defender, Libero, in midfield as well as attacking, played 96 games at St. Pauli and scored 19 goals; In addition, he was still in 22 games of the promotion round to the Bundesliga (two goals) in use. He developed into a high performer and was a personality on and off the pitch. In the 1976/77 season , team captain Höfert and his teammates Jürgen Rynio , Jens-Peter Box , Dietmar Demuth , Gino Ferrin , Walter Frosch , Franz Gerber , Wolfgang Kulka , Manfred Mannebach , Horst Neumann , Walter Oswald , Rolf-Peter Rosenfeld , Dieter achieved Schiller , Søren Skov and Niels Tune-Hansen under coach Diethelm Ferner promoted promotion to the Bundesliga .

The Bundesliga debut was successful on August 6, 1977 with a 3-1 home win against SV Werder Bremen. The newcomers Rolf Blau and Rudolf Sturz completed the promotion team. Höfert played his last Bundesliga game on February 18, 1978 in the 5-0 away defeat at Hertha BSC. Then he had to undergo an Achilles tendon operation. The team from Heiliggeistfeld was relegated to the 2nd division as 18th. Then FC Bayern Munich lured them with an offer, but the transfer from Hamburg to Munich was not possible due to the injury to the Achilles tendon. After twelve games with two goals - Höfert played his last second division game for St. Pauli on December 17, 1978 in a 1-0 home win against Preußen Münster, where he also scored the winning goal - he was won by President Ernst Schacht after 118 games in the 2 League with 28 goals sold to FC Bern in Switzerland for around DM 80,000 . With the Red-Blacks from the Neufeld stadium he played in the National League B until 1983 and ended his playing career in 1988.

The trained machine fitter and Swiss citizen has built up a business as a distributor of special seals and rubber rings in the municipality of Ueberstorf (near Bern).

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 .
  • Ronny Galczynski, Bernd Carstensen: FC St. Pauli. Club Encyclopedia. Publishing house Die Werkstatt. Göttingen 2009. ISBN 978-3-89533-613-3

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Der Beckenbauer von Bern , accessed on March 28, 2013
personal data
SURNAME Höfert, Rolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH February 8, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg , Germany