Siegfried Grüninger

Siegfried Grüninger
Personnel
birthday	June 28, 1959
place of birth	Germany
date of death	4th June 2016
position	goalkeeper
Juniors
Years	station
	TSG Reutlingen
	SSV Reutlingen 05
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
0000-1979	SSV Reutlingen 05
1979-1981	VfB Stuttgart amateurs	65 (0)
1981-1983	VfB Stuttgart	5 (0)
1983-1987	Sc freiburg	134 (0)
1987-1988	TSV 1860 Munich	21 (0)
1988-1990	Bayer Uerdingen	23 (0)
1991-1992	VfB Stuttgart	0 (0)
1993-1994	SC Pfullendorf	14 (0)
1 Only league games are given.

Siegfried "Siggi" Grüninger (born June 28, 1959 ; † June 4, 2016 ) was a German soccer goalkeeper .

Athletic career

Grüninger started playing football at TSG Reutlingen , and later he joined the youth team at SSV Reutlingen 05 . In 1979 Grüninger moved to VfB Stuttgart , where he first played in the amateur team in the Oberliga Baden-Württemberg . With the third division promoted he took first place at the end of the 1979/80 season before the co-promoted VfB Eppingen . Since the team was not eligible for promotion as a second representative, the Eppingers rose and the Swabians took part in the 1980 amateur championship . With Grüninger as support of defeated Willi Entenmann trained team to Rainer Adrion , Kakoko Etepé , Frank Elser and Ilyas Tüfekçi on the way to the final Borussia Neunkirchen and KSV Hessen Kassel before goals from Bernd Frick and Gunnar White of FC Augsburg with a 2-1 success was defeated. After another year as a regular goalkeeper with the amateurs, he moved into the professional squad of VfB in the summer of 1981 as the successor to Uwe Greiner, who had moved to Bayer 04 Leverkusen , as a substitute goalkeeper behind Helmut Roleder . He played his first professional game on April 9, 1983, when he was substituted on in a 2-2 draw against VfL Bochum in the 84th minute after Roleder was sent off. During Roleder's suspension, Siegfried Grüninger was in the goal of VfB four more times in the 1982/83 season.

After the end of the season, Grüninger moved to SC Freiburg in the summer of 1983 , for whom he played 134 times in the 2nd Bundesliga until 1987 . Grüninger returned to the Bundesliga after a season at the Bayern league club TSV 1860 Munich . He played 23 games for Bayer Uerdingen from 1988 to 1990. After his contract expired, he initially kept fit with the amateur team from Bayer Uerdingen, but due to a broken leg of the regular second goalkeeper Eberhard Trautner in the summer of 1991, VfB Stuttgart brought him back with a temporary contract. In January 1992, his contract was renewed until the end of the season. There he did not play a competitive game, but became, as a substitute goalkeeper and the oldest player in the squad at the age of 33, with Stuttgart 1992 German champions. After Trautner's return he was only the third goalkeeper.

Grüninger, who founded a tanning salon run by his wife in the early 1990s, was subsequently unemployed, but was still on the transfer list because he did not want to end his career at that time.

For the 1993/94 season Grüninger joined the SC Pfullendorf in the Oberliga Baden-Württemberg, where he made 14 league appearances by the end of the season. However, the club rose as the table penultimate due to the poorer goal difference compared to the same point competitors ASV Durlach and VFB Gaggenau in the now fifth-class Association League South Baden due to the introduction of the regional league in the summer of 1994 .

Grüninger worked as a coach at the local level for the clubs SV Rommelsbach, TSV Trochtelfingen and TSG Young Boys.

Web links

• Siegfried Grüninger in the database of fussballdaten.de

Individual evidence

1. ^ Mourning for Siegfried Grüninger. Report to VfB Stuttgart on June 13, 2016
2. ↑ Siegfried Grüninger's memorial page. In: trauer.gea.de. Retrieved July 18, 2016 . 
3. ^ "The job: temporary reservist", Stuttgarter Zeitung of January 2, 1992
4. ↑ "Unemployed, because not employable", Sport Bild from February 24, 1993, p. 22.
5. ↑ gea.de: Siegfried Grüninger died at the age of 56 (June 15, 2016)