Theo Breuer (soccer player)

Theo Breuer
Personnel
birthday	March 15, 1909
place of birth	Düsseldorf ,  German Empire
date of death	December 8, 1980
position	midfield
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1925-1938	Fortuna Dusseldorf
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1933	Germany	2 (0)
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
1938	TuRa Hennef
	Borussia Velbert
	Union Krefeld
1949	Fortuna Düsseldorf ( interim )
1960	Fortuna Düsseldorf (interim)
1 Only league games are given.

Theo Breuer (born March 15, 1909 in Düsseldorf , † December 8, 1980 ) was a German football player . The player, mostly used as a left wing runner, won the German soccer championship with his club Fortuna Düsseldorf in 1933 and also played two games in the German national soccer team that year .

Player career

societies

Breuer was a real Flingerian, he started playing football in the Fortuna youth team at the age of 16; a school friend had taken him to training at Fortuna Düsseldorf . Less than two years later he was already part of the regular formation as a center forward , he had moved up to the league squad together with Jakob Bender from his own youth. Breuer and Bender were also part of the Fortuna delegation on a trip to North Africa in the spring of 1928. First the North African champions Sidi del Abbes could be defeated 1-0, then followed an 8-1 over the Sporting Club Oran. Right winger Ernst Albrecht was absent from this trip, as he made his national team debut on April 15, 1928 in Bern in the international match against Switzerland (3-2). He had his big breakthrough, however, when he was used as the left runner in a game against FC Schalke 04 and eliminated Fritz Szepan ; henceforth this was his position. He played his first game in the final round of the German soccer championship on June 10, 1929 in a 1: 5 defeat against eventual German champions SpVgg Fürth. At the age of 21 he was elected captain. Besides Georg Hochgesang, Breuer shaped Fortuna's playing in the 1930s. In the 1930/31 season he won the West German championship with Fortuna , but retired again in the final round of the German championship in the first round against Eintracht Frankfurt with 2: 3 nV.

On June 11, 1933, he was team captain since 1930 , one of the guarantors in the 3-0 victory over FC Schalke 04 in the final of the championship in the Müngersdorfer Stadium in Cologne . In the previously played West German championship , Breuer and colleagues lost 1-0 in the final against Schalke on April 30th. With Paul Janes and Jakob Bender Breuer formed the runner row of the German champion.

Breuer played his last missions in the Gauligame championship in 1937/38, but was no longer used in the final round of the German championship. He was succeeded by Paul Bach .

National team

In the 1933/34 world championship season, he made his international debut in Duisburg on October 21 . Together with the other Düsseldorfers Paul Janes and Jakob Bender , he formed the runner row against the selection of Belgium . Against a hopelessly inferior team, an 8-1 victory was played out. In addition to the complete row of runners from Fortuna, Ernst Albrecht, Willi Wigold and Stanislaus Kobierski were also involved in the international match against Belgium. Two weeks later he played his second international match in Magdeburg , which ended in a 2-2 draw against Norway's selection . Reich trainer Otto Nerz had sent the same formation into the race as against Belgium, including the two Benrathers Karl Hohmann and Josef Rasselnberg . It was also the last international match for Breuer, as a knee injury soon afterwards prevented him from participating in the 1934 World Cup and then prematurely ended his career in 1938 when he was in his prime.

Coaching career

In 1938 he ended his active football career in Düsseldorf. From then on he worked as a trainer at DSC 99 Düsseldorf , Tura Hennef , Borussia Velbert , SV Bilk 13 , TuS Gerresheim , TSV Rönsdorf, BV Ohligs, VfR Ohligs and Union Krefeld , among others . From January 1949 until the end of the season he was an interim trainer at Fortuna Düsseldorf, to which he returned in 1956. Here he became an assistant trainer and jumped in briefly from January 20, 1960 to June 30, 1960 as an interim trainer. In 1962 he gave up the office. In 1967 he was elected to the board. The transport company was seen as a man of balance and was something like the good spirit of Fortuna. The honorary member of Fortuna died in 1980 of a heart attack.

Web links

• Theo Breuer in the database of weltfussball.de
• Coach statistics Fortuna Düsseldorf

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Bolten, Langer: Everything else is just football. P. 40
2. ↑ Bolten, Langer: Everything else is just football. P. 42
3. ↑ Bolten, Langer: Everything else is just football. P. 436
4. ↑ Jürgen Bitter : Germany's national soccer player: the lexicon . SVB Sportverlag, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-328-00749-0 , p. 65 .

literature

• Fritz Tauber: German national soccer player. Player statistics from A to Z. Agon Sportverlag. Kassel 2012. ISBN 978-3-89784-397-4 . P. 22.
• Lorenz Knieriem, Hardy Grüne : Player Lexicon 1890 - 1963 . In: Encyclopedia of German League Football . tape 8 . AGON, Kassel 2006, ISBN 3-89784-148-7 , p. 42 .
• Jürgen Bitter : Germany's national soccer player: the lexicon . SVB Sportverlag, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-328-00749-0 , p. 64 f .
• Michael Bolten, Marco Langer: Everything else is just football. The story of Fortuna Düsseldorf. Publishing house Die Werkstatt. Göttingen 2005. ISBN 978-3-89533-711-6 . P. 436.