Toni Schumacher (soccer player, 1938)

Toni Schumacher
Personnel
Surname	Anton Schumacher
birthday	December 1, 1938
place of birth	Bonn ,  Germany
position	Soccer goalkeeper
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1959-1960	Bonner SC
1960-1968	1. FC Cologne	79 (0)
1968-1969	SC Viktoria Cologne
1969-1970	KV Mechelen
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1 Only league games are given.

Anton "Toni" Schumacher (born December 1, 1938 in Bonn ) is a former German soccer goalkeeper . From 1960 to 1968 he played for 1. FC Köln ; he completed 21 games in the Oberliga and 58 in the Bundesliga .

career

The home club of the youth footballer Toni Schumacher was Blau-Weiß Hemmerich. The goalkeeper played with TuRa Bonn in the 1959/60 season in the Verbandsliga Mittelrhein and finished fourth with the promoted team. In the course of the lap he drew the attention of those responsible for the billy goat eleven from Cologne with his performances; In 1960 he moved to the then top division club 1. FC Köln . Under coach Oswald Pfau , he made his debut in the Oberliga West on December 4, 1960 in the away game against SV Sodingen . The FC's regular goalkeeper was Fritz Ewert , a member of the national team . With a total of five missions, the man from Bonn had a share in winning the Oberliga championship. In the last two rounds of the then first-class league, 1961/62 and 1962/63, nothing changed in the distribution of roles in the FC goal. Toni Schumacher came on seven (1962) or nine (1963) more missions, whenever he had to step in for the injured Ewert. He played a total of 21 association games in the Oberliga West from 1960 to 1963, making him one of the championship teams of 1. FC Cologne in those years. When the Cologne team celebrated winning the German championship with coach Zlatko Čajkovski in 1962 , Schumacher stood in the final round of the group game on April 21 in a 3-1 away win at Eintracht Frankfurt in the Cologne goal.

In the second leg against the Scottish champions FC Dundee on September 26, 1962, in the competition for the European Champions Cup, Schumacher was in the Cologne goal in a 4-0 home win for the injured Ewert. The second win of the German billy goat championship in the debut year of the Bundesliga 1963/64 , he came under coach Georg Knöpfle to four appearances in the association round. Schumacher made his Bundesliga debut on February 15, 1964 in a 3-1 home win over Hertha BSC. In the second Bundesliga year 1964/65 he was number one in Cologne with 23 league appearances; Ewert had to be content with seven league games. The title defense did not work out, behind Werder Bremen it was enough for the runner-up. But the games in the European Cup were outstanding .

In the quarter-finals, in the games against English champions FC Liverpool , the hour of keeper Toni Schumacher struck. There was almost no opportunity to excel in the first leg on February 10, 1965 against the "Reds" led by manager Bill Shankly in a 0-0 draw against a clearly defensive team from Liverpool, the second leg on March 17 in front of 48,948 spectators Anfield Road a completely different situation due to the constant running up of the home team. Due to the absence of Hans Schäfer , Christian Müller and Leo Wilden, FC entered the dispute with a weakened staff and the game developed into “a single defensive battle of the billy goats, which had their outstanding players in Toni Schumacher, Wolfgang Weber and the actual reservist Matthias Hemmersbach ". In the FC book Hennes & Co. the performance of the Cologne goalkeeper was even rated as world class, “because he simply held everything that came through the Cologne cover. Half a dozen unbelievable saves brought the stormy English to despair, ”and so a play-off had to determine the semi-finalist. This took place on March 24th in Rotterdam and ended after extra time 2-2. The regulations at that time provided for a coin toss to determine the winner - in the second attempt he decided in favor of Liverpool. One month later, on April 24, 1965, Toni Schumacher sat on the German bench for the national team's World Cup qualifying match against Cyprus in Karlsruhe.

In the year of the football World Cup in England in 1966, Schumacher maintained his role as a regular goalkeeper with 22 league appearances, but with FC it was only enough for fifth place in the Bundesliga. For the 1966/67 season, Willi Multhaup, a new coach came to Cologne, Milutin Šoškić , to the surprise of Toni Schumacher, but also a new number one. The “Hero of Liverpool” did not appear in the Bundesliga in his first year at Multhaup. In his eighth season in Cologne, 1967/68, he played nine more games in the Bundesliga and the FC came fourth. He played his last Bundesliga game on February 3, 1968 in a 1-1 draw against FC Schalke 04. But the real success came in the DFB Cup ; 1. FC Köln won the 1968 cup. Schumacher played in the games against FC Homburg (4: 1) and Eintracht Frankfurt (1: 1 n.V.).

In the 1968/69 round, the goalkeeper joined SC Viktoria Köln ; but because of protracted injuries he only made six appearances in the West Regional Football League . The engagements at KV Mechelen in 1969/70 and at Bonner SC 1970/71 were no longer accompanied by success and health.

successes

• 1962 German champions, 4-0 against 1. FC Nürnberg
• 1963 German runner-up, 1: 3 against Borussia Dortmund
• 1964 German champion, 6 points ahead of Meidericher SV and Eintracht Frankfurt
• 1965 German runner-up, 3 points behind SV Werder Bremen
• 1968 DFB Cup winner, 4-1 against VfL Bochum

literature

• BF Hoffmann : The great lexicon of the Bundesliga keepers. More than 300 biographies - from the beginning to the present. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-89602-526-0 .
• Thomas Hardt et al. a .: Hennes & Co. The history of 1. FC Köln . Publishing house Die Werkstatt. Göttingen 2005, ISBN 3-89533-470-7
• Hardy Grüne , Lorenz Knieriem: Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 8: Player Lexicon 1890–1963. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2006, ISBN 3-89784-148-7 .

Web links

• Toni Schumacher in the database of transfermarkt.de