Udo Nix (soccer player)

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Udo Nix
Personnel
birthday July 6, 1941
place of birth Germany
position midfield player
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1960-1967 Hannover 96 125 (17)
1967-1968 FC St. Pauli
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1959 Germany U 18 1 (0)
1 Only league games are given.

Udo Nix (* 6. July 1941 ) is a former German footballer , who as Active from Hannover 96 in the Oberliga Nord , Regionalliga Nord and the Bundesliga has played 1960-1967.

career

At TSV Hagenburg, located in the Steinhuder Meer nature reserve , the youth footballer Udo Nix grew up athletic and developed into a talent that the DFB became aware of in preparation for the 1959 UEFA youth tournament in Bulgaria. The technically gifted offensive player was used in the group game on April 2, 1959 in Sofia against the Netherlands in the German 1-0 victory on left winger in the German youth national soccer team. At his side played center forward Gustav Flachenecker and Werner Ipta on the half left . For the round 1960/61 he moved to the football league north to Hannover 96. His first league game he completed on March 19, 1961 in the 0-0 draw against VfB Lübeck. In his first season he did not belong to the regular cast of the "Reds". In the last two rounds of the old first-class league system, 1961 to 1963, he completed 42 league games and scored six goals. The Oberliga era ended on matchday 30, April 29, 1963, with a 3-1 away win for the 96 against the North German series champions Hamburger SV. Nix, playing on the half-left, scored two hits. On January 7, 1962, he underwent two own goals within a few minutes in the game against VfV Hildesheim. On September 13, 1961, he made his debut for Hanover in the trade fair cup game against Espanyol Barcelona, ​​which was lost 1-0. He was not used in the second leg. It was not until November 10, 1965 that he played for Hanover again in the trade fair cup against FC Porto, where he scored a goal in the 73rd minute.

Since Hamburger SV, Werder Bremen and Eintracht Braunschweig had nominated three representatives for the newly installed Bundesliga for the 1963/64 round, Nix and his teammates took part in the newly created Regional League North in 1964 to move into the Bundesliga promotion round. With the master trainer of 1954, Helmut Kronsbein , the ninth in the table in 1963 tried to create the sporting prerequisites for the 1963/64 regional league season. The round opened on August 11, 1963 with a 4-0 away win at Victoria Hamburg. Nix acted on the left outside runner position and the new center forward Walter Rodekamp introduced himself with three goals. The two derbies against local rivals SV Arminia Hannover also stood out in this round. In the first half of the season the "blues" prevailed in front of 35,000 spectators with 2-1 goals against the "reds". On April 5, 1964, 96ig succeeded in taking revenge with a 3-0 win in front of 50,000 spectators in the Lower Saxony Stadium against the Arminen led by Lothar Ulsaß , Gerhard Elfert and Helmut Kafka . With the runner-up behind champions St. Pauli, Hannover 96 moved into the first Bundesliga promotion round in 1964. Udo Nix had scored seven goals in 29 games.

In the promotion round Hanover had to do with the champions from southern Germany, KSV Hessen Kassel , the west champion Alemannia Aachen and the south-west vice FK Pirmasens . The start was successful on June 6, 1964 with a 2-1 away win at Hessen Kassel. The promotion round closed the "Reds" on June 28th with a 3-1 home win in front of 70,000 spectators against Kassel and were promoted to the Bundesliga. Nix had played in all six promotion games. With Fredy Heiser , Werner Gräber , Walter Rodekamp , Nix and Georg Kellermann , the regular cast was occupied in the attack.

The newcomer opened the challenge in the Bundesliga on August 22, 1964 with a 2-0 away win at Borussia Dortmund . It played the attacking line-up from the successful promotion round and Rodekamp scored both goals. The round closed on May 15, 1965 with a 3-1 home win against Hertha BSC. Nix had scored three goals in 29 league games and the promoted team finished in fifth place with 33:27 points.

After he was no longer used in the 1966/67 season, he moved to FC St. Pauli for the 1967/68 season . After the end of his career he worked as a teacher in Hanover and Hamburg. From 1968 to 2004, Nix was first a teacher and then director and headmaster at the Buchholz forest school.

literature

  • Hardy Grüne , Lorenz Knieriem: Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 8: Player Lexicon 1890–1963. Agon-Sportverlag, Kassel 2006, ISBN 3-89784-148-7 .
  • Hardy Greens (Ed.): The ball. The lawn. The Reds. 100 years Hannover 96. Agon-Verlag, Kassel 1995, ISBN 3-928562-77-0 .

Individual evidence

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personal data
SURNAME Nothing, Udo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH July 6, 1941