Ulrich Muhl

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Ulrich Muhl (born January 13, 1936 - August 26, 2014 ) was a German football player . The offensive player played a total of 68 league games with 14 goals for the clubs FSV Frankfurt, Kickers Offenbach and FSV Mainz 05 between 1955 and 1962 in the first-class soccer leagues South and Southwest. After his career as a footballer, Muhl worked as a lawyer.

Career

youth

Muhl is one of the players with whom the history of the German youth national team of the DFB began in 1953 . On March 31, 1953 in Antwerp, the DFB national youth team played their first official international match against Argentina as part of the 1953 FIFA tournament in Belgium. In the 3-2 success, Muhl from FSV Frankfurt stormed the right wing at the side of Klaus Stürmer , Ernst-Günter Habig and Uwe Seeler . He completed all four tournament games and scored one goal. When the tournament was held by the DFB in Germany in April 1954, the versatile left-footed and offensive technician from Bornheimer Hang was again a member of the German squad. When moving into the final - which ended on April 19 in Cologne against Spain 2: 2 a.s. - he was half-left in a total of five tournament games at the side of Manfred Eglin , Hermann Nuber and the outstanding goalscorer Uwe Seeler from Hamburg SV been in action. The high school graduate belonged from the 1955/56 season to the upper division squad of FSV Frankfurt in the football upper league south .

League football, 1955 to 1962

The young talent made his debut on March 18, 1956 in a 1-0 away win against the Stuttgarter Kickers on right winger alongside Richard Herrmann and Berthold Buchenau in what was then the first-class Oberliga Süd. He scored one goal in four games. After the end of the round, he joined the main rivals Offenbacher Kickers. At the end of the second half of the season, on April 14, 1957, in a 2-0 home win on Bieberer Berg against FC Schweinfurt 05, he stormed for the first time for the OFC in the league. On May 12th, he scored against the championship leaders and champions 1. FC Nürnberg to make it 1-0. Offenbach won the runner-up in the south. On June 19, he stormed the final round of the German soccer championship in Augsburg in the game against 1. FC Kaiserslautern in a 4-1 win on half left and scored a goal against the 54 world champions Werner Liebrich , Horst Eckel and Ottmar Walter competed "Red Devils". In the 1957/58 season, the law student only played a league game for Offenbach on September 7, 1957 in a 2-4 home defeat against VfB Stuttgart. After a total of six league appearances with two goals for Offenbach, he moved to the 1958/59 season in the football Oberliga Südwest and joined the FSV Mainz 05 .

At Bruchweg he was one of 25 missions and four gates of the main cast to the young Lothar Buchmann and senior Karl-Heinz Wettig on. In Heinz Baas ' first year as coach , 1959/60, he was only able to play four games (1 goal) for the zero fives as a result of his law exam in Würzburg. The best round with Mainz in the Oberliga Südwest played the technician, who was more of a midfielder than a striker, when ex-national player Erich Bäumler scored 13 goals in 29 missions in the 1960/61 season and the Rheinhessen took fifth place. Muhl had scored five goals in 19 league games, including the winning goal on January 15, 1961 in a 1-0 home win against table leaders Borussia Neunkirchen. The former youth national player completed his last league game on March 25, 1962 in a 4-1 home win against Wormatia Worms. Bäumler scored all four goals for zero five, and that against Petar Radenković in the goal of Wormatia.

After a total of 58 league games with eleven goals in rows of zero fives, Muhl ended his higher-class career as a football player in the summer of 1962. In total, he played 68 league games with 14 goals for FSV Frankfurt, Offenbacher Kickers and Mainz 05 from 1955 to 1962 in the Oberligen Süd and Südwest.

He later worked as a lawyer in Betzdorf in the Altenkirchen district (Westerwald).

literature

  • Reinhard Rehberg, Christian Karn: Carnival on Bruchweg. The great years of Mainz 05. Verlag Die Werkstatt. Göttingen 2008. ISBN 978-3-89533-624-9 .
  • Christian Karn: 1. FSV Mainz 05: From year to year 1925-2008. Mainz 2008.
  • Hardy Grüne , Lorenz Knieriem: Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 8: Player Lexicon 1890–1963. Agon-Sportverlag, Kassel 2006, ISBN 3-89784-148-7 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ German Football Association (ed.): Football Yearbook 1980. Limpert Verlag. Bad Homburg vdH 1980. ISBN 3 7853 1304 7 . P. 121.
  2. Karn: From year to year. P. 54.