Volkmar Gross

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Volkmar Gross
Personnel
birthday January 31, 1948
place of birth Berlin ,  Germany
date of death 3rd July 2014
Place of death Berlin ,  Germany
size 193 cm
position goal
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1966-1967 Hertha 03 Zehlendorf 21 (0)
1967-1972 Hertha BSC 101 (0)
1972-1974 Hellenic FC (Cape Town)
1974-1976 Twente Enschede 64 (0)
1977 Tennis Borussia Berlin 17 (1)
1977-1979 FC Schalke 04 35 (0)
1979 Minnesota kicks 15 (0)
1979-1983 San Diego Sockers 125 (0)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1970 Germany 1 (0)
1 Only league games are given.

Volkmar Groß (born January 31, 1948 in Berlin ; † July 3, 2014 there ) was a German football goalkeeper .

Career

societies

Groß, born in Berlin, initially played at the age of 18 for the Berlin district club Hertha 03 Zehlendorf in the then second-class Regionalliga Berlin before he was signed by league rivals Hertha BSC for the 1967/68 season . At the end of his first season he won the Berlin championship with the team, qualified with it for the promotion round for the Bundesliga , prevailed with it as the winner of Group 2 and thus rose to the Bundesliga .

He played 17 out of 34 Bundesliga games, although he only made his debut on October 30, 1968 (12th matchday) in a 2-1 win at home against Hannover 96 . He was in the first two Bundesliga seasons in competition with the eight years older Austrian national goalkeeper Gernot Fraydl , who was committed after promotion from the USA. By the end of the 1971/72 season he played another 100 point games in the top German division. "At that time we earned a basic salary of 1200 marks, and in good months we had bonuses to 3000 marks," he said of the time. Due to the Bundesliga scandal in which he was involved, he was banned by the DFB for the period from June 21, 1972 to June 20, 1974 and sentenced to a fine of 15,000 DM .

Then he moved in 1972 to South Africa to Cape Town Hellenic FC with whom he on the side of the equally implicated in bribery scandal Arno Steffen Hagen , Wolfgang Gayer and Weber Jürgen under the English coach Johnny "Budgie" Byrne the cup competition UTC Bowl winning and the runner-up.

For the 1974/75 season he moved to the Dutch first division club FC Twente Enschede , for whom he guarded the goal in 1975 in the two finals of the UEFA Cup against Borussia Mönchengladbach .

At the beginning of 1977 he returned to Germany and played all games in the second half of the 1976/77 season for Bundesliga club Tennis Borussia Berlin . In his last league game on May 21, 1977 (34th matchday), he scored his only goal in a 4-2 home game against 1. FC Kaiserslautern with the converted hand penalty to the final score in the 89th minute. With the relegation of Tennis Borussia Berlin, he moved to Bundesliga club FC Schalke 04 , for which he played 35 point games in two seasons; his last in the first half of the season on December 16, 1978 (17th matchday) in a 4: 4 home game against Eintracht Braunschweig .

At the end of his career, he was active from 1979 to 1983 in the North American Soccer League and played 15 for the Minnesota Kicks and 162 for the San Diego Sockers , including 37 in the indoor season. Big became US indoor champions with the San Diego Sockers.

National team

His only international match he played on November 22, 1970 in Piraeus in a 3-1 win over Greece .

Others

After his active time he stayed in the USA where he worked as a goalkeeper coach and later as a car salesman. At the end of 2003 he returned to Berlin, where he opened the sports bar "Volkmars Tor" in Berlin-Schöneberg. In 2008 he was diagnosed with prostate cancer. Over the years, his breathing became increasingly difficult due to COPD . Groß, who was involved in the Hertha BSC fan scene for a long time, died on July 3, 2014 at the age of 66 after a long and serious illness.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Matthias Arnhold: Volkmar Groß - Matches and Goals in Bundesliga . RSSSF . April 11, 2019. Retrieved April 12, 2019.
  2. ↑ Lars Wallrodt: "Without this mistake I would be world champion" , Die Welt , June 6, 2011
  3. ↑ Volkmar Groß on nasljerseys.com
  4. ^ Matthias Arnhold: Volkmar Groß - International Appearances . RSSSF . April 11, 2019. Retrieved April 12, 2019.
  5. ↑ Mourning for Volkmar Groß on herthabsc.de
personal data
SURNAME Great, Volkmar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH January 31, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin , Germany
DATE OF DEATH 3rd July 2014
Place of death Berlin , Germany