Walter Dächert

Walter Dächert (born January 4, 1936 , † November 26, 2011 ) was a German football player. The offensive player played 201 league games for the clubs Phönix Ludwigshafen and Wormatia Worms from 1954 to 1963 in the old, first-class Southwest soccer league, scoring 70 goals.

career

From the youth of the SG Limburgerhof , the A-junior player Walter Dächert moved in 1953 to the Ludwigshafen city club, to SV Phönix. The talented dribbler on the right wing led his athletic path in the summer of 1954 directly from the A-youth to the top division team of "Fänix". He made his debut with the blue-whites on the start day of the 1954/55 season, on August 8, 1954, in the 3-0 away win against VfR Kaiserslautern as a right winger in the Southwest Oberliga. At the end of the round, the young player had 22 appearances in which he had contributed eight goals to the sixth rank of Phoenix. His first season in the league was crowned by the appointment by the DFB to the debut game of the newly founded junior national team U 23 on June 25, 1955 in Frankfurt against Yugoslavia. In the 3-3 draw, the 19-year-old stormed the right wing and his club colleague Gerhard Faller came on for defender Hans Eder . On August 13, 1955, he and Fritz Walter formed the right wing of the Southwest team in the representative game in Hanover against northern Germany.

When Phönix was able to advance to fourth place in the 1956/57 season, a 3-1 home win in front of 15,000 spectators against the series champions 1. FC Kaiserslautern with Werner Baßler , Karl Schmidt , Werner Liebrich , Friedel Späth and Ottmar Walter succeeded, Dächert came to his second appointment in the U-23 of the DFB. On May 26, 1957, he scored the goal in Bayreuth for the 1-1 draw against Czechoslovakia. His club mate Heinz Kempf acted as the left wing runner . The German attack consisted of Dächert, Helmut Faeder , Josef Marx , Aki Schmidt and Heinz Hornig .

With his long-time teammates Helmut Oster , Fritz glasses , Horst Amann and Wilfried Pilkahn , he repeated fourth place in the southwest league in 1958 and 1960. He completed his last league game for Phoenix on April 17, 1960 in a 2-2 home draw against 1. FC Saarbrücken. After 139 appearances in the Oberliga Südwest with 49 goals, he moved to the 1960/61 round for league rivals Wormatia Worms.

In the city of the Nibelungs he experienced the goalkeeping skills of Petar Radenković (1961/62) and Srbeljub Krivokuca (1962/63) and Wormatia delivered itself in the last year of the old first-class league system, 1962/63, with Borussia Neunkirchen, FK Pirmasens and 1. FC Saarbrücken an exciting fight for the runner-up. Equal on points, all three teams came in at 41:19 points, Worms took third place, fourth place behind Vice Neunkirchen and the FKP. Dächert had scored eight goals in 24 league games alongside the young striker Harald Braner under coach Radoslav Momirski . Overall, he played for Worms in the three league years in 62 league games and stood out as a 21-time goalscorer.

He returned to Phönix Ludwigshafen in the summer of 1963/64 at the start of the new Bundesliga substructure, the Southwest Football Regionalliga. After the merger between Phönix and TuRa to form SV Südwest Ludwigshafen in 1964, the technician, template provider and goalscorer stormed in one person, in the 1964/65 season for the fusion club again in 15 competitive games and scored seven goals. Southwest came in fifth. Dächert completed his last game in the regional league on February 27, 1965 in a 1-1 home draw against the Bundesliga relegated and later champions 1. FC Saarbrücken.

After finishing his playing career, he was active in youth work at the Southwest German Football Association until the 2000s .

literature

• Werner Skrentny (Ed.): The fear of the devil in front of the pea mountain. The history of the Oberliga Südwest 1946–1963. Klartext, Essen 1996, ISBN 3-88474-394-5 .
• Hardy Grüne , Lorenz Knieriem: Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 8: Player Lexicon 1890–1963. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2006, ISBN 3-89784-148-7 .
• Kicker Almanac 1989 . Copress-Verlag Munich 1988. ISBN 3-7679-0245-1