Walter Lesch (soccer player)
| Walter Lesch | ||
| Personnel | ||
|---|---|---|
| birthday | April 3, 1923 | |
| date of death | January 2013 | |
| position | Defense | |
| Men's | ||
| Years | station | Games (goals) 1 |
| 1947-1948 | VfL Witten | 24 (2) |
| 1949-1954 | Prussia Munster | 116 (7) |
| 1955-1958 | Eintracht Nordhorn | 80 (10) |
| 1 Only league games are given. | ||
Walter Lesch (born April 3, 1923 ; † January 2013 ) was a German football player . From 1947 to 1958, the defender played a total of 218 games (19 goals) in the upper leagues west and north.
Career
VfL Witten
Lesch, from Hindenburg in Upper Silesia, first played for VfL Witten after the Second World War , for which he played in the Oberliga West in one of five seasons as the highest German division in the 1947/48 season . He made his league debut on September 14, 1947 (1st matchday) in a 1-1 draw in the away game against VfR Köln 04 rrh. , he scored his first goal on November 9, 1947 (9th matchday) in the 1: 4 defeat in the away game against Prussia Dellbrück with the goal to 1: 3. With the descent of the club in the Landesliga Westfalen , he left the club ...
Prussia Munster
... and two years later moved to Preußen Münster , for whom he played 116 league games from 1949 to 1954 and scored seven goals.
He made his debut on September 11, 1949 (2nd matchday) in a 1-1 draw in the away game against 1. FC Köln , and scored his first goal on October 23, 1949 (8th matchday) in a 1-1 draw in the away game against Hamborn 07 with the goal to the final score in the 55th minute.
As runner-up in the 1950/51 season, just one point behind the champions of the Oberliga West, FC Schalke 04 , he and his team - and they too - qualified for the only time as a participant in the finals for the German championship .
In the final, which was held in two groups of four teams each, and whose group winners contested the final, he was used seven times. He played all six games in Group 2 , which he finished with his team as a winner and thus reached the final.
The final held on June 30, 1951 in the Berlin Olympic Stadium against 1. FC Kaiserslautern , despite the 1-0 lead by Felix Gerritzen in the 47th minute, was still 1: 2 by Ottmar Walter's two in the 61st and 74th . Minute goals scored lost; it is the greatest sporting success to date that a team from Preußen Münster has achieved.
He also played a single game in the DFB Cup competition, which was lost on August 17, 1952 in the first round 3: 5 after extra time against VfB Mühlburg .
Eintracht Nordhorn
From 1955 to 1958 he then played for Eintracht Nordhorn in the Oberliga Nord . With the newcomer, who was promoted from the 1st amateur league to the Oberliga Nord in 1955 , he was able to hold the league in the three years and score 10 goals in 80 league games. From the summer of 1958 he held the post of player-coach at Sparta Nordhorn .
successes
literature
- Lorenz Knieriem, Hardy Grüne : Player Lexicon 1890 - 1963 . In: Encyclopedia of German League Football . tape 8 . AGON, Kassel 2006, ISBN 3-89784-148-7 , p. 231 .
Web links
- Walter Lesch in the database of weltfussball.de
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lesch, Walter |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German soccer player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 3, 1923 |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 2013 |