Walter Wimmer (soccer player)

Walter Wimmer (born November 30, 1943 ) is a former German soccer player. In the 1964/65 season , the defender and his club Borussia Mönchengladbach won the championship in what was then the second -rate regional football league West and, after successfully completing the promotion round, also made it to the Bundesliga .

career

Walter Wimmer went through the training stations in the youth department of Borussia Mönchengladbach. In the B-Youth he and his teammates become Lower Rhine Champion, and two years later he wins the West German Championship with the A-Youth. In front of 7,000 spectators, the VfL youth around center runner Wimmer prevailed against Westfalia Herne 4-0 on July 5, 1962 in the stadium at Schloss Strünkede . Other players were defender Horst-Dieter Höttges and attacker Herbert L Bäumen . For the last round of the old first-class league era, 1962/63 , he was under coach Fritz LangnerContract player. Borussia didn't get off to a good start; in the first half of 1962 Mönchengladbach started after four games with 0: 8 points. On the fifth match day, September 16, 1962, the two young players Wimmer and Limmern made their debut in the Oberliga West. Borussia won the game at Wuppertaler SV in the stadium at the Zoo with 3-1 goals and thus got the first two points. Walter Wimmer played the role of the middle runner, and the attacker Lmouth introduced himself with a goal. At the end of the round, Wimmer had completed ten league appearances.

In the first year of the second-rate Regionalliga West, 1963/64 , coach Langner relied on the veteran Gerd Schommen in the middle runner position and Wimmer was only able to attract attention in nine missions. This changed in the 1964/65 season under the training direction of Langner's successor Hennes Weisweiler . Together with the two outside runners Egon Milder and Heinz Lowin , Walter Wimmer formed the regular formation in the runner row in the Borussia World Cup system at that time and the Bökelberg-Elf won the championship in the Regionalliga West with impressive attack football and three points ahead of defending champion Alemannia Aachen. Wimmer had played 30 league games and scored one goal. In the following promotion round, he played all six games against the competition SSV Reutlingen, Holstein Kiel and Wormatia Worms and is one of the heroes of the promotion of the Bundesliga climber, referred to as the “foal” eleven in sports coverage, alongside the stars Günter Netzer , Jupp Heynckes and Bernd Rupp from the Lower Rhine. Overall, Walter Wimmer is listed in VfL's regional league statistics from 1963 to 1965 with 39 games and one goal.

On the first Bundesliga matchday of the promoted player, on August 14, 1965 at Borussia Neunkirchen, he stood in the Ellenfeldstadion in a 1-1 draw alongside the newcomers Berti Vogts and Heinz Wittmann , as well as veteran Albert Jansen in the defense of Mönchengladbach. Trainer Weisweiler sent the VfL home grown in the Borussia Bundesliga debut year in 23 league games on the lawn. In the second Bundesliga year, 1966/67, the defender scored on February 25, 1967 at Fortuna Düsseldorf in the 64th minute to make it 1: 2. With his assignment on the 34th matchday, June 3, 1967, he ended his career in the Bundesliga with a 3-1 away win at MSV Duisburg. Namesake Herbert Wimmer stormed the right wing in the attack of Borussia. Walter Wimmer has a total of 33 Bundesliga games and one goal for Borussia Mönchengladbach. In the summer of 1967 he was reamateurised, joined FC Hüls and ended his career as a contract or licensed footballer.

literature

• Holger Jenrich, Markus Aretz: The Elf from the Lower Rhine. Borussia Mönchengladbach has been in the Bundesliga for 40 years. Publishing house Die Werkstatt. Göttingen 2005. ISBN 3-89533-503-7
• Matthias Kropp: Germany's great football teams. Part 5: Borussia Mönchengladbach (= "AGON Sportverlag statistics." Vol. 11). AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 1994, ISBN 3-928562-39-8 .
• Merk / Schulin / Großmann: My club: Borussia Mönchengladbach, Chronicle of the 60s, AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2007, ISBN 978-3-89784-293-9
• Hardy Grüne , Lorenz Knieriem: Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 8: Player Lexicon 1890–1963. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2006, ISBN 3-89784-148-7 .