Walter Zastrau

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Walter Zastrau
Personnel
birthday May 30, 1935
position Defense
Juniors
Years station
0000-1955 Red and white food
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1955-1959 Red and white food 98 (2)
1959-1962 FC Schalke 04 53 (0)
1962-1964 VfL Bochum 48 (1)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1956-1957 Germany U-23 2 (0)
1958 Germany B 1 (0)
1958 Germany 1 (0)
1 Only league games are given.

Walter Zastrau (born May 30, 1935 ) is a former German soccer player . From 1955 to 1962, the defender completed a total of 151 point games for Rot-Weiss Essen and FC Schalke 04 in what was then the first-class Oberliga West , in which he scored two goals.

Career

societies

Zastrau started playing football in the youth department of Rot-Weiss Essen and moved up as a young talent for the 1955/56 season in the first team that had won the final of the German championship on June 26 of the same year .

Under coach Fritz Szepan he came in the course of the season - the team from Bergeborbeck finished the season in the west in fifth place - to a total of 13 league appearances and was also used in the first round first leg in the European Cup in the 0: 4 defeat against the Scottish representative Hibernian Edinburgh . He made his debut in the Oberliga West on August 31, 1955 (2nd matchday) in a 2-0 win in the home game against Preußen Münster ; with Fritz Herkenrath in goal, he defended together with Willi Köchling . In his second league year, 1956/57 , he was used by coach Elek Schwartz in 26 point games. In the 1957/58 season he led the list of missions at RWE in the major league together with Herkenrath with 30 games and also distinguished himself as a two-time goalscorer. He finished his last season with another 29 point games. He played his last of 98 league games for RW Essen on April 22, 1959 (30th matchday), in the 3-2 defeat at home against SV Sodingen .

For the 1959/60 season he joined FC Schalke 04 , for which he played 53 point games in three seasons under the coaches Nandor Lengyel (1959 to 1961) and Georg Gawliczek (1961 to 1964), fourth (1960) and third (1961) and two (1962) occupied. In the final round of the German championship in 1962, however, Schalke competed in the three group games against 1. FC Nürnberg , SC Tasmania 1900 Berlin and Borussia Neunkirchen, each with defenders Günter Karnhof and Hans Nowak . For the 1962/63 season he joined the second division VfL Bochum . Since Bochum could not qualify for the new Regionalliga West for the 1963/64 season, the higher-class career ended for him in the summer of 1963.

National team

Zastrau was first appointed to a DFB team by national coach Sepp Herberger on December 19, 1956. The junior national team (U-23) played their second international match against Belgium in Liège and together with Hans Barwenzik they formed the German defenders in a 3-2 win. From February 18 to March 2, 1957, he took part in a DFB course at the Duisburg-Wedau sports school and on March 27, he made his second assignment in the junior national team. In his hometown of Essen, the Belgian national team lost 4-2 again in the second leg. During the season 1957/58 he belonged to several training courses as well as test matches of the Herberger squad. In mid-April 1958 he was registered with FIFA in the DFB's 40 list for the 1958 World Cup in Sweden. On May 1, 1958, he was a member of the B national team , which surprisingly lost their game with 1: 4 goals against Luxembourg. Nevertheless, from May 12 to 24, 1958, he was a member of the World Cup final course at the Munich-Grünwald sports school. But then he did not belong to the World Cup squad in the tournament days in Sweden. In the season 1958/59 he was a substitute player in the two international matches of the national team on November 19 against Austria and on December 21 against Bulgaria, before he lost 2-1 to the national team on December 28, 1958 in Cairo Egypt at the side of Karl-Heinz Schnellinger as a right defender was used. During his time in Gelsenkirchen, he could no longer recommend himself for selection teams.

Web links

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 .
  • Jürgen Bitter : Germany's national soccer player: the lexicon . SVB Sportverlag, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-328-00749-0 .
  • Georg Schrepper, Uwe Wick: “… RWE again and again!” The story of Rot-Weiss-Essen. Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2004, ISBN 3-89533-467-7 .
  • Markus Franz, The boys from Castroper Strasse. The history of VfL Bochum , Verlag Die Werkstatt, 2005, ISBN 3-89533-506-1
personal data
SURNAME Zastrau, Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH May 30, 1935