Werner Emser

Werner Emser
Personnel
birthday	October 11, 1920
place of birth	German Empire
position	Storm
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1950-1961	Borussia Neunkirchen
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1954	Saarland	3 (1)
1 Only league games are given.

Werner Emser (born October 11, 1920 ; † before 2004) was a German football player . With 256 appearances and 140 goals, the offensive player is a record player as well as a record shooter from Borussia Neunkirchen in the first-class Southwest football league at the time .

Career

societies

Emser, he was active at SV Bruchhof until 1950, played for Saarland- based VfB Neunkirchen - which was initially not allowed to use the name Borussia (neo-Latin for Prussia ) - initially in the 1950/51 season exclusively in private games, especially in the context of the International Saarland Cup before the club was reintegrated into the German league structure under the name Borussia Neunkirchen for the 1951/52 season . From then on he played as a striker in the Oberliga Südwest until 1961 .

In 1954, Emser stood out with 22 goals, although Neunkirchen, with 58 goals, was far behind champions 1. FC Kaiserslautern with 139 goals and only came in 8th. The increase in black and whites from the Ellenfeldstadion led in 1956/57 with 5th place to 3rd place in the 1957/58 season; In the two years Emser had played all 60 league games for Borussia and scored 30 goals. In the year of the 1958 World Cup in Sweden, there was an extremely close three-way battle in the title race between FK Pirmasens, 1. FC Kaiserslautern and Neunkirchen at the top of the table in the southwest. The men around Emser had to be content with the ungrateful 3rd place in the table , tied with runner-up Kaiserslautern, both teams finished the round with 41:19 points, the master FKP crossed the finish line with one point ahead.

As a runner-up in the 1958/59 season , Emser, he had scored 23 goals in 30 league games, consequently took part in the qualifying game for participation in the final round of the German championship , which was lost on May 3, 1959 3: 6 against Werder Bremen ; just like the final for the DFB Cup in Kassel on December 27, 1959 with 2: 5 against Schwarz-Weiß Essen , after he had previously played in the semifinals on October 3 in the 2: 1 victory over VfR Mannheim . In the final in Kassel he scored a goal against SW Essen; against the outstanding offensive quality of the Uhlenkrug team around Horst Trimhold , Hubert Schieth , Manfred Rummel , Hans Küppers and Theo Klöckner , the team from Saarland had no chance. As early as 1952/53 he was used in the first round in the 2-1 victory over FC Schalke 04 on August 17, 1952 and in the round of 16 in the 2-0 defeat against Hamburger SV on November 19, 1952.

As again runner-up in the 1959/60 season , he again took part in the final round of the German championship . This was played in two groups of four teams each with a return leg, of which both winners contested the final. In Group 1 he played all six games and scored his only two goals in the third and fifth game on May 28 and June 11, 1960, in the 4-2 win over Karlsruher SC and in the 2-2 win over Westfalia Herne . Group winners Hamburger SV , who beat 1. FC Köln 3-2 , moved into the final .

Again runner-up in the 1960/61 season , he last came on May 6, 1961 in the 5-0 defeat against Eintracht Frankfurt in the qualifying game for participation in the final round of the German championship .

National team

For the Saarland national team , he played three international matches in 1954 and scored one goal. He made his debut on June 5 in the Saarbrücken Ludwigsparkstadion in the 7-1 defeat in the friendly against the Uruguayan national team . In the game against the national team of Yugoslavia , which was also played in Saarbrücken on September 26, he scored his only international goal in a 5-1 defeat. His third appearance as a national team player was on October 17 in Lyon in the 4-1 defeat against the French national team B. With the game on May 1, 1955 in Neunkirchen in the Saarland B national team against the Netherlands B (4: 2), his international appointments ended.

successes

• DFB Cup finalist 1959

literature

• Werner Skrentny (Ed.): The fear of the devil in front of the pea mountain. The history of the Oberliga Südwest 1946–1963. Klartext Verlag. Essen 1996. ISBN 3-88474-394-5 .

Web links

• Werner Emser in the database of weltfussball.de
• The Saarland national football team (1950 to 1956) on saar-nostalgie.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The 44 players of the Saarland national soccer team 1950–1956 on saar-nostalgie.de
2. ↑ Lorenz Knieriem, Hardy Grüne : Spiellexikon 1890 - 1963 . In: Encyclopedia of German League Football . tape 8 . AGON, Kassel 2006, ISBN 3-89784-148-7 , p. 73 f .