Werner Mayer

This article deals with the soccer player Werner Mayer. For other people see Werner Maier and Werner Meyer .

Werner Mayer (born February 2, 1934 ) is a former German soccer player . For FSV Frankfurt , the player , who was mostly an outside runner in the old World Cup system, played 151 league games from 1951 to 1959 in the then first-class Oberliga Süd , scoring 17 goals for the Bornheimer Hang team .

career

At the age of 17 Werner Mayer made his debut at FSV Frankfurt in the Oberliga Süd. He stormed on October 21, 1951 in a 2-2 draw at Viktoria Aschaffenburg on the right wing. In the team of goalkeeper Willi Rado and left winger Richard Herrmann , the youth player achieved the interim 2-1 lead for the "black and blue" from the Bornheim district of Frankfurt . When the "Bernemer" in the 1954/55 season after the 14th first round matchday with 18:10 points behind local rivals Eintracht Frankfurt in 2nd place and at least 6th at the end of the round, Werner Mayer was headed by national coach Sepp Herberger on Used on June 25, 1955 in the DFB's first international junior game (U 23) . In the 3: 3 in Frankfurt against Yugoslavia, he formed the German runner row together with Günter Rehbein and Rudolf Hoffmann . With the Frankfurt city selection, he took part in the trade fair cities cup in 1956 and 1957 . The FSV could no longer resist the financial and sporting pressure of Eintracht in the next few years and settled into double-digit positions in the table. Werner Mayer played his last league game for FSV on April 26, 1959 in a 4-3 home win in front of 12,000 spectators against Karlsruher SC , the reigning South German champions of 1958. With Werner Niebel , he played on the outside runner positions and center forward Berthold Buchenau scored in the 78th minute of the game, the 4: 3 winner. Again he and his teammates were able to defend themselves against the offensive power of a prominent opposing attack - Willy Reitgaßl , Günter Herrmann , Heinz Beck , Ernst Kunkel , Oswald Traub - on the part of the KSC. After a total of 151 league games with 17 goals for the team from Bornheim, Mayer ended his playing at FSV in the summer of 1959 and joined Fortuna Düsseldorf in the Oberliga West.

His involvement in the state capital of North Rhine-Westphalia was not a lucky star. Only one league use, on August 30, 1959, in the 0-2 home defeat against FC Schalke 04, was added during his time in Düsseldorf. With Günter Jäger and Karl Hoffmann he formed the runner row against the Schalke inner storm with Willi Soya , Hans Nowak and Helmut Jagielski .

literature

• Werner Skrentny (Ed.): When Morlock still met the moonlight. The history of the Oberliga Süd 1945–1963. Klartext, Essen 1993, ISBN 3-88474-055-5 .
• Hardy Grüne , Lorenz Knieriem: Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 8: Player Lexicon 1890–1963. AGON-Sportverlag, Kassel 2006, ISBN 3-89784-148-7 .