Werner Melzer

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Werner Melzer
Personnel
birthday May 2, 1954
place of birth ClausenGermany
size 1.78 m
position Defense , midfield
Juniors
Years station
FK Clausen
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1973-1974 FK Clausen
1974-1986 1. FC Kaiserslautern 374 0(31)
1986–? FK Clausen
Stations as a trainer
Years station
1991-1997 1. FC Kaiserslautern amateurs
1999-2000 1. FC Saarbrücken (assistant coach)
2003-2004 Hamburger SV (assistant coach)
2008-2009 FK Clausen
1 Only league games are given.

Werner Melzer (born May 2, 1954 in Clausen ) is a former German soccer player . Melzer played 374 times in the Bundesliga for 1. FC Kaiserslautern from 1974 to 1986 and scored 31 goals. He is still the record player of the "Red Devils" from the Palatinate , with whom he reached the finals in the DFB Cup 1975/76 and the DFB Cup 1981 . Melzer was appointed to the German B national football team three times by the DFB in 1978 and 1979 .

career

player

Werner Melzer's home club was FK Clausen , with whom he won the championship in the 1st Amateur League Southwest in 1974 , was the top scorer in this league and reached the semi-finals of the German amateur championship. Melzer moved to 1. FC Kaiserslautern in the Bundesliga at the age of 20. In addition to the talent from Clausen, Johannes Riedl , Hans-Günther Kroth and Walter Frosch also came to Betzenberg. Under coach Erich Ribbeck , Melzer made his debut on the start of the round, August 24, 1974, in a 1: 2 away defeat at FC Schalke 04 in the Bundesliga. In the 56th minute, he came on for Fritz Fuchs . At the end of the round, the FCK finished 13th and Melzer had scored three goals in 32 league appearances. But he did not play in attack, he came in midfield or in defense.

In his second Bundesliga season 1975/76 he was one of those active players with Ernst Diehl , Ronnie Hellström , Kroth, Reinhard Meier and Roland Sandberg , who play all 34 rounds and thus contribute significantly to reaching seventh place in the table. The outstanding goalscorer was Klaus Toppmöller with 22 goals. In the DFB Cup, FCK moved to victories over VfR Mannheim (2: 0), SV Blumenthal (5: 1), SC Westfalia Herne (3: 1), Eintracht Braunschweig (2: 0), Fortuna Düsseldorf (3: 0) and a 4-2 in the semifinals against Hertha BSC in the final on June 26, 1976 against Hamburger SV. Melzer played all cup games, but could not prevent the 0-2 defeat in the final against the Hanseatic League. The failure of top scorer Toppmöller after his car accident was a loss for the Lauterer that could not be compensated.

When Karl-Heinz Feldkamp took over the management of training in the 1978/79 season , the establishment of the FCK began in the top tier of the Bundesliga. Melzer continued to be among the top performers and took third (1979, 1980) and fourth (1981, 1982) positions in the Bundesliga twice, and in 1981 also made it to the DFB Cup final once more. His three appointments to the B national team also took place while Feldkamp was a coach: On December 19, 1978 in Bochum against the Netherlands (2: 1); on March 28 in Aachen against Norway A (3: 0) and on September 11, 1979 in the local Betzenberg Stadium against Romania (2: 1). The man from Clausen acted as Libero in all three international B matches; Against the Netherlands, Ditmar Jakobs was responsible for the man marking as the stopper , and Karl-Heinz Körbel was responsible for the two games in 1979 . The Libero, described as "technically very good, more light-footed than someone who ran the balls and not as a duel type", did not make it into the senior national team. From the 1979/80 season onwards, Melzer and his team-mates also played the exciting games for the UEFA Cup .

Melzer's first appearance was the second leg in the first round on October 3, 1979 against FC Zurich. Without him, FCK had won 3-1 in Zurich, the game on the Betzenberg 5-1 and he was a two-time goalscorer in midfield. The "giants" Hans-Peter Briegel and Hans-Günter Neues now acted in central defense . In the quarter-finals, Melzer and colleagues were eliminated on March 19, 1980 with a 1: 4 defeat in the second leg against FC Bayern Munich. The 1981/82 season in the UEFA Cup turned out to be outstanding : Via the stations Akademik Sofia, Spartak Moscow and KSC Lokeren, Lautern and Melzer reached the quarter-finals against Real Madrid in March 1982. FCK lost 1: 3 goals at the “Royal” and in the second leg on March 17th, two quick goals by Friedhelm Funkel in the 7th and 14th minute brought the Feldkamp protégés 2-0 into the half-time break. Another double strike from Hans Bongartz and Norbert Eilenfeldt in the 50th and 56th minute decided the game. Reiner Geye achieved the sensational 5-0 in the 73rd minute. In the semifinals, the "Red Devils" failed after a 1: 1 in the first leg after a 1: 2 defeat after extra time against IFK Göteborg.

Werner Melzer ended his twelve-year Bundesliga career when he played on the 34th round match day, April 26, 1986, a 6-0 away win against relegated 1. FC Saarbrücken. The FCK Bundesliga record player said goodbye with two goals to 5-0 and 6-0. After a total of 374 Bundesliga games with 31 goals, he ended his professional career and returned in 1986 to his homeland in Clausen and let his playing career come to an end at the local FKC.

Trainer

After his playing career, Werner Melzer worked as a coach or assistant coach. At 1. FC Kaiserslautern he was in charge of the amateur team (1991 to 1997). Under Klaus Toppmöller , his former teammate at FCK, Werner Melzer was assistant coach at 1. FC Saarbrücken and Hamburger SV . After his time as assistant coach in Hamburg, Melzer was a coach for the district division club FK Clausen. He resigned from his coaching position on November 17, 2009.

As a player he is active for the traditional FCK team.

literature

  • Christian Karn, Reinhard Rehberg: Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 9: Player Lexicon 1963-1994. Bundesliga, regional league, 2nd league. Agon-Sportverlag, Kassel 2012, ISBN 978-3-89784-214-4 , p. 334.
  • Dominic Bold: 1. FC Kaiserslautern. The Chronicle. Publishing house Die Werkstatt. Göttingen 2013. ISBN 978-3-7307-0046-4 . P. 226.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Rehberg, Karn: Spiellexikon 1963–1994. P. 334
  2. Duo Guster / Groß replaces Melzer . In: Die Rheinpfalz , No. 273 of November 24, 2009.