Werner Otto (soccer player)

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Werner Otto
Personnel
birthday January 3, 1929
position midfield
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1948-1951 1. FC Saarbrücken II
1951-1958 1. FC Saarbrücken 125 (38)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1953-1954 Saarland 2 0(0)
1 Only league games are given.

Werner Otto (born January 3, 1929 ) is a former German soccer player.

Career

societies

Otto initially played for the second team of 1. FC Saarbrücken from 1948 to 1951 , before being promoted to the first. From 1951 to 1958 he played 125 point games in the soccer Oberliga Südwest , in one of five seasons as the highest German division, and scored 38 goals. His debut season, in which he played 25 games and scored five goals, he finished with 1. FC Saarbrücken as champions of the Regionalliga Südwest. Then he took his team to the final round of the German Cup 1951/52 in part, denied all six games of Group 1 , he victorious from the - before the 1. FC Nuremberg had emerged and the final against - VfB Stuttgart reached . The game played on June 22, 1952 in Ludwigshafen am Rhein, however, was lost 3-2.

His next participation in the finals of the German championship he denied in the 1956/57 season , after his team had finished this as second behind 1. FC Kaiserslautern . In Group 1 with four teams, the matches were not played in the two rounds - as in the previous seasons - but each against each other on neutral pitches. He played all three group games and retired with his team without a win from the competition. In his last season he only played ten point games and was the first time without a goal.

He also played three cup games, which was lost on August 17, 1952 in the first round match for the DFB Cup with FC St. Pauli with 1: 2. The other two were in the newly created international cup competition for club teams, the European Cup champion , in the season 1955/56 in the first round against AC Milan discharged encounters. At that time, 1. FC Saarbrücken took part in this competition as a representative of the independent Saarland Football Association. After he and his team returned to Saarbrücken on November 1, 1955 with a 4: 3 win at the San Siro stadium , he lost the second leg played on November 23 in the Kieselhumes stadium in this city with 4: 1.

National team

He played two international matches for the Saarland national team . Both were qualifying games for the upcoming World Cup in Switzerland from June 16 to July 4, 1954, and both were played in Group 1 against Germany's senior national team . On his debut on October 11, 1953 in Stuttgart, he lost 3-0 and on March 28, 1954 in Saarbrücken 1: 3; The only goalscorer for Saarland was Herbert Martin with the connection goal to 1: 2 with a penalty in the 67th minute.

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personal data
SURNAME Otto, Werner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH January 3, 1929