Werner Pfeifer (soccer player)
| Werner Pfeifer | ||
| Personnel | ||
|---|---|---|
| birthday | September 9, 1941 | |
| place of birth | German Empire | |
| position | goal | |
| Juniors | ||
| Years | station | |
| TuS Meerbeck | ||
| Men's | ||
| Years | station | Games (goals) 1 |
| -1962 | TuS Meerbeck | |
| 1962-1964 | Fortuna Dusseldorf | 19 (0) |
| 1964-1967 | VfB Stuttgart | 4 (0) |
| 1967-1970 | VfR Heilbronn | |
| 1970-1971 | SSV Ulm 1846 | |
| National team | ||
| Years | selection | Games (goals) |
| 1960 | DFB youth selection | 4 (0) |
| 1962 | Germany amateurs | 2 (0) |
| 1963 | Germany U23 | 1 (0) |
| 1 Only league games are given. | ||
Werner Pfeifer (born September 9, 1941 ) is a former German football player who was active as a goalkeeper for Fortuna Düsseldorf and VfB Stuttgart from 1962 to 1967 in the top German league at the time.
Player career
TuS Meerbeck / Fortuna Düsseldorf
In TuS Meerbeck , the team from the miners' settlement Kolonie Meerbeck near Moers , Pfeifer played his way into the DFB youth national team as an A-youth over the West German selection .
For the 1962/63 season he signed a licensed player contract with the top division Fortuna Düsseldorf and moved to the state capital at Flinger Broich . Coach Jupp Derwall bet on Albert Görtz in the first thirteen league games in goal and gave Werner Pfeifer for the first time on November 18, 1962 (14th matchday), in the home game against Meidericher SV, a probation chance in the Oberliga West, one of five top German divisions at the time . By the end of the season he had played a total of 13 games and clearly missed the nomination for the newly founded Bundesliga as the nationwide top division with the team with 13th place in the table in the last year of the major leagues. Under coach Kuno Klötzer , Pfeifer was the regular number one in the Fortuna goal in the first half of the 1963/64 season . In the second half of the season Albert Görtz came back more and more in Düsseldorf and Pfeifer completed a total of 19 games in third place. In the summer of 1964, Pfeifer moved to the Bundesliga team and fifth in the previous season, to VfB Stuttgart.
VfB Stuttgart
In the second year of the Bundesliga, 1964/65 , Stuttgart could not repeat belonging to the top of the league and had to be content with 12th place. Trainer Kurt Baluses was released on February 24, 1965 and replaced by Rudi Gutendorf from March 8, 1965. Regular goalkeeper Günter Sawitzki played all 30 league games and Pfeifer only came to one Bundesliga game in 1965/66 . On April 2, 1966, he guarded the goal in a 5-0 home game against Borussia Mönchengladbach . Led by center runner Klaus-Dieter Sieloff , the Swabian defense kept the dangerous “foal” attackers Jupp Heynckes , Herbert L Bäumen , Bernd Rupp , Günter Netzer and Gerhard Elfert in check. Even in the third year in Stuttgart, 1966/67 , Pfeifer could not oust the veteran Sawitzki. He played three games - two under coach Gutendorf and the first under the direction of his successor Albert Sing on December 10, 1966 - otherwise the ex-Sodinger Sawitzki was in goal. Piper pulled the unterklassige match practice the bench in the Bundesliga before and joined the season 1967/68 to VfR Heilbronn in the first amateur league Nordwürttemberg .
VfR Heilbronn / SSV Ulm 1846
In the following season , he won Heilbronn with three points ahead of the SV Göppingen the championship, and sat in the promotion round to Regionalliga Süd against FC Germania Forst , VfB Friedrichshafen and SV Waldkirch by and climbed into the VfR Regionalliga Süd on . With the former teammates of VfB Stuttgart Rudi Entenmann and Dieter Höller , as well as the midfield talent Martin Kübler , he was able to keep the climber as table fourteenth in the 1969/70 season . He completed 33 point games under coach Adolf Remy and from January 1, 1970 under coach Frantisek Bufka . Outstanding games were the home games against the three top teams Kickers Offenbach, Karlsruher SC and 1. FC Nürnberg. After a year in the regional league, he joined SSV Ulm 1846 in the first amateur league in Northern Württemberg for the 1970/71 season , ending his career as a contract footballer.
National team
Pfeifer took part in the UEFA junior tournament in Austria with the DFB youth team in 1960 and played four international matches alongside field players Karl-Heinz Bente , Gerhard Elfert , Kurt Haseneder and Stefan Reisch . The first game was won 1-0 against Turkey on April 16 in Wiener Neustadt ; this was followed by the 1: 1 games against the selection of Hungary on April 18 in St. Pölten and the GDR two days later in Linz , as well as the game won 3: 1 against the selection of England three days later in Eisenstadt .
As a national league player of TuS Meerbeck, he completed two more international matches; but for the national team of amateurs . On April 7, 1962 he won with her, with the final triangle Pfeifer and the defenders Hermann Michel and Bernd Patzke , in Hanover 2-1 against the selection of Italy. On May 31, a 3-3 draw against the French team in Merlebach , with Werner Lungwitz , Heinz-Rüdiger Voss and Horst Kunzmann in the runner -up .
As number one in the goal of Fortuna Düsseldorf and in the focus of DFB observers, he was only used on November 27, 1963 for the U23 national team, which in Liverpool against the selection of England, with the defense Heinz-Rüdiger Voss, Horst- Dieter Höttges , Jürgen Neumann , Peter Kaack and Werner Lungwitz, clearly lost with 1: 4.
Coaching career
After his active playing career, Werner Pfeifer worked as an association sports teacher for youth work at the Württemberg Football Association. He was co-author of volumes 15 and 20 of the WFV publication series "Fußball Praxis", 3rd and 4th part, youth training I and II, in 1982 and 1984. From 1986 to 2003 Pfeifer worked as an association trainer for the Schleswig-Holstein Football Association and Head of the Malente sports school .
Web links
- Werner Pfeifer in the database of weltfussball.de
literature
- Hardy Grüne , Lorenz Knieriem: Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 8: Player Lexicon 1890–1963. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2006, ISBN 3-89784-148-7 .
- Harald Landefeld, Achim Nöllenheidt (ed.): Helmut, tell me dat Tor… New stories and portraits from the Oberliga West 1947–1963. Klartext, Essen 1993, ISBN 3-88474-043-1 .
- Matthias Weinrich: Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 3: 35 years of the Bundesliga. Part 1. The founding years 1963–1975. Stories, pictures, constellations, tables. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 1998, ISBN 3-89784-132-0 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Pfeifer, Werner |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German soccer player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 9, 1941 |