Werner Schneider (soccer player, 1938)

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Werner Schneider (born September 1, 1938 in Fürth ) is a former German soccer player. From 1957 to 1963, the offensive player , who was mainly used as an outside runner or half-striker in the World Cup system then practiced, worked for the SpVgg. Fürth scored 56 goals in 123 league games in what was then the first-class South Football League .

career

At MTV Fürth, the student Werner Schneider started playing organized football in the youth department when he was eight. In addition to the club activities, the constant school and street fights shaped the football-crazy boys in particular in these early years. At the age of ten, however, he was brought to the Ronhof in the first student team of the Fürth game association. There he was soon one of the best and was also included in the Nuremberg-Fürth student selection. His further development in sport continued and so many courses in Munich with association trainer Jakob Streitle in connection with the Bavarian youth selection were also on the program. The South German selection followed and, as a highlight, the nomination for the youth national team of the DFB. The technically highly talented talent of the game association made its debut in an outstanding 4-1 win against England on March 31, 1957 in Oberhausen in the DFB youth team. He formed the German runner row with Winfried Mittrowski and Egon Horst in front of the defenders Fritz Pott and Karl-Heinz Schnellinger . The talent from Fürth had to do with the later six-time English record goal scorer Jimmy Greaves in the Niederrhein stadium in the majority of the duels . In April of that year he and his peers took part in the UEFA youth tournament in Spain. The DFB talents played a draw in the three group matches against Hungary (2: 2), Poland (2: 2) and the organizers Spain (1: 1). The climax was the game against the eventual finalists Spain in the Bernabeu Stadium in front of 110,000 spectators in Madrid. Werner Schneider played in all four A youth international matches in 1957 in the DFB team, which was supervised by DFB coach Helmut Schön .

The positive development in the youth was not only due to the existing talent, according to Werner Schneider, he also trained daily, either with the youth team, with the amateurs under Resi Franz or alone. At that time, his working day at NSF in Nuremberg began at 6.30 a.m.

On the first day of the 1957/58 season, the young talent made his debut at the game association in the Oberliga Süd. The green-whites won the home game on August 11, 1957 at the Ronhof with 4-2 against FC Bayern Munich and the debutant scored a great goal to meanwhile lead 2-0. With Karl "Ossi" Schmidt as a half-striker, he formed a strong right wing with strong play and assertiveness. In his debut year he immediately became the best goalscorer at SpVgg Fürth (1957/58 season with 12 goals).

With the achievement of the 4th rank it became the best league placement in the years with Werner Schneider. A significant increase in performance in the second half of the season had brought the green-whites far forward, including 2-1 successes in the "Franconian Derby" on January 19, 1958 at 1. FC Nuremberg and on April 6 at leaders Eintracht Frankfurt. After the 2-0 home win on matchday 30, April 13, 1958, Fürth finished fourth, two points behind 1. FC Nürnberg as runner-up. The Karlsruher SC as champions were three points ahead of Fürth. Schneider had played 19 league games and scored 12 goals alongside other players such as goalkeeper Gerhard Geißler , Robert Ehrlinger , Richard Gottinger , Herbert Erhardt , Max Appis , Karl Mai and Hans Bauer .

In his second league year, 1958/59, the former youth national player was used in the first half of the season on September 23, 1958 in Kiel, at an international match of the German junior national team U 23 . The game against Denmark ended in a 0-0 draw and the defense of the DFB team was occupied with Fritz Ewert in goal, Albert Preis and Friedel Rausch in defense and Jürgen Werner , Willi Giesemann and Schneider in the runner row. At that time he received lucrative offers from other clubs, including 1. FC Nürnberg, FC Basel, Karlsruher SC and Eintracht Frankfurt. But Werner's father always spoke a decisive word of power, who urged him to stay in Fürth.

In the last year of the old, first-class league era, 1962/63, the technician, combination footballer and excellent header player achieved his best hit record in 29 league appearances with 20 goals. Under the coach Jenő Vincze , who is particularly valued by him for his in-depth knowledge, but above all for his human warmth and sensitivity , the half-stalker and often also used as a "hanging center forward" achieved a particularly good round performance. Against BC Augsburg he scored three goals in a 5-2 away win, he scored two goals each in the games against VfB Stuttgart (3-0), Schwaben Augsburg (4-4), Ulm 1846 (3-2) and in the 2-1 home win on March 17, 1963 against the later South German champions 1860 Munich, when he defeated Petar Radenković , "the best goalkeeper in the world", with an unsustainable header from 16 meters. His goal on January 5, 1963 to make it 2-0 in the 55th minute against Ulm 1846 was spectacular when he thundered the ball past national goalkeeper Wolfgang Fahrian into the net from twelve meters in the Ronhof, lying horizontally in the air . The FN wrote at the time: "A goal, like a rocket!"

After 123 league appearances with 56 goals, the chapter of the first-class Oberliga Süd was over in the summer of 1963 and Schneider joined the game association in the second -rate regional football league in the 1963/64 season . At the end of the round in Fürth they weren't really satisfied with 9th place; Schneider had scored 13 goals in 26 league appearances and led the internal scorer list together with attacker Wolfgang Brzuske. It was only in the second half of the season in April 1964 that the Vincze protégés found a better shape and were able to set highlights. In the DFB Cup on April 7, the game association defied Bundesliga club Hamburger SV an der Alster a 1-1 after extra time; Schneider had equalized in the 73rd minute. Five days later, on April 12th, the Fürth midfield team picked up both points with a 4-1 away win from the later southern champions Hessen Kassel. Three days after the Kassel appearance, on April 15, HSV traveled to the Ronhof for the repeat game in the cup. In front of 22,000 spectators, the men around Gyula Toth and Schneider prevailed 2-1 after extra time against the team around Horst Schnoor and Uwe Seeler after goals from Brzuske and Norbert Knopf . Four days after the surprising success against HSV, Fürth won 5-2 at Amicitia Viernheim and Schneider scored three goals on matchday 34. On April 22, the overused Fürth lost the cup game in the second main round with 3: 4 at Bundesliga club Hertha BSC.

In the second regional league season 1964/65, now under coach Zeljko Cajkovski , they stayed in the middle of the table with 8th place; Schneider had played 34 of 36 rounds and scored seven goals. After the two opening games in the 1965/66 season - Schneider had scored three goals against FSV Frankfurt (3: 1) and 1. FC Pforzheim (2: 3) - he ended his career shortly before his 28th birthday. Constant injuries and also his occupational overload led to this decision.

Then he devoted himself even more to his favorite hobby, tennis. In the tennis department of the game association, he was later also active on the board for years. Since November 1977, he and his wife have been running the “mac tennis center” on Vacher Strasse in Fürth.

literature

  • Lorenz Knieriem, Hardy Grüne : Player Lexicon 1890 - 1963 . In: Encyclopedia of German League Football . tape 8 . AGON, Kassel 2006, ISBN 3-89784-148-7 , p. 345 .
  • Werner Skrentny (Ed.): When Morlock still met the moonlight. The history of the Oberliga Süd 1945–1963. Klartext Verlag. Essen 1993. ISBN 3-88474-055-5 .
  • Christian Karn, Reinhard Rehberg: Player Lexicon 1963–1994. Agon Sportverlag. Kassel 2012. ISBN 978-3-89784-214-4 . P. 451.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Jürgen Bitter: Germany's football. The encyclopedia. FA Herbig. Munich 2008. ISBN 978-3-7766-2558-5 . P. 648
  2. ^ Karl-Heinz Heimann, Karl-Heinz Jens: Kicker-Almanach 1989. Copress Verlag. Munich 1988. ISBN 3-7679-0245-1 . P. 406
  3. ↑ The clover leaf - 100 years of football in the Fürth Ronhof , 2010
  4. ^ Karl-Heinz Heimann, Karl-Heinz Jens: Kicker-Almanach 1989. Copress Verlag. Munich 1988. ISBN 3-7679-0245-1 . P. 141
  5. ^ Matthias Weinrich, Hardy Green: German Cup History since 1935. Agon Sportverlag. Kassel 2000. ISBN 3-89784-146-0 . P. 201
personal data
SURNAME Schneider, Werner
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mac
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH September 1, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Fuerth