Wilfried Kemmer

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Wilfried Kemmer (born November 20, 1943 , † August 21, 2007 ) was a German soccer player and coach . Kemmer played for VfL Wolfsburg from 1962 to 1977, with the exception of the 1966/67 season when he started with VfB Lübeck . With 190 hits he is the record scorer in the second-rate Regionalliga Nord between 1963 and 1974 . He scored 174 of these goals for Wolfsburg, where he was king of the league goalscorer with 19 goals in 1968 and 25 goals in 1970, and 16 for Lübeck. In the 2nd Bundesliga he scored another nine goals for VfL Wolfsburg. In 1963, Kemmer and Wolfsburg were finalists in the German Amateur Football Championship . The best league placement for Kemmers was second place with Wolfsburg in 1970.

Career

In the 1962/63 season, Kemmer and VfL Wolfsburg became the champion of the then second-class amateur league Lower Saxony Group East and then reached the final of the German amateur football championship with the club , which VfL won 0-1 on July 6th at the Auestadion in Kassel lost against the amateurs of VfB Stuttgart.

The amateur league championship qualified VfL for the second highest division, the Regionalliga, after the Bundesliga was founded. The striker and attacking midfielder played in the Regionalliga Nord and was the top scorer in 1968 with 19 and 1970 with 25 goals. In the 1972/73 season Kemmer scored 22 goals and, together with Alfred Hussner from FC St. Pauli, took second place in the top scorer list in the north behind Burkhard Segler from VfL Osnabrück , who scored 24 times. Kemmer scored a total of 174 goals for Wolfsburg in eleven regional league seasons.

1968 Wolfsburg reached third place. In 1970 VfL moved into the Bundesliga promotion round as runner-up behind VfL Osnabrück , where Wolfsburg was only fourth in its group behind Kickers Offenbach , VfL Bochum and Hertha Zehlendorf from Berlin. Kemmer only took part in three games and remained without a goal.

In the meantime, Kemmer played a season for VfB Lübeck in 1966/67 , with which he was eleventh in the Regionalliga Nord and scored 16 goals. He scored a total of 190 goals in the Regionalliga Nord, which made him the most successful goal scorer in the history of this league in the era before Ulrich Kallius who scored fewer 104 goals for Altona 93 , FC St. Pauli and VfL Osnabrück in four seasons.

In 1974/75 and 1976/77 he played with VfL in the northern season of the Second League , which replaced the Regionalliga, and was relegated with VfL. In 52 games he scored nine goals; He had his last assignment at the home game of Wolfsburg against Bonner SC on the 37th matchday on May 14, 1977 , which was held in front of only 350 spectators. This was the tenth loss for the club in a series of eleven lost games.

In the first round cup match against the first division club and reigning cup winner TSV 1860 Munich on January 16, 1965, Kemmer scored two goals against goalkeeper "Radi" Radenković ; However, Wolfsburg lost 3: 4 despite a 3-0 lead.

After his playing career, he acquired the football instructor license . He coached VfL Wolfsburg from April 30, 1979 to October 20, 1983, who played in the Oberliga Nord at that time . Other coaching stations were SSV Vorsfelde and Lupo Martini Wolfsburg , with whom he was promoted to the Braunschweig regional league in 1996.

Wilfried Kemmer died on August 21, 2007 at the age of 63 after a serious illness.

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