Wilfried Kohlars

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Wilfried Kohlars (born October 28, 1939 in Troisdorf ; † June 5, 2019 ) was a German football player . As a striker, midfielder and also as a defender, he played 141 games in the Bundesliga for 1860 Munich between 1963 and 1970 , scoring 45 goals. With the "Löwen" Kohlars became German champion in 1966 . He scored the first goal in the final of the DFB Cup of the 1963/64 season in Stuttgart against Eintracht Frankfurt (2-0 for TSV).

career

Kohlars grew up playing football on the Middle Rhine at SSV Troisdorf 05 . After the 1960/61 season in the association league , he accepted the offer of the upper division Duisburger SpV and moved to the Lower Rhine in the football upper league West . At the West German old master, however, the era of the long-standing top performer Willi Koll had just ended. The 1961/62 season was under the sign of the relegation battle for the "red blouses" from the start. The newcomer from Troisdorf made his debut immediately at the start of the round in the Oberliga - August 6, 1961, 3-0 home defeat against Mönchengladbach, center forward - and even played all 30 rounds (three.) Alongside fellow players Rolf Benning , Hans Lohmann and Manfred Wacker Goals), but he could not prevent the descent of DSV. Coach Max Merkel , who had a good knowledge of football in the west through his previous work at Borussia Dortmund, brought Kohlars - Petar Radenković and Rudolf Zeiser also came - for the last season of the old first-class league, 1962/63, to his current club TSV 1860 Munich in the football league south . Merkel started the league round on August 19 at KSV Hessen Kassel with the following attack: Werner Anzill , Kohlars, Rudi Brunnenmeier , Hans Küppers and Johann Auernhammer . The "lions" surprisingly won the championship in the south and Kohlars had contributed ten goals in 22 league appearances. In the following final round of the German championship, he brought it to four games and one goal. By winning the title in 1860 Munich was included in the new Bundesliga for the 1963/64 season. The local rival FC Bayern Munich was included in the regional soccer league south.

When two new regular players joined the “Löwen” squad at the start of the Bundesliga, Otto Luttrop and Peter Grosser , Kohlars only made his Bundesliga debut on the seventh round match day. But on October 12, 1963, he immediately scored two goals in a 5-0 home win against 1. FC Nürnberg. The Merkel-Elf finished seventh and Kohlars had scored eleven goals in 24 league games. But the highlight of the round was the 2-0 final win on June 13, 1964 in Stuttgart in the DFB Cup against Eintracht Frankfurt. Together with Engelbert Kraus , Brunnenmeier, Küppers and Alfred Heiß , Kohlars formed the “lion” attack on half right. Shortly before the half-time whistle, he brought his team 1-0 lead. In the second Bundesliga season, 1964/65, the team from Giesing improved to fourth place, but Kohlars only made 13 more league appearances with three goals. Coach Merkel had four regulars in action with Heiß, Küppers, Brunnenmeier and Grosser, and Hans Rebele and "Berti" Kraus fought with Kohlars for the free place in the attack. In the 1964/65 European Cup Winners' Cup, however, the all-rounder was part of the regular cast. Outstanding were the games against FC Porto , in the semifinals the three games against AC Turin and the final on May 19, 1965 in London against West Ham United . If he was still playing in attack against Porto, he was defensive against Turin ( Gerry Hitchens , Giorgio Ferrini ) and West Ham ( Martin Peters , Alan Sealey , Geoff Hurst , John Sissons ).

When the 1965/66 season started with the derby against newly promoted FC Bayern on August 14th, Kohlars belonged to the 1-0 victorious team of the "Löwen". He had the task of limiting Rainer Ohlhauser's circle on the defensive . In total, he contributed to winning the German championship in 19 league games and was one of the 13 regulars of coach Merkel. In the Messestädte-Pokal 1965/66 he came on stakes against Malmö FF, Göztepe Izmir, Servette Geneva and in both games in the quarter-finals against Chelsea London . He scored the 1-0 lead for the "Lions" in the 2-2 home draw on March 15, 1966 and was at Stamford Bridge as a defender when center forward Peter Osgood scored the decisive goal to make the London 1-0. When 1966/67 - Merkel was replaced as coach on December 10, 1966 - the runner-up was reached, the "supplementary player" had been on the field in 14 games and scored three goals. In the European Cup of National Champions he scored three goals in the two games against Omonia Nicosia in September 1966, in the two games in November against Real Madrid he was not used. When the best years of the “Löwen” were over and things went down in the table, the indispensable all-rounder set his personal record in the Bundesliga with 15 goals in 1967/68. He clearly led the internal goalscorer list, with Hans Küppers followed by a midfielder with twelve goals, ahead of Ludwig Bründl with seven goals. With 33:35 points, Munich ranked twelfth in 1860.

Under the coaches Albert Sing (until October 31, 1968) and Hans Pilz Kohlars brought it to 21 Bundesliga games in 1968/69 and scored three goals. With their balanced points account of 34:34, the “Löwen” took tenth place and local rivals FC Bayern won the first Bundesliga championship. Before Kohlars eighth season with the Elf from Giesing, 1969/70, the traditional club lost for financial reasons four other players of the successful era with Patzke, Grosser, Rebele and Reich and he and Kohlars had ended their careers. The new coach Fritz Langner was replaced by Franz Binder on November 13, 1969 with a score of 5:21 points and 9:26 goals , and he was able to reactivate him and Kohlars. Kohlars scored another ten goals in 21 league appearances, but in 1860 Munich rose with 25:43 points as penultimate table in the Regionalliga Süd. Kohlars completed his last Bundesliga game on May 3, 1970 in a 0-0 home draw against Rot-Weiss Essen at the side of his old team-mates Petar Radenkovic, Manfred Wagner and substitute Željko Perušić .

Wilfried Kohlars' active playing career finally came to an end when he played his third game for the "Lions" under coach Hans Tilkowski in the Regionalliga Süd on November 8, 1970 .

Private

As a student, he had passed his state examination as a graduate engineer at the Technical University in Munich. He ran his own engineering office and was also active in the real estate sector. From 2000 to 2015 he lived in South Africa, near Cape Town, for half a year in winter .

Kohlars died in June 2019 at the age of 79.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Obituary notice. In: Münchner Merkur . June 8, 2019, accessed June 8, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Kohlars, Wilfried
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH October 28, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Troisdorf
DATE OF DEATH 5th June 2019