Wilfried Leydecker

Wilfried Leydecker (born August 1, 1941 ) is a former German soccer player who made 25 appearances with six goals in the Bundesliga between 1964 and 1966 as a player for 1. FC Kaiserslautern .

career

Amateur, until 1964

The left winger, who came from Germania Rüdesheim to FV 08 Geisenheim in the Rheingau, swirled the opposing defenses with Franz-Josef Hönig in the 2nd amateur league in the early 1960s. He won the championship twice with the FV 08 Geisenheim in 1963 and 1964. However, they failed in both rounds of promotion to the 1. Amateur League Hesse. Since he also made it into the finals of the state cup with the Hesse association selection in 1963, his appointment to the German national soccer team of amateurs was no longer a surprise.

Amateur national team, 1963

When DFB coach Helmut Schön started to build a new amateur national team for the DFB in the spring of 1963 , Wilfried Leydecker from FV Geisenheim was also present at the first international match in 1963. In the 1: 2 defeat on April 13, 1963 in Alassio against Italy, he stormed left winger as one of a total of nine debutants. Only the defender and captain Hermann Michel from Ibbenbürener Spvg and the two half-strikers Hans-Jürgen Himmelmann from VfB Gießen and Gerhard Neuser from Sportfreunde Siegen had a little international experience with a total of 11 international matches. From May 15th to May 22nd, he was used in the tournament in England, where he was also used in the final. At this tournament he played together with his club mate Franz-Josef Hönig. The sporting highlight was the two Olympic qualifying games in September 1963 against the East German Olympic team . In the 3-0 defeat in Karl-Marx-Stadt (Chemnitz) and in the 2-1 home win in Hanover, he stormed the left wing. With the trip to Japan in October 1963, Leydecker ended his career in the amateur national team after five international matches. For the 1964/65 round he signed a contract with Bundesliga club 1. FC Kaiserslautern and moved to the Palatinate.

Football Bundesliga, 1964 to 1966

Together with the two other newcomers Helmut Kapitulski from FK Pirmasens and Dietmar Schwager from VfR Kaiserslautern , he brought momentum to the team from Betzenberg at the start of the round. At the start of the round on August 22, 1964, Leydecker scored the winning goal in a 2-1 home win against Werder Bremen in the 38th minute to make it 2-1. After the sixth game day Kaiserslautern was at the top of the table with 9: 3 points. In the second half of the season this performance could not be maintained and from February 24, 1965 coach Günter Brocker was replaced by Werner Liebrich to manage relegation. The man from Geisenheim completed 21 games with six goals in the 1964/65 round. Under the new coach Gyula Lóránt , who came to Kaiserslautern for the 1965/66 round and the further competition in the squad from the newcomers Klimaschefski, Geisert, Rummel and Koppenhöfer, the left winger only got four in his second round at the "Red Devils" Stakes. He played his last game for Kaiserslautern on April 30, 1966 against 1. FC Nürnberg in a 1-1 draw.

Regionalliga Süd, 1966 to 1968

For Wilfried Leydecker, two rounds in the Regionalliga Süd followed from the summer of 1966 at SV Waldhof Mannheim and SV Wiesbaden . In terms of performance, however, he was no longer able to match the shape of the rounds of 1963/64 and 1964/65 and only made a total of 19 missions and three goals.

literature

• Hardy Greens : Legendary football clubs. Hesse. Between FC Alsbach, Eintracht Frankfurt and Tuspo Ziegenhain. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2005, ISBN 3-89784-244-0 .
• Football Yearbook '80, DFB, Limpert Verlag, 1980, ISBN 3-7853-1304-7 .
• 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 .
• Hardy Grüne, Lorenz Knieriem: Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 8: Player Lexicon 1890–1963. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2006, ISBN 3-89784-148-7 .