Wilhelm Bierofka

Wilhelm Bierofka's autograph from the 1978/79 season

Wilhelm Bierofka (born January 21, 1953 in Munich ), mostly called Willi , is a former German soccer player and coach who spent his most successful time at TSV 1860 Munich . His son Daniel was also a professional football player and also under contract with 1860 Munich. Both father and son were often the only native Munich residents in the squad of the Munich Lions.

career

Willi Bierofka started playing football at the age of seven at SpVgg Feldmoching. On the advice of his coach Jakob Drescher , who had only been an outside runner at FC Bayern Munich a few years earlier , Bierofka switched to the FC Bayern youth team in 1969. After his youth, he moved (1970 or 1971) to the men's team at SC Fürstenfeldbruck , where he impressed as a left winger in the Bayern League. He finally caught the attention of the Munich Lions with his two appointments to the German national soccer team of amateurs in the 1972/73 season. On December 6, 1972, he made his debut in this selection in the first amateur international game after the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, and on February 28, 1973, his second appearance followed.

1860 signed him for the 1973/74 season. There he was only able to secure a regular place after Max Merkel had converted him to full- back in the 2nd Bundesliga . In the 1976/77 season he played a major role in the promotion of the sixties to the Bundesliga . He was part of the team under coach Heinz Lucas , which was able to win the runner-up and thus determine the third promoted team against the north runner-up. He succeeded in the second and third promotion game against Arminia Bielefeld , one of the engines of the Bielefeld game, Ewald Lienen , almost completely off.

In the game year 1977/78 in the Bundesliga, he mostly formed the "lion" defense with Bernhard Hartmann , Herbert Scheller , Ahmet Glavović and Alfred Kohlhäufl . He came to 27 missions and scored one goal. His performance was confirmed by being called to the B national team for the international match on February 21, 1978 in Augsburg against England, where he was on the defensive with Dieter Burdenski , Gerd Zewe and Michael Lameck in the 2-1 defeat.

Bierofka's active playing career was often interrupted by injuries and illnesses. His bad luck with injuries forced the trained banker to hang up his football boots at the age of only 26. After six years in the service of TSV 1860 Munich, he had to end his active career at the end of the 1978/79 season - he was only able to play two rounds in the 2nd Bundesliga, in which he recorded a total of 84 games with five goals - as a sports invalid . He then returned to TSV 1860 Munich when he took over their team in the then third-class Bayern League for the 1988/1989 season . However, this engagement was ended again in the middle of the following season.

swell

• Hans Eiberle (text), Fred Joch (photographs): Die Löwen - 1860 Munich . Dasbach Verlag, Taunusstein 1977, pp. 48 and 64.
• Hardy Grüne , Claus Melchior: Legends in White and Blue. 100 years of football history for a traditional Munich club . Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 1999, page 306, ISBN 3-89533-256-9 .