Wilhelm Struzina

Wilhelm Struzina (* 11. April 1926 in Silesia , † 1990 ) was a German football player who at TSV Schwaben Augsburg in the Oberliga Süd completed from 1948 to 1957 a total of 187 league games at that excellence and has achieved as a defensive player 27 goals. The successor to center runner Wilhelm Dziarstek was used twice in the national B team of the DFB in international matches against Austria (1: 1) and Switzerland (2: 0) on September 22nd and October 14th, 1951 . After relegation to the league in the 1951/52 season, Struzina won the championship in the 2nd league south with the Swabians in 1953/54 and returned to the league south.

societies

Youth, World War II, 1948 arrival in Augsburg

At Beuthen 09, the youngster Struzina learned to play football in a club. Whether he was already active in the Upper Silesian coal mining area with the White-Yellows in the Gauliga Oberschlesien during the Second World War is not clear from the available literature. In any case, Struzina was drafted into the Wehrmacht and taken into British captivity. During this time he is said to have received permission to play some games for the second division club Coventry City , but competitive games are not documented. After his release from captivity (Prisoner of War), Struzina landed in Augsburg in 1948 and joined the "Violettes" from Swabia Augsburg in the Oberliga Süd.

Swabia Augsburg, 1948 to 1957

At TSV Schwaben vom Stadion on Haunstetter Straße, 1947/48 was the first season without the 65-time national striker Ernst Lehner , who was now storming for Viktoria Aschaffenburg. In a very long season with 38 rounds - the round started on September 6, 1947, catch-up games ended on July 4 (not counting the game of August 29, 1948 between Eintracht Frankfurt and 1. FC Nürnberg) - belonged to the purple-whites predominantly in the middle of the table. On the 34th round match day, May 23, 1948, Struzina, who had come to Germany from the island, made his debut in the Oberliga Süd. Schwaben Augsburg lost the away game 1: 4 at the Karlsruhe district club VfB Mühlburg. With Georg Lechner senior , the civil association from the southern city center provided a 20-time goal scorer and finished 11th. In his first actual league season, 1948/49, Struzina completed all 30 league games in a reduced 16-league. TSV Schwaben finished in 7th place and local rivals BCA managed to stay in the league in the last second with a 1-0 win in the decider against Ulm 1846. Struzina was mainly used as a left wing runner or left defender; Center runner and head of defense in front of goalkeeper Franz Süssmann was Wilhelm Dziarstek at this point. The first half of the 1949/50 season ended Schwaben Augsburg after 15 matchdays with 12:18 points in 15th place. On the final day of the round, May 7, 1950, they won the home game against Bayern Munich 2-1 and finished 11th with 26:34 points - tied with the BCA. Like goalkeeper Sussmann and playmaker and striker Georg Lechner, Struzina had played all 30 league games and also succeeded center runner and defender Dziarstek. In an 18-league, the Swabians finished 13th in 1950/51 with 29:39 points. Local rivals BCA were relegated to the 2nd League South together with Reutlingen, Singen and Darmstadt. Struzina had only missed two of 34 league games.

The start of the 1951/52 season failed with a 1: 3 home defeat against 1. FC Nürnberg. The 5-0 home win on December 9, 1951 against VfL Neckarau, who had already been beaten, brought the Swabians to 14th place at the end of the first half of the season with 11:19 points. But the yield of the second half of the season with eight plus points was so bad that at the end of the round with 19:41 points the relegation to the 2nd League South was certain. The 16:14 home points could not nearly compensate for the 3:27 points in the away games. Struzina had scored five goals in 28 league games. Despite the relegation, this round also brought positive things for the stopper with a first-class header game and duel strength: On September 16, 1951, the home game against the future champions VfB Stuttgart in front of 30,000 spectators was the first point game played in the new Rosenaustadion and Struzina won twice in the first round DFB used in international matches of the B national team. He made his debut in the German B representation on September 22, 1951 in the Rosenaustadion in the game against Austria. In the 1: 1 draw he was supported as a stopper in the World Cup system of that time by the two outside runners Gerhard Bergner and Josef Röhrig . One day later, on September 23, the senior national team with the runner series Paul Mebus , Jupp Posipal and Erich Schanko won against Austria A 2-0 in Vienna. Three weeks later, the DFB held a second international B match against Switzerland in Basel. In the 2-0 success of the German B representation, Struzina again acted as a stopper and was now supported in the outside runner positions by Kurt Sommerlatt and Kurt Ucko .

After relegation, the stopper stayed with the Swabians and took fifth place in the 2nd League South in 1952/53. In the year of the football world championship 1953/54 in Switzerland, Struzina was able to celebrate the championship with Swabian Augsburg and thus the return to the Oberliga Süd. But it was not enough for the national team squad for the 1954 World Cup tournament in Switzerland. At the start of the round in 1954/55, Struzina took part in the home game against FC Bayern Munich on August 22, 1954 as a center forward: He scored two goals for a 3-2 start win for Schwaben Augsburg. Both games in the local derby against the BCA were lost: 1: 2 in the first half of the season and 1: 4 in the second half. The last game Struzina played on March 20, 1955 in a 1-1 home draw against Kickers Offenbach. With 28:22 points, the Swabians were in fifth place after 25 rounds. At the end of the round they finished eighth in the table with 32:28 points and Struzina had scored ten goals in 23 league games. With a 1-0 home win on the final day of the lap, April 29, 1956, against VfR Mannheim, Struzina and Schwaben Augsburg just moved up to 12th place; the SSV Reutlingen descended with 24:36 points. Struzina had scored eight goals in 28 league games.

Struzina played the first game in the 1956/57 league round on October 14, 1956 in a 1-1 home draw against Karlsruher SC. At the end of the first round, TSV Schwaben graced the end of the table with 8:22 points. Even the 5-2 home win on February 17, 1957 in the local derby against the BCA could not prevent the crash into the 2nd League South. With a 4-0 defeat at Bayern Munich on May 19, 1957, Schwaben Augsburg said goodbye to the Oberliga Süd. The Stuttgarter Kickers, who are two points behind, got both points 2-0 at FSV Frankfurt and thus achieved relegation level with the Swabians with the better goal difference. Struzina had played 15 league games and scored three goals in his last round in the Oberliga Süd. After a total of 187 games in the Oberliga Süd and 27 goals, his higher-class career ended in the summer of 1957.

At TSV 1874 Kottern , the former national B player ended his career in the amateur camp.

literature

• Hardy Grüne , Lorenz Knieriem: Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 8: Player Lexicon 1890–1963. AGON-Sportverlag, Kassel 2006, ISBN 3-89784-148-7 , p. 383.
• Werner Skrentny (Ed.): When Morlock still met the moonlight. The history of the Oberliga Süd 1945–1963. Klartext, Essen 1993, ISBN 3-88474-055-5 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ tsv-schwaben-augsburg.de: Der Schwaben-Ritter (October 5, 2019) , accessed on May 7, 2020
2. ↑ Werner Skrentny (ed.): When Morlock still met the moonlight. The history of the Oberliga Süd 1945-1963. P. 145