Wilhelm Zott

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Wilhelm Zott , nickname "Witsche" (* August 1, 1935 ; † October 18, 2017 ), was a German soccer player who played 12 international matches for the German national soccer team in 1963 and 1964 .

Club career

With the "black and blue" from FC Wacker Munich , Zott, who played mostly as a middle runner in the World Cup system at that time, managed to move up from the regional league to the 1st amateur league in Southern Bavaria in the 1961/62 round. After two rounds, the championship in the Bavarian League followed in the 1963/64 season and thus promotion to the Regionalliga Süd . In the then substructure of the Bundesliga , the “third force” found it very difficult in Munich football. After 36 game days, the defensive conductor Wilhelm Zott had played 35 games with one goal, Wacker rose with 27:45 points as 17th in the table. The away balance with only 6:30 points ultimately made the difference. Outstanding this season were the derbies against the "Reds" from FC Bayern , which should be enough for the championship and promotion to the Bundesliga. In the first half of the season, there was a floodlit match in front of 12,000 spectators on September 23, 1964, the defense around center runner Zott was overrun by the Bayern attack. The home game was lost with 2: 9 goals. Franz Beckenbauer and Rainer Ohlhauser each scored three goals. In the second half of the season only the young Gerd Müller scored for the favorites in the 24th minute, but on February 28th it was enough for the leaders to win 1-0. In this game, Wacker Munich's defensive team, led by Wilhelm Zott, was completely convincing. But midfielders Horst Pohl and Peter von Kummant were also able to set accents. For the 1965/66 round, Zott moved to ESV Ingolstadt-Ringsee . But he also experienced relegation from the regional league in the Upper Bavarian city on the Danube. After 34 games, coach Emil Izsó's team was relegated in 16th place with 29:39 points. The 30-year-old defensive routine "Witsche" Zott had fought in 22 games together with the talent Peter Dietrich for the Ingolstadt team in vain to stay in the league.

Selection games, 1963 to 1964

In 1963, Bayern's amateur selection was won by a 3-1 win in Bayreuth against Hessen . BFV trainer Horst Sturz relied on the runners from Wacker Munich: Horst Pohl, Wilhelm Zott and Ludwig Landerer. In goal stood the young talent from FC Bayern, Sepp Maier . The later national coach Helmut Schön built a new amateur national team in the same year with the long-term goal of participating in the 1964 Olympic Games in Tokyo. The stopper from Wacker Munich became the cornerstone of Helmut Schön's team. On April 13, 1963, the Munich debut in the game in Alassio against Italy in the DFB amateur team. On May 15th of this year, in a 1-0 win against Holland at a tournament in England, Schön found the runners he trusted in Walter Birkhold , Zott and Horst Kunzmann . Only in the final - after four games within a week - did the Schön pupils lose their strength in the second half (after a 2-1 half-time lead in Sunderland) and Scotland won the tournament with 5-2 goals. After the 4-0 success in victories against Japan on June 5, it was noted in the sports magazine that the runner row with the positional artist Zott and the pushy and urgent outside runner Kunzmann would have been the best part of the team. The two qualifying games against the GDR's Olympic team in September 1963 were more significant. On September 15, the first leg in Karl-Marx-Stadt (Chemnitz) was clearly dominated by the GDR team ( Jürgen Heinsch , Klaus Urbanczyk) , Herbert Pankau , Rainer Nachtigall , Jürgen Nöldner and Otto Fräßdorf ). Eight days later, the 2-1 home win of the DFB amateurs in Hanover was of no use, the 1964 Olympics took place without them. In both games, "Witsche" Zott led the defense of the DFB team. With the game on June 2, 1964 in Genoa against Spain, it was the final game of an international amateur tournament in Italy, which ended with 1: 1 goals and the German team won after Los, Wilhelm Zott closed his career in the amateur national team after 12 Stakes.

literature

  • Football Yearbook '80, DFB, Limpert-Verlag, 1980, ISBN 3-7853-1304-7 .
  • Michael Horn, Gottfried Weise : The great lexicon of GDR football. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-89602-536-8 .
  • Jürgen Bitter : Germany's football. The encyclopedia. Sportverlag, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-328-00857-8 .
  • Hardy Greens : Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 1: From the Crown Prince to the Bundesliga. 1890 to 1963. German championship, Gauliga, Oberliga. Numbers, pictures, stories. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 1996, ISBN 3-928562-85-1 .
  • Hardy Grüne, Lorenz Knieriem: Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 8: Player Lexicon 1890–1963. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2006, ISBN 3-89784-148-7 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ DFB-Mitteilungen December 2017, obituary (.pdf)
  2. ↑ Sports magazine. Volume 18. No. 23 / A. Date June 10, 1963. p. 21.
personal data
SURNAME Zott, Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Witsche
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH August 1, 1935
DATE OF DEATH 18th October 2017