Willi Arlt

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Willi Arlt (born October 27, 1919 in Bobersen ; † July 27, 1947 in Soviet captivity) was a German football player.

Career

societies

He was considered a huge storm talent on the left wing and came from SV Röderau . From 1937 to 1942 he played for Riesaer SV . With the Red-Blacks from the RSV-Stadion am Bürgergarten, he made it to the Gauliga Sachsen in the 1939/40 season . In the debut year 1940/41 Riesa and Willi Arlt took fourth place in the Gauliga behind the Dresdner SC , the Planitzer SC and PSV Chemnitz. In the home stadium 19: 3 points were booked. During the war (1942-1944) Arlt played as a guest player in the Gauliga Danzig-West Prussia at SV Thorn . In the final round of the German championship he could not take part with Riesa and Thorn due to lack of qualification.

Selection / national team

At the age of 19, the extremely agile and powerful left winger caught the attention of the general public for the first time. The German Gymnastics and Sports Festival took place in Breslau from July 24th to 31st in 1938. The association coach of Saxony, Georg Wurzer , had nominated the talent from Riesa for the tournament and used it in the games against Hesse, Lower Saxony, East Prussia, Brandenburg and in the victorious final of the consolation tournament against the Middle Rhine. At the side of Willibald Kreß , Erich Hänel and Walter Rose , he convinced viewers and experts. On June 30, 1940, he was with Saxony in the final of the Reichsbund Cup in Augsburg against Bavaria. Willi Arlt scored the 1-1 equalizer in the 69th minute, but the Bayern team won the final with 3-1 goals. In the 1939/40 competition he was successful with five hits. All in all, he made 13 appearances with nine goals in competition games of the Saxony district selection.

Reich coach Sepp Herberger called the elegant but determined left winger for the first time for the international match on September 25, 1938 in Bucharest against Romania in the squad of the national team. Instead of the 19-year-old, however, Hans Pesser from Rapid Wien stormed on the left wing in the 4-1 victory of the German national soccer team. A week later, however, the talent from Saxony stormed in the unofficial international match on October 2, 1938 in Sofia against Bulgaria in Sepp Herberger's team. Willi Arlt played his first international game in a 4-1 victory against Belgium on January 29, 1939 in Brussels. Together with Ernst Lehner , Wilhelm Hahnemann , Franz Binder and Helmut Schön , he formed the storm of the DFB-Elf. When Arlt experienced his eighth international match against Romania on July 14, 1940 in Frankfurt am Main, the outstanding player of the next two decades made his debut in the national team in a 9: 3 success with Fritz Walter . With his eleventh appearance on July 19, 1942 in Sofia against Bulgaria, in the 3-0 victory he contributed a goal, Willi Arlt said goodbye to the national team. The world war prevented the 23-year-old from an even more impressive sporting record. The 1940 Olympics in Helsinki were therefore not possible either. His immediate successor in the national team in the last five games in 1942 was August Klingler from Daxland .

Others

Shortly before the planned transport home, Willi Arlt died in July 1947 at the age of less than 28 as a Soviet prisoner of war .

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SURNAME Arlt, Willi
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH October 27, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH Bobersen
DATE OF DEATH July 27, 1947
Place of death Soviet captivity