Willi Gierlich

Willi Gierlich
Willi Gierlich
Personnel
Surname	Wilhelm Gierlich
birthday	August 16, 1932
place of birth	Cologne ,  German Empire
size	178 cm
position	midfield
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1945–1952	VfL Cologne 1899
1952-1954	1. FC Cologne	21 (1)
1954	Hannover 96	4 (1)
1955	Black and white food	5 (0)
1955-1957	Bayer 04 Leverkusen	at least 19 (2)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1953-1954	Germany amateurs	2 (0)
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
1960-1961	SV Bad Godesberg (player-coach)
1961–1962	VfL Köln 99 (player-coach)
1 Only league games are given.

Wilhelm "Willi" Gierlich (born August 16, 1932 in Cologne - Weidenpesch ) is a German author and former football player . His first novel was published under the title Traumzeichen in August 2010 by Reichlig-Verlag Leverkusen.

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Gierlich was born in Cologne in 1932 as the son of a coal merchant. After completing secondary school at the Humanist High School in Cologne-Nippes, he began training as an advertising clerk. In the 1950s he played alongside as a midfielder for the then top division club 1. FC Köln and even made it into the German amateur national team . On June 13, 1953 and May 30, 1954, respectively, he was used in the two international matches of the DFB amateurs against France as a right wing runner in the World Cup system then practiced . His further career finally took him to Bayer 04 in Leverkusen via Hannover 96 and Schwarz-Weiß Essen . He completed a total of 49 league games in the upper leagues west and north from 1952 to 1956, scoring four goals. The last season in contract football he completed in 1956/57 with Leverkusen in the 2nd League West, where he completed 14 second division games under coach Emil Melcher alongside teammates like Rudi Faßnacht , Udo Lattek and goalkeeper Alfred Mutz .

For two years he studied at the Advertising Academy in Cologne. After all, the then 26-year-old could no longer reconcile work and competitive sport and ended his football career. He started as an advertising assistant in 1955 in the textile fibers and organic and inorganic chemicals division at Bayer and made it to the position of department head and authorized signatory. In the last twelve years of his activity, he built up sports advertising at Bayer AG and was also responsible for public relations for Bayer 04 Leverkusen . He ended his work at Bayer at the age of 60.

statistics

• Two amateur internationals for Germany
• Numerous games in youth teams

  u. a. 1950 four games with the A-Juniors of the then British Zone in England.

• Oberliga West

  21 games; 1 goal 1. FC Cologne

  19 games; 2 goals Bayer 04 Leverkusen

• Final round of the German championship

  3 games; 1 goal 1. FC Cologne

• West German Cup

  3 games; 1 goal 1. FC Cologne

successes

• 1954 Champion Oberliga West
• 1954 DFB Cup final

literature

• Alex Feuerherdt : Bayer 04 Leverkusen. The football chronicle. Publishing house Die Werkstatt. Göttingen 2011. ISBN 978-3-89533-819-9 . P. 230

Web links

• Willi Gierlich in the weltfussball.de database
• Willi Gierlich - a real Leverkusen man

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Lorenz Knieriem, Hardy Grüne : Spiellexikon 1890 - 1963 . In: Encyclopedia of German League Football . tape 8 . AGON, Kassel 2006, ISBN 3-89784-148-7 , p. 107 .