Willi Herbert

The title of this article is ambiguous. For the German politician and SS leader with a similar name, see Willy Herbert (1904–1969).

Willi Herbert
Personnel
birthday	June 10, 1938
place of birth	Bad Homburg vor der Höhe ,  German Empire
date of death	November 10, 2018
position	Defense
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
	SpVgg Bad Homburg
	SV Bommersheim
1960-1965	Eintracht Frankfurt	8 0(0)
1965-1967	SV Alsenborn	44 (13)
1967	FV Bad Vilbel
1 Only league games are given.

Willi Herbert (born June 10, 1938 in Bad Homburg vor der Höhe ; † November 10, 2018 ) was a German football player . As a player for Eintracht Frankfurt , Herbert played seven league games in the Bundesliga from 1963 to 1965 .

Career

The defender Herbert started playing football at SpVgg Bad Homburg . In 1958 he moved to Eintracht Frankfurt via SV Bommersheim . But he came only in the league season 1960/61 to a use in the first team of the concord in the football league south . On the fifth round match day, September 11, 1960, in a 4-1 away win at Jahn Regensburg, he made his debut in the Oberliga Süd. He and Hermann Höfer formed the defender couple. In the next two seasons he did not play a game in the first team.

He played for Eintracht Frankfurt until 1965, including the first two years of the newly introduced Bundesliga . Herbert came to his first appearance in the Bundesliga on October 12, 1963 in a 2-1 home win against the league leaders and later first Bundesliga champions, 1. FC Cologne. He played in the World Cup system at that time on the position of right defender and fought the Cologne left winger Heinz Hornig . This was followed by the series against VfB Stuttgart (0-0), Hertha BSC (3-1), FC Schalke 04 (4-2) and the 1: 4 away defeat at SV Werder Bremen on November 16, 1963. There In the Weserstadion the Bremen left winger Dieter Meyer was able to distinguish himself as a triple goalscorer, Herbert's further use was stopped. It was only on the last match day, May 9, 1964, that he ran for the sixth time in the Bundesliga again for Eintracht. Frankfurt won 2-1 at Karlsruher SC and Herbert had played most of the duels against their left winger Gerhard Kentschke . In the second Bundesliga year, 1964/65, he only came to another Bundesliga assignment on April 3, 1965, in a 3: 3 home draw against Hanover. On September 22, 1964, he made an international appearance with Eintracht, he was used in a 5-1 away defeat in the trade fair cup against FC Kilmarnock. After a total of seven games in the Bundesliga, he moved to SV Alsenborn in 1965 in the second -rate regional soccer league Southwest .

He made his debut on the starting day of the 1965/66 round, on August 14, 1965, in a 5-0 home win with two goals against SV Völklingen in the team of Alsenborn consultant Fritz Walter and trainer when he was promoted to the regional league, SV Alsenborn Otto Render . At the end of the round he had completed 23 league games and scored ten goals on the side of Lorenz Horr , Erwin Rödler and Franz Schmitt when he reached 9th rank. Herbert came to 1967 in the football regional league Southwest to 34 missions in which he scored 13 goals. Then he went back to the Hessian amateur camp and switched to FV Bad Vilbel .

literature

• Ulrich Matheja: Schlappekicker and Himmelsstürmer: The story of Eintracht Frankfurt . 2nd edition, Verlag Die Werkstatt, 2004, ISBN 3-89533-427-8 . P. 356.
• Matthias Kropp: Germany's great soccer teams, part 7: Eintracht Frankfurt. Agon Sportverlag. Kassel 1995. ISBN 3-928562-53-3 .
• Christian Karn, Reinhard Rehberg: Player Lexicon 1963–1994. Agon Sportverlag. Kassel 2012. ISBN 978-3-89784-214-4 . P. 195.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Eintracht Frankfurt - Archive. Retrieved August 23, 2020 . 
2. ^ Jürgen Bitter: Germany's football. The encyclopedia. FA Herbig. Munich 2008. ISBN 978-3-7766-2558-5 . P. 297

Web links

• Willi Herbert in the database of transfermarkt.de
• Willi Herbert in the database of weltfussball.de
• Willi Herbert in the database of fussballdaten.de
• Willi Herbert in the database of kicker.de