Willi Koslowski
| Willi Koslowski | ||
| Personnel | ||
|---|---|---|
| birthday | February 17, 1937 | |
| place of birth | Gelsenkirchen , German Empire | |
| position | striker | |
| Juniors | ||
| Years | station | |
| BV Buer 07 | ||
| FC Schalke 04 | ||
| Men's | ||
| Years | station | Games (goals) 1 |
| 1955-1965 | FC Schalke 04 | 205 (65) |
| 1965-1967 | Red and white food | 56 (11) |
| 1967-1971 | Eintracht Gelsenkirchen | 87 (22) |
| 1971–197? | Eintracht Duisburg | |
| -1974 | Concordia Bochum | |
| National team | ||
| Years | selection | Games (goals) |
| Germany U-18 | 2 (0) | |
| 1957-1958 | Germany U-23 | 2 (2) |
| 1958 | Germany B | 1 (0) |
| 1962 | Germany | 3 (1) |
| Stations as a trainer | ||
| Years | station | |
| 1981-1984 | FC Schalke 04 amateurs | |
| 1 Only league games are given. | ||
Willi Koslowski (born February 17, 1937 in Gelsenkirchen - Buer ) is a former German soccer player who made three appearances in the national team in the 1962 World Cup in Chile .
career
Clubs until 1974
FC Schalke 04 until 1965
Willi Koslowski, who was born in the immediate vicinity of what will later be the Parkstadion location in Gelsenkirchen-Buer, started with the club soccer game in the student eleven at Buer 07 before moving to the youth department of FC Schalke 04 . In the A youth he stormed alongside Karl Borutta and Willi Soya and was nominated by the DFB for the 1955 FIFA tournament in Italy. In the youth national team he completed a group game on April 9, 1955 in Pisa against Portugal together with Hans Nowak . From 1952 to 1955 he learned the trade of miner at the "Hugo" colliery and on March 29, 1955, after passing the exam, he received the miner's letter . Together with Borutta and Soya, the "Schwatte" moved up to the 1955/56 round from the A-youth to the upper division team of the "Royal Blues".
From the 1954/55 season onwards, the Austrian Eduard Frühwirth trained the Schalke team, which devoted himself intensively to training young talents. Koslowski made his debut on August 31, 1955 in the 4-1 away win against Wuppertaler SV as a right winger with two goals in the league . Overall, with 18 missions and six goals in his first league round in 1955/56, he had a good share in winning the runner-up title. In the final round, however, he still had to put up with the reserve role, as the Schalke attack was occupied by the top Bernhard Klodt , Günter Siebert and Hans Krämer . The attacker, who predominantly acted on the right wing or in the center forward position, made the final breakthrough in the round of 1957/58 . Coach Frühwirth relied on the offensive qualities of "Schwatten" in 28 league games, and he scored nine goals on the way to winning the league title. In the shortened final of the German championship because of the 1958 World Cup in Sweden, Koslowski was also in the three group games against Braunschweig, Tennis Borussia Berlin and the Südmeister Karlsruher SC and scored three goals to move into the final against Hamburger SV . On May 18, 1958, Schalke prevailed in the final - it was directed by referee Albert Dusch - with 3-0 goals against HSV. After five minutes, a cross from Willi Koslowski sailed into the Hamburg penalty area and "Berni" Klodt scored the 1-0 lead with a diving header. Also in the creation of the 2-0 lead in the 30th minute - again scorer Klodt - Koslowski was involved through a cross. After Manfred Kreuz's 3-0 win - he had come to Schalke from Buer-Hassel in 1956 - “Royal Blue” was able to celebrate the seventh German championship. Once again, a team had won that had largely emerged from the Schalke youth or came from the surrounding area. Personally, the performance of the "Schwatten" received additional confirmation from the double appointment to the DFB youth team U-23 in the 1957/58 season for the international matches on December 21, 1957 and on February 26, 1958 against Hungary and Belgium.
After the championship success, Schalke could not repeat the performance in the league and thus not realize the title defense. In the European Cup, however, the "Knappen" against KB Copenhagen and especially against Wolverhampton Wanderers and Atlético Madrid - Atlético narrowly failed in the semifinals in three games against defending champions Real Madrid - excellent performances. Koslowski stormed in all seven games in the storm of Schalke and he also succeeded in the first leg on November 12, 1958 at Molineux Stadium against the "Wolves" led by Billy Wright in the 88th minute of the 2-2 equalizer. Only again in the year of the soccer world championship in Chile in 1962 did Schalke win the runner-up in the Oberliga West and thus once again entered the final round of the German championship. Under the former DFB coach Georg Gawliczek , Koslowski completed all 30 league games in 1961/62 and set his personal record in the Oberliga West with 14 goals. In the finals he came to another four games with two goals. The defending champions 1. FC Nürnberg won the decisive group game on May 5 with 3-1 goals against Schalke and thus made it into the final again.
The sporting highlight for Koslowski was his debut on April 11, 1962 in Hamburg in the national soccer team at the international match against Uruguay and his participation in the World Cup in Chile in June.
In the last league round in 1962/63, the “Schwatte” came in sixth with Schalke and the “Knappen” eleven qualified for the new Bundesliga for the 1963/64 round. He had scored nine goals in 29 games alongside Reinhard Libuda , Waldemar Gerhardt , Manfred Berz and Manfred Kreuz. He played his last league game on May 11, 1963 at Fortuna Düsseldorf . Overall, Koslowski came from 1955 to 1963 in the Oberliga West to 182 games and scored 58 goals. He is listed in the game years 1958/59 and 1961/62 in the "Revier Team of the Season".
On the day of the Bundesliga debut , on August 24, 1963, he scored the first goal for Schalke in the 37th minute in their 2-0 home win against VfB Stuttgart . With his new attacking colleagues Günter Herrmann and Klaus Matischak , he played 23 games and scored five goals. Schalke finished eighth. When there was a slump in performance in the second Bundesliga round in 1964/65 under coach Fritz Langner and the ex-champions took last place, the "Schwatte" only played 16 games and scored seven goals. In the DFB Cup, he stormed in vain in the semi-final game on April 17, 1965 against the host Alemannia Aachen , the Tivoli-Elf moved into the cup final with a 4-3 win after extra time. Koslowski, he had never been a professional footballer and had always worked hard, moved in the summer of 1965 - there were differences with the presidium at the time and teammates Willi Schulz , Egon Horst , Waldemar Gerhardt and Reinhard Libuda moved away from Schalke - to Essen's Hafenstrasse and joined Rot-Weiss Essen in the West Regional Football League .
RW Essen and Eintracht Gelsenkirchen, 1965 to 1971
In Essen Koslowski was able to make his contribution to winning the runner-up in the 1965/66 round with 31 missions and nine goals and thus manage to move into the Bundesliga promotion round. With coach Fritz Pliska and attacking colleagues Heinz-Dieter Hasebrink , Willi Lippens and Herbert Weinberg , RWE also prevailed against competitors FC St. Pauli , 1. FC Saarbrücken and Schweinfurt 05 and rose to the Bundesliga. Koslowski scored one goal in four games. The league in the 1966/67 Bundesliga gambled away after 15:19 points in the preliminary round with a weak second half, in which the Bergeborbecker only got ten points. Against his old club, Schalke 04, the "Schwatte" scored 3: 1 points, on the second match day, on August 27, 1967, Essen won the home game with 4: 1 goals in front of 35,000 spectators. Koslowski added another 25 games with three goals to his record and completed his last Bundesliga game on June 3, 1967 at the age of 30. Rot-Weiss lost 1-0 at VfB Stuttgart on matchday 34. Between 1963 and 1967, “Kosa” had 64 games with 15 goals in the Bundesliga. For the 1967/68 round he signed a new contract with Eintracht Gelsenkirchen for the Regionalliga West and returned to his hometown.
With the blue-reds he experienced the fight against relegation in the Ückendorfer Südpark, the immediate return to the regional league and at the end of his career as a contract footballer, 1970/71 , an excellent fifth place. From 1967 to 1971 he completed 87 regional league games for Eintracht and scored 22 goals. In 1969/70 he and his teammates won the championship in the Amateur League Westphalia and prevailed in the promotion round against Westfalia Herne and Sterkrade 06/07 and thus returned to the Regionalliga immediately after relegation in 1969. With coach Heinz Murach and his teammates Bernd Kipp , Jürgen Radau , Günter Schwaba , Wolfgang Thier and Günter Thon , he surprisingly finished fifth in 1971 as a climber behind VfL Bochum , Fortuna Düsseldorf, Wuppertaler SV and tied with SC Fortuna Köln . The 32-year-old played his last regional league game on May 16, 1971, when he lost 2-1 at home to Bayer 04 Leverkusen . For the 1971/72 round he joined Eintracht Duisburg in the Lower Rhine amateur league.
successes
- 1958: West German champion and German champion with Schalke 04
- 1956, 1962: West German runner-up with Schalke 04
- 1966: Runner-up in the Regionalliga West and promotion to the Bundesliga with Rot-Weiss Essen
End of career and coach
At Concordia Bochum he ended his playing career as a player-coach in 1974 at the age of 37. From 1981 to 1984 he was an amateur trainer at Schalke in order to then support the respective trainers Fichtel, Fischer and Täuber as an assistant trainer.
Selection appointments, 1957 to 1962
After the two international matches in the U-23 round in 1957/58, the lightning-fast striker, who was extremely dangerous because of his unpredictability, was appointed to the national B team on October 22, 1958 for the international match in Karlsruhe against Austria. In mid-April 1958 he was named by the DFB for the 40s line-up for the 1958 World Cup , but then did not belong to the line-up for the tournament in Sweden. He was also not a member of the Herberger squad for the qualifying games for the 1962 World Cup in Chile. Richard Kreß , Engelbert Kraus and Karl-Heinz Thielen were preferred to him. With his appearance on January 31, 1962 in the test match in Gelsenkirchen between a combination Schalke 04 / Westfalia Herne against the national team, he brought himself back to life with the national coach. This was followed by test matches with the national team against Cologne / Mönchengladbach, two appearances in the selection of West Germany and the dress rehearsal on March 21, 1962 in Saarbrücken, when Herberger played a DFB selection A against a DFB selection B and 40,000 spectators won the 5: 4 success of the A-Elf and Koslowski acted in their ranks as a center forward and scored a goal. On April 11, Schalke made his debut in Hamburg in the international match against Uruguay in the national team. He played right winger and scored the 3-0 final score in the 75th minute. From April 30th to May 11th 1962 he stayed at the World Cup preparation course in Karlsruhe-Schöneck and was then nominated for the final squad for the World Cup in Chile. At the tournament he played his second international match against Switzerland on June 3 . With his third deployment on September 30, 1962 in Zagreb against Yugoslavia , the international career of the "Schwatten" ended.
Private
From 1943 to 1952 Koslowski lived as an evacuate with his parents in East Westphalia.
After his career, Koslowski made a name for himself as an amateur area coordinator and as a “girl for everything” at the FC Schalke 04 office and was awarded the “Golden Schalke Ring of Honor” in 1993. Professionally, he was employed as a dispatch manager at a Gelsenkirchen glass and mirror factory. Since 1987 he has been given a permanent position at FC Schalke 04, where he helps out at the office and, among other things, processes mail and supports the press office, although he has been a pensioner since 2002.
literature
- Lorenz Knieriem, Hardy Grüne : Player Lexicon 1890 - 1963 . In: Encyclopedia of German League Football . tape 8 . AGON, Kassel 2006, ISBN 3-89784-148-7 .
- Jürgen Bitter : Germany's national soccer player: the lexicon . SVB Sportverlag, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-328-00749-0 .
- Harald Landefeld, Achim Nöllenheidt (ed.): Helmut, tell me dat Tor ... New stories and portraits from the Oberliga West 1947–1963. Klartext, Essen 1993, ISBN 3-88474-043-1 .
- Matthias Weinrich: Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 3: 35 years of the Bundesliga. Part 1. The founding years 1963–1975. Stories, pictures, constellations, tables. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 1998, ISBN 3-89784-132-0 .
- Matthias Kropp: Triumphs in the European Cup. All games of the German clubs since 1955 (= "AGON Sportverlag statistics." Volume 20). AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 1996, ISBN 3-928562-75-4 .
- Kai Griepenkerl: I'm not a couch potato (about Koslowski's 75th birthday), in: RevierSport 14/2012, p. 12 f.
Web links
- Interview with Willi Koslowski on the 100-Schalker-Jahre website
- The black Koslowski and his eternal love: Schalke 04 (Interview 2012)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ralf Piorr (Ed.): The pot is round, The Chronicle from 1945 to 2005. Klartext-Verlag, 2005, ISBN 3-89861-358-5 , pp. 61 and 73.
- ↑ First Bundesliga club from Schalke 04
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Koslowski, Willi |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German soccer player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 17, 1937 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Gelsenkirchen - Buer , German Empire |