Willi Pesch

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Willi Pesch (born July 14, 1907 in Düsseldorf ; † May 14, 1940 there ) was a German football player.

Career

Emerging from the youth team of Fortuna Düsseldorf , Pesch moved up to the first team at the age of 18, for which he played point games as a goalkeeper in the championships organized by the West German Game Association from 1925 to 1933 in the Berg-Mark district .

From 1933 to 1939 he was in the Gauliga Niederrhein , in one of initially 16, later increased to 23 Gauligen at the time of National Socialism as a uniform top division in the German Reich .

During his club membership he won ten championships with his team, including his greatest sporting success - the German championship in 1933. During this season he managed to stay clean in the finals. In 1936, the crowd's favorite reached the finals again, but lost in the final against 1. FC Nürnberg with 1: 2 a . V. In the following season he took part in the competition for the Tschammer Cup and achieved it on January 9, 1938 in Cologne scheduled final , which was lost against FC Schalke 04 with 1: 2.

Pesch played a total of 36 finals for the German championship; He made his debut on May 8, 1927 in the 1: 4 knockout round defeat at home against Hamburger SV , and he entered his last final game on May 21, 1939 in the second leg of the group final in a 3-3 draw against Dresdner SC in the Rheinstadion . The Dresdner SC, however, came on because of the 4-1 win first leg. He also played ten games in the Tschammerpokal competition, in which he made his debut on September 1, 1935 in a 5-0 victory over Cologne FC 1899 in the first final round and also in this , on August 28, 1938 in a 4-2 Victory at SV Police Lübeck was his last contested.

successes

Others

Willi Pesch was considered an outspoken penalty killer , who also often tried to irritate the shooters by moving agile back and forth on the goal line. He expressly regretted a rule change that prohibited this. Five times he was in the squad of the senior team called to be, however, been used without ever. On May 14, 1940, at the age of 32, the man from Düsseldorf was the victim of a tragic tram accident on Worringer Platz . Through no fault of his own, he was thrown from the open car and succumbed to his injuries.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Interview on the ban on goalkeeper movements in the 1940 penalty kick in: Der kicker issue 8/1940 from 02/20/1940, page 3
  2. ^ Gregor Gdawietz, Roland Leroi: German Football Route NRW: from Aachen to Bielefeld, from Tivoli to Alm. 15 cities - 17 Bundesliga clubs . Meyer & Meyer, Aachen 2008, ISBN 978-3-89899-315-9 , p. 21 ( Google Books )
  3. ^ In Memoriam Willi Pesch
personal data
SURNAME Pesch, Willi
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pesch, Willy
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH July 14, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH Düsseldorf , German Empire
DATE OF DEATH May 14, 1940
Place of death Düsseldorf , German Empire