Willi Rado

Willi Rado (born November 25, 1928 ) is a former German soccer player .

Between 1948 and 1958, the goalkeeper played 10 games for Rödelheimer FC and 168 games for FSV Frankfurt in the South Football League . For the German national B team he was in goal at their first game in 1951.

The 20-year-old goalkeeper Willi Rado gained his first experience in the Oberliga Süd in the 1948/49 season at Rödelheimer FC. Although he and his teammates Hubert Schieth and Alfred Pfaff won the last round game with 4-1 goals against 1. FC Nürnberg on May 15, 1949 - Schieth scored all four goals - Rödelheim was relegated from bottom of the table in the amateur camp. For the 1949/50 round he moved to FSV Frankfurt, where he succeeded the ex-national goalkeeper Willibald Kress . The Bornheimers took fifth place in the south and the new goalkeeper had completed all 30 rounds. Eintracht Frankfurt took 14th place. In his second round at the FSV, 1950/51, he was able to repeat fifth place and thus once again keep Eintracht (8th place) at a distance. National coach Sepp Herberger invited the FSV keeper from April 2 to 6, 1951 to a course in Duisburg. On April 14th, he was in the DFB's first international B match in the goal of the German team, but the German team lost the international match with 0-2 goals against Switzerland in Karlsruhe.

In the first half of the 1955/56 season, he traveled to London with the Frankfurt / Offenbach city selection team in the Messe-Cup competition . The game against London took place on October 26, 1955 and the Main selection lost 2: 3 goals. Rado guarded the goal, Alfred Pfaff was the captain and OFC coach Paul Oßwald looked after the team. In front of 35,000 spectators, London prevailed with goals from Bobby Robson and Bedford Jezzard (2).

Rado played his last league game for FSV on December 15, 1957 in a 4-1 home defeat against TSV 1860 Munich. Karlheinz Leichum was now the starting goalkeeper of the Bornheimers.

literature

• Entry Willi Rado. In: Hardy Grüne , Lorenz Knieriem: Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 8: Player Lexicon 1890–1963. Agon-Sportverlag, Kassel 2006, ISBN 3-89784-148-7 , p. 304.
• Willi Rado, master in goal and on the roof. In: Karl Seeger: 90 years FSV Frankfurt a. M. 1899 - 1989 (Festschrift), Frankfurt am Main 1989, without ISBN, p. 132.