Willi Rutz

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Willi Rutz (born January 7, 1907 , † November 20, 1993 ), also called "Knölle", was a German football player .

Career

societies

Rutz belonged to the first team of VfB Stuttgart from 1925 to 1929 , for which he played in the district league Württemberg / Baden and won the first regional title in his second season.

From 1929 to 1931 - when he got to Frankfurt am Main - he played for Rot-Weiß Frankfurt in the Main group of the District League Main / Hessen and finished second behind Eintracht Frankfurt in both seasons . Since this change, he was said to have been the first VfB professional because he was employed in a law firm. He was then banned from the association because professional football was currently prohibited.

Returned to Stuttgart in 1931 , but still banned, he worked as a coach in Calw , Tübingen and most recently at FC Stuttgarter Kickers . When the suspension was lifted, he played again for VfB Stuttgart from 1932 - in July 1933 he was also a brief player-coach who won the South German Cup with the team - until 1941 , from the 1933/34 season for the first time in the Gauliga Württemberg , in one of 16 Gauligen as the highest division in the German Empire .

As champion of the Gauliga Württemberg in 1935 and 1937, he was qualified with VfB Stuttgart as a participant in the final round of the German championship. In this he was used in 14 games and scored six goals. In his first participation in the finals, he reached the final held on June 23, 1935 in Cologne with the Stuttgart team , but it was lost 4-6 against FC Schalke 04 .

The 1943/44 season he was a war guest player for the Heeressportverein Groß Born , a military football club from the province and Gauliga Pomerania , for which he also played three games in the final round of the German championship. After the last sixteen and the quarter-finals , he failed on June 4, 1944 at the military football club, the Air Force Sports Club Hamburg , with 2: 3.

National team

On July 1, 1932 he played his only international match for the senior national team , which won 4-1 in Helsinki against the national team of Finland ; he scored his only goal with the goal to make it 2-1 in the 77th minute.

successes

Others

He earned his living with his coaching activity during his suspension - and with the income from his wine bar, which VfB had arranged for him. He waived his coaching fee as a player-coach in 1933 because VfB was short of money.

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