Willi Schröder

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Willi Schröder (born December 28, 1928 in Berlin , † October 20, 1999 in Bremen ) was a German football player . From 1951 to 1957, the offensive player completed twelve international matches in the German national soccer team and scored three goals. With the amateur national team of the DFB he took part in the 1952 Olympic Games in Helsinki. In the 1960/61 season , the brilliant technician with playmaker and finishing skills won the DFB Cup with Werder Bremen and played 213 games in the Oberliga Nord from 1954 to 1963 and scored 129 goals.

career

Youth, Bremen 1860 and DFB amateurs, 1938 to 1953

Growing up in Berlin, developed football at Blau-Weiß 90 Berlin , the 17-year-old followed his former Blau-Weiß coach to Northern Germany in spring 1946 and joined the ATSV Bremen in 1860 . In the Bremen district of Findorff he was housed with foster parents and a training position as a druggist was found for him. With the Weinroten, Schröder rose to the Bremen Amateur League in 1949, won the runner-up with his teammates three times in a row from 1950 to 1952, before he superior the championship with Bremen 1860 in 1953 with a goal difference of 129:16 goals at 50: 2 points won. After victories over VfL Nord Berlin (4: 1) and Heider SV (3: 0), the star striker and his team moved into the final on June 30 in the Berlin Olympic Stadium against the old master Karlsruher FV in 1951 in the first German amateur championship . The ball virtuoso, called "Krümel" because of his stature - 1.69 m tall and 70 kg heavy - was the decisive man with two hits in Bremen's 3-2 victory.

His outstanding playing achievements led the amateur soccer player from Bremen to the selection of Northern Germany in the representative game against West Germany in Cologne on May 14, 1950. Like his storm colleague Gerhard Ihns from Eimsbütteler TV, he contributed two goals to the 4: 3 success of the north against the defense of the West selection, which was prominently equipped with Fritz Herkenrath , Paul Matzkowski , Hennes Weisweiler , Max Michallek , Paul Koschmieder and Jupp Röhrig . Since he was also able to convince on March 18, 1951 in the 2-4 defeat of the north against southern Germany, he was used by national coach Sepp Herberger on April 4 of this year at an unofficial international match in Essen against Saarland for the first time in a DFB team. The national coach subjected Bremen's offensive hope to further tests in September and November in two international B matches against Austria and Switzerland - the free-kick specialist scored one goal in both games - and brought him on December 23, 1951 at the international match in Essen against Luxembourg as an amateur player of the ATSV Bremen made their debut in the national team in 1860. The Bremen player played a center forward and was flanked by the wings Helmut Rahn / Georg Stollenwerk on the right and Fritz Walter / Bernhard Termath on the left in the 4-1 win. On April 20, 1952, Schröder completed his second A international match. Herberger gave the attack he planned for the newly installed amateur national team of the DFB the chance to prove itself internationally in an international match against Luxembourg. The game ended with a 3-0 victory and the offensive formation with Bernhard Klodt (he stepped in for Matthias Mauritz, who was injured at short notice ), Georg Stollenwerk, Johann Zeitler , Willi Schröder and Kurt Ehrmann recommended themselves for the new selection team of amateurs.

The outstanding player of the Bremen amateur league played the first two international matches in the history of the amateur national team of the DFB on May 14 and 18, 1952. It was put together and trained by national trainer Sepp Herberger and was preparing for the Olympic Games in Helsinki in July / August 1952. Players with a contract from the top football leagues at the time were not allowed due to the current amateur definition. In the Olympic tournament, Schröder impressed the international experts in the games against Egypt (3: 1), Brazil (4: 2 afterwards), Yugoslavia (1: 3) and in the bronze medal game against Sweden (0: 2) . After the tournament, Schröder was voted the best left half-forward along with Ferenc Puskás , Stjepan Bobek and Barbosa-Tozzi (Brazil). The reason given in "Kicker" was that he "probably got the most praise from international experts" and that he " demonstrated his high technical level in his duel with Zlatko Čajkovski and was not even overshadowed by his 'colleagues' Bobek and Mitic" .

Back from the Olympic tournament, again active in the Bremen amateur upper house near Bremen 1860, Schröder confirmed his good reviews in the 2-0 win on November 9, 1952 in Basel in the B international match against Switzerland. He acted in the center forward position alongside the top division players Felix Gerritzen , Alfred Preissler , Franz Islacker and Bernhard Termath and scored both goals. The spring of 1953 brought about his fourth international B match in March, his seventh and last international match with the amateur national team on April 29 - 3-1 victory over Austria in Linz with a Schröder goal - and the championship in Bremen with Bremen 1860. In the promotion round to the football Oberliga Nord he failed in 1860, one point behind Victoria Hamburg. In May he was still used by the national coach in two test matches with a DFB selection against Bolton Wanderers and on June 4 in Augsburg against a southern German selection.

The much sought-after technician signed a contract with Hamburger SV on June 13, 1953 - two days before the changeover date in German contract player football - and received forbidden hand money - Werder Bremen, Eintracht Braunschweig and Hannover 96 had also offered hand money - and thus came in the mills of soccer justice. After the investigation of the NFV sports court, the HSV had to agree to the cancellation of the contract and Schröder was banned until the end of 1953. The ban drew the attention of international clubs to the Bremer and after a test match on October 18, 1953 under a false name for Racing Strasbourg - the Alsatians had lured them with 80,000 DM - the courted person felt the draconian severity of the sports jurisdiction: his ban was over extended six months to June 30, 1954. In the plain text book on "The History of the Oberliga Nord" Schröder is quoted as follows:

“ That cost me a year and a half of my good time, as did participating in the 1954 World Cup in Switzerland. "

After the suspension he moved to Werder Bremen, for whom he was in action for the first time on January 9, 1955 against Altona 93 and scored a goal in the 2-1 victory. In August 1955, the two-footed striker and preparer was used again in a selection. North Germany won a game against South Germany on the 7th with 4: 3 goals in Hamburg and on the 14th in Hanover with 5: 3 against Southwest Germany. In both selection matches, the man from Bremen excelled as a ball distributor and goalscorer. Schröder had lost a full two years as a selection player, and that in the best performance age between 25 and 27 years.

Werder Bremen and other selection appointments, 1954 to 1963

Eight days after the NFV game against Südwest, on August 21, 1955 in Moscow, Schröder celebrated his return to the national soccer team under national coach Herberger in the international match against the Soviet Union. In his first league round at Werder, 1954/55, he had played all 15 games at the beginning of the second half and scored eight goals. The league started for the round 1955/56 on May 28, 1955, one week after the international match in Moscow. Schröder completed all 30 point games and shot his way to second place in the top scorer rankings in the north with 27 hits. He embodied both qualities in one person: he was a brilliant preparer, but also a player who mastered the finish.

The round in 1956/57 brought Werder (5th place; ten points behind Hamburger SV) no increase and the personal quota also fell at Schröder (29 games, 18 goals). In the national team, under national coach Herberger, everything came down to preparing for the 1958 World Cup in Sweden as defending champion. The Bremen playmaker completed his A internationals five to twelve between June 13, 1956 (against Norway in Oslo) and November 20, 1957 (against Sweden in Hamburg), and was in more than ten friendly matches in the DFB selection as well as in of the North German team in action, took part in the DFB courses from February 18 to March 2 and July 22 to 28, 1957 and was also part of the 40-man squad for the 1958 World Cup reported to FIFA in mid-April 1958. When the national coach invited 25 players to the World Cup course at the Munich-Grünwald sports school from May 12 to 24, 1958, Willi Schröder was surprisingly not part of this squad.

Herberger was able to persuade his favorite player, the playmaker of the successful World Cup days in Switzerland in 1954, Fritz Walter, to make a comeback and the 37-year-old returned after a two-year break on March 19, 1958 in Frankfurt against Spain (2-0) the national team back. The solution to the succession plan for the "old Fritz" in the playmaker position in the national team was decided: Fritz Walter replaced Fritz Walter. In Jürgen Leinemann's biography, one can read, “that the national coach looking for a playmaker was primarily concerned with Willi Schröder from Bremen, with whom he was never really satisfied and who probably didn't have a chance because the shadow of the great Fritz lay on him. ”On December 6, 1957, Herberger had noted a kind of“ dismissal protocol ”for Schröder in his files after the international match against Sweden:

“ Entire attitude dictated by desire for pleasure, which is satisfied in technical tricks. Neither mind nor sense geared towards team play and camaraderie. "

After the world championship in 1958, Schröder belonged to the Werder Bremen runner-up team in the Oberliga Nord from 1959 to 1963, competed in the final round of the German championship with the green-whites in 18 games and scored twelve goals from 1959 to 1962. When he won the DFB Cup on September 13, 1961 in Gelsenkirchen, when he beat 1. FC Kaiserslautern under coach Georg Knöpfle 2-0 , the 33-year-old scored the 1-0 lead in the 10th minute of the game. In the final report it is stated that "Schröder would have been the outstanding man in midfield, elegantly pulled the strings - and was also dangerous for goals." In the 1961/62 round, the veteran took part with Werder in the European Cup Winners' Cup and failed with Bremen at the eventual cup winners Atlético Madrid on February 28, 1962 in Madrid after a 3-1 defeat. He scored the 1: 2 goal against coach José Villalonga's team in the 36th minute .

With the league game on October 6, 1962 against Bremerhaven 93, he ended his playing career at Werder Bremen after 213 league appearances with 129 goals. At the international level (national team; no World Cup participation) he was denied the big breakthrough, but for Werder he was irreplaceable for years as an outstanding game designer, idea generator and goalscorer.

With the start of the Bundesliga in 1963, he moved to the Regionalliga Nord at Bremerhaven 93 for two years . In the 1963/64 season he was used nineteen times and scored three goals. At the end of his career, he then worked as a trainer for various amateur clubs in Bremen. His tobacco shop at the main train station in Bremen was a popular meeting place for the Bremen sports scene.

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 .
• Jens Reimer Prüß (Ed.): Bung bottle with flat pass cork. The history of the Oberliga Nord 1947–1963. Klartext, Essen 1991, ISBN 3-88474-463-1 .
• Kropp / Schweer: Germany's great football teams. Part 6: Werder Bremen. Agon, Kassel 1994, ISBN 3-928562-52-5 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Jürgen Bitter : Germany's national soccer player: the lexicon . SVB Sportverlag, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-328-00749-0 , p. 437 .
2. ↑ Kicker, No. 32, Munich, August 11, 1952, pp. 13/14.
3. ↑ Jens R. Prüß: The history of the soccer Oberliga Nord. P. 175.
4. ^ Jürgen Leinemann: Sepp Herberger. One life, one legend. Rowohlt-Verlag, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-87134-285-8 , p. 364.
5. ^ Jürgen Leinemann: Sepp Herberger. One life, one legend. P. 365.
6. ^ Matthias Weinrich, Hardy Greens : Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 6: German Cup history since 1935. Pictures, statistics, stories, constellations. Agon-Sportverlag, Kassel 2000, ISBN 3-89784-146-0 , pp. 173-174.

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