Willi Soya

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Willi Soya (born October 11, 1935 - † July 4, 1990 in Horn-Bad Meinberg ) was a German football player . The offensive player became German champions in 1958 with FC Schalke 04 and in 1965 with Werder Bremen . In 1961 he also won the DFB Cup with Werder .

career

FC Schalke 04 until 1961

In the summer of 1954, the 18-year-old moved from the amateur division of Schwarz-Weiß Wanne-Eickel to the then first-class football league West , to FC Schalke 04. The outstanding technician experienced his first appearance in a competitive game for "Royal Blue" on 21. September 1954 in the DFB Cup in the home game against the southern German league club FC Schweinfurt 05. In the 1-1 draw after extra time, he scored the goal for Schalke as a half-forward in the World Cup system at that time . Nevertheless, he had to wait until January 23, 1955 to make his first division debut. In a 2-2 home draw against Meidericher SV, he represented the colors of Schalke for the first time in the Oberliga West. He formed with Bernhard Klodt , Helmut Sadlowski , Manfred Piontek and Hans Krämer on half right the attack of the team of coach Eduard Frühwirth . Soya made its breakthrough in the 1957/58 season. He won the championship in the Oberliga West with Schalke 04 and had scored 17 goals in 28 league appearances, leading the internal goalscorer list ahead of Klodt (15 goals) and Manfred Kreuz with 13 goals. Günter Siebert was beaten with six missions and four goals.

From the beginning of the round, the current Schalke hope was the focus of national coach Sepp Herberger . He played on September 4, 1957 in Hanover in a test match of an A against a B selection, where he scored two goals as a half right of the victorious A team. On October 31, Herberger conducted another test match in Düsseldorf, where Soya again distinguished himself as a goal scorer as a half-forward. On December 21, 1957 he formed the U-23 junior national team together with Willi Koslowski on the right wing in a 3-3 draw against Hungary. He scored a goal and the other Schalke team-mate Otto Laszig was in action as a middle runner. In the 1958 world championship year, he was part of the squad for two international matches in Brussels against Belgium (2-0) and in Frankfurt against Spain (2-0) in March 1958, but was not used. Instead, he was next to Helmut Rahn on March 26th in Basel in a test match of a German B selection against Switzerland's A-Elf in an unofficial international match (2-1). He was also in the squad for the final international match on April 2 in Prague against Czechoslovakia (2: 3), but was canceled at short notice due to injury. In mid-April he was reported by the DFB in the 40 list to FIFA for the player line-up for the World Cup in Sweden. On April 13, the league season 1957/58 ended with a 1-0 away win for Schalke at SV Sodingen, the technically brilliant offensive all-rounder had scored the winning goal for the West Champion. Two weeks later, on April 26th, he was a member of the Schalke team, who won the first final round of the 1958 German soccer championship in Frankfurt with 4-1 against Eintracht Braunschweig. Personally, the result was secondary to him; he suffered a serious injury that prevented his further participation in the finals as well as his participation in the World Cup. Günter Siebert, who only made six appearances in the league round, joined the team and celebrated the direct win of the 1958 German championship in a 3-0 win against Hamburger SV in Hanover on May 18.

In the next three rounds Soya could no longer fully follow the form of the championship round 1957/58. The highlight of this section could be the games in the 1958/59 European Cup against KB Copenhagen and Atlético Madrid . In the first leg on March 4, 1959 at the "Rojiblancos", Soya ran in front of 110,000 spectators at the Estadio Santiago Bernabéu , but was unable to defeat the hosts with stars such as Brazilian world champions Vava and Joaquín Peiró and Enrique Collar prevent. When he played on the 27th matchday of the 1960/61 league season, on April 16, 1961, with a 2-2 win at Viktoria Köln, Willi Soya said goodbye to FC Schalke 04 after a total of 70 league games and 34 goals and joined SV Werder Bremen in the Oberliga Nord.

SV Werder Bremen, 1961 to 1966

In the last two rounds of the old first-class league, 1961/62 and 1962/63 , Soya convinced the green-whites again as a goal-threatening half-striker. In both rounds, Werder under coach Georg Knöpfle reached the runner-up in the north behind Hamburger SV and the man from Schalke had scored 35 goals in 57 league games. In his first round for the Weserstadion team , he won both games against Hamburger SV, each 2-1. In the last league round, 1962/63, he played alongside goal scorer Dieter Meyer , who won the top scorer's crown with 37 goals. Werder ended the league era with a 4-2 win on April 29, 1963 against ASV Bergedorf 85 and Soya stood out as a two-time goalscorer.

Soya had opened his engagement with Bremen with the success in the DFB-Pokal in 1961. About the stations 1. FC Saarbrücken (1: 0), 1. FC Köln (3: 2) and the 3: 2 after extra time in the semifinals against the Karlsruher SC, he moved into the final on September 13, 1961 with his new team. That took place in Gelsenkirchen in the Glückauf-Kampfbahn against the competitor 1. FC Kaiserslautern. For Soya and his two teammates Helmut Jagielski and Günter Wilmovius , there was a sense of home. With the old world champion stopper Werner Liebrich , the "Red Devils" from Betzenberg tried to resist, but the Bremen team deservedly won 2-0 and Soya won the German cup in his home country. In the European Cup Winners' Cup , the half-forward then ran in the games against Aarhus GF (2-0, 3-2) and the two games against Atletico Madrid in January and February 1962, respectively. In the home game against Madrid, he scored the 1-1 equalizer in the 86th minute. The second leg was lost 3-1 in Madrid against the eventual cup winner with their coach José Villalonga . Soya lost the qualifying game with the North runner-up in 1962 and 1963; on April 18, 1962 with 1: 4 after extra time against his old club Schalke 04 and on May 18, 1963 against 1. FC Nürnberg (1: 2). In both games he was active as a half-forward.

Soya started with Bremen under coach Willi Multhaup in 1963/64 in the new concentration of the Bundesliga. In the 3-2 start success on August 24, 1963 in the Weserstadion against the reigning champions Borussia Dortmund , he scored Werder's first goal in the Bundesliga in the 34th minute with his equalizer for the 1-1 intermediate result. He made 25 league appearances in the debut round and scored five goals. Competitors for the half-forward positions were among others Diethelm Ferner , Arnold Schütz and Dieter Thun . When, in the second Bundesliga year of 1964/65, Heinz Steinmann , another top performer for the outside runner role, and a talented half-striker in the young player Hans Schulz , coach Multhaup only bet on the former Schalke in eight games (2 goals). Nevertheless, Soya made his contribution to the surprising Bundesliga championship of SV Werder Bremen in the 1964/65 season. In the round as defending champion, 1965/66, he was last used on May 21, 1966 in a 3-1 away win against Hamburger SV in the Bundesliga. He shot Bremen 1-0 in the 25th minute.

Soya completed a total of 34 Bundesliga games, mainly as a midfielder, where he was able to score 8 goals. In the summer of 1966 he was drawn to ASV Bergedorf 85 in the second -rate regional soccer division North . There he met his former teammate Dieter Meyer. For the "Elsters" from the Sander Tannen stadium, he played 12 games in the Regionalliga Nord in the 1966/67 season in which he scored three goals. Then he ended his higher-class playing career. In later years he moved to Paderborn , where he also coached some of the region's amateur clubs.

Because of his surname, he was called Bohne .

literature

  • Lorenz Knieriem, Hardy Grüne: Spiellexikon 1890-1963. Agon Sportverlag, Kassel 2006, ISBN 3-89784-148-7 , p. 371.
  • Christian Karn, Reinhard Rehberg: Player Lexicon 1963–1994. Agon Sportverlag, Kassel 2012, ISBN 978-3-89784-214-4 , p. 481.
  • Georg Röwekamp: The myth is alive. The history of FC Schalke 04. Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2003, ISBN 3-89533-332-8 .
  • Sven Bremer, Olaf Dorow: Green and white wonderland. The history of Werder Bremen. Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2008, ISBN 978-3-89533-621-8 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Matthias Weinrich, Hardy Grüne: Deutsche Pokalgeschichte since 1935. Agon Sportverlag, Kassel 2000, ISBN 3-89784-146-0 , p. 134.
  2. ^ Karl-Heinz Heimann, Karl-Heinz Jens: Kicker-Almanach 1989. Copress-Verlag, Munich 1988, ISBN 3-7679-0245-1 , p. 140.
  3. ^ Matthias Weinrich: The European Cup. Volume 1: 1955 to 1974. Agon Sportverlag, Kassel 2006, ISBN 3-89784-252-1 , p. 51/52.
  4. ^ Klaus Querengässer: The German Football Championship. Part 2: 1948-1963. Agon Sportverlag, Kassel 1997, ISBN 3-89609-107-7 , pp. 130, 134.
  5. ^ First Bundesliga club from Werder Bremen
  6. ↑ Arnd Zeigler: Lifelong green and white. Bremen 2006, ISBN 3-86108-564-X .
personal data
SURNAME Soy, Willi
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH October 11, 1935
DATE OF DEATH 4th July 1990
Place of death Horn-Bad Meinberg