Willi Worpitzky

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Willi Worpitzky (born August 25, 1886 in Bielenberg , † October 10, 1953 in Berlin ) was a German football player from Viktoria 89 Berlin , who won the German football championship twice in 1908 and 1911 .

Career

Association, 1904–1921

Willi Worpitzky, who grew up in Moabit, learned to play football in the youth of Minerva 93 Berlin . In his first position in senior football at the Berlin Ball Game Club, he was still guarding the goal. Only after moving to the “Mariendorfer Löwen” of Viktoria 89 Berlin in 1907 did he swap the position of goalkeeper for that of center forward and immediately became a successful goalscorer, but was occasionally used as a goalkeeper again in later years. As early as June 7, 1908, he helped his Viktoria to a 3-1 final victory against the Stuttgarter Kickers in the final of the German soccer championship in 1908 with two goals. As defending champions, the Mariendorfer also moved into the final in 1909. Despite the 1-0 lead by Worpitzky in the 16th minute, Phönix Karlsruhe won the final with 4-2 goals. The Viktoria center forward was injured after his goal and could only continue to play hobbling. The second German championship was won on June 4, 1911 in Dresden in front of a record crowd of 12,000 spectators with 3-1 goals against VfB Leipzig . Again, the center forward contributed two hits to the title win. In the semi-finals in 1912 and 1913, Viktoria 89 ended with Willi Worpitzky. In twelve final rounds he had scored 22 goals and played 41 selection games for Berlin.

During the First World War , Worpitzky moved to Halleschen FC 1896 . With Halle he was in the final of the Central German Football Championship in 1917/18 , but the game was lost 2-0 to VfB Leipzig . He later moved to local rivals FC Wacker Halle .

After the First World War , he ended his football career at VfB Pankow in 1921. The footballers of the Berlin TuFC Viktoria 89 were generally described as “combative and robust”. As an extraordinarily powerful center forward, Willi Worpitzky embodied these characteristics and has been a cornerstone of Viktoria 89's successes for years.

National team, 1909–1912

On April 4, 1909 in Budapest, he made his debut with two goals on the double day of the national team in the DFB team in a 3-3 draw against Hungary. The selection from the south gave the DFB their first international success with a 1-0 win against Switzerland in Karlsruhe. On June 29, 1912 in Stockholm he opened in the preliminary round match of the Olympic tournament against Austria on his usual place as a center forward and took over his place in goal after the injury-related departure of goalkeeper Albert Weber . With his ninth appearance in the national team on October 6, 1912 in Copenhagen in the 1: 3 defeat against Denmark, he ended his international career. He had scored five goals in nine international matches.

Finale

In the later years, Worpitzky, who was a technician, was still a trainer at the Brandenburger SC 05, Oranienburg and the Charlottenburger SC.

literature

  • Raphael Keppel : Germany's international football matches. Documentation from 1908–1989. Sport- und Spielverlag, Hürth 1989, ISBN 3-9802172-4-8 .
  • Hardy Greens : From the Crown Prince to the Bundesliga . In: Encyclopedia of German League Football . tape 1 . AGON, Kassel 1996, ISBN 3-928562-85-1 .
  • Klaus Querengässer: The German football championship. Part 1: 1903-1945 (= AGON Sportverlag statistics. Vol. 28). AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 1997, ISBN 3-89609-106-9 .
  • Jürgen Bitter : Germany's national soccer player: the lexicon . SVB Sportverlag, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-328-00749-0 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Marriage register Berlin XII b, 1913, entry No. 1219 "... recognized by birth certificate ..."
  2. ↑ Niedersachsen-Sport of November 12, 1953, page 6
  3. ^ German Championship (1903-1923) , IFFHS magazine Libero No. 36. International Federation of Football History & Statistics , Wiesbaden, 2nd quarter of 2002.
  4. ↑ 100 years ago: Hallescher FC from 1896 became Central German champions. Retrieved June 29, 2018 .
  5. ^ Matthias Arnhold: Willi Worpitzky - Goals in International Matches . RSSSF . December 15, 2016. Retrieved December 16, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Worpitzky, Willi
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH August 25, 1886
PLACE OF BIRTH Bielenberg
DATE OF DEATH October 10, 1953
Place of death Berlin