Wolfgang Brase

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Wolfgang Brase (born February 7, 1939 in Braunschweig ) is a former German football player . The defender played 97 Bundesliga games for Eintracht Braunschweig between 1963 and 1967 and won the German championship with Eintracht in 1967 .

career

Oberliga Nord, until 1963

Brase, who was born in Siegfriedstrasse just 300 meters from the Eintracht Stadium, played in the youth team of BTSV Eintracht as early as 1946. He made his debut under coach Kurt Baluses on the last day of the 1958/59 season, on April 26, 1959, in the 0-1 away defeat at VfR Neumünster in the league team. Hans Jäcker was in goal and the 20-year-old Brase, together with Heinz Patzig, formed the defenders in the World Cup system that was still in use at the time . The talented young player had finished fourth with the Eintracht amateurs in the Amateur Oberliga Ost in Lower Saxony and the contract players team came in 5th in the Oberliga Nord . Under coach Hans-Georg Vogel , he played all 30 league games in the 1961/62 season - as did Jürgen Moll and Walter Schmidt . As in the last league year 1962/63 , the placement at a crucial criterion for admission for the launching of the round from 1963/64 Bundesliga was used and the Oberliga Nord in were three spaces available, Brase belonged to the tribe of the player Blue Yellow who achieved third place with an outstanding second round balance of 23: 7 points and were thus classified in the Bundesliga. On the last game day of the old first-class Oberliga era, April 29, 1963, Brase and colleagues closed the chapter Oberliga Nord with a 2-1 home win against VfB Lübeck. By 1963 he made 80 appearances in the Oberliga Nord, in which he also scored a goal. Brase started as an attacker but was retrained as a right back.

Bundesliga, 1963 to 1967

The team from the Stadion an der Hamburger Straße started with the new coach Helmuth Johannsen and the players Hans-Georg Dulz , Peter Kaack , Horst Wolter and Dieter Paulsberg in the summer of 1963 in the new single track of top German football. "Schnippel" Brase and his teammates opened the Bundesliga chapter on August 24, 1963 in the stadium on Grünwalder Strasse against 1860 Munich . Immediately the players from Braunschweig, traded as relegation candidates, showed what they could build on, what their strengths would be: with an impressive defensive performance, they stole the first point from the last Oberliga Süd champion in front of 35,000 spectators with a 1-1 draw. In the reporting it was noted that the "lions" encountered "a cover group that compactly blocked the majority of the attacks and predominantly retained the upper hand in the duels". At the end of the round, Braunschweig finished eleventh and Brase had played all 30 league games together with Klaus Meyer, Jürgen Moll and Walter Schmidt. On October 5, 1963, in a floodlit game in front of 32,000 spectators, at the home game against FC Schalke 04, he contributed the 3-1 lead to the 4: 3 success in the 55th minute of the game. Brase also managed his second Bundesliga goal in a game against Schalke. In the 1964/65 season - with Lothar Ulsaß , Dieter Krafczyk and Erich Maas three reinforcements for the offensive came to Eintracht - he scored 3 in the 83rd minute of a 3-0 win at Schalke 04 on September 12, 1964: 0 final score. The Johannsen-Elf came in 9th place with 42:47 goals and Brase had again played all 30 league games - as well as Lothar Ulsaß, Peter Kaack and Walter Schmidt. When the league was increased to 18 clubs in the third Bundesliga year, 1965/66, the trio Brase, Kaack and Schmidt was not missing in any of the 34 league matches. Also thanks to the contradicting views of the Eintracht coach on the training and management of licensed players - in Braunschweig there were only four afternoons training a week, in the mornings the players sat in the lecture halls of the university, the colleges and technical schools or had a second job - he has trained toolmaker Brase studied mechanical engineering successfully from 1963, played all 94 Bundesliga games in three rounds and proved himself as a competitive athlete.

The reliable size in the Eintracht defense also went into the fourth Bundesliga year, 1966/67, as an undisputed regular player. The round start against Werder Bremen was successful on August 20, 1966 with a sure 2-0 home win. Brase neutralized the swift new winger Werner Görts at Bremen. Eight days later the first away game was lost with 1: 2 goals at the German champions of 1966, TSV 1860 Munich, but the match report noted: “The Lower Saxony lions, on the other hand, played surprisingly fresh and offensive. With 'all men in front' and 'all men behind', Eintracht began like an accordion. ”Brase won most of his duels against Munich left winger Hans Rebele . In the second home game on September 3, 1966, the champions of the year 1964, 1. FC Köln, were defeated 1-0 by a goal from the outstanding Lothar Ulsaß. The Eintracht defensive - Horst Wolter , Brase, Kaack, Joachim Bäse , Moll, Schmidt - kept the well-known Cologne individual masters with Roger Magnusson , Heinz Flohe , Johannes Löhr , Wolfgang Overath and Heinz Hornig in check.

A puzzling viral disease stopped Brase's career - after 97 Bundesliga appearances in a row. In the championship year 1966/67 it remained with the three missions against Bremen, 1860 Munich and Cologne. Because of the viral disease, he was in hospital for a total of 20 weeks in 1967. In the 1967/68 season he was still part of the squad, but no longer played in the Bundesliga. He was used seven times in the DFB club cup , where he scored one goal.

After he had ended his active career, he was a trainer in the amateur area, at TSV Schapen, SpVgg Gifhorn and TSV Helmstedt . As a pensioner he still played a lot of tennis.

successes

German soccer champion 1967 with Eintracht Braunschweig

literature

  • Bläsig / Leppert: A red lion on the chest. The story of Eintracht Braunschweig. Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2010, p. 353, ISBN 978-3-89533-675-1 .
  • Ulrich Merk, André Schulin: Bundesliga chronicle 1963/64. Volume 1: Triumphal procession of the billy goats. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2004, ISBN 3-89784-083-9 .
  • Jochen Döring: The way to the top. 80 years of Eintracht Braunschweig. Dasbach-Verlag. Breckenheim 1976.

Individual evidence

  1. Döring: The way to the top. P. 92.
  2. ^ Ulrich Merk, André Schulin: Bundesliga chronicle 1966/67. Volume 4: Braunschweig's defensive artist. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2005, ISBN 3-89784-086-3 , p. 59.

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