Wolfgang Grzyb

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Wolfgang Grzyb (born July 29, 1940 in Braunschweig ; † October 7, 2004 ) was a German football player . The defender played 305 Bundesliga games for Eintracht Braunschweig from 1966 to 1978 and was part of the championship team for the 1966/67 season under coach Helmuth Johannsen .

Career

Grzyb began his football career at TSV Kaierde and FC Alfeld before joining Eintracht Braunschweig in 1964 . In the 1963/64 season he played with Alfeld in the amateur league season 5 in Lower Saxony. In the first year in Braunschweig, he won the runner-up in 1964/65 with the Eintracht amateurs in the regional league; In 1965/66 he and his colleagues landed in 3rd place, but attracted the attention of the Lower Saxony Football Association (NFV) and the DFB through his achievements . The player, who was mostly used in attack at the time, was initially appointed to the Lower Saxony amateur team for the national cup . After successes against Bremen (4: 1; 1: 1), Niederrhein (3: 2 a.s.) and a 6: 1 in the semifinals on May 19, 1966 in Hanover against North Baden, the final on June 17 in Minden was lost against the selection of Westphalia with 0: 1, but for Grzyb and his Eintracht colleagues Rüdiger Halbe and Wolf-Rüdiger Krause it was the ticket to Bundesliga football. On March 20, 1966 he came to an employment in the amateur national team against France. At 2: 2 he came on in the second half for Gerhard Faltermeier on the left wing; Halbe and Krause acted on the right wing. At the age of 26, Grzyb got his first contract as a licensed footballer for the Bundesliga for the 1966/67 season.

From 1966 to 1978 he played as a defender in 350 point games and scored 25 goals. He played 305 games in the Bundesliga , scoring 19 times. In 1966/67 he became German football champions with Eintracht . With 16 European Cup appearances (1 goal) he is the club's record player in European competitions. Grzyb is the only player who counted as a regular for the championship eleven of the 1966/67 season and for the top team between 1974 and 1977 under coach Branko Zebec . Grzyb made his Bundesliga debut on September 7, 1966 as a right half-forward in a 1-0 win in the away game at Eintracht Frankfurt. At that time, the defense consisted of the two defenders Klaus Meyer and Jürgen Moll as well as the runner row with Walter Schmidt , Peter Kaack and Joachim Bäse , still in the World Cup system . With his use on December 17, 1977 in the 0: 5 away defeat at VfB Stuttgart, his Bundesliga career ended in Breitner's 1977/78 . In addition to winning the title in 1967 under coach Johannsen in 1969, he finished fourth (level on points behind Mönchengladbach), repeated this placement in the first year 1970/71 under coach Otto Knefler , and after being relegated to the Bundesliga in 1972/73 in the last year of the second -rate regional football league North 1973/74 beat champions - 38 games with six goals - and immediately returned to the Bundesliga. Under Zebec, he missed the second German championship title in 1976/77 with the team just one point behind. Grzyb was already 36 years old and had 30 missions with one goal as a right full-back in the running-intensive Zebec system.

In 1971 Grzyb was sentenced to a fine of 4,400 DM for his involvement in the Bundesliga scandal .

Style of play

Grzyb was 1.69 m tall and weighed 69 kg when he was active. He was not a typical German defensive line, Grzyb was a fast runner and at times a fine technician. His trainer Helmuth Johannsen said that he had transferred the robustness acquired in his profession as a blacksmith into his game. This was to be understood as an indication of his resilience, not his toughness against other players. Grzyb rarely suffered from injuries and remained active for a very long time. In the 1970s, professional footballers usually left when they were 30 to 33 years old, while Grzyb played in a top team when he was over 35. In the last few years of his career he was the oldest player in the Bundesliga. Some of his best games date from this period. After the resurgence in 1974, despite his age, he often played the role of a defender who suddenly advanced into the opposing half as an "outside striker" through fast runs without opponents and there defeated center forward Wolfgang Frank .

Expulsion 1975

After Eintracht Braunschweig had set a fair play record that is still valid today from the beginning of the Bundesliga to 1974/75 with eleven seasons in a row without being sent off , it was the then 35-year-old Grzyb who did the first on August 30, 1975 The club received a red card in the Bundesliga. The occasion, however, was not a foul; Grzyb had argued with the referee (Manfred Scheffner from Nussloch, who was several years younger than him).

Private life

Wolfgang Grzyb was married, had two sons and lived in Braunschweig- Waggum . The trained blacksmith and passionate tennis player worked for a large brewery in the machine service.

literature

  • Christian Karn, Reinhard Rehberg: Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 9: Player Lexicon 1963-1994. Bundesliga, regional league, 2nd league. Agon-Sportverlag, Kassel 2012, ISBN 978-3-89784-214-4 , p. 171.
  • Horst Bläsig, Alex Leppert: A red lion on the chest. The story of Eintracht Braunschweig. Publishing house Die Werkstatt. Göttingen 2010, ISBN 978-3-89533-675-1 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Grzyb, Wolfgang Grzyb - Footballer. Accessed January 30, 2019 .
  2. ↑ NDR page on dismissal
personal data
SURNAME Grzyb, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH July 29, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Braunschweig
DATE OF DEATH October 7, 2004