Wolfgang Seeger (soccer player)

Wolfgang Seeger (born October 15, 1936 ) is a former German soccer player who played 246 games in the Berlin City League or Berlin Regional Soccer League from 1957 to 1969 and scored 65 goals.

career

City League, 1957 to 1963

The attacker Wolfgang Seeger, who is versatile in the offensive, made his debut on September 1, 1957 as an active player in Tennis Borussia Berlin at the home game against Berliner SV 92 in the city league. The 20-year-old talent stormed the 1-1 draw with the "Veilchen" in the attack on the right wing. He made 21 appearances in the 1957/58 round and scored eleven goals. Mostly he formed the right wing with Horst Schmutzler . The decision brought the catch-up game on March 23, 1958 against the championship leader Viktoria 89, who was one point ahead . In front of 45,000 spectators, Tennis Borussia won the game and with it the Berlin soccer championship after goals from Schmutzler and Heinz Weigel with 2-0 goals. Seeger stormed in this decisive game on the right wing and thus immediately celebrated the championship in his debut year in the city league. At the side of fellow players Rudolf Deinert and Hans Eder , he was then also active in the final round of the German soccer championship at the end of April / beginning of May . In the final round, which was shortened by the World Cup in Sweden, he played the three group games with Tennis Borussia against Karlsruher SC , FC Schalke 04 and Eintracht Braunschweig .

In the following two rounds Seeger and his teammates did not get beyond midfield in the city league. From 1960/61 to 1962/63 - the last three rounds of the city league or the major leagues - the Charlottenburg team took third place. For Wolfgang Seeger, however, what stands out personally is his title as top scorer in the city league , which he won in Chile in 1962 . Together with Lutz Steinert , he won this award with 18 hits. It is noteworthy that he was only used in the attack from the seventh game day, the first game days he played as a middle runner. From 1957 to 1963 Seeger completed 143 city league games for Tennis Borussia and scored 62 goals.

Regionalliga, 1963 to 1969

Since Hertha BSC was nominated by the DFB as the Berlin representative for the new Bundesliga from the 1963/64 season, Seeger and TeBe played the association games in the Berlin Regionalliga from this round. Seeger now played almost exclusively in defense, preferably as a middle runner. When TeBe won the final on March 29, 1964 with 2-1 goals against Wacker 04 in the Berlin State Cup, the former striker played right defender. In the first main round in the DFB Cup he was back in the middle position when he and his team fell by the wayside with 1: 6 goals at 1. FC Saarbrücken. In four rounds - from 1963/64 to 1966/67 - he took second place three times with Tennis Borussia and celebrated the championship in 1965 and thus also made it into the promotion round to the Bundesliga. There, the defender was active in all six matches against FC Bayern Munich , Alemannia Aachen and 1. FC Saarbrücken . Seeger also won the Berlin Cup in 1965 with a 7-1 success in a replay against Spandauer SV. Here, Tennis Borussia prevailed in the DFB Cup in the first main round at Westfalia Herne and lost in the round of 16 against Bundesliga club Borussia Dortmund with 1: 2 goals. In both games Seeger held the position of center runner. Also in the third cup victory in 1966 in Berlin - 3-2 victory against Wacker 04 on November 27, 1965 - Seeger was active as a defensive conductor. Wolfgang Seeger played his last regional league game for Charlottenburg on September 25, 1966 alongside fellow players Georg Damjanoff , Bernd Gersdorff , Horst Lunenburg and Bernd Sobeck . With the 1: 2 defeat against Hertha BSC he ended his career at Tennis Borussia after 80 regional league appearances for the "Veilchen" and two goals and joined SC Staaken in the amateur league Berlin for the 1967/68 round .

With the experienced defensive conductor Staaken won the Berlin amateur championship, rose to the regional league and competed in the games for the German amateur championship against the eventual finalist FC Wacker Munich . Seeger came with Staaken in 1968/69 on the 11th place and completed it again 23 regional league games. Overall, he came in the Berlin Regionalliga from 1963 to 1969 on 103 games with three goals. He ended his career in the summer of 1969.

literature

• Hardy Grüne , Lorenz Knieriem: Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 8: Player Lexicon 1890–1963. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2006, ISBN 3-89784-148-7 .
• Raphael Keppel, The German Football League 1946–1963, Sports and Games Publishing Edgar Hitzel, Volume 1: Berlin-North-West, 1989, ISBN 3-9802172-3-X .
• Hardy Greens: Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 2: Bundesliga & Co. 1963 to today. 1st division, 2nd division, GDR Oberliga. Numbers, pictures, stories. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 1997, ISBN 3-89609-113-1 .