Wolfgang Seel (soccer player)

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Wolfgang Seel
Personnel
birthday June 21, 1948
place of birth Kirkel ,  Saarland
size 173 cm
position Midfielder , striker
Juniors
Years station
1956-1966 SV Kirkel
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1966-1971 1. FC Saarbrücken 150 (28)
1971-1973 1. FC Kaiserslautern 65 (16)
1973-1982 Fortuna Dusseldorf 274 (59)
1982-1986 1. FC Saarbrücken 127 (30)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1974-1977 Germany 6 0(0)
1 Only league games are given.

Wolfgang Seel (born June 21, 1948 in Kirkel , Saarland ) is a former German soccer player who played six times in the DFB's senior national team.

Career

The midfielder Seel started playing football at SV Kirkel. At the age of 18, he moved to 1. FC Saarbrücken in 1966 in what was then the Regionalliga Südwest, in which he played from 1966 to 1971. From 1971 to 1973 he played 65 games in the Bundesliga for 1. FC Kaiserslautern for whom he scored 16 goals after not being promoted to Saarbrücken. In 1973 he moved to Fortuna Düsseldorf for a transfer fee of DM 300,000 . In the Bundesliga he played a total of 361 games for 1. FC Kaiserslautern , Fortuna Düsseldorf and 1. FC Saarbrücken from 1971 to 1986 , in which he scored 79 goals. Between 1982 and 1986 he played 86 games for 1. FC Saarbrücken in the 2nd division and 1st Bundesliga. He scored 19 goals in those games.

The striker was part of the Fortuna Düsseldorf team, which had several national players in its ranks at the end of the 1970s and early 1980s with the brothers Klaus and Thomas Allofs , Gerd Zewe and Manfred Bockenfeld and against Hertha BSC in 1979 (Seel scored the decisive goal here to 1-0 in the 117th minute of the game) and in 1980 won the DFB Cup 2-1 against 1. FC Köln . In 1979 he lost the final of the European Cup Winners' Cup against FC Barcelona , despite two goals, with Fortuna 3: 4 a.s. He achieved particular fame with his two goals in Fortuna's 7-1 win over FC Bayern Munich in November 1978. For Fortuna he was used in 274 Bundesliga games and scored 59 goals. In his first five seasons he was used in all Fortuna games. In the 1981/1982 season he only had 12 missions for Fortuna, which is why he returned to 1. FC Saarbrücken that season for which he played 86 times in the 1st and 2nd Bundesliga and scored 19 goals. In 1985, Seel was able to return to the Bundesliga with Saarbrücken. He was best known for his fast sprints on the left wing.

Wolfgang Seel himself was active six times in the German national soccer team from 1974 to 1977 . He played his first game in the 2-1 win against Switzerland on September 4, 1974. His last game he played on December 14, 1977 in a 1-1 win against Wales.

After the career

After finishing his active career, Seel worked for Saarland Sport-Toto GmbH until 2007. He also played again in his current home town of Oberwürzbach for the first team of SV Oberwürzbach and achieved the championship in the district league A in the 1997/98 season. On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Bundesliga, Seel was promoted to a "Saarland anniversary team" in 2013 “Chosen. All Saarlanders who had played in the Bundesliga since 1963 were up for a vote, which was organized by Ellenfeld eV and the Saarpark Center .

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Note in: Westfalenpost (sports section) from November 6, 2012
  2. ↑ after "Ludwigspark" he returned to 1. FC Saarbrücken in 1982, world football and soccer data do not disclose when he changed, according to the news from Fortuna Düsseldorf he played for Fortuna until 1982. 1982 is therefore correct.
  3. ↑ Election of the Saarland jubilee team , accessed on July 6, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Seel, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH June 21, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Kirkel , Saarland