Wolfgang Solz

Wolfgang Solz (born February 12, 1940 in Frankfurt am Main ; † March 24, 2017 ) was a German football player from Eintracht Frankfurt , who made two appearances in the German national football team in 1962 and 1964 .

Player career

Eintracht Frankfurt

The youth player from Union Niederrad took part with the youth national team in the UEFA youth tournament in April 1958 and scored a goal as a half-forward in the 2-2 group game against Belgium. In 1958, Solz moved to Eintracht Frankfurt in the Riederwald. The first year, 1958/59, he spent in the Eintracht “junior team” due to the change regulations at the time. With the amateur selection of the Hessian Football Association , he moved in the competition of the regional cup after successes against Southwest, South Baden and in the semifinals on March 29, 1959 in Rüsselsheim with 4-2 against Württemberg in the final. Hessen lost that on April 26th at Millerntor with 1: 4 against Hamburg. Peter Kunter (Eintracht Wetzlar) guarded the goal and Erwin Stein (SpVgg Griesheim 02) was in action as a center forward on the side of left winger Solz. From the 1959/60 season he was a member of the league team. On December 6, 1959, he celebrated his debut on the left wing in the Oberliga Süd in the 2-2 home game against SSV Reutlingen 05 . In his first league round he came on nine missions and scored three goals. He experienced the final of the European Cup in Glasgow against Real Madrid on the bench in Hampden Park on May 18, 1960. The technician, called “Brazilian” because of his outstanding ball skills, played 69 games with 17 goals in the 1959-1963 Oberliga Süd. As an active player, he was involved in the runner-up in the south in 1961 and 1962 and in the following games in the final round of the German football championship . In the Bundesliga he made 113 appearances and 46 goals from 1963 to 1968. In the trade fair cup he gained international experience in the rounds of 1964/65 and 1966/67 . His last appearance in the Bundesliga was on May 25, 1968 in a 0-0 draw at FC Schalke 04 .

SV Darmstadt 98

After leaving Eintracht Frankfurt, he played three more rounds at SV Darmstadt 98 from 1968 to 1971 . The first two in the Regionalliga Süd as a player, the 1970/71 round as a player-coach in the amateur league Hessen . He won the championship with the "lilies" and brought them back to the regional league.

SpVgg Bad Homburg

As a 33-year-old player-coach, he won the German amateur championship in the Hessian spa on the southeast edge of the Taunus on June 30, 1973 with SpVgg Bad Homburg with a 1-0 win against the amateurs of 1. FC Kaiserslautern .

National team, 1962–1964

For his first use in the national team, he came as a player in the Oberliga Süd. On October 24, 1962, he came as a left winger in the 2-2 in Stuttgart against France on the side of Uwe Seeler , Heinz Strehl and Friedhelm Konietzka to use. After the soccer world championship in Chile in 1962 , the national coach Sepp Herberger had to rebuild, and this gave the 22-year-old from Frankfurt his debut in the national jersey. His second game in the national team he played on April 29, 1964 in Ludwigshafen in the 3: 4 defeat against Czechoslovakia. He formed the left wing with Wolfgang Overath . In the era of national coach Helmut Schön , he was no longer appointed to the DFB team. In the speed of acceleration he did not embody the type of the wing runabout; Helmut Haller , Wolfgang Overath and Günter Netzer were the playmakers in his prime.

Trainer

After winning eleven amateur titles, he ended his coaching career at FSV Frankfurt in 1989 . He was considered a master maker and collected 93 titles in a row in the stations Viktoria Aschaffenburg , VfR Bürstadt , FC Erbach , Rot-Weiss Frankfurt , Borussia Fulda and Hanau .

job

The former office worker ran an insurance agency in Frankfurt.

literature

• Matthias Kropp (ed.), Rolf Lachenmaier: Eintracht Frankfurt (= Germany's big soccer teams, 7). Agon, Kassel, 1995, ISBN 3-928562-53-3 .
• Werner Skrentny (Ed.): When Morlock still met the moonlight: the history of the Oberliga Süd 1945–1963 . Klartext Verlag, Essen, 1993, ISBN 3-88474-055-5 .
• Jürgen Bitter : Germany's national soccer player: the lexicon . SVB Sportverlag, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-328-00749-0 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Eintracht Frankfurt mourns Wolfgang Solz. In: Kicker . March 24, 2017. Retrieved March 25, 2017 .