Wolfgang Strobel (soccer player)

Wolfgang Strobel (born October 17, 1896 in Nuremberg , † April 19, 1945 in Bad Kreuznach ) was a German football player .

Career

societies

Strobel began playing football in Schweinau , a suburb of Nuremberg , at the local TV Schweinau , before he was signed by 1. FC Nürnberg in 1917 and was able to achieve great success after the First World War . In the championships organized by the South German Football Association , he played in the eastern district , from the 1919/20 season in the Northern Bavarian regional league, from the 1923/24 season in the more competitive and not divided into regional leagues, and again in the 1927/28 season of the Northern Bavaria group, point games.

During his 13-year club membership, he played 421 competitive games, including 17 finals, and won numerous regional championships because he belonged to a team that exuded dominance for more than a decade. His greatest sporting successes include the five German championships, where he participated in the first four finals and on June 9, 1924 in Berlin in the final against Hamburger SV, he scored the decisive goal to make it 2-0 in the 87th minute. In January 1927 he was so badly injured in a friendly that he could no longer play the remaining matches. Only in the round of 16 of the DM finals , in the 5-1 victory over Chemnitzer BC , he was used again; the final team of 1927, however, he was no longer a member.

He was also a member of the two final teams against Hamburger SV, which had to play the repeat final that became necessary on August 6, 1922 and was canceled by referee Peco Bauwens because only seven of the eight permitted players were available to 1. FC Nürnberg. as well as the one previously held on June 18, 1922, which had not produced a winner after the 2: 2 draw afterwards and had to be canceled after 189 minutes due to falling darkness. However, Hamburger SV, who had been declared champions, renounced the title.

Selection / national team

Strobel played four international matches for the senior national team , for which he made his debut on April 23, 1922 in Vienna in a 2-0 victory over the national team of Austria . He played his last game as a national player on September 21, 1924 in Budapest in the 1: 4 defeat against the national team of Hungary .

As a player in the selection team of the South German Football Association , he took part in the competition for the Federal Cup, which he won on March 5, 1922 in Hamburg in a 7-0 final victory over the North German Football Association's selection team , as well as on October 4, 1925 in Leipzig in the 2-1 final victory over the team of the Association of Central German Ball Game Clubs .

successes

• German champion 1920 , 1921 , 1925 , 1927
• South German Master 1918 , 1920 , 1921 , 1924 , 1927 , 1929
• District champion Bavaria 1924 , 1925 , 1927
• North Bavarian master 1920 , 1921 , 1922 , 1929
• Eastern district champion 1918
• Federal Cup winner 1922 , 1926

Others

Wolfgang Strobel combined highs and lows in his playing culture. Although he was fast and had an excellent cross, he was occasionally prone to daydreams, from which Captain Gustav Bark had to wake him up regularly with the call of Wolfl . His corners also gave rise to criticism. Furthermore, he was only partially dangerous, although he was remembered in club history mainly for his decisive goal in the final of 1924.

Strobel died shortly before the end of the Second World War . He served as an auxiliary policeman in a petrol depot in Fürth . The invading occupation forces shot him off his bike in the middle of the street. The Americans transported him to Bad Kreuznach, but Strobel died there from his injuries.

Web links

• Wolfgang Strobel in the database of weltfussball.de
• Wolfgang Strobel on dfb .de
• Wolfgang Strobel on glubberer.de

literature

• Christoph Bausenwein, Harald Kaiser, Bernd Siegler: The legend of the club. The history of 1. FC Nürnberg. Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2006, ISBN 3-89533-536-3 .
• Hardy Greens : Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 1: From the Crown Prince to the Bundesliga. 1890 to 1963. German championship, Gauliga, Oberliga. Numbers, pictures, stories. Agon-Sportverlag, Kassel 1996, ISBN 3-928562-85-1 .
• Hardy Grüne, Lorenz Knieriem: Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 8: Player Lexicon 1890–1963. Agon-Sportverlag, Kassel 2006, ISBN 3-89784-148-7 .
• Kicker-Fußball-Almanach '92 , Copress-Verlag, Munich, ISBN 3-7679-0340-7 .