Josef Pöttinger
Josef " Sepp " Pöttinger (* April 16, 1903, † September 9, 1970 ) was a German football player and coach.
Association, 1919-1931
Pöttinger who distinguished himself mainly by his technique, already celebrated 16 years of its debut in the first team of FC Bayern Munich. But his ball skills and agility protected him not sufficiently against the body-hugging attacks the opponent's defensive player. From the beginning of his career he had therefore to struggle with injuries and also managed the breakthrough until the age of 23 in the season 1925/26. For winning the South German Championship 1926 FC Bayern Munich Pöttinger contributed 57 goals. For Southern Germany, he played on 28 March 1926 at the quarter-finals of the Fight Game Cup against Central Germany and on 18 April of the same year he made his debut in the national team. In the finals of the Fight Game Cup on July 4, 1926 in Cologne, he scored three times for the victorious 7-2 against West Germany Southern Germany gates. A day earlier, on July 3, the semi-final took place in Essen against North Germany. " Sepp " contributed a hit on the 4:2 victory of southern Germany. With his club Bayern Munich, he moved into the final round of matches in the German football championship three times in the years 1926, 1928 and 1929. After winning the title again in 1928 in Southern Germany reached Pöttinger and his playmates from Bayern Munich on Wacker Hall and SpVgg Cologne Suelz ( precursor of the 1st FC Cologne) the semi-finals. There, the Hamburger SV sat but clearly with 8:2 against the Munich and by collecting and sovereign against Hertha BSC championship. Pöttinger brought it to six games and six goals in the games of the finals. For Southern Germany he ran in 1926 and 1927 in four games and met four times in the gate. Years of knee problems and a broken leg forced him early in 1931 to end his playing career. This happened to him as " Wiggerl " Hofmann and " Mile " Kutterer: On the greatest triumph of Bayern Munich they could no longer participate as active. Winning the German soccer championship 1932 won the defense stretching Haringer, Heidkamp and Goldbrunner and storm acted Bergmaier and tube. Kirn / Natan quoted: " rangy center-forward of the caliber Seiderers. Chamber Players of football. His originals came across the lawn as the balls over the baize. "
National Team, 1926-1930
The first two bets in the German football national team played Josef Pöttinger in 1926 on a half- links, as a connector between the club colleagues " Wiggerl " Hofmann on the left wing and the storm tank Otto Harder in the center forward position. In 1927 he replaced " Tull " Harder in the striker. After his debut with three goals on 18 April 1926 in Dusseldorf 's 4-2 win against the Netherlands by a " dream debut " Freshman Pöttinger was reported in the local sports press. At the Summer Olympics in Amsterdam in 1928, he belonged to the DFB team in the two games against Switzerland and the Olympic champion Uruguay. On 10 February 1929, he led the national team as captain in Mannheim 's 7-1 victory over Switzerland. When 3:3 draw on 10 May 1930 in Berlin against England were the three Bayern striker Bergmaier, Hofmann and Pöttinger together with Ernst Kuzorra and the three -goal Richard Hofmann attack the team of coach Otto mink. With the use of 14 was the international career of playing center forward who was able to put his teammates time and again in the scene to end. Karl Hohmann, the man from VfL Benrath represented, in the coming years successfully in the inner storm the colors of the German national soccer team.
Coach
After the playing career of FC Teutonia Munich was the first coach instead of Josef Pöttinger. He then took the VfB Pankow and then transferred to 1 SV Jena. In Jena he could celebrate the championship in the middle Gauliga before Magdeburg, Halle and Erfurt in 1934/ 35 and 1935/36. He later coached yet VfB Stuttgart (1939 -? 1941), FC Bayern Munich, FC Teutonia again, 1 FC Lichtenfels and from 1949 to 1951 as well as 1945/46, BC Augsburg.
After his football career, he led a Totoannahnmestelle in Munich near the Hofbräuhaus.
Swell
- Jürgen Bitter: Germany national football team. The lexicon. Sports Verlag, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-328-00749-0.
- Matthias Kropp (ed.): 1900-1993 Bayern Munich (Germany's major football teams; Vol. 4). Agon Sport Verlag, Kassel 1993, ISBN 3-928562-35-5.
- Raphael Keppel ( Eds.): Germany's international football matches. documentation. Sports and game publishing, Hürth, 1989, ISBN 3-9802172-4-8.
- Hardy Green: From the Crown Prince to Bundesliga1890 to 1963 ( Encyclopedia of the German football league, 1). Agon Sport Verlag, Kassel 1996, ISBN 3-928562-85-1.
- Richard Kirn, Alex Natan: Football. Past and present, rules and terms. Ullsteinhaus paperback publishing house, Frankfurt / M. In 1958.
- LIBERO, No. D9, 1994, IFFHS
- LIBERO, No. D6/D7, 1993 IFFHS