Norbert Nigbur

Norbert Nigbur ( born May 8, 1948 in Gelsenkirchen ) is a former German football goalkeeper who played for FC Schalke 04 and Hertha BSC. Six times he was employed in the German national team.

Career

Clubs

Norbert Nigbur initially wanted to do an apprenticeship as a trotting race driver, but played in his youth for the SV Gelsenkirchen- Hessler football and was first used as a center forward. After he had taken the place of the referenced goalkeeper in a match and held two penalties, he was only used as a goalkeeper. On his 18th birthday, his father signed with Schalke president Fritz Szepan first professional contract, since his son was still a minor. For the Bundesliga season 1966/67, Nigbur was thus second only to goalkeeper Josef Elting squad of FC Schalke 04 On September 3, 1966 game against 1.FC Nuremberg he solved Elting from the age of 18 and became the number 1

1969 Schalke lost with him the finals of the DFB Cup against Bayern Munich 1-2. The team to Nigbur, Klaus Fichtel, Rolf Rüssmann, Klaus Fischer and Reinhard Libuda 1972 runner-up. Norbert Nigbur was this season in the Bundesliga keeper with the fewest goals against. Over 555 minutes of time he had to take a clean sheet. This record had over ten years of existence. Schalke won the DFB Cup 5-0 against 1 FC Kaiserslautern. This was the first national title for Nigbur and the first for the club since the championship in 1958. Was remarkable in this Cup triumph but also the semi-final match against 1 FC Köln ( first leg 1:4 ) in which Nigbur, according to 5:2 in the regular season, his team saved a penalty in the penalty shootout held. Here lay the " wildcat " Nigbur one better: He held two more penalty shot and even a safe in the net. After a nail-biting game with 21 penalties Schalke moved finally to the final. Nigbur was next to Sepp Maier from Bayern Münchenund Wolfgang Kleff Borussia Mönchengladbach Bundesliga as the best goalkeeper of the 1970s.

From the Bundesliga scandal, implicated in the number of Schalke player, he was not affected. At the " shifted " match against Arminia Bielefeld, which was lost on April 17, 1971, 0:1, he did not participate due to injury. In its place, Dieter Burdenski was used.

On September 14, 1974 Bundesliga game against VfL Bochum was overlooked at that Nigbur still was at the time of re- Anpfiffs after the end of the half -time break in the cabin. From a police officer he was initially prevented from entering the pitch and to intervene in the already resumed game. Although the Schalke goal was unoccupied in the first minutes of the second half, was not a goal.

After disputes with coach Max Merkel and President Günter Siebert on the renewal of his contract, he was terminated in 1976. Nigbur joined for the 1976/77 season Hertha BSC. With this club he reached the finals in 1977 to the Association Cup against 1 FC Cologne and 1979 against Fortuna Dusseldorf. The Berlin gig lasted about three years before he reconciled with Siebert and 1979 returned to Schalke.

In the season 1980/81 Schalke increased with 88 goals conceded from the 2nd Bundesliga. Nigbur held the club loyalty and contributed with his performances for immediate resurgence in. Thereafter, however, there was a falling out with the new manager Rudi Assauer, Nigbur was removed from the squad. Even today, he has a strained relationship with his former club Schalke 04, for which he was in a total of 466 official matches between the posts. Over the short six-month interlude at VfB Hüls, for which he ran aground the first time on 5 February 1984, he joined in the summer of 1984 to Rot-Weiss Essen in the time of his third-rate Oberliga Nordrhein, where he played 27 league games yet. In the subsequent promotion round he was no longer used, so that he ended his long career after the season 1984/85.

National

About the circle selection Nigbur came in the DFB youth team, for which he was used 13 times: the first time on March 21, 1965 in Oberhausen in the 1-2 defeat against the selection of Hungary, the last time on May 25, 1966 in Pristina at the 1 :3- defeat by the selection of Spain in preliminary round match of the UEFA youth tournament in Yugoslavia. On February 23, 1974 Nigbur debuted in the senior national team in the 0-1 defeat against Spain in Barcelona. He belonged to the squad of the national team that won the 1974 world title, however, was only behind goalkeeper Sepp Maier and did not play. On April 2, 1980, he graduated against Austria in Munich, his last of six international matches. At the European Championships in Italy in 1980, he was assigned as goalkeeper, but had to cancel due to a severe injury. Then Harald Schumacher was goalkeeper, Nigbur did not return to the national team.

After the End of career

Today ( 2010) has Nigbur property and a trotting team, further, he is now involved also in the Schalke golf circuit.

Remarkable

Mid -1970s undertook Nigbur a trip to pop business. He published the Jack White -produced single " If Schalke 04 would not " (A- side ) / " Oh Fata Morgana" (B-side ). All proceeds from this went to the Cancer Foundation. In 1979, he recorded a second single. The titles were: " 44 legs " (A- side ) / " That's why you know nothing about me ."

Achievements

  • Vice Cup winner in 1969, 1-2 against Bayern Munich
  • EC semi-finals of the Cup Winners 1970
  • Cup semi-final in 1971, 2:3 against 1.FC Cologne
  • Vice-Champion and German Cup winner 1972, 5:0 against 1.FC Kaiserslautern
  • World Champion 1974, spare behind Sepp Maier
  • Vice Cup winners 1977, 1:1 N.V. and 0:1 against 1.FC Cologne
  • Third in 1978, behind the 1st FC Cologne and Bor Mönchengladbach
  • Vice Cup winners 1979, 0:1 nV against Fortuna Dusseldorf
  • UC semi-final in 1979
  • Cup semi-final in 1980, 0:2 against 1.FC Cologne
  • Bundesliga promotion 1982
1. FC Kaiserslautern Bundesliga scandal (1971)
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