Walter Zastrau

Walter Zastrau (* May 30, 1935 ) is a former German football national team. From 1955 to 1962, the defender for clubs Rot-Weiss Essen and FC Schalke 04 completed in the then world-class soccer Oberliga West a total of 151 league games and scored two goals.

Career

Association football, to 1963

Zastrau was a young talent from their own youth and made his debut after winning the German championship on June 26, 1955 in the 1955/56 season in the league team of Rot-Weiss Essen. Under coach Fritz Szepan he came in the course of the round - the team from Bergeborbeck finished in fifth place in the West - to a total of 13 league operations and was also in the two games in the European Cup of Champions against the Scottish representatives Hibernian in use. His start in the Oberliga West he had on 31 August 1955 in a 2-0 home win against Preußen Münster. Fritz Herkenrath in goal and the debutant defended together with Willi Köchling. In his second league year, 1956/57, he was employed by new coach Elek Schwartz in 26 competitive games in the big leagues. In the year of the FIFA World Cup 1958 in Sweden, in 1957/58, he led, together with the use Herkenrath list at RWE in the league with 30 games and did besides they have been appointed twice scorer forth. Its active time with the crew of the harbor road he finished 1958/59 with a further 29 league inserts from. His last league game for his hometown club RW Essen graduated from the almost predominantly acting on the right back position defensive player on the 30th Round, 22 April 1959 in the 2-3 home defeat against SV Sodingen. Overall, he has completed from 1955 to 1959 for RWE 98 league games and scored two goals in the process. To round 1959/60 he joined the FC Schalke 04.

With " Royal Blue " he reached the positions four (1960 ), three ( 1961) and two ( 1962) in three rounds. In the final round of the German Cup 1962 but Schalke joined in the three group matches against 1 FC Nuremberg, Tasmania 1900 Berlin and Borussia Neunkirchen each with the defender pair Günther Karnhof and Hans Nowak. After a total of 53 league operations from 1959 to 1962 under the trainers Nandor Lengyl ( 1959-1961 ) and Georg Gawliczek ( 1961-1964 ) for Schalke 04 he joined the Round 1962/63 VfL Bochum in the 2nd League West at. Since Bochum could not qualify for the new football season Regionalliga West for 1963/64, ended in the summer of 1963 the higher class career of Walter Zastrau.

Selection vocations

The defender of Rot-Weiss Essen was first appointed by national coach Sepp Herberger on 19 December 1956 in a DFB team. The junior national team (U -23) was their second international match in Liege against Belgium and the 21 -year-old talent from RWE formed together with Hans Barwenzik the German 3-2 success the German defenders pair. From 18 February to 2 March 1957, he took part in a DFB - course at the sports school of Duisburg- Wedau and arrived on March 27 to his second in the junior national team. In his home city of Essen Belgium cashed in the return match with 2:4 the second defeat. In the course of the round in 1957/58 he was a member of several training courses as well as Test matches in the Herberger squad. In mid-April 1958, he was reported to FIFA in the 40 list of the DFB for the World Cup 1958 in Sweden. On 1 May 1958 he was a member of the B- Team, with the 1:4 gates lost their game against Luxembourg surprising. Nevertheless, he was from the 12th to May 24th, 1958 the World Cup final course in the Sports School Munich - Grünwald on. The World Cup squad in the tournament days in Sweden but he was not a member then. In the season 1958/59 he was with the two international matches of the A national team on 19 November against Austria respectively on December 21 against Bulgaria reservist, before December 28, 1958 in Cairo during the match against Egypt ( 1-2 defeat ) on the side of Karl -Heinz Quick Inger at right-back was used.

During his time at Schalke 04 to Zastrau could not recommend for selection teams. He exercised the profession of employees.

Source

  • Lorenz Knieriem, Hardy Green: Players lexicon 1890-1963. Agon Sport Verlag, Kassel 2006, ISBN 3-89784-148-7 ( Encyclopedia of German league football 8).
  • Jürgen Bitter: Germany's national soccer players. The lexicon. Sports Verlag Berlin. In 1997. ISBN 3-328-00749-0
  • Georg Schrepper, Uwe Wick: " ... over and over again RWE! " The story of Rot-Weiss Essen. Publishing the workshop. Göttingen 2004. ISBN 3-89533-467-7
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