Wilhelm Blunk
Wilhelm Friedrich " Fiete " Blunk (* December 12, 1902, † October 25, 1975 ) was a German football goalkeeper. With the Hamburger SV in 1928 he won the German championship with North Germany 1930 German Cup. In the national team he came in 1929 to an international match.
Career
With six years Blunk began his career at Good healing Neumünster. He was athletic versatile, gymnastics initially and operational athletics before he was finally footballer. When VfR Neumünster the goalkeeper was discovered in 1925 by Hamburger SV in the district league Schleswig -Holstein, and then he became the successor of the " legendary goalkeeper " Hans Martens built. In his first season in 1925 /26, he celebrated with the HSV success. First he won the Great Hamburger Championship playoff against Altona 93, as runners-up in northern Germany, he moved with his teammates in the final round of the German championship. In the semifinals of the Hamburg lost the game against Hertha BSC 2:4 gates. His strengths were clearly in control of the penalty area.
A trained fitter was considered a quiet, no-nonsense keeper. His big hamburger goalkeeping rival was in the 20s Hans Wentorf of Altona 93 In the National Team competitors were outstanding with Heiner Stuhlfauth from 1 FC Nuremberg, Willibald Kress (RW Frankfurt) and Hans Jakob von Jahn Regensburg available. His first championship in northern Germany, he won with HSV in the 1927/28 season, the fifth title in the Round 1932/33.
After the first North title 1928 Blunk and his teammates sat in the finals in July at the German championship over Schalke 04 (4-2 ), VfB Königsberg (4-0 ) in the semifinals in Duisburg with a 8:2 victory against FC Bayern Munich - with Bayern ran Kutterer Emil Ludwig Goldbrunner, Sigmund Haringer, Josef Pöttinger and Ludwig Hofmann - by and were characterized on 29 July in Altona in the final against Hertha BSC. 60,000 spectators at the Hamburger SV won the German championship with 5-2 gates. The defensive with Blunk, Albert Beier, Walter cracks, Hans Lang, Asbjorn Halvorsen and Otto Carlsson succeeded against Hertha attacker to John Sobek, Hans Ruch and Willi Kirsei.
On October 20, 1929 Blunk came to an international match in the game against Finland in Altona. The 4-0 victory for the team coached by Otto Mink also debuted Schalke Fritz Szepan in the German team. His team mate Albert Beier and Franz Horn were also in use. In 1931 he was appointed again for a friendly against France, but did not play. With North Germany HSV goalkeeper in 1929 was the first time in the final of the Federal Cup, but lost the final in Berlin with 1:4 goals against Brandenburg. A year later, on 9 March 1930 succeeded in Altona against last year's winner with a 2-0 win the rematch. From HSV stood beside Blunk also Beier, cracks, Otto Sommer, Hans Horn and rave on the winning North team.
In the season 1932/33, the man from Neumünster won with the red pants the fifth North championship, but retired in the final round of the German Cup already in the second round with a 1:4 home defeat against Eintracht Frankfurt from the competition. From 1926 to 1933, he had graduated with Hamburger SV 16 games in the German finals. Between 16 August 1925 and 16 November 1932, he played twelve representative games for Hamburg and 1926-1932 he was nine times in the goal of the North German Federation in the games at the federal or fighting game trophy. From 1925 to 1933 Blank herded 175 times the HSV target.
1933 " caught " it in radically operated taper of HSV also the goalkeeper. Besides Blunk it also hit the defender pair Albert Walter Beier and cracks as well as player-coach Asbjorn Halvorsen ( was coach to September 1933). Blunk went back to Neumünster and was a coach there his old club Gut Heil.