Anton Schumacher
Anton " Toni" Schumacher ( born December 1, 1938 in Bonn ) is a former German football goalkeeper. From 1960 to 1968 he was at the 1 FC Cologne active and completed it 21 games in the league and 58 in the Bundesliga.
Career
Home club of the youth soccer player Toni Schumacher was blue and white Hemmerich. With Tura Bonn, the goalkeeper played in the season 1959/60 in the fifth division the middle Rhine and occupied with the newly promoted to fourth place. In the Lap history he made with his game performance the leaders of the Billy Goat Elf from Cologne attention to himself and changed in 1960 to the then Oberliga side 1 FC Cologne. Under coach Oswald Peacock he arrived on December 4, 1960 in an away game against SV Sodingen his debut in the Oberliga West. Goalkeeper of FC was the national squad belonging to Fritz Ewert. With a total of five missions had the man from Bonn share of winning the championship in the Oberliga West. In the last two rounds of the then prime Serie A, 1961/62 and 1962 /63 there was no change in the distribution of roles in the FC port. Toni Schumacher came on seven ( 1962) and nine (1963 ) further Oberliga inserts, whenever he had to step in for the injured Ewert. Overall, he graduated from 1960 to 1963 in the Oberliga West Association 21 games and was thus the champion teams of the 1st FC Cologne in these years in the Oberliga West at. When the Cologne in 1962 were able to celebrate winning the German championship with coach Zlatko Cajkovski, Schumacher had in the final group match on 21 April in a 3-1 win at Eintracht Frankfurt, Cologne stood in goal.
Also the return match against the Scottish champions FC Dundee on 26 September 1962 in competition at the European Cup champion, Schumacher was in for the injured Ewert in a 4-0 home win in the Cologne goal. The second winning the German Championship of Billy Goat Elf in debut season in the Bundesliga 1963/64, he came under coach George Knöpfle to four inserts in the dressing round. His Bundesliga debut Schumacher on February 15, 1964 in a 3-1 home win against Hertha BSC. In the second Bundesliga year 1964/65 he was with 23 league operations, the number one of Cologne; Ewert had to settle for seven league games. The title defense not worked, behind Werder Bremen it was enough for the runner-up. But were outstanding in the second Bundesliga season games in the European Cup of Champions.
In the quarterfinals, beat in the games against the English champions Liverpool FC the hour of the Keepers Toni Schumacher. Were there in the first leg on February 10, 1965 against the motion of manager Bill Shankly " Reds " in the 0-0 draw against a much defensively Elf from Liverpool almost no opportunity of distinguishing himself, but was this the return match on March 17 in front of 48 948 spectators at Anfield by the constant Running full tilt the home team, a completely different situation. The FC was staffed weakened by the absence of Hans Schäfer, Christian Müller and Leo Wilden in the dispute and the game developed into " a single defensive battle the Billy Goats, who had their outstanding players in Toni Schumacher, Wolfgang Weber and the actual reservists Matthias Hemmersbach ". In FC - book Hennes & Co., the performance of the Cologne Torstehers was even judged with world-class, "because he just stopped everything that came through Cologne coverage. Half a dozen incredible parades brought the stormy Englishman almost to despair, "and so had to determine the semi-finalists a play. This took place on 24 March in Rotterdam and ended after extra time 2-2. The former regulations saw before the toss for winner determination - at the second attempt, he decided in favor of Liverpool FC. A month later, on 24 April 1965, and Toni Schumacher sat at the World Cup qualifying match of the national team in Karlsruhe against Cyprus on the German bench.
In the Football World Cup 1966 in England claimed Schumacher with 22 league inserts his role as goalkeeper, but with the FC, it was enough in the Bundesliga, only the fifth rank. For the season 1966/67, came up with Willi Multhaup a new coach to Cologne; surprising for Toni Schumacher but also with Milutin Soskic a new number one. The " Hero of Liverpool" came in the first Multhaup - year to no use in the Bundesliga. In his eighth season in Cologne, 1967/68, he graduated again nine games in the Bundesliga and the FC came to fourth place. His last Bundesliga game he completed on February 3, 1968 in a 1-1 draw against FC Schalke 04 The real success came into existence but in the DFB Cup. The 1st FC Cologne in 1968 DFB Cup winners. Schumacher had in the two games against FC Homburg (4:1) and Eintracht Frankfurt ( 1-1 aet ) participated.
To round in 1968/69 the goalkeeper the SC Viktoria Köln joined, but came through lengthy injury prevented to only six games in the Football Regionalliga West. The engagements at KV Mechelen 1969/70 and at the Bonner SC 1970/71 were not accompanied by success and health.
As in the 1970s and 1980s, Harald Schumacher guarded the gate of the 1st FC Cologne, it was obvious that this missed the nickname " Toni".