Engelbert Kraus
Engelbert Kraus ( born July 30, 1934), called Berti, is a former German football player. He was active for Kickers Offenbach and TSV 1860 Munich and also played in the German national soccer team.
Career
Club career
Kraus played in 1952 for Kickers Offenbach and 1963-1965 at TSV 1860 München. With the so-called sixties of the Right Wing in 1964 DFB Cup winner. From 1965 he played again at the Kickers for which he scored 117 goals in 328 games.
Kraus played from 1952 to 1963 for the Offenbacher Kickers in the Oberliga Süd. A highlight was the final game on June 28, 1959 in Berlin against Eintracht Frankfurt at the German soccer championship. The Offenbacher lost the dramatic Main derby after extra time 3:5 gates. From 1955 to 1960 Kraus came up with 14 games in the final round of the German football championship, scoring eleven goals for the OFC.
With the start of the Bundesliga in 1963 took a coach Max Merkel Kraus 1860 München. Despite the profit of the DFB - Cup on 13 June 1964 in Stuttgart with a 2-0 victory against Eintracht Frankfurt it was not a happy time for Kraus. After only 22 missions with nine goals in 1965 he returned back to the Bieberer mountain.
He played with the Kickers after two years in the Regionalliga Süd and came up with 33 games with six goals. Fact, it was not the longed-for promotion to the Bundesliga, but to participate in the promotion round. With the game on 21 June 1967 at Göttingen 05 in the Bundesliga promotion round 1967 Kraus ended his playing career.
National
Kraus was appointed on 25 June 1955 in the newly founded German U -23 national team for the match against Yugoslavia, which emanated 3:3. He scored two goals in this game. It remained his only use in the junior national team. In the German national Kraus came from 1955 to 1964 used nine times, but failed to be nominated for the German squad at the World Cup 1958 in Sweden. Helmut Rahn and Bernhard Klodt were not to crowd. In the first international game after the World Cup, on September 24, 1958 against Denmark, but he was again part of the team that brought in Copenhagen 1:1.
He then also included in the squad of the national team that took part in the 1962 World Cup in Chile. In the group match on June 6, 1962 against the host country Chile, in the 2-0 victory for the Herberger protégés, he then ran outside right at the Estadio Nacional Stadium in Santiago next Uwe Seeler, Albert Brülls and Hans Schaefer on. His last assignment in the DFB Dress resulted then from the game on June 7, 1964 in Helsinki against Finland. With a 4-1 victory, the assets adopted this long-standing national coach Sepp Herberger. With this first game after the 1963/64 Bundesliga season, Helmut Schön took over the DFB scepter. " Berti " Kraus also contributed three times the shirt of the B- team ( 1956-57 ) and stormed the first discharged junior international match of the DFB on 25 June 1955 in Frankfurt against Yugoslavia. The game ended in a draw with 3-3 goals and Kraus distinguished itself as scored twice from.
After the career
After two meniscus operations in 1965, the former right winger finished his career and worked as an insurance clerk in Offenbach. He was the initiator of the Old Men, a regular meeting of former active player in the first and second OFC team.