Ernst-Günter Habig

Ernst- Günter " De bang " Habig ( born September 14, 1935 in Cologne, † March 14, 2012 ) was a German football player and coach who has taken part in the Summer Olympic Games in Melbourne in 1956 as a player of the German national football team of amateurs.

Career

Ernst -Günter Habig was both a football player and later as a coach exclusively in western Germany, and there preferably in Cologne, active. His achievements as a player earned him a 16 vocations in various representative teams of the Association, including four appeals to the amateur national teams and a calling in the B team, but the senior team was not among them. In his three years at FC Cologne 1 he played under coaches Oswald Peacock and Zlatko Čajkovski. In 1962, the right winger with the Billy Goats German masters. 4-0 playoff success on 12 May 1962, over 80,000 spectators at Berlin's Olympic Stadium against 1 FC Nuremberg Habig scored two goals. Also in 1963 he reached the 1 FC Cologne the final of the German Cup, but was not used in the final defeat against Borussia Dortmund.

Habig belonged to the first German U -18 national team that won on March 31, 1953 against Argentina in the FIFA junior tournament in Liege 3-2. His teammates were, among others Uwe Seeler and Klaus Stürmer. Overall, he came to April 19 in which he scored 4 goals on 10 female youth internationals. He also participated in part of the junior championships in 1954, in which the DFB second place on April 19, 1954, achieving a 2:2 in their second participation in the tournament after extra time against the Spanish selection. Habig was used in all games. The final was his last youth international match.

On November 24, 1956, the German national football team of amateurs competed in Melbourne in the 1956 Olympics against the eventual Olympic gold medalist Soviet Union. Habig, scoring the only goal for the German team, but retired after the 1:2 final result already after the first game of the tournament.

His son Günter was also active as a football player in the 2nd Bundesliga. His son Jens Keller played several years for the 1st FC Cologne.

Ernst Günter Habig died on 14 March 2012 after a stroke in the University Hospital of Cologne.

Statistics

  • Oberliga West 83 games; 39 Goals SC Viktoria Köln
  • 71 games; 12 Goals 1 FC Köln
  • 3 Matches SC Viktoria Köln
  • 4 games; 1 Goal 1 FC Köln
  • 5 games; 1 Goal 1 FC Köln

Achievements

  • German master: 1962
  • Master of the Oberliga West: 1961, 1962, 1963
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