Fritz Ewert
Fritz Ewert ( born February 9, 1937 † 16 March 1990 in Swisttal- Heimerzheim ) was a German football player. As Keeper of the 1st FC Cologne he won in 1962 and 1964, twice the German championship.
Career
Clubs
As Keeper of the TuRU Dusseldorf the 20-year talent in the league association Lower Rhine drew attention to himself. From national coach Sepp Herberger the sudden huge amateur players was appointed on May 26, 1957 for the game between the youth team U 23 in Bayreuth against Czechoslovakia. The 1-1 draw, he formed together with the defender pair Herbert Dienelt and Hermann Höfer the rear triangle of the German team. On 20 and 26 June still included two test matches in DFB team in Schweinfurt and Berlin. For the season 1957/58 he moved to the Football Oberliga West 1st FC Cologne.
Coach Hennes Weisweiler started with the new data from Dusseldorf on 11 August 1957 in the Oberliga season 1957/58. The " Billy Goat Elf " won 4-2 at Fortuna Dusseldorf gates. In the course of the round but the former goalkeeper Günther terminal prevailed again and Ewert came in his first league season on nine missions. Cologne was runner-up and moved into the final round of the German Cup, Ewert but had to settle for the bench. In the second OL- year 1958/59, Ewert conquered but the number one at the 1 FC Cologne, was with the team under new coach Peter Szabo runner and completed in the final six games all. But his first final game was a 0-4 defeat on 16 May 1959 in Ludwigshafen against the Southwest representative FK Pirmasens. In the 1959/60 season the team of President Franz Kremer celebrated the West Championship - Ewert had denied all 30 round matches - and moved with Coach Oswald Peacock in the final round in the final on 25 June 1960 in Frankfurt against Hamburger SV one. With the defensive occupation Ewert in goal, the defender pair Georg Stollenwerk and Karl -Heinz Quick Inger and the runner series with Joseph Roehrig, Leo Wilden and Hans Sturm the final was lost with 2:3 goals. From 1960 to 1963 Fritz Ewert celebrated with the 1st FC Cologne in the Oberliga West four times the championship, moved three times in the final German, 1962 German champions and played a total of 28 finals matches. In the Oberliga West he came from 1957 to 1963 on 130 league games.
In the European Cup the tall goalkeeper had already collected in rounds 1958/59 bis 1961/62 in MesseCup experience. As a sovereign master Cologne occurred in State Champion competition on September 5, 1962 at the first leg at the Scottish champions FC Dundee liked to. It was a disgrace, with 1:8 lost the team of coach Cajkovski. As early as the fourth minute, keeper Ewert had injured after an aerial duel with a Scotsman, so he initially behaved continued to play, but had to be in the second half replaced by outfield Anton Regh because there were no Substitutes to this phase.
With the game year 1963/64, launched the single track Bundesliga. The four-time series champion of the Oberliga West, 1st FC Cologne, was his role as favorite with the new coach Georg Knöpfle and captured the first championship trophy in the Bundesliga. The goalkeeper belongs to the circle of players who, on 24 August 1963, the League brought as a player to run at the start date of the Bundesliga. Cologne won 2-0 goals in 1 FC Saarbrücken and Ewert acted before the defender pair Fritz Pott and Anton Regh and the defense was completed by the runner series with Helmut Benthaus, Leo Wilden and Hans Sturm. Ewert was in 26 games a safety decisive support in goal and was represented in the four remaining games of Anton " Toni" Schumacher. A superior performance, he brought on 13 Round, 30 November 1963, when the Cologne standings with two points had to compete head-start Followers Borussia Dortmund. In the Bundesliga Chronicle 1963/64, is noted for 3:2 success of Cologne:
" Cologne, however, had eingeigelt to the area around and defended extremely skillful. In addition, with Ewert was a man with great reflexes and "a thousand hands " in the box. Even a penalty of Emmerich punched the goalkeeper out of the danger zone ( 73 ). Thus survived the league leaders decimated the barrage of hosts in an exciting big game. "
Was he in the first Bundesliga year still main goalkeeper of FC, so he lost in the following season, 1964/65, his place at Toni Schumacher. He was also at the European Cup in the second round against Panathinaikos Athens in November 1964 in the gate, but was careful in the three legendary games in the quarter-finals against Liverpool in February / March 1965 Toni Schumacher Cologne's goal. In his last season in Cologne, 1965/66, he came only to twelve Bundesliga inserts. His last competitive game, he completed on 30 April 1966 under the 2:3 away defeat against Borussia Dortmund. From 1963 to 1966 Ewert had played 45 Bundesliga games. In the European Cup he was in 12 games in Cologne's goal. As 1966 Milutin Šoškić a Yugoslav national team goalkeeper was obliged Ewert moved to the Netherlands for AZ Alkmaar. Overall, he had played for the Cologne 230 Official matches. In Alkmaar Ewert played only one season. In 1967 he returned to TuRu Dusseldorf. In 1973 he was still playing for the SpVg Frechen.
National
Even as an amateur player of TuRU Dusseldorf began the international career of the goalkeeper. For the first time on 26 May 1957 he was appointed by the then national coach Sepp Herberger in the junior national team U 23. As keeper of the 1st FC Cologne followed in the season 1958/59, two further operations against Denmark and England in this talent selection of the DFB. On 3 October 1959 he was tested by the federal trainer at B countries in Konstanz game against Switzerland. In the 0:1 defeat to the Confederates, he formed together with the defenders Friedel Lutz and Willi Giesemann and the runner series with Willi Schulz, Ferdinand Wenauer and Dieter Stinka the defensive. His debut in the A-National Team he gave on 21 October 1959 in Cologne 's 7-0 win against the Netherlands. Overall, he played four times for the German national. In the best phase of Fritz Ewert, Hans Tilkowski the goalkeeper in the national team. In twelve countries playing the Cologne keeper sat on the bench, played in various test matches the DFB team and was the last time the international game on 29 April 1964 in Ludwigshafen against the vice world champion Czechoslovakia goalkeeper.