Georg Wurzer

Georg " Schorsch " Wurzer ( born January 31, 1907 in Fuerth, † August 8, 1982 ) was a German football coach. He won with VfB Stuttgart in the years 1950 and 1952, the German Cup in 1954 and 1958, the DFB Cup.

The Coach of VfB Stuttgart

Georg Wurzer began his playing career at FC Wacker München. He then moved to FV 94 Ulm, one of the predecessors of the teams SSV Ulm 1846, where he was active as a coach and as a player from 1932. As he played 20 Active tryouts for seasoning.

In summer 1947, Georg Wurzer went to the coach of VfB Stuttgart. Of the Ulmer "Sparrow ", with whom he had accomplished the ascent in the Oberliga Süd, led him the way to the Neckar. To want to train in order to carry out his personal credo, " young, unspoiled, native connected player material and no Cracks" and so on sight to have success, he scoured the region for players that fit the team. He took Rolf Blessing from Wendlingen, Erich savior from Pluederhausen, Erwin Waldner from Neckarhausen, Karl Bögelein from Bamberg, later Rolf Geiger of the Stuttgarter Kickers and still some others, he convinced them that he could offer him a home - in footballing terms as human.

By contract players who had a profession, he has formed a team to three times weekly evening training, who appeared for years for the German championship. This team founded in the 1950s, the reputation of the VfB Stuttgart and Georg Wurzer was. By the four title wins it the most successful VfB coach Also notable was his psychological and professional soccer reconstruction work on Robert Schlienz after its severe car accident on August 14, 1948 and subsequent amputation of the left arm. In October Schlienz celebrated its comeback and drew from now on the game at VfB from the midfield. In fact, Wurzer soul doctor and nurse in a self-taught wounds.

The sports journalist and novelist Hans Blickensdörfer writes in his book from the Stuttgart Union -Verlag " A ball flies around the world," in the " Messiah and scapegoat " from 1965 the following:

This in Swabia become sedentary Bayer, who had successfully completed in 1952, the football coach training course, was a real champion coach, which made however pecuniary paid comparatively low in the years before the current league salaries. Time to develop his native compiled teams was granted, however: he was thirteen years - 1947-1960 - coach of VfB Stuttgart.

Coach in the Regionalliga Süd

In the last round of the Oberliga Süd, he took over 1962/63 the SSV Reutlingen 05 From the start year of the Bundesliga (1963 /64) he was a coach in the newly installed Regionalliga Süd. In the second season (1964 /65), he led the club through into second place behind FC Bayern Munich in the Bundesliga promotion round to. Only one point behind the " foal " Hennes Weisweiler, the team of Borussia Monchengladbach, occupied the SSV the ungrateful second place and failed so that only the narrowest of margins on the rise. Until the 1965/66 season he remained in the city at the foot of Achalm. But then he went back to Stuttgart, now on the heights of Degerloch: under the TV tower waiting for the Stuttgarter Kickers on the old master coach of VfB Stuttgart. From 1966/67, bis 1970/71 - with a short break 1969/70 - he stayed with the Kickers and then ended his coaching career in professional football.

Georg Wurzer, who (like his " students " Schlienz ) survived a fatal traffic accident, died age of 75 of heart failure.

Achievements

  • German Cup 1950 with a 2-1 victory against Kickers Offenbach on 25 June in Berlin
  • German championship in 1952 with a 3-2 win against 1 FC Saarbrücken on 22 June in Ludwigshafen
  • DFB Cup victory in 1954 with a 1-0 N.V. against 1 FC Cologne on April 17th in Ludwigshafen
  • DFB Cup victory in 1958 with a 4:3 N.V. against Fortuna Dusseldorf on November 16 in Kassel

Coach stations

  • Gautrainer Saxony, 1936-39
  • TSG Ulm 1946
  • VfB Stuttgart, 1947-60
  • FC Zurich, 1960-62
  • SSV Reutlingen, 1962-66
  • Stuttgarter Kickers, 1966-71 ( 1969/70 a few months Gerd Menne )
  • During the Football World Cup 1954 Wurzer observed for Sepp Herberger (next to Albert Sing ) potential opponents of the German national

Swell

  • Germany's football, the lexicon. Sports Verlag, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-328-00857-8
  • German Cup history. AGON, Kassel 2000, ISBN 3-89784-146-0
  • History of the Oberliga Süd. Plaintext, Food 1993, ISBN 3-88474-055-5
  • The German football championship. AGON, Kassel 1997, ISBN 3-89609-107-7
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