GÃ¼nter Sawitzki

Günter Savitsky ( born November 22, 1932) is a former German football player.

He played in his playing days as a goalkeeper for turf sports Holthausen, the SV Sodingen (1953-1956) and VfB Stuttgart. For VfB he played more than 400 games and won with this the DFB Cup in 1958; In 1963 he qualified with the team for the Bundesliga where he was until 1968 goalkeeper of VfB and was then replaced by the only 20 -year-old Gerhard Heinze; He has since played for amateur team of VfB with which he 1970, the final of the German Amateur Championship reached ( 0-1 against Jülich 1910). Then he brought it even once to a brief comeback in the Bundesligaelf. After a total of 248 league ( of which 64 for Sodingen, 184 for Stuttgart) and 146 Bundesliga games finished " Sawi " until 1971 his career at VfB Stuttgart.

The National Players

His debut in the B team, in this time also played his Sodinger teammate Gerhard Harper, Savitsky was on May 31, 1956 in Barcelona. In the 5-2 victory over the Spanish B- selection Horst Szymaniak, Jacob Miltz, Erich Baeumler and Heinz Wewers debuted in black-and- white dress of the " second string ". Until October 1958 Savitsky in three of seven other games guarded the gate of the B-team.

In the national team he played from 1956 to 1963 a total of ten times (twice during his time at Sodingen, eight times in Stuttgart), and took the national team participated in the 1958 World Cup in Sweden and the 1962 World Cup in Chile, without there but used to be: 1958 he remained " on call " in the homeland and in 1962 set national coach Herberger on the young Wolfgang Fahrian. His first international match played Günter Savitsky on 13 June 1956 in Norway against the local team ( Germany won 3-1 ), his last international match on November 3, 1963 in Sweden against the national team of the host country of the World Cup of 1958. Sweden won the match 2:1.