Hans Nowak
Hans Nowak ( born August 9, 1937 in Gelsenkirchen, † 19 July 2012) was a German football player.
Career
Clubs
FC Schalke 04
The part of the FIFA Tournament in a 0-0 draw against Portugal at the youth national team appointed in Pisa already on April 9, 1955 young striker Hans Nowak joined in the summer of 1958, after two rounds in the 2nd League West at Eintracht Gelsenkirchen with a total of 42 league inserts and 16 goals the German champion of 1958, FC Schalke 04, where he was summoned after some time as a defensive player who should occasionally turn on the offensive with it.
The " squire " had a surprising 3-0 victory over Hamburger SV after many years of waiting, finally can win the championship trophy for Schalke on May 18 of the World Cup 1958 in front of 80,000 spectators in Hanover again. Under the Austrian coach Edi Frühwirth on the side of the master players Orzessek, Borutta, Laszig, Koslowski, cross and Klodt then began for him the premier league era in the West. Rank default could but only in the 1961/62 season - to build on the success of 1958 - then the coach Georg Gawliczek. The team finished second in the league behind West 1st FC Cologne in second place and moved so that in the championship finals, but failed at the first defending champion FC Nuremberg. Overall Nowak denied 98 league games ( until 1963 ) and scored 24 goals.
The first two seasons of Schalke in the newly created League went thoroughly wrong. In the season 1964/65 only the increase of 16 rescued in 18 clubs the club by Ernst Kuzorra and Fritz Szepan before the second class, which the former national player Nowak, Willi Schulz, Günter Herrmann, Willi Koslowski and "Stan" Libuda were not able to inhibit. After this defeat season Nowak moved to FC Bayern Munich. He had completed 47 games for Schalke in the Bundesliga and has achieved three goals. During his Schalke time he operated a tile shop in Essen-Katernberg.
FC Bayern Munich
For the newly promoted Bundesliga he played from 1965 to 1968 and denied due to an injury at this time only 37 games in which get four goals to him. During this time he won with Bayern in 1966 DFB Cup: On June 4, MSV Duisburg in Frankfurt am Main was defeated 4-2 gates; together with Werner Olk he could convince the defense. 1967 - in the title defense - he was not in the team; this on 31 May 1967 at the final of the European Cup Winners' Cup competition against the Glasgow Rangers, thanks to a goal by Franz Roth 1-0 decision of FC Bayern Munich in the extension itself and thus Borussia Dortmund succeeded.
Kickers Offenbach
In the 1968/69 season he played on the " Bieberer mountain". In only twelve missions he could not prevent the descent of Hesse in the second division. With the 0:3 away defeat at Borussia Dortmund on June 7, 1969 ( 34th Round ) finished the season with the OFC 28:40 points and Hans Nowak said goodbye at the same time out of the league. Due to ongoing health problems Nowak finished his pro career and went first as a player-coach and then only as a trainer for 1 FC Hochstadt.
National
With its consistently good defensive performances at club level he made national coach Sepp Herberger attention to itself so that it Nowak 1961 he was appointed to the German national soccer team. On 20 September he was in Dusseldorf - in a 5-1 victory against Denmark - his debut; he defended on the side of Karl -Heinz Quick Inger and goalkeeper Hans Tilkowski of Westfalia Herne.
At the World Cup in Chile in 1962 then played Nowak and Schnellinger all games in defense, where the matches against Italy, Switzerland, Chile and Yugoslavia always particularly large claims presented to the defense. But this game was defense in this World Cup days in South America big plus of DFB - Elf. Defensively, the team fully convinced - she was in it with the best in the tournament. However, this quality even in the game forward not successfully continued, although also in the offensive had with Uwe Seeler, Helmut Haller, Albert Brülls and Hans Schaefer personnel available with which one is needed to hide from anyone in good shape.
The World Cup was the highlight in the career of Hans Nowak. His 15th and last game in the national team, he played on November 4, 1964 in Berlin against the Swedes. It was also the first game in the responsibility of the new national coach Helmut Schön and a World Cup qualifying match for the 1966 World Cup in England; so the game was of particular importance. Nowak again defended on the side of Karl -Heinz Quick Inger and with Hans Tilkowski goal. The game ended in spite of great superiority of the German team with a 1-1 draw.
After the career
Nowak worked as a merchant in the sporting goods manufacturer Puma and coached sponsored by his employer 1 FC Herzogenaurach, with which he ascended the Bavarian League. From 1996 to 2008 he worked as an executive in merchandising of Bayern Munich. He was father of two.