Hans Weilbächer

Hans Weilbächer ( born October 23, 1933) is a former German footballer, who once appointed to the German national football team in 1955 and with Eintracht Frankfurt in 1959, German football champions.

Career

Eintracht Frankfurt, 1952-1965

Trained in the youth of Amicitia Hattersheim Hans Weilbächer, changed in 1952 to Eintracht Frankfurt. The first year he had to spend in exchange for technical reasons in the junior team of Eintracht. From the round of 1953/54, he played in the contract player team. In the debut round he completed all 30 games in the Oberliga Süd and contributed to winning the runner- nine Goals. After the signing of coach Paul Oßwald to Round 1958/59 Eintracht improved their performance and won the title in the Oberliga Süd. In the final round of the German soccer championship 1959, the Frankfurter put unbeaten against 1 FC Köln, Werder Bremen and FK Pirmasens. With a goal difference of 26:11 gates they entered the final. Final opponents were the rivals of the Offenbacher Kickers. In a dramatic match Eintracht Frankfurt won 5-3 after extra gates. Hans Weilbächer work done as a tireless impeller and duration in midfield on the left external rotor position his task. Often crossed his path Hermann Nuber. Since Weilbächer belonged to the militant group in the Eintracht team, the technician for Pfaff and Sztani were in the majority, he had to neutralize the tactical task the athlete and never been reproduced fighter Nuber if possible. The European Cup games of the round 1959/60 in the national champion competition were the highlight of the sporting career of Hans Weilbächer. On November 4, 1959 began the European games for Eintracht. Opponent was the Swiss champion Young Boys Bern, who was trained by the German Altinternationalen Albert Sing and was last year failed to Stade de Reims until the semi-finals. With a free kick in the fourth minute game Weilbächer achieved concord leadership and at the same time the first goal of the Frankfurt in the European Cup. The pupils of Paul Oßwald prevailed against Bern, Wiener Sport-Club and the Glasgow Rangers and were thus in the final on 18 May 1960 in Glasgow against the defending champion Real Madrid. Hans Weilbächer fell the task to shade the playmaker Madrilen, Alfredo Di Stéfano. By this time the frame busting runs completely generic and playful activity of the " blond arrow", from his own penalty area to operate permanently up in the penalty box, Weilbächer could not be fully compliant with this requirement. European Footballer of the years 1957 and 1959 given the timing of the game and led together with the four -goal Ferenc Puskas Real Madrid to a sovereign 7:3 success. In the years 1961 and 1962 the frankfurters with Weilbächer as runner-up in the south has again succeeded in the Final Tournament. Overall, the left runners graduated in four finals 17 games. On January 27, 1963 he played in the 0-1 home defeat to Hessen Kassel his last league game for Eintracht Frankfurt. From 1953 to 1963, he brought it to 241 games and 48 goals in the Oberliga Süd. In the new football league he was still under contract until 1965, to a bet he no longer came. He finished in 1965 after 570 games in 13 years, his career at Eintracht Frankfurt.

National Team, 1953-1958

The first international vocation received the 20 -year-old inside forward for amateur match between Germany and France in Wuppertal on 13 June 1953. The second mission took place in 1954. Among the Hamburg discharged during the final round in 1955 on May 28 match against Ireland appointed national coach Sepp Herberger Frankfurt in the German national soccer team. As half right he made his debut in a 2-1 victory at the side of the 31- year-old Robert Schlienz from VfB Stuttgart. The coach has tested 1957 and 1958 the Frankfurter on its common position of the left outer rotor in two games of the B- team. But in the squad for the World Cup in Sweden in 1958, he received a recording. Horst Szymaniak, the man from Erkenschwick, occupied this position for years with international class.

Particularity

The surviving player of harmony from the years 1959/60 to meet today regularly four times a year. For the final of the Champions League 2002 between Real Madrid and Bayer 04 Leverkusen at Hampden Park in Glasgow, the members of both playoff teams were invited in 1960 by UEFA to Glasgow. Two days a meeting at the site at which they had written sports history.

After the career

The living am Taunus near Frankfurt Hans Weilbächer supervised by end of his career amateur teams in Oberursel and Langen and then focused on his job as a calculator at Hoechst AG, where he was employed for four decades.

Swell

• Germany's national soccer player, Lexicon, Sports Verlag Berlin, 1997, ISBN 3-328-00749-0
• History of the Oberliga Süd, plain text Verlag, 1993, ISBN 3-88474-055-5
• Germany's great soccer teams; Part 7: Eintracht Frankfurt, AGON, 1995, ISBN 3-928-562-53-3
• The Game of the Century, AGON, 2004, ISBN 3-89784-248-3

• Man
• National football team ( Germany )
• German
• Born in 1933