Josef Pirrung
Josef " Seppl " Pirrung ( born July 24, 1949 in Münchweiler Rodalb; † 11 February 2011) was a German footballer who plays as a striker completed the 1st FC Kaiserslautern in 1969 to 1981 in the Bundesliga 304 Games while 61 goals scored.
Career
Clubs, 1959-1984
The students and young people " Seppl " Pirrung went through the entire stages in the youth department of the local team FC Munchweiler in the Southwest Palatinate. After appointments in the selection of the Southwest German State Association and the Football Regional Council of Southwest technically outstanding, combination safe, strong dribbling and running joyful Forward was first appointed on 14 February 1967 in the German national youth team by the DFB. When international match in Moenchengladbach against England, he took on the side of the players Gerhard Heinze, Egon Schmitt, Rainer Zobel and Roland Weidle the German colors. Then he came to the two successful qualifiers in March 1967 against the Netherlands for use. In May, he was a member of the DFB team for the UEFA youth tournament in Turkey. In the second group match on 7 May in Bursa against Austria (2:1 ), he broke his leg. When you first play attempt after alleged healing he broke again the tibia and fibula. A few months later, the third leg fracture followed in a year.
1968 changed the 1.67 m great new hope from FC Munchweiler 1 FC Kaiserslautern in the Bundesliga. Due to the lengthy injuries, he debuted only on the third Round of the season 1969/70, on 30 August 1969 in the Bundesliga. In the 2:4 away defeat against FC Schalke 04 he came on in the 79th minute of coach Gyula Lóránt for Klaus Ackermann. After Dietrich Weise had 1971/72 taken over as coach on the Betz mountain, came the "Red Devils " on the round end in the league to seventh place in the standings and Pirrung had on the side of Hermann Bitz, Jurgen Friedrich, Idriz Hosic, Klaus Ackermann, Wolfgang Seel and Karl -Heinz Vogt scored three goals in 29 games. In the DFB-Pokal, they moved to successes against the Wuppertal SV, VfB Stuttgart, Rot Weiss Oberhausen and two 2-1 victories in the semi-final against Werder Bremen in the DFB Cup final on 1 July 1972 in Hannover against FC Schalke 04 one. Schalke had until the last round game day, June 28, lost by a 1:5 defeat at defending champions Bayern Munich fight for the championship trophy and went, thanks to their great offensive with Herbert Lütkebohmert, Heinz van Haaren, Klaus Scheer Reinhard Libuda, Klaus Fischer and Erwin Kremers as the clear favorite in the final. Pirrung and colleagues learned the class of Schalke at the 0:5 final defeat in all clarity, but still managed by the finals and the initial qualification to participate in the European Cup for Round 1972/73, boast a clear round positive balance.
In the UEFA Cup 1972/73 season, Kaiserslautern met in the first round on the English professionals from Stoke City. The well-known national player Gordon Banks ( gate) and Geoff Hurst attacker stood for the skill of the former team of the legend Stanley Matthews from the Victoria Ground. Pirrung was one of the FCK actors with a 4-0 home win their way into the second round paved on 27 September 1972, then also CUF Barreiro and Ararat Yerevan scientists turned off before the " foal " from Bökelberg, Borussia Mönchengladbach, located proved to be too high hurdle in the quarterfinals. Pirrung had participated in all eight of the European Cup games.
National towered over the next two rounds, the two spectacular wins out against Bayern Munich with the world stars Sepp Maier, Franz Beckenbauer and Gerd Müller. On 20 October 1973, the " king of dribbling from Betz Mountain" recorded at the legendary 7:4 FCK than three goals. The really sensational in this game was that the champion team of FC Bayern had lain with 3:0 and 4:1 in the lead and after 73 minutes gone broke apart in the final minutes after the 4:4 compensation by Pirrung and three more goals suffered. For Bayern so was the dress rehearsal failed thoroughly on October 24, before the highly anticipated home game in the European Cup against Dynamo Dresden. In Kicker sports magazine of the game with the headline was " Drama and Tragedy: How a champion team fell apart " titled and coach Erich Ribbeck quoted as saying, " this is the biggest day in my coaching career ." The Kaiserslautern midfielder Klaus Topp Möller and Hermann Bitz and striker Pirrung were performed in the kicker in the " Team of the Week ". Three days after a 2-1 success of Bayern in the European Cup at the 1 FC Magdeburg, on 9 November 1974 dismantled the "Red Devils " from the Palatinate in the Olympic Stadium the hosts with a 5-2 victory. Pirrung, the filigree technicians and whirlwind scored the goal for the 4-2 lead at the 81 minute and was described as football " even more convincing we a year ago ," honored in the category of " man of the day " and the "Elf of the day "section.
In the World Cup 1973 /74 Ribbeck Elf finished sixth and Pirrung had denied all 34 round matches and scored 13 goals. Another success experienced the crowd favorite in the DFB Cup of the year 1976. Kaiserslautern moved again in the final, but lost on 26 June in Frankfurt without striker Klaus Toppmöller the final with 0:2 goals against Hamburger SV. To round 1978/79, the new DNA FCK coach Karl -Heinz Feldkamp Betz mountain elf on the third rank and repeated in the following round this success. Pirrung completed most of his 21 or 17 appearances now as Einwechsel or substitutes. At the top were now Geye Reiner, Klaus Toppmöller and Benny Wendt set and in the midfield led Hans Bongartz Director, assisted by Jürgen Groh, Werner Melzer and John Riedl. The little technician came the 1979/80 UEFA Cup still to operations against FC Zurich and Sporting Lisbon and VTK Miskolc. With the games in September / October 1980 against RSC Anderlecht ended the chapter European Cup for Pirrung. Overall, he is out with 17 games and two goals in the UEFA Cup.
1981 Pirrung broke in the first round the ankle and got a contract more. Its Substitutes on March 7, 1981 in a 1-1 draw away against the " Zebras " from MSV Duisburg was his last Bundesliga appearance. After 304 league games with 61 goals, he finished his Erstligalaufbahn in the summer of 1981.
He switched to Wormatia Worms in the 2nd Bundesliga. After 27 second division games with a scoring 1981/82 he left the Wormatia again. VfL Neustadt he let his career fade away in the amateur stock.
National Team, 1971-1977
In his second Bundesliga Round, 1970/71, the former youth national team was appointed by the DFB in the second half in the U-23 national team. He made his debut on 16 February at the European Championship qualifier against Albania Elbasan in addition to the appearance Heinz Flohe, Horst Koppel, Scheer and Klaus Werner Weist in the attack of the DFB Junior. In April, June and October, three more vocations were added in this team. His remarkable performances in the 1973/74 season - it was not just his appearance at the 7:4 victory against FC Bayern - brought him indeed to the 40s list of the DFB before the 1974 World Cup, but inclusion in the 22er squad he found do not. In the first international game after the World Cup in 1974, on 4 September 1974 in Basel against Switzerland, the Red Devils striker but belonged to the squad of the team of head coach Helmut Schön. But to use it was not, the coach operated with Geye Reiner, Bernd Hölzenbein and Dieter Herzog in attack and moved into the second half, yet the debutants Wolfgang Seel one. At the European Championship qualifier on November 20, 1974 in Piraeus against Greece Pirrung ended up being on the series, he came on in the 81st minute for Jupp Heynckes on the left wing. A month later, on December 22, confided the national coach in La Valetta at kickoff against Malta on the attack with Pirrung, Erwin Kostedde and Bernd Hölzenbein. At half-time the Palatinate but was replaced by Bernd Nickel and was never considered for the senior team in the future.
In the B team, however, he graduated in the years 1975 and 1977 four matches and took with this team in June 1977 also participated in a international duty in the United States, Honduras and Jamaica.
After the football
After the End of career as a footballer Pirrung worked as a sporting goods salesman, played tennis in his spare time and versed the Alps - although his right leg was three inches shorter since the fractures.
He was suffering from cancer, to which he succumbed at age 61. In the Bundesliga game against Borussia Dortmund, which took place after Pirrungs death on the day, the team played the 1st FC Kaiserslautern with crape.