Leo Wilden
Leo Wilden ( born July 3, 1936) is a former German football player. From 1959 to 1966 he played at the 1st FC Cologne with whom he was in 1962 and 1964 German Champion and finished his career in 1969 in the second division of Bayer 04 Leverkusen. Between 1960 and 1964 he played 15 times for the national team. In the 1962 FIFA World Cup he was in the squad but did not play.
Career
Clubs, to 1969
Leo Wilden was up to the season in 1957/58 player of VfL Köln 1899 in the Federation League Middle Rhine. To round 1958/59 he received from the first FC Cologne a contract - Karl -Heinz Quick Inger came from Düren 99 in the cathedral city - and played from now on as a contract player in the Football Oberliga West. Wilder made his debut on the opening day, 17 August 1958 in a 2-2 home draw against Borussia Mönchengladbach in the big leagues. Together with Joseph Roehrig and Günther Bock mill he made while the runners number of team coached by Péter Szabó. In the preliminary round, only three other inserts were added. However, since the defender was able to convince in the last three league games in April 1959 against Dusseldorf, Meiderich and Schalke at the side of Fritz Breuer and mill Bock, he was in his first final round of the German soccer championship 1959 in the four games against Werder Bremen and Eintracht Frankfurt employed. For the runner-up in the West, he had 1958/59 contributed in seven games and in the final he had completed four games. The 1st FC Cologne won from 1960 to 1963 four times in a row, West championship. Leo Wilden - he now belonged to the starting eleven - was there as a center half a guarantor of the defensive performance. Him great overview, an excellent positional play, relentless duel behavior and Ankurblung their own offensive were attributed. After savages had failed with the " Billy Goats " in the final 1960 final on Hamburger SV 2:3 gates, it worked with the German championship in the World Cup 1962. During the three successful group games against Eintracht Frankfurt, Hamburger SV and the FK Pirmasens he had taken convincing their striker Erwin Stein, Uwe Seeler and Klaus Matischak from the game. In the final on 12 May in Berlin before 82,000 spectators Heinz Strehl was from 1 FC Nuremberg 4-0 success chance against the defender of Cologne.
The title defense was successful 1962/63, although in the Western league, in the final of the German Cup but continued the West Vice Borussia Dortmund with a 3-1 win over Cologne by. From 1958 to 1963 Leo Wilden had completed 119 games in the big leagues west of Cologne and scores a goal. In the finals of the German Cup, he stood from 1959 to 1963 in 26 games for Cologne on the court. Internationally he had with the Cologne city selection in 1961 debuts in MesseCup and participated in 1962 in the two games in Europe Champions Cup against FC Dundee. Leo Wilder remembers the 1:8 defeat at the Scots:
" We ran into snow-white jerseys, along the lines of, 'We are the Real Madrid of Germany ', and then we got eight of them! We were too arrogant. Back then flew a scout ' over, watching a game and came back. He has the Tschik then said:. , You might not crazy, that's no team ' And what was that for a team! They played like a machine. "
As in the season 1963/64, the Bundesliga resumed the operation of gambling, savages belonged to the circle of players, the new German elite class brought up and running on August 24, 1963. He completed 29 games in the debut year and easily took the first FC Cologne the first Bundesliga championship. From 1963 to 1966 he maintained 63 Bundesliga games. With the use of on February 12, 1966 in an away game against Schalke 04 Leo Wilden adopted from the Bundesliga. About the then-coach George Knöpfle reported savages:
" The Knöpfle also had its advantages, but he had something Military, as if we would have to stand at attention in front of him. Tschik Cajkovski other hand, was one, as we Rhinelander love him, who could cheer us on and inspire. He came on before the game and said, ' Here Leo, you now kiss up, but come down ' This was not a tactician, but that could motivate us! With the kind of Knöpfle other hand, we had Rhinelander nothing to do. He stood like a drill sergeant always before us. But if you fought against, of course that was critical. I just did not get along with him. "
From 1963 to 1966 he had also contested 14 games for his club in the European Cup.
From 1966 to 1969 Leo Wilden then played three more rounds in the Football Regionalliga West at Bayer 04 Leverkusen and ended in 1969 after 95 Regional inserts with three goals his playing career. He later coached, among others, the Pulheimer SC and SC Köln West.
Achievements
National Team, 1960-1964
In the national football team the Wild debuted on March 23, 1960 in Stuttgart during the match against Chile, when he came in to replace Captain Herbert Erhardt. In the two crucial World Cup qualifiers against Northern Ireland - two victories 4-3 and 2-1 in the German team - he held the center-half position. Under national coach Sepp Herberger, although he belonged to the World Cup squad in Chile in 1962, but came to no use. In all four German games Herberger familiar to the Fürth stopper Herbert Erhardt. With his 15th international appearance on 29 April 1964 in Ludwigshafen against the vice world champion Czechoslovakia savages adopted from the national team. In the 3:4 defeat he formed together with goalkeeper Wolfgang Fahrian and the defensive colleague Hans Nowak, Fritz Pott, Willi Schulz and Wolfgang Weber, the German defensive.
On March 10, 1965, the Cologne conducted in the 1-1 draw against the Netherlands, the German B team in Hanover.
Professional operation Leo Wilden in Cologne several Toto - Lotto Tobacco stores and stands still very close to the club.
See also: Germany at the World Cup 1962 in Chile