Manfred Reichert
Manfred " Manni " Reichert ( born October 28, 1940 in Königsberg, † April 10, 2010 in Remscheid ) was a German football player. In the Bundesliga, he was a defender at the Wuppertal SV active.
Career
Reichert grew up after the Second World War in Remscheid and played at the local 1 Spvg, VfB Marathon and BV 08 Lüttringhausen football. While he performed his military service ( 1962/ 63), he entered for the first SC Göttingen 05 in the second-class Amateur League East Lower Saxony. From there came the 22 -year-old, to the Bundesliga as well as Eintracht Braunschweig, the 1st FC Cologne and the 1 FC Nuremberg were interested to Wuppertal SV, where he coached " PTO " Gebhardt initially together with the newly committed Emil tits formed a torgefährliches inside forward pair. In his first season for the WSV, the season 1963/64, to " the ambitious technicians and intelligent game designer " had already secured a regular place and achieved in the West Regional in 36 games 17 goals. He was also in the semi-final of the DFB - Cup on the grass, in the HSV goalkeeper Horst Schnoor in the 5th minute the Wuppertal ahead prevented by Reichert. From 1963 to 1972 he completed for the WSV in the regional 297 league games and scored 60 goals.
From the 1968/69 season, the new coach Horst Buhtz hired him as full-backs in the defense, where he made an " offensive defense of modern times ". In the 1971/72 season, at that time he was already captain of the team, he went with the Wuppertal SV - center forward and goalscorer Günter Pröpper presented with 52 gates on record - in the Bundesliga. In the promotion round the Buhtz team continued undefeated with 16:0 points through against the competitors from Osnabrück, Neunkirchen, Hof and Berlin. As a newcomer to the WSV qualified at the end of season 1972/73 than in fourth behind champion Bayern Munich 1 FC Cologne and Fortuna Dusseldorf for the UEFA Cup; Reichert was the 5-4 victory in the stadium at the zoo in the return match against Ruch Chorzów in the team ( in the first leg had Jürgen- Michael Galbierz replaced him ) and scored the last goal of the game. He came for the WSV in 67 of 68 possible matches in the seasons 1972/73 and 1973/74 for use, where he scored two goals. In the Blue - Red from the Bergische Land Reichert played a total of eleven years. After the end of his active professional career in 1974, he returned back in 1983 as a consultant to the club and took over twice briefly the coach of the first team of WSV in the Oberliga Nordrhein.
Life outside of football stadiums
His main job Manni Reichert worked as a plant manager at automotive supplier Delphi, from the mid-1980s in Pforzheim, Berlin and Neumarkt in der Oberpfalz. His retirement he spent in Bad Fussing, before he returned to Remscheid 2006. Sporty Reichert was also successful in tennis; He played for the Red-White Passau, Bayerischer champion in his age group and third in the senior championship was in 2000. He succeeded despite severe disease against which he struggled for almost 20 years, on account of which it had to be amputated arm and he finally succumbed on 10 April 2010.