Otto Geisert

Otto Geisert ( born November 18, 1939 in Nordhorn ) is a former player of the Karlsruher SC and the 1st FC Kaiserslautern. He scored the first hat -trick in the Bundesliga.

Career

Oberliga North and South

Geisert played for Eintracht Nordhorn in the 1961/62 season in the Football Oberliga Nord. Before the final round of the Football Oberliga Süd 1962/63 joined the 22- year-old striker from relegated to the Oberliga Nord, Eintracht Nordhorn, in the summer of 1962 in the Karlsruhe wildlife park. It came with the recommendation of 20 hits in 30 games of the round 1961/62 to Baden. He wore at KSC with its 15 gates then also actively reaching the 5th place at. As the most prolific attacker Karlsruhe next Geisert with eleven goals (Horst game) was to book, was the hit of the ex- North Horner of importance. The final placement was for the qualification of the new Bundesliga essential.

National league

In the Bundesliga, Otto Geisert represented the colors of the KSC 1963-1965 in 45 games and came up with ten goals. In the season 1964/65 he retired from the center forward position in the middle back.

In the summer of 1965 he took his leave at KSC and signed at the 1 FC Kaiserslautern. In the " Red Devils" he had it in five rounds with the coaches Gyula Lorant, Otto Knefler, Egon Piechaczek and again 1969/70 -. Geisert came to 33 games with nine goals - to do with Lorant He remained until 1970, when the " Red Devils" and completed it 153 league games on the Betz mountain with 21 hits. After that, the chapter was finished Bundesliga for Geisert. On the final day of the round 1969/70, in the 2:4 away defeat at Hannover 96, he played his last league game.

Career - ending

For the 1970/71 season he moved to Belgium to Charleroi SC. In 1971 he came back to the Southwest, he moved to FC 08 Homburg in the Regionalliga West, where he met his former KSC coach Kurt Sommerlatt. After three rounds came in the summer of 1974 after 55 Regional inserts with 22 goals for the almost 35 -year-olds the end of his playing career. Geisert was also active FCH when the team from Homburg 8:6 gates the association game could win at SV Alsenborn on 18 February 1973. He scoring two goals for the team of coach Uwe Klimaschefski. In the last year of the old second-class Regional system in 1973/74, he finished with Homburg behind Borussia Neunkirchen and 1.FC Saarbrücken third place in the Southwest. His last competitive game he played on March 3 at the 1974 2:3 away defeat at the 1 FC Saarbrücken when he came on in the 46th minute for Manfred Lenz.

First hat-trick in Bundesliga history

Geisert was on October 5, 1963 Round 6 of the newly founded Bundesliga 1963/64, the first player to score a hat-trick in the Bundesliga. In the game between the 1st FC Nuremberg and Karlsruhe SC he met in the second half three times and turned so the game by a 2:1 to 2:4 draw. Geisert played in this game, otherwise on the unfamiliar position for him as a left winger.