Richard Schneider

Richard Schneider ( born December 16, 1919 in Kaiserslautern, † 28 April 1982) was a German football player and coach, in 1951 and 1953 with the 1st FC Kaiserslautern as a trainer twice won the German football championship in years.

Career

From the student team played Richard Schneider together in the FCK youth with one years younger Fritz Walter. This did not change anything, as both played together in the Gauliga in 1939. Two meniscus operations led to the end of the playing career of Richard Schneider. After the end of World War II, he began his coaching in 1947 working as a youth coach for the West German Football Association. He was also a youth leader at the 1st FCK. After being in 1950 - together with Helmuth Johannsen - had successfully under the Academic Director of Sepp Herberger at the German Sport University Cologne completed the training to become football coaches, former players took to Round 1950/51 the team of the 1st FC Kaiserslautern coach in the Football Oberliga West.

Together with the outstanding playmaker Fritz Walter Schneider won in the Southwest in 1951 and in series from 1953 to 1957 six times the championship. But highlights were the two German championship title, which he could win in 1951 and 1953 with his team in the finals. In the years 1954 and 1955 he was with the Walter Elf two more times in the final. Also the involvement of its players Fritz Walter Ottmar Walter, Werner Liebrich, Horst Eckel and Werner Kohlmeyer at winning the football World Cup in 1954 in Switzerland can be counted among the fruits of his labor coach. Among the successes in this era with Kaiserslautern Richard Schneider said years later: " Since everything just right. I had players of rare class. Technically, tactically and physically this team of the fifties was unique. It agreed with the spirit of the troops, and it was true harmony in the club's management -. A great mix "

To round 1961/62 he finished his work as a trainer at the 1 FC Kaiserslautern and took in the football league West Preußen Münster. Through the won fourth place in the final league round 1962/63 Schneider led the Westphalia into the new Bundesliga. In the first year 1963/64, he could with 23:27 points as a table Fifteenth - a point behind Hertha BSC and the Karlsruhe SC - not realizing the league with the Prussians. Two years he tried then to accomplish it from the Regional League West return with Munster in the Bundesliga. This was the " man of gentle tones ," who preached harmony and team spirit, but not so he took to Round 1966/67, an offer of the SSV Reutlingen from the Regional League South and joined the Swabian. In January 1969, he then returned again as Technical Director to Munster back and finished there in November 1970 finally his coaching career after he had to undergo a hip operation in 1969.

Seven years before his death, Richard Schneider returned to Kaiserslautern. In the forest cemetery he found his final resting place.