Rolf Geiger

Rolf Geiger ( born October 16, 1934 in Marbach am Neckar ) is a former German football player who has taken part in the Summer Olympic Games in Melbourne in 1956 as a player of the German national football team of amateurs.

The striker began his football career at FC Marbach, laced then the FV Salamander Kornwestheim the boots, then played (1955-1957) in the Oberliga Süd in Stuttgart Kickers (35 games, 6 goals) and then moved "by the Blue to the Red ", so to VfB Stuttgart, meanwhile, coach Georg Wurzer.

With the exception of season 1962/63 at AC Mantova in Italy Geiger held this club until the end of his career (1967 ) loyalty, both in the league (116 games, 59 goals) and in the Champions League ( 70 games and 19 goals between in 1963 and 1967). In 1958 he was German Cup.

Between 1956 and 1964, Rolf Geiger also contributed eight times the national jersey (2 goals ), including once for the Kickers and seven times for VfB. After his successful international debut on 23 December 1956 in Cologne in a 4-1 victory against Belgium his way into the line-up of the DFB for the World Cup 1958 in Sweden seemed predestined. It was not so: on 13 July 1957, he was locked in Stuttgart by the sports court of the Württemberg Football Association for seven months, because the payment of the then banned him bounties has been demonstrated by the Stuttgart Kickers to local rivals VfB prior to joining. It was not until after the World Cup - in October 1958 to attend the courses in Frankfurt - Geiger appeared again in a squad Sepp Herberger.

Since he figured no chance to get a regular place in the World Cup tournament in the World Cup in Chile in 1962, four years later he sent the National coach a rejection of the invitation to enter course in the sports school Schoeneck. The prevented World Cup participants moved to Round 1962/63 to Lombardy for AC Mantova. In Serie A, he had a prominent coach with the Hungarian former international Nándor Hidegkuti.

With the start of the Bundesliga in 1963, he returned to VfB Stuttgart and then brought it in 1964 to three other stakes in the national team. With the 4-1 win on June 7, 1964 in Helsinki against Finland (simultaneously also Herberger's last game ) in which Geiger scored a goal, ended his international career. At that include two amateur and a Junior National team and participating in the 1956 Olympic Games in Melbourne. On November 24, 1956 there came the German national football team of amateurs on to eventual Olympic champion Soviet Union, retired after the 1:2 final result but from already after the first game of the tournament.

Rolf Geiger, who had learned the trade of a mason in his younger years, has been after completion of his footballer time Contractors and real estate agents in Stuttgart.