Rudolf Brunnenmeier
Rudolf " Rudi " Well Meier ( born February 11, 1941 in Olching; † 18 April 2003 in Munich) was a German football player.
Life
Well Meier was already 18 years old orphan before he was footballer with 1860 Munich.
Career
The striker played from 1960 to 1968 for 1860 Munich, had, with its numerous gates significantly to the success of lions in the 1960s and is still known as a club icon. He scored in 207 games 139 goals for the club. Of which he scored in the Oberliga Süd 1960-1963 73 goals in 88 games and in the Bundesliga from 1963 66 goals in 119 games, which he is a Bundesliga record Sagittarius the 1860s until today. 1961 Fountain Meier was top scorer in the former Oberliga Süd and was able to repeat this success in 1963 in the league, and in 1965 in the Bundesliga.
He was with the Lions in 1963 South German Champion 1964 German Cup winners, reached a year later the final of the European Cup Winners' Cup and 1966 German Masters.
In the national team he came from 1964 to 1965 to five appearances, scoring three goals. He was also captain of the team.
In his last years his achievements flattened at the Sechz'gern. In his last season he scored twelve league games only one hit.
After his departure from Munich to the season 1967/68 he played for four seasons in the first Swiss league at Neuchâtel Xamax and then one more season at FC Zurich.
From 1973 to 1977 he was in Austria nor in the squad of black and white Bregenz, before he in 1980 after three more years at FC Balzers in Liechtenstein ended his playing career. However, this season was followed by another brief interlude in Tuttlingen. He played in his old footballer - days even for one season (1977 /78) in the Schwarzwald- Bodensee- League for FC 08 Tuttlingen.
Subsequently, he was still active at FC Garmisch -Partenkirchen and FC Wacker München as a coach. For the district league coaching positions in Garmisch -Partenkirchen, he renounced the alcohol, was "dry" and went with the team within three years from the district level in the national league on. But it turned out a failure and a sporty Rudi fountain Meier was dismissed as a result. His conclusion from this setback should have been: "I drink dead to me now! "
After the End of career
After end of his career began a long social decline. Well Meier, who in his time had been devoted already an active footballer to alcohol, lost in later years by strong alcoholism everything. At times, he worked as a bouncer, pretzel vendors and casual workers to make ends meet.
On the consequences of his addiction to alcohol and cancer at Rudi fountain Meier died on 18 April 2003 and was buried a few days later with great sympathy on the Munich East Cemetery ( grave no 36b -2- 63). A club delegation of the lion, the lion's champion team of 1966, many fans of the 1860 paid him their last respects.
Achievements
- German soccer champion: 1966
- German Cup: 1964
- South German Championship: 1963
Personal Achievements
- Scorer in the league: 1961 ( 23 goals ), 1963 (24 goals)
- Bundesliga top scorer: 1965, 24 goals
Remarkable
Due to a instigated by him in 1963 bar brawl had fountains Meier in the season 1966/67, two weeks stay. During this time he was inmate of the prison Fürstenfeldbruck and sat the sentence of two weeks of detention there. He also came in 1987 after a drunk driving six months in jail after he was convicted of forgery: he falsified insurance contracts in order to get the commissions. Despite his alcoholism, he could bring power: In the summer of 1965, he was heavily intoxicated by the postman an urgent telegram to the appointment to the B- team. For the same evening a game against the Soviet Union was recognized and his plane from tournament Cologne should start in a few minutes. Well Meier got the machine. After the afternoon slept off his intoxication at the hotel, he scored on his " short rehab " twice in a 3-0 against the USSR.