Rudolf Nafziger
Rudolf " Rudi " Nafziger ( born August 11, 1945 in Gauting, † July 13, 2008 ) was a German footballer who plays with FC Bayern Munich rose to the Bundesliga in 1965 and with the club the DFB Cup in 1966 and 1967, as well as the European Cup Winners' Cup 1967 won. He also brought with FC St. Gallen Swiss Cup of 1969.
1961-1968: FC Bayern München / national
At the age of 16 years was Nafziger Rudi Rudi Weiss, the young promoter of FC Bayern, TSV Gauting, a club in Würmtal the outskirts of Munich, discovered and persuaded to change. From the season 1964/65 he was a member of the first team of Bavaria, with which he first played in the Regionalliga Süd. With the storm Nafziger, Rainer Ohlhauser, Gerd Müller, Dieter and Dieter Koulmann Brenninger there, the championship was won in 1965 with the goal difference of 146:32 gates. The 19 -year-old talent on the right wing played in all 36 league games and contributed 12 hits when. In the ensuing offs for promotion to the Bundesliga, Bayern prevailed and Nafziger scored three goals in six games.
Even as a Regional player received the winger hopes an appeal by the DFB for the B team. On March 10, 1965, he stormed on outside right along with Franz Beckenbauer and Günter Netzer in Hannover in a 1-1 draw against the Netherlands.
The distinct wing play on Brenninger and Nafziger paid off thanks to the striker Gerd Müller and Rainer Ohlhauser by a high hit rate. The success continued in the Bundesliga to: Nafziger, who played not only as an elegant and ball skilful technicians, but also " as the first hunk of the Bundesliga " was, and on the right wing, came in the 1965/66 season on 32 missions with ten goals. Bayern finished third and won in June 1966, the DFB Cup final against Meidericher SV 4-2.
Shortly after the beginning of his first Bundesliga season, he was appointed national coach Helmut Schön also in the senior national team at the age of just 20 years. On October 9, 1965, he trained with Lothar Ulsaß Eintracht Braunschweig the right wing in a 4-1 win over Austria in Stuttgart.
The game of the U-23 national team in November 1966 in Bucharest against Romania on the side of Gerd Müller and Jupp Heynckes should remain his last appearance in the national jersey.
By the end of the season 1967/68 he played for Bayern another 57 Bundesliga appearances, but a goal should succeed him any more. But one consolation here were certainly successful title defense in the DFB Cup in 1967, this time with the Hamburger SV as a final opponent and winning the European Cup Winners' Cup in the same year with a 1-0 success after extra time against Glasgow Rangers in Nuremberg. Nafziger was set up in the final two games each as a right winger.
Within the club but he was found due to its lack of accuracy more and more into question, and players like Gustl Jung, after all, brought in 21 appearances four gates to ways to put his place in the team in question. After the end of the 1967/68 season also regarded as a conveyor Nafzigers coach Zlatko Čajkovski was replaced, it had also become a time for him to resign and he signed in Switzerland at FC St. Gallen a two year contract.
1968-1975: St. Gallen, Hanover and Linz
FC St. Gallen, promoted to the then prime National League A, impressed in the league only little and already rose after the season 1969/70 again. 1969 came the FC St. Gallen and above up to the discharged in the Bernese Wankdorfstadion final of the Swiss Cup. Two goals from Nafziger in the second half for the 2-0 win against AC Bellinzona secured the St. Gallern the only win in this competition.
After the descent Nafziger returned to Germany and joined Hannover 96 at. On the side of Hans Meyer Siemens him but it nurmehr six succeeded in 27 Bundesliga games in his second season in the line city until the end of the 1971/72 season, not a single hit. Overall, the striker remained so in the last 87 Bundesliga games without scoring. His overall record is 116 Bundesliga games with a total of ten goals.
After his second season in Hanover, he moved to Austria for the first division LASK Linz and ended in 1975 after three seasons, barely 30 years old, his playing career.
Last years in Gauting
After his playing career he settled again in Gauting. He fished like in the Würm, often played tennis and was otherwise active. In 2008, he died after a long illness just a month before his 63rd birthday on July 13, a Sunday lunch, surrounded by his family. In 2007 he was too weak to present themselves to a meeting on the 40th anniversary of the European Cup winning team of 1967 the Nockherberg in Munich. Until recently, Rudi Nafziger had contact with numerous former teammates. To him even visited a few weeks before his death, for example, his former team leader Werner Olk and other players in the hospital. " Rudi " Nafziger left a daughter.
Nafzigers daughter Simone, his mother, three older brothers and FC Bayern president Franz Beckenbauer gave him their last respects. Even his former comrades at Bayern, Peter Kupfer Schmidt, Dieter Brenninger and Adi Kunstwadl took leave of him when he was buried in the cemetery Gautinger.
" Rudi, we will not forget you, the super - soccer player from Gauting ", which was also present, ex- president of FC Bayern, Willi O. Hoffmann said visibly moved.