Wilfried Kohlars

Wilfried Kohlars ( born October 28, 1939 in Troisdorf ) is a former German football player. He graduated as a striker, midfielder and also as a defender 1963-1970 141 games in the Bundesliga 1860 Munich, scoring 45 goals. With the "Lions" Kohlars 1966 German Masters. He scored in the final of the DFB Cup of the season 1963/64, in Stuttgart against Eintracht Frankfurt (2-0 for TSV ) the first goal.

Career

Grown footballing is Kohlars the Middle Rhine in Troisdorf SSV 05 After the 1960/61 season in the regional league, he accepted the offer of the Oberliga Duisburg SpV and moved to the Lower Rhine in the Football Oberliga West. When West German veteran but just had ended the era of long-term service provider Willi Koll. The 1961/62 season was at the " Rotblusen " from the beginning under the sign of the relegation battle. Although the new data from Troisdorf debuted instantly at round start in the big leagues - August 6, 1961, 0:3 - Heimniederlge against Mönchengladbach, Striker -, and graduated from the side of the player Rolf Benning, Hans Lohmann and Manfred Wacker even every 30 round matches ( three goals), but the descent of the DSV he could not prevent. Coach Max Merkel, he had by his former work at Borussia Dortmund good knowledge of football in the West, took Kohlars - also arrived yet Petar Radenkovic and Rudolf Zeiser - the last season of the old first-class league in 1962 /63 to his current club TSV 1860 München in the Football Oberliga Süd. Merkel stepped to the starting day of the league round on 19 August at KSV Hessen Kassel with the following attack to: Werner Anzill, Kohlars, Rudi fountain Meier, Hans Küppers and Johann Auer hammer. The " lion " got themselves surprisingly the championship in the south and Kohlars had contributed ten goals in 22 league to inserts. In the following final round of the German Cup, he went to four games and a goal. By winning the title in 1860 Munich was included in the new football league for season 1963/64. The local rivals Bayern Munich was ranked in the Southern Football Regional.

As the start of the Bundesliga with Otto Luttrop and Peter Grosser two new regulars reinforced the "Lions" squad, Kohlars came at the seventh round Round to his Bundesliga debut. He scored on 12 October 1963 5-0 home win against 1 FC Nuremberg immediately two goals. The Merkel - Eleven came in seventh place and Kohlars had scored eleven goals in 24 league games. At the peak of the round but was the 2-0 final victory on 13 June 1964 in Stuttgart in the DFB Pokal against Eintracht Frankfurt. Together with Engelbert Kraus, fountains Meier, and Alfred Kueppers hot formed Kohlars on the right half of the " lion " attack. Just before the half time whistle he brought his team a 1-0 lead. In the second Bundesliga season 1964 /65 the team from Giesing improved to fourth place, but for Kohlars came just 13 more league bets with three goals added. Coach Merkel with hot, Küppers, fountains Meier and Big four regulars in action and fought beside Hans Rebele and " Berti " Kraus with Kohlars to the remaining free space in the attack. In Europe Cup Winners' Cup, however, the all-rounder was part of the main cast. Outstanding were the games against FC Porto, in the semifinals, the three games against AC Torino and the finale on May 19, 1965 in London against West Ham United. He played against Porto in the attack, he came to Turin ( Gerry Hitchens, Giorgio Ferrini ) and West Ham ( Martin Peters, Alan Sealey, Geoff Hurst, John Sissons ) on the defensive for use.

As the 1965/66 season started on August 14 with the derby against newly promoted FC Bayern, Kohlars belonged to the victorious 1-0 team the " lion ". He had to limit the circle of Rainer Ohlhauser on the defensive the task. Overall, he added, in 19 league games to win the German championship, making it one of the group of 13 key players coached by Merkel. In the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup 1965/66 he came from competing against Malmö FF, Göztepe Izmir, Servette Geneva and in both games in the quarter-final against Chelsea. He scored on March 15, 1966 in a 2-2 home draw the 1-0 lead for the "Lions" and was at Stamford Bridge as a defender in use, as a center forward Peter Osgood the decisive blow to 1:0 of London succeeded. As 1966/67 - Merkel was replaced as coach December 10, 1966 - the runner-up was achieved, the "complementary player " in 14 games had been on the field, scoring three goals in the process. In Europe Champions Cup in September 1966, he scored in the two games against Omonia Nicosia three goals in the two games in November against Real Madrid, he did not play. As the best years of the " lions " were over and it went in the table below, provided the indispensable rounder 1967/68 with 15 goals to his personal record in the Bundesliga. He led so clearly the internal scorers on, with Hans Küppers followed a midfielder with twelve gates, before Louis Bruendl with seven goals. With 33:35 point score was 1860 München twelfth grade.

Among the coaches Albert Sing ( to 31 October 1968) and Hans Pilz it brought Kohlars in 1968/69 to 21 Bundesliga matches and scored three goals. The "Lions" occupied with the adjusted points account of 34:34 counters the tenth and local rivals FC Bayern won the Bundesliga championship. Before Kohlars eighth season of the Elf from Giesing, 1969/70, four more players in the era of success and hot and Kohlars lost the traditional club for financial reasons with Patzke, Grosser, Rebele and kingdom again had finished their career. The new coach Fritz Langner was replaced on 13 November 1969, the balance of points 5:21 and 9:26 gates by Franz Binder and hot and Kohlars could be reactivated. In 21 league inserts Kohlars scored again ten goals, but 1860 München rose with 25:43 points as a table next to last from the Regionalliga Süd. His last Bundesliga game Kohlars completed on May 3, 1970 a 0-0 home draw against Rot -Weiss Essen on the side of his old team-mates Petar Radenkovic, Manfred Wagner and substitute Zeljko Perusic.

Final was for Wilfried Kohlars his active playing career to an end when he had completed on 8 November 1970 in the Regionalliga Süd his third game for the "Lions" under coach Hans Tilkowski.

Studies and career

As a student he had acquired at the Technical University in Munich have qualified as a graduate engineer. He led his own engineering firm and was also simultaneously working in real estate. He lives since 2000, always in the winter for half a year in South Africa, near Cape Town.