Willi Koslowski

Willi Koslowski ( born February 17, 1937 in Gelsenkirchen- Buer ) is a former German football player, who has come in the year of the FIFA World Cup in Chile in 1962 to three inserts in the national team.

Career

Clubs, to 1974

FC Schalke 04, and 1965

Born in the immediate vicinity of the later Park stadium site in Gelsenkirchen -Buer Willi Koslowski began in the Schülerelf at Buer 07 with the association-moderate football game before he moved to the youth department of FC Schalke 04. In the A- youth, he rushed to the side of Karl Borutta and Willi Soya and was nominated by the DFB for the FIFA tournament in 1955 in Italy. In the national youth team, he completed on 9 April 1955 in Pisa against Portugal along with Hans Nowak a group match. From 1952 to 1955 he learned at the coal mine " Hugo" the occupation of the miner and received on March 29, 1955, after passing the examination, the Knapp letter. Together with Borutta and Soya Advanced " Schwatte " to round 1955/56, from the A- youth in the premier league team of the " Royal Blues " on.

From the 1954/55 season, the Austrian Eduard Frühwirth coached the Schalke team who devoted himself intensively to train the young talents. Koslowski debuted on August 31, 1955 in a 4-1 away win against the Wuppertal SV as a right winger with two goals in the league. Overall, he had 18 missions and six goals in his first league round 1955/56, corresponding proportion of the achievement of the runner-up title. In the final round but he had still with the reservists role resign as Schalke's attack with the tips Bernhard Klodt, Guenter Siebert and Hans Kramer was busy. The final breakthrough came in the acting primarily on a right-winger or center forward attacker in the Round in 1957/58. Coach Frühwirth put in 28 league games on the offensive qualities of " Schwatte " and this scored nine goals on the way to winning the title in the big leagues. In the shortened final round of the German Championship for the Football World Cup 1958 in Sweden Koslowski was also in the three group matches against Braunschweig, Tennis Borussia Berlin and the Südmeister Karlsruher SC, scoring three goals to place in the final against Hamburg. On May 18, 1958 Schalke sat in the final - it was headed by referee Albert shower - with 3-0, sovereign against HSV by. Already after five minutes sailed a cross from Willi Koslowski in the Hamburg area and " Berni" Klodt scored a diving header the 1-0 lead. Even in the development of 2-0 in the 30th minute - again scorer Klodt - Koslowski was involved by an edge. After 3-0 by Manfred Cross - he was in 1956 came from Buer - Hassel to Schalke - who celebrated the seventh German championship, " Royal Blue ". Once a team had won, which emerged in large part from the Schalke youth or came from the surrounding area. Personally, learned the power of " Schwatte " by the two-time appointment to the DFB Nachwuchself U23 in the season 1957/58 to the internationals on 21 December 1957 and on February 26, 1958 against Hungary and Belgium an additional confirmation.

After the Championship Success Schalke could not repeat the performance in the league and thus include non- title defense. In Europe Champions Cup, however, showed the " squire " to KP Copenhagen and in particular against Wolverhampton Wanderers and Atlético Madrid - Atlético narrowly failed in the semifinals in three games to defending champion Real Madrid - excellent performances. Koslowski stormed in all seven games in the storm of Schalke and he succeeded in the first leg on 12 November 1958 at the Molineux Stadium against the motion of Billy Wright " Wolves " in the 88th minute of the 2-2 equalizer. It was only back in the Football World Cup 1962 in Chile won Schalke in the Oberliga West the runner-up and moved once again in the final round of the German championship. Under the former DFB coach George Gawliczek graduated Koslowski 1961/62 all 30 league games with 14 goals and put his personal record in the Oberliga West on. In the finals he came to another four games with two goals. The decisive group match on May 5, won the defending 1 FC Nuremberg 3-1 goals against Schalke and moved so again in the final.

For sporting highlight was for Koslowski but his debut on April 11, 1962 in Hamburg in the national football team during the match against Uruguay, and his participation in June at the World Cup in Chile.

In the last league round of 1962/63 was " Schwatte " with Schalke to sixth place and so was the " squire " Elf to round 1963/64 qualified for the new Bundesliga. He had scored in 29 games on the side of Reinhard Libuda, Waldemar Gerhardt, Manfred Manfred Cross Berz and nine goals. He wore his last league game on May 11 in 1963 at Fortuna Dusseldorf. Overall Koslowski came from 1955 to 1963 in the Oberliga West in 182 games and scored 58 goals. He is listed in the Game 1958 /59 and 1961/62 in the " area team of the season ."

On debut matchday of the Bundesliga, August 24, 1963, he scored in the 37th minute the first goal for Schalke in a 2-0 home win against VfB Stuttgart. With the new attack colleague Günter Herrmann and Klaus Matischak he completed 23 games and scored five goals. Schalke finished eighth. As it 1964/65 under coach Fritz Langner came in a performance hit in the second Bundesliga round and the ex- champion finished last, completed " Schwatte " only 16 games and scored seven goals. In the DFB-Pokal, he stormed in the semi-final on April 17, 1965 in vain against the hosts Alemannia Aachen, the Tivoli elf moved with a 4-3 success after extra time in the cup final a. Koslowski, he had never been a professional footballer and had always worked full, joined in the summer of 1965 - there were differences with the then Bureau and also the teammates Willi Schulz, Egon Horst Waldemar Gerhardt and Reinhard Libuda it pulled away from Schalke - at the Essen harbor road and joined Rot-Weiss Essen in the Football Regionalliga West.

RW Essen and Eintracht Gelsenkirchen, 1965-1971

In Essen Koslowski was in the round 1965/66 with 31 missions and nine goals contribute to the achievement of the runner and thus bring about a place in the Bundesliga promotion round. With coach Fritz Pliska and the attack colleague Heinz -Dieter Hasebrink, Willi Lippens and Herbert Weinberg, RWE also set against rivals FC St. Pauli, 1 FC Saarbrücken and Schweinfurt by 05 and was promoted to the Bundesliga. In four games Koslowski scored a goal. The relegation in the Bundesliga 1966/67, the playful climber after 15:19 points in the preliminary round with a weak second half, where the mountains Borbecker only came to ten points. Against his old club, Schalke 04, reached " Schwatte " 3-1 points on the second match, on 27 August 1967 and won food before 35,000 spectators the home game 4-1 gates. Koslowski added to his balance sheet to another 25 games with three goals and completed on 3 June 1967, 30 years his last Bundesliga match. Rot-Weiss lost the 34th game 0-1 at VfB Stuttgart. A total of 64 games with 15 goals should be recorded for " Kosa " from 1963 to 1967 in the Bundesliga. To round 1967/68 he signed for Eintracht Gelsenkirchen for the Regional League West a new contract and returned to his hometown.

With the Blue - Red he experienced in South Park Ückendorfer the fight against relegation, an immediate return to the regional and at the end of his career as a contract footballers, 1970/71, an excellent fifth place. From 1967 to 1971, he completed 87 Regional games for Eintracht, scoring 22 goals. 1969/70 he won the championship with his teammates in the amateur league Westphalia and sat in the promotion round against Westfalia Herne and Sterkrade 06 /07 and returned it immediately after the descent 1969 back to the Regionalliga back. With coach Heinz Murach and the players Bernd Kipp, Jürgen wheel, Günter Schwaba, Wolfgang Thier and Günter Thon he finished 1971 on surprising as climbers behind the VfL ​​Bochum Fortuna Dusseldorf, Wuppertal SV and points with SC Fortuna Köln fifth. His last Regional game completed the 32- year-old on 16 May 1971 with 1:2 home defeat against Bayer 04 Leverkusen. To round 1971/72 he joined Eintracht Duisburg in the amateur league Lower Rhine.

Achievements

Ending of the career and coach

At Concordia Bochum he finished in 1974 with 37 years as player-coach his active playing career. From 1981 to 1984, he is an amateur coach at Schalke, thereafter to support the trainer, Fichtel, fishermen and Täuber as assistant coach.

Selection vocations, 1957-1962

After the two countries playing in the U -23 in the Round in 1957/58 was the lightning-fast and whether its unpredictability highly dangerous striker appointed on 22 October 1958 in the B national team for the international match in Karlsruhe against Austria. In mid-April 1958, he was named by the DFB for the 40s squad for the World Cup 1958, but then was not included in the squad for the tournament in Sweden. Also in the qualifiers for the FIFA World Cup in Chile in 1962 he did not belong to the Herberger squad. Richard Kress, Engelbert Kraus and Karl -Heinz Thielen were preferred to him. With his appearance on 31 January 1962 at the test match in Gelsenkirchen Schalke between a combination 04/Westfalia Herne against the national team, he brought back in to the national coach lasting memory. This was followed by testing games with the national team against Cologne / Mönchengladbach, two inserts in the selection of West Germany and the dress rehearsal on March 21, 1962 in Saarbrücken, as Herberger had to compete against a DFB B a DFB- A and 40,000 spectators to 5: attended 4- success of the a- team and Koslowski acted as a center forward in their ranks and scored a goal. On April 11, the Schalke debuted in Hamburg during the match against Uruguay in the national team. He played right wing and scored in the 75th minute the score 3-0. From 30 April to 11 May 1962, he was staying at the World Cup preparatory course in Karlsruhe- Schoeneck and was subsequently nominated in the final squad for the World Cup in Chile. At the tournament, he played on 3 June against Switzerland his second international match. With his third appearance on September 30, 1962 in Zagreb against Yugoslavia ended for his international career.

→ See also: Germany at the 1962 World Cup in Chile

Private

From 1943 to 1952 Koslowski lived as Evacuee with his parents in East Westphalia. After his career Koslowski was a pioneer in amateur area coordinator and " gofer " on the office of FC Schalke 04 earned and was awarded the 1993 "Golden Schalke ring of honor ." Professionally, he worked as a shipping manager at a Gelsenkirchener glass and mirror factory employed since 1987, he received a permanent position at FC Schalke, where he helps out at the office and worked, among others, the post office and press office support, even though he is retired since 2002.

Weblink

• Interview with Willi Koslowski on the website 100 - schalker -year
• The schwatte Koslowski and his eternal love: Schalke 04 ( interview 2012)