Wolfgang Brase

Wolfgang Brase ( born February 7, 1939 in Braunschweig ) is a former German footballer, who has denied 1963-1967 97 Bundesliga appearances for Eintracht Braunschweig. The defender won in 1967 with the unity of the German Championship.

Career

Oberliga Nord until 1963

Brase, who was born just 300 meters from the Eintracht-Stadion in the Siegfriedstraße already played in 1946 in the youth of the BTSV harmony. He made his debut under coach Kurt Baluses on the final day of the season 1958/59, on 26 April 1959 in the 0-1 away defeat VfR Neumünster in the league team of Eintracht. Hans Jäcker in goal and the 20 -year-old Brase formed together with Heinz Patzig the back pair in the still practiced WM system. The talented young player who finished with Eintracht amateurs in the amateur league in East Lower Saxony in fourth place and the contract player team to 5th place in the Oberliga Nord. Under coach Hans- Georg Vogel, he played in the 1961/62 season - as well as minor Jürgen and Walter Schmidt - all 30 league games. As in the last league year, 1962/63, the placement of a decisive criterion for inclusion for the takeoff from the round 1963/64 Bundesliga was used, and the Oberliga Nord in three places available, Brase belonged to the player strain of blue - Yellow, which reached the third place with an outstanding back round score of 23:7 points and were thus classified in the Bundesliga. On the final day of the old first-class league era, the 29 April 1963, Brase and colleagues concluded the chapter Oberliga Nord with a 2-1 home win against VfB Lübeck. By 1963, he came to 80 inserts in the Oberliga Nord, in which he scored a goal. Brase began as an attacker, but was retrained to right-back.

Bundesliga, 1963-1967

The team from the stadium at the Hamburg road started with the new coach Helmuth Johannsen and the player access Hans -Georg Dulz, Peter Kaack, Horst Dieter Wolter and Paul Berg in the summer of 1963 in the new one-track of the top German football. " Slice " Brase opened with his teammates 24 August 1963 at the stadium at the Grünwalder road against 1860 München chapter Bundesliga. Immediately showed traded as relegation-threatened players from Braunschweig, after which they could build what would be their strength with an impressive defensive performance they kidnapped last Oberliga -South champion before 35,000 spectators by a 1-1 draw with the first point. In the reporting was noted that the "Lions" to "a cover dressing met, the compact abblockte the bulk of the attacks and in the duels mostly kept the upper hand ." On broadcast Brunswick came in eleventh place and Brase had completed along with Klaus Meyer, Jürgen Moll and Walter Schmidt all 30 league games. On 5 October 1963, he had contributed the interim 3-1 lead with a floodlit match before 32,000 spectators at the home game against FC Schalke 04, a 4-3 win in the 55th minute. Even his second Bundesliga goal succeeded Brase in a game against Schalke. In the season 1964/65 - concord came three reinforcements for the offensive with Lothar Ulsaß, Dieter Krafczyk and Erich Maas - he scored on September 12, 1964 in a 3-0 win at Schalke 04 in 83 minutes to 3: 0 draw. The Johannsen- Eleven came with 42:47 gates to the 9th rank and Brase, in turn, had all 30 league games - as well as Lothar Ulsaß, Peter Kaack and Walter Schmidt - graduated. When the league was increased to 18 clubs in the Bundesliga third year, 1965/66, lacked the trio Brase, Kaack and Schmidt in none of the 34 league encounters. Also thanks to the contrasting views of the Eintracht coach about training and guidance of licensed players - it was trained in Braunschweig week only four times in the afternoon, the morning were the players in the lecture halls of the University, the universities and technical schools or exerted a secondary profession - who has toolmaker Brase 1963 successfully studied engineering, denied all 94 Bundesliga games in three rounds and proved to be a competitive athlete.

The reliable factor in the Eintracht defense also went into the fourth Bundesliga year, 1966 /67 as the undisputed master players. The round start against Werder Bremen on August 20, succeeded in 1966 with a safe 2-0 home success. Brase neutralized while the speedy new winger Werner Görts in Bremen. Eight days later, was the first away game of the round with 1:2 goals during the German champions of 1966, TSV 1860 München, lost, but the harmony convinced. The game was recorded, " the Lion of Saxony, however, played surprisingly fresh and offensively on. Using " all man front "and" all man behind " the harmony began like an accordion. " Brase won most of his battles against the Munich Left Wing Hans Rebele. In the second home game was on September 3, 1966, the Master of 1964, of the 1st FC Cologne, beaten by a goal of superior Lothar Ulsaß 1-0. The concord - defensive - Horst Wolter, Brase, Kaack, Joachim Bäse, Minor, Schmidt - held here the renowned Cologne Single -rounder with Roger Magnusson, Heinz Flohe, Johannes Löhr, Wolfgang Overath and Heinz Hornig sovereign in chess.

A mysterious viral disease halted his career - after 97 Bundesliga inserts in a row. In Champion, year 1966/67, it stayed with the three operations against Bremen, Munich and Cologne in 1860. Because of the viral disease, he was in 1967 a total of 20 weeks in the hospital. In the 1967/68 season he was still in the squad but did not play in the Bundesliga. It was used seven times in the DFB - Pokal club, in which he scored a goal.

After he finished his active career, he was active as a coach in amateur and trained the TSV Schapen, SpVgg Gifhorn and TSV Helmstedt. As a retiree, he played a lot of tennis, took the time to read and traveled a lot.

Achievements

German soccer champion in 1967 with Eintracht Braunschweig