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Werner Kohlmeyer (19 April 1924 – 26 March 1974) was a German footballer who played as a full back.

Werner Kohlmeyer

Sculpture of Kohlmeyer in Kaiserslautern
Personal information
Full name	Werner Kohlmeyer
Date of birth	(1924-04-19)19 April 1924
Place of birth	Kaiserslautern, Germany
Date of death	26 March 1974(1974-03-26) (aged 49)
Place of death	Mainz-Mombach, West Germany
Height	1.74 m (5 ft 9 in)
Position(s)	Full back
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1941–1957	1. FC Kaiserslautern
1957–1959	FC Homburg
1959–1960	SV Bexbach
National team
1951–1955	West Germany	22	(0)
Honours Representing  West Germany FIFA World Cup Winner 1954 Switzerland
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

He was part of the West German team that won the 1954 FIFA World Cup. In total he earned 22 caps for West Germany.[1] He also played for 1. FC Kaiserslautern from 1941 to 1957.[2]

Career

Kohlmeyer was born in Kaiserslautern.

The burly Kohlmeyer became renowned for saves on the goalline, especially in the game against Yugoslavia during the 1954 World Cup, in which he several times none to soon threw himself into shots on the German goal.[3] In the 1954 FIFA World Cup Final, Kohlmeyer stopped Zoltán Czibor.

Kohlmeyer won the German football championship with 1. FC Kaiserslautern in 1951 and 1953. In one of his last games for Germany, Kohlmeyer faced Stanley Matthews at Wembley on 1 December 1954, in an international friendly between England and West Germany. While he proved incapable of stopping Matthews and clearly lost that duel, Kohlmeyer was proud that he never lost his composure by committing not a single foul on Matthews.[3] It was this attitude of fairness which Germany coach Sepp Herberger appreciated, as well as Kohlmeyer's assuredness and defensive reliability.

Kohlmeyer remained a starter for Kaiserslautern until 1957. After retirement he suffered from a divorce and the detachment from his three children as well as alcoholism[3] and poverty; he lived on welfare for a while, before taking a job as a doorman for a newspaper publisher in Mainz. He died at the age of 49 due to heart failure in Mainz-Mombach.

References

External links

• Werner Kohlmeyer at fussballdaten.de (in German)
• Werner Kohlmeyer at WorldFootball.net
• Werner Kohlmeyer at National-Football-Teams.com

На других языках

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- [en] Werner Kohlmeyer

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[es] Werner Kohlmeyer

Werner Kohlmeyer (Kaiserslautern, República de Weimar, 19 de abril de 1924-Mainz-Mombach, Alemania Occidental, 26 de marzo de 1974) fue un futbolista alemán que jugaba como defensa.[1]

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[fr] Werner Kohlmeyer

Werner Kohlmeyer (19 avril 1924 à Kaiserslautern - 26 mars 1974 à Mainz-Mombach) est un footballeur international allemand qui évoluait au poste d'arrière gauche.

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[it] Werner Kohlmeyer

Werner Kohlmeyer (Kaiserslautern, 19 aprile 1924 – Magonza, 26 marzo 1974) è stato un calciatore tedesco occidentale di ruolo difensore, campione mondiale nel 1954.

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[ru] Кольмайер, Вернер

Ве́рнер Ко́льмайер (нем. Werner «Kohli» Kohlmeyer; 19 апреля 1924, Кайзерслаутерн, Германия — 26 марта 1974, Майнц-Момбах, ФРГ) — немецкий футболист, чемпион мира 1954 года.

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