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Starnberg's first Bayern League captain

2021-02-23T10:10:28.042Z


He was the first captain to be promoted to the Bayern League with SpVgg Starnberg. But Franz Wiesheu (62) didn't play once in the then third-highest German division. The native of Uttingen made up for that in the second attempt. Today he works in a hotel - and still plays football.


He was the first captain to be promoted to the Bayern League with SpVgg Starnberg.

But Franz Wiesheu (62) didn't play once in the then third-highest German division.

The native of Uttingen made up for that in the second attempt.

Today he works in a hotel - and still plays football.

Starnberg - It was June 3rd, 1989, when the sparkling wine, no, of course, the champagne corks popped in Starnberg.

SpVgg, trained by Gerd Ritzer, was the first club from the Fünfseenland to make the leap into the Bavarian League.

And after the 4-1 win against FSV Munich, Mayor Heribert Thallmair presented the man with the master tin plate that had come to Lake Starnberg two years earlier from regional league competitor TSV Landsberg.

Wiesheu: “I had a brutally successful time in Landsberg.

We got promoted to the state league and established ourselves at the top - despite well-known competition such as Türk Gücü, Wacker Munich or the two Ingolstadt clubs.

But I was looking for a new, sporting challenge, ”remembers the trained banker.

His move made headlines: “The TSV Landsberg's most successful goalscorer will storm for SpVgg Starnberg in the coming season, which is very ambitious in the Bayern League.

Above all, the decisive factor was the sporting incentive, ”it read.

It took two years for Wiesheu's dream of the highest Bavarian league to come true.

“The team was so strong, we just had to get promoted,” Ritzer said later.

Curious - and a shock for the coach and the team: the evening after the great triumph, the captain announced the end of his career.

“I have to step backwards for professional reasons,” Wiesheu announced at the ascent party in the marquee.

But when things got tight in terms of relegation towards winter, the SpVgg reactivated their ex-captain.

Bitter: In the last preparatory game against Inning, of all things, he suffered a serious meniscus injury and thus remained without a Bayern League appearance, especially since the SpVgg were relegated immediately after one season.

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In 1990 Franz Wiesheu rose to the Bayern League for the second time with the then coach Karl-Heinz Finsterer.

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It was not until autumn 1990 that he celebrated his comeback in the national league in the SpVgg jersey.

In 1992 he was promoted to the Bavarian League for the second time under coach Karl-Heinz Finsterer.

"The 3-2 win in Unterhaching against 1860 Munich was of course the highlight of my career," says Wiesheu.

“It's amazing that it was 30 years ago.

It feels like it's only ten years. "

Then in 1993 the "big" football was over.

The Uttinger took over his hometown club as a player-coach for two years, brought in the former Landsberger Klaus Steinherr and immediately rose to the B-Class with TSV.

"It was also possible to make the jump to the A-Class, but we starved to death shortly before the promotion," he remembers.

This was followed by a “little break” until 2007, before he joined the senior B team at FC Bayern Munich.

And later regularly - until the current Corona break - played for the over 60s of the "Reds".

He also celebrated a huge success with them: In Wattenscheid he became the unofficial German Ü60 master in October 2019.

Wiesheu now lives with his wife Sabine, with whom he has been married since 2000, their son Adrian (18) and Charly, an eight-year-old Greek mixed breed dog from the Landsberg animal shelter in Greifenberg.

Instead of working in the bank, where he worked for 20 years, you can find the former SpVgg captain in the “Wittelsbacher Hof” in Utting.

There he has been working in his parents Martin and Johanna's hotel (20 rooms) since 1997.

“A family business since 1920,” he says.

And adds: "Unfortunately, the hotel has been completely closed since November 2nd because of the corona pandemic." Like all hoteliers, he is now hoping for easing at the start of the season: "It would be nice if we could reopen from April." he could then play for the Bayern oldies again.

Thomas Ernstberger

Source: merkur

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