Moosburg: Siggi Gmahl - the gifted soccer player likes to look back on his time with the kickers in the Dreirosenstadt, then a department of the sports community.
Moosburg / Mirskofen - "Table tennis", says Siegfried Gmahl (69), "that would have been my alternative sport". After all, he was a company master at the Funkkaserne in Munich - and really good. “That means I wasn't just a racket carrier.” But anyone who is on the footballing level knows: Siggi Gmahl from Mirskofen (Landshut district) was a born and gifted footballer for decades. And this, his talent and ability, he not only lived as an active person, but also passed it on as a popular trainer.
Both sons are enthusiastic about football
Especially to his two sons, Markus (43) and Daniel (39), two football-loving children whom he and his Gudrun, with whom he has been married since 1975 and with whom he could only celebrate their 45th wedding anniversary on August 2nd showed the way to his favorite sport.
Siegfried Gmahl, "da Siggal", as he was called among friends and is still called that way by former comrades-in-arms and football colleagues, made his football attempts at the DJK Mirskofen. It has remained his hometown club, which he even coached as the first and second coach until the 2015/16 season, with whom he still has good relationships and whose games he still likes to watch, provided his leisure activities allow.
Playmaker, so the typical number 10
As an active player, he was the classic ten in the form of the game at that time, in front of back four and Co., a man for midfield, the playmaker.
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Thanks to his talent for football, he was noticed in a higher class. For men he was at FC Wacker Munich from 1970 to 1973 in what was then the Regionalliga Süd, where the club was promoted as Bavarian amateur champion in the 1969/70 season. Siggal was then at SpVgg Landshut for a year until the call came from the Dreirosenstadt Moosburg.
The then department head Hans Kiermaier senior - the footballers had been part of the gymnastics club, the game association of 1920 and the ice sports and tennis club of the Moosburg sports association since the 1970 merger - attracted the Siggal from the footballers of the Lower Bavaria metropolis to the Isar city upstream.
The cigar board came to get me
Even today he fondly remembers the transfer or the commitment - whatever you like to call it. When asked about this, Siggi Gmahl writes: “A nice memory remains that the cigar and cigarette director Hans Kiermaier finally persuaded me to take over the coaching position - first for the preparation and then for the season and others. I have not looked back. Actually, I just wanted to join the SGM footballers at the time as a player. "
He particularly remembers the district league season with the Moosburg footballers. “Good team, great atmosphere, relatively many spectators for this class - and we achieved our goal of staying up. And then Augustiner or Löwenbräu - until you drop, ”writes Siggi Gmahl with a smile, remembering the time.
Siggal Gmahl with Moosburger and Landshut buddies (from left: Gmahl, Sebastian "Wacko" Gerlsbeck, Sepp Pichlmeier and Reinahrd "Timex" Treimer.
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Simply brilliant: promotion to the Bayern League
But of course other successes are also present: For example, the promotion to the Bayern League with him as a coach at the "Spiele" Landshut, and the first match against TSV 1860 Amateurs, which Lower Bavaria won 3-2.
Keeping fit by running stairs at the Post
Many have always wondered how fit the Siggal is, after all, he wasn't a professional footballer, but employed by the post office. But the now 69-year-old knew exactly which training schedule he could choose for himself. He kept himself fit by climbing stairs or, better, running stairs. “That's right,” he says when asked. “For example in Blutenburgstrasse in Munich. That was in 1967. There were 36 staircases, which means the mailbox was hanging on the door of the apartment, that was four floors - and, as was common back then, there were still two deliveries a day. "
When asked why he came back to SpVgg Landshut, although a good friend once claimed that he, Siggal Gmahl, would never do that, the 69-year-old replies honestly: "I could have saved myself that." As a viewer he still likes to watch soccer games. "But that remains limited to my surroundings." He means the DJK Mirskofen - "my favorite club".
Aborting the season would have been better
When asked about the current situation of the "ghost games", Gmahl has always been in favor of the professional area, because many clubs are dependent on television money. In the amateur area, however, the almost 70-year-old sees it differently: “I would have been here a long time to end the current season completely.” He doesn't think it's good that the BFV tempts the clubs to agree to the continuation of a season at an early stage Has.
Football does not lose its attraction
And what is different than when he was active back then? "In the past, there was more passion in the game, especially in the amateur classes," says Gmahl, who, together with Fritz Popp, Erich Beer or a room colleague and district league promotion coach of the SGM footballers, Mario Rieger, acquired the football A license in 1980. “Today, the often exaggerated training effort is offset with money even in the lower classes. But football will not lose its appeal, ”says Gmahl.