Uwe Seeler recently celebrated his 85th birthday.
Almost 50 years ago, the vice world champion witnessed a challenge cup derby in Starnberg.
And "Uns Uwe" was satisfied.
Starnberg / Herrsching - Football legend Uwe Seeler, next to the late Gerd Müller one of the best-known, most popular and most successful German center strikers, recently celebrated his 85th birthday at home in Hamburg.
Seeler, also known as "Uns Uwe", was once, like Franz Beckenbauer, a close friend of the Starnberg sausage manufacturer and sports patron Rudi Houdek (1913-2008).
That is why the 1966 vice world champion and honorary captain of the national team was a frequent guest in the district town during Houdek's lifetime.
And of course also in Possenhofen, where we usually went by boat and where Otto Robl dined extensively with one or the other glass of wine and discussed the big football topics of the world at Otto Robl's "Forsthaus am See".
Cup derby 1972 between the best district teams: Starnberg and Herrsching
The great Uwe Seeler also showed a heart for amateur football in Starnberg.
Let's take the example from July 1972. SpVgg Starnberg celebrated its 60th birthday - in front of 2,000 spectators on the grounds of TSV 1880 Starnberg;
with brass music, a lot of celebrities and the first top game for the Adolf-Hirt challenge cup.
From then on, it was played annually between the two best district teams.
In mid-July 1972, the newly promoted national league team TSV Herrsching, who won a 7-1 win against Rosenheim in the previous week, became Upper Bavarian district champion, and the district league team SpVgg Starnberg.
Uwe Seeler as a spectator at the Adolf Hirt challenge cup in Starnberg
Among the spectators: Uwe Seeler, who together with the unforgettable FDP District Administrator Dr.
Rudolf Widmann (1929-2000) initiated the initiative.
“That was of course a very special honor for us,” remembers Helmut Pestinger, who played for Herrsching in 1972 before moving to SpVgg in 1973.
The big surprise on the field: Not the top favorite from Ammersee, the team around Willi Welte, Hubert Herbinger and Dieter Harpke, grabbed the challenge cup, but the newly formed Starnberg team with the newcomers Klaus Schröder (in goal), Hubert Windsberger, Paul Rexin and Gerd Ritzer.
The goal of the day for the district league team around Werner Anzill and Toni Plattner was achieved by the former Garmischer Ritzer, who later became the SpVgg's promotion coach, who defeated Herrsching substitute goalkeeper Werner Hager (who was in the box for Dieter Obermeier) in the 35th minute.
“Buale” Haas comes away empty-handed - “Uns Uwe” Seeler appreciates the Starnbergers' game
Alfred Haas, on the other hand, came away empty-handed.
The 38-year-old “Buale”, Starnberg's storm legend, who had worn the SpVgg jersey for 25 years, ended his active career with this game.
Haas later became a coach, he died in 2013 at the age of 78.
In 1972, of course, Seeler was the object of the fans.
Typical "Uns Uwe": The national player fulfilled every wish of the autograph collector.
And he said after the game: “That was pretty good.
I am sure that the Starnbergers will get even stronger once they play together for a longer period of time. "District Administrator Widmann added soberly:" I would have thought the Herrschinger were stronger. "
Football in Herrsching and Starnberg - then and now
After all: As the best team from the district, the Ammerseers stayed in the state league for three years, at that time the second-highest Bavarian amateur league.
In 1975 he was relegated to the district league.
In the same year, the SpVgg rose to the state league.
Today Herrsching is third from last in the A-Class, SpVgg was dissolved in 1992.
But Uwe Seeler will no longer be particularly interested in that.
(ebg)