Once one of the best Starnberg strikers: The goal “king” now plays billiards

Created: 02/17/2022Updated: 02/17/2022 09:31

By: Thomas Ernstberger

The now 61-year-old Peter Weiser can no longer play football for health reasons, but he is also accurate with the cue at the pool table.

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He was one of the best strikers to have played for a football club in Starnberg: Peter Weiser's goals will remain unforgettable on Ottostrasse.

Starnberg – Whenever you talk to a former soccer player, coach or official of SpVgg or FC Starnberg, his name comes into play at some point: "He was one of the best strikers I've played with," said Robert Grätz recently about Peter Weiser (61 today).

Sure: The thoroughbred striker from Bad Wörishofen (that's where he was born, that's where he still lives today) was what you can call a top scorer without exaggerating.

"Every season I've scored an average of 20 goals.

120 in six years in the Landesliga alone,” he looks back.

Weiser managed a total of six promotions during his active career: two each with SpVgg Starnberg (each in the Bavarian league) and FC Garmisch-Partenkirchen (in the district and state leagues) and one each with Bad Wörishofen (in the district league) and Türk Gücü Munich (to the Bayernliga).

And the classic centre-forward with his hits always had a significant part in the success.

In the 1991/92 season, Peter Weiser was the top scorer in the state league with 29 goals

Like in 1992, when Starnberg returned to the Bayernliga, at that time the third highest German division, under coach Karl-Heinz Finsterer.

Weiser scored 29 times in the 1991/92 season and secured the title of top scorer in the state league.

"And that without standards," he emphasizes.

"Jürgen Täuber grabbed the free kicks and I let Michael Wiesinger take the penalties."

On Ottostraße in Starnberg he was actually crowned in the hustle and bustle of the championship celebrations: with a golden crown that Brother Klaus (“He was my biggest fan”) made himself and presented to him on a velvet cushion after the last game.

"Because he was so happy." It was followed by: "Mount photo and lap of honor with that crown.

And then photos not only in Starnberger Merkur, but also in the Munich newspapers.

It was all almost a bit embarrassing for me.” “Pocco” (“The nickname stuck from the teenage years”) once again lived up to his name as a goalscorer and promotion specialist.

In the 1991/92 season, Peter Weiser was the top scorer in the state league with 29 goals.

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As before in his youth at his hometown club FC Bad Wörishofen, where he started playing football at the age of ten and which he shot into the district league.

Word got around: “FC Memmingen wanted me when I was 21, and when I was 24 I was supposed to audition for a week with Rolf Schafstall at Bundesliga club VfL Bochum together with Uwe Wegmann.

But I didn't have the necessary self-confidence there, so I didn't go there.

My Swabian selection colleague Wegmann got a professional contract right away.

In the end I snored the big chance.”

Peter Weiser "snored" the great opportunity to become a professional

The goalgetter changed anyway: in 1985 to SVO Germaringen in the state league (relegation despite 17 Weiser goals) and in 1986 to state league club Türk Gücü – with coach paradise bird Adi Pinter.

Just missed promotion as third in the first season, then made up for it in the second under champion lion Peter Grosser.

Then Bernhard Winkler, the later 60s from Schweinfurt, should come for the storm.

After scoring 34 goals and 25 assists for Munich, Weiser followed the call of his Bayern team-mate Franz Wiesheu and signed for Starnberg for the 1988/89 season.

With the SpVgg in 1989, under coach Gerd Ritzer, he was promoted straight away – and immediately relegated.

Weiser scored the first Starnberg Bayernliga goal in the 2-2 win in Weiden and caused a big sensation on October 3, 1989 in the Grünwalder Stadium when he scored 1:

Then in 1992 the second attempt under Charly Finsterer: promotion – and again two victories against the lions.

3:2 (with a Weiser goal) in the home game that was moved to Unterhaching and 2:1 in the second leg.

"Three wins in four games against 1860, that's something to be proud of," says the man from the Lower Allgäu.

And he reveals: “It was actually a bit problematic for me to score goals against the lions.

I was a 1860 fan.”

In 1995, Peter Weiser ended his football career due to an injury

1993 was the end of FC Starnberg - at 33, after 26 Bayernliga appearances and eight goals.

Former SpVgg sponsor Roland Holly brought Weiser, who also had an offer from Landshut from coach Willi Bierofka, together with Täuber and Christian Brunner to the A-Class 1. FC Garmisch-Partenkirchen.

Holly's goal: The Bayernliga.

But the "GaPa-Express" stopped in the national league.

Big names didn't help either: "With Rudi Brunnenmeier I had the second national player as a coach there after Grosser at Türk Gücü.

And then Reiner Maurer came as his successor.” But the Bayernliga remained a dream for Garmisch.

Weiser's (Tor) career ended in 1995.

Reason: Severe cartilage damage in the right knee.

“I had to have an operation and walked on crutches for nine months.

After that, nothing worked, not even AH football.

In the end I had to be happy that I could walk again.”

Today Peter Weiser plays billiards instead of football

No more football - there was a lack of Weiser, who now works in the field at Water Control AG and has been living with his girlfriend Esther for three years: "I need a bit of that competitive feeling," says the ex-footballer.

And so he switched to an indoor sport.

“I play billiards at major tournaments and in league operations at the PBC 'Golden Triangle' Mindelheim.

Normally in the district league team, but if one fails in the first in the state league, they fall back on me".

He reveals: “I had the choice between golf and billiards and I decided on billiards.

I trained for two hours almost every day for this.”

After the Corona break, gaming operations resumed at PBC.

Weiser is there - despite a difficult three-hour operation on December 22, 2021. In the Munich Schön-Klinik he had two cervical prostheses made of titanium inserted.

Exciting, but ultimately not a problem for an athlete like Weiser: "The pain, which was almost unbearable before, was gone immediately after the operation.

And I was allowed to celebrate Christmas at home again.

I am very grateful to the doctors and have no restrictions.”

Finally back to the footballer Weiser.

Who were his best teammates?

"Jörg Müller-Gesser, Kalle Baumgartl, Michael Wiesinger and Franz Wiesheu in Starnberg, Thomas Kristl at Türk Gücü." And his best coach?

"Darker - because he was breaking new ground even then."