Albert Wirsching Explained

Albert Wirsching
Birth Date:1 September 1920
Birth Place:Frankfurt, German Empire
Death Place:Bern, Switzerland
Position:Forward
Youthyears1:1930–1936
Youthclubs1:Eintracht Frankfurt
Years1:1936–1948
Years2:1948–1950
Years3:1950–1952
Years4:1952
Years5:1953–1955
Years6:1955–1956
Years7:1956
Years8:1957–1960
Clubs1:Eintracht Frankfurt
Clubs2:Kickers Offenbach
Clubs3:FC Bern
Clubs4:TSV 1860 Munich
Clubs5:FC Bern
Clubs6:BSC Young Boys
Clubs7:FC Winterthur
Clubs8:FC Langenthal
Manageryears1:1956
Manageryears2:1957–1962
Manageryears3:1962–1971
Managerclubs1:FC Winterthur (player-manager)
Managerclubs2:FC Langenthal (player-manager)
Managerclubs3:SC Sparta Bern
Managerclubs4:SCI Esperia Napoli Berna
Managerclubs5:BSC Young Boys

Albert Wirsching (31 January 1920 – 21 August 1997) was a German footballer. He played club football with Eintracht Frankfurt, Kickers Offenbach, FC Bern, TSV 1860 Munich, BSC Young Boys and FC Winterthur.

Career

Wirsching was part of the Eintracht Frankfurt squad that played from 1936 to 1941 in der Gauliga Südwest and later from 1941 to 1945 in the Gauliga Hessen-Nassau, one of the first tier Gauligas in Nazi Germany. In the 1938 campaign he won with Eintracht Frankfurt the Gauliga Südwest, admitting the Eagles to the German football championship group stage. He appeared in all six group matches scoring 7 goals which meant a runners-up position next to Hamburger SV. In the 1935 founded cup competition Tschammerpokal he competed from 1937 in four seasons, amounting seven games and two goals. His debut came on 29 August 1937 in a first round loss to SpVgg Sülz 07 in the Tschammerpokal.

After the end of World War II he played for Eintracht from 1945 until 1948 in the Oberliga Süd, back then the first German tier.

He moved to rivals Kickers Offenbach for the 1948–49, winning Oberliga Süd in his first season. In the next season he and his team finished as third. For Kickers Offenbach he competed in 1948–49 and in 1949–50 four final round matches for the German championship. The third place play-off on 9 July 1949 at Stadion Oberwerth in Koblenz was lost 2–1 after extra time to 1. FC Kaiserslautern, just like the final match in the next season against VfB Stuttgart that was lost with the same result on 25 June 1950 at Olympiastadion in Berlin.

After this loss he went to Switzerland, playing two seasons for FC Bern, firstly in the second tier Nationalliga B and after an immediate promotion in the Nationalliga A securing the league stay as twelfth out of 14 teams.

After Wirsching's return to Germany he signed in the 1952–53 season for TSV 1860 Munich that eventually finished as second to last and were relegated to the 2. Oberliga Süd. Once again he went to Switzerland and played there for three clubs.

Firstly he played in the 1953–54 campaign for Nationalliga A club BSC Young Boys, from 1954 to 1956 for Nationalliga B club FC Winterthur where he contributed to FCW's promotion to Nationalliga A. Albert Wirsching's last club before retirement was FC Langenthal.

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