Soccer District League
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Relegation candidate Schiefbahn wins against Willich
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Stefan Galster from SC Schiefbahn kicks a free kick. However, he scored the opening goal with his head.
Photo: Mocnik / Mark Mocnik
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Schiefbahn In local derbies it’s often like in the cup or in the relegation battle, where the outsider has his back to the wall. It was the same in the encounter between SC Schiefbahn and VfL Willich, where there was a surprise.
The fact that local derbies have their own laws is certainly not a new finding. Current example: SC Schiefbahn, threatened with relegation, won the Nachol game of the football district league against their neighbor VfL Willich, who is placed in midfield, 2-0 (1-0). As a result, the hosts collected important points in the bottom half of the table, while the defeat doesn’t hurt the Glasmacher team very much, but the disappointing performance does. For the umpteenth time, because in the past three derbies, Schiefbahn has won twice and not lost once.
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This time the long veteran Stefan Galster headed in after a Klinger corner (26′). Ken Meyer made it 2-0 (59th). The 450 spectators, actually a respectable visitor, didn’t notice the unusually late arrival of referee Kilian Baumhögger (Langenfeld), who initially seemed uncertain.
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450 spectators? In the past, the number of spectators at the derbies between SC Schiefbahn and VfL Willich was often in four figures. In this context, connoisseurs of the scene immediately think of the protagonists on the square, such as Coca Növer, Horst Padberg, Norbert Kothen, Dieter Mellin, Ecki Beißel, Wolfgang Kivelip, Hans-Peter Mentzel, Willi Esser or Günter Klinger, the father of today’s SC player coach Daniel. The coaches at that time included Herbert Weggen, Gerdi Janhsen, Wolfgang Kuhlen, Josef Levels and Horst Riege. Sonorous names wherever you look that still make many people click their tongues today. The rivalry was very big at the time. Sometimes it even seemed to turn to hatred and one person didn’t begrudge the other the butter on the bread. In addition, the SCS was very financially strong thanks to its generous chairman Karlheinz Schmitt.
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Today, in every respect and as desired by both parties, everything has become very relaxed and put into perspective. At VfL it was players like Waldemar Preuss, Uwe Akkermann, Hans Levels (father of Borussia, Düsseldorf and Ingolstadt’s former player Tobias and nephew of Viktoria Köln’s coach Olaf Jansen), Markus Preuss, Toshi Creutz and Klaus Akkermann (today VfL manager) who were very familiar with handling the round leather. And Klaus Amrath or Uwe Schäfer even played for both clubs, which caused a lot of excitement at the time. Manfred Orzessek, the former keeper of Schalke and Borussia Mönchengladbach, Rudi Pöggeler, also a long-time Gladbach player, Jupp Levels or Werner Küppers, to name just one or the other, were some of the coaches in Willich.
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