Former Bundesliga player and coach Gerd Roggensack is dead. He became known, among other things, for scoring the decisive goal in a scandalous game.
Gerd Roggensack as coach of Wattenscheid 09 imago images/Ferdi Hartung
As his family announced, Roggensack died on Wednesday after a long, serious illness at the age of 82, surrounded by his relatives. His former club Arminia Bielefeld expressed its condolences in a message and wrote: “DSC Arminia Bielefeld will never forget Gerd Roggensack.”
Born in Güstrow in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania in 1941, Roggensack initially played as a professional for Borussia Dortmund and became German champion with BVB in the last season before the introduction of the Bundesliga in 1963. He then moved to Bielefeld, where he spent the majority of his playing career. From 1963 to 1972, with the exception of a one-year interlude at 1. FC Kaiserslautern, he played for Arminen. In total, he played 77 Bundesliga games and scored 18 goals.
“Zick-Zack-Roggensack” became best known as the scorer of the winning goal in East Westphalia’s Bundesliga game against Schalke 04 on April 17, 1971. Roggensack scored the 1-0 goal in the 83rd minute without any real resistance. As it later emerged, the game was arranged between the teams to prevent Bielefeld from being relegated from the Bundesliga. It was the first of a total of eight affected games that resulted in the big Bundesliga scandal after being exposed. Bielefeld had paid Schalke 40,000 German marks for a defeat.
Trainer in Bielefeld, Kaiserslautern and Wolfsburg
After Roggensack ended his playing career in Gütersloh, he became a coach. Through the Bielefeld youth team, he became an assistant coach for the professionals and as such assisted Otto Rehhagel and Karl-Heinz Feldkamp, among others. From 1984 to 1986 he was the club’s head coach, but was relegated from the Bundesliga with the DSC in 1985. Roggensack then coached numerous other professional teams, including Eintracht Braunschweig, 1. FC Kaiserslautern, Preußen Münster, Fortuna Köln and VfL Wolfsburg.
He was fired from FCK in 1990 due to poor league performance, but had previously led the team to the semi-finals of the DFB Cup. Under his successor Feldkampf, the Palatinate team ultimately won the competition. In total, he was in the dugout for 66 games in the Bundesliga and 238 games in the 2nd league.
2024-04-17 16:33:52
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