Horst Schubert: On an overseas expedition with the DSC

Horst Schubert is a football institution in the Derendorf club. Now he is 75.

if Horst Schubert About his time and experiences as a footballer DSC That said, shouldn’t be a surprise to many of today’s young footballers. Simply the fact that the latter’s right-wing winger almost exclusively spent his career with a club on the Windshiedstrasse is unusual today.

Schubert, who was born in Flingern and turned 75 during the week, began playing football as a junior near Flinger Broich, but not in Fortuna but in Blau-Weis. “Professional Footballer of the Future” Eddie Evenkamp Played with me there in A-Youth,” says Schubert.

played in the third division

In 1968 he joined Düsseldorfer Sport Club, with whom he gained attention as a regular player in the third highest division. “My speed and observation made me a successful template provider,” is how he describes his strengths. His coaches at the time included such illustrious names as Albert Görtz and Peter Danzberg. It is unthinkable for many players today that they played on black ashes and over 3000 spectators came to the local derby against Turu.

In addition to sporting successes in his home country, impressions from overseas expeditions, ”as he jokingly calls DSC trips to distant countries, will not be forgotten. In 1969 he toured Canada and North America for three weeks. A few years later, Central America was on the agenda. “We were in Costa Rica, Guatemala, El Salvador and Nicaragua with 16 DSC 99 footballers,” says Schubert. DSCler was announced as a team of the German professional league. “And so we had a total of 38,000 spectators in four games.”

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He particularly remembered the game in El Salvator, played in the afternoon at 40 degrees and 98 percent humidity. “When we led 4-2, we assumed a revolution had broken out in the stands. The 7,000 spectators began to walk more and more, throwing cornmeal at each other from the bags they brought with them And then during the game as a sign of despair covering his team and the entire stadium in a cloud of fog.”

After the end of his career, Schubert remained loyal to the DSC as an officer for several years.