Name: Josef Wendl



Country: Germany
Club: TSV 1860 München
Position: *CB, SB, DMF
Side: LF/LS
Age: 25-31 years (17/12/1906)

Height: * 179 cm (app.)
Weight: * 83 kg (app.)

Attack: 62
Defence: 84
Balance: 87
Stamina: 79
Top Speed: 80
Acceleration: 78
Response: 81
Agility: 75
Dribble Accuracy: 72
Dribble Speed: 74
Short Pass Accuracy: 78
Short Pass Speed: 75
Long Pass Accuracy: 84
Long Pass Speed: 79
Shot Accuracy: 64
Shot Power: 83
Shot Technique: 65
Free Kick Accuracy: 63
Curling: 65
Header: 80
Jump: 82
Technique: 75
Aggression: 61
Mentality: 84
Keeper Skills: 50
Team Work: 79

Injury Tolerance: A
Condition: 6
Weak Foot Accuracy: 6
Weak Foot Frequency: 5
Consistency: 8
Growth Type: Standard Lasting


CARDS:
P08: Pinpoint Pass
S07: Man Marking
S09: Covering

SPECIAL ABILITIES: Marking - Covering

Attack / Defence Awareness Card: Defence Minded


INFO:

The greatest captain in TSV 1860 München history with more than 1000 games in 21 seasons with the club. Wendl was in the beginning left wing half but later mainly centre half and left back. He was famous for his fantastic long balls from the back line, often making assists for his strikers. He was very tenacious and harsh in physical play, very strong and uncompromising, it was very hard to get past him. In May 1916in the youth department of the Munich "lion" pupil Josef Wendl underwent complete youth ages at the blue and white sixties and was first introduced 17 years ago in at that time in the District League Bayern playing Ligaelf used . In the season 1926/27 the defensive hope experienced with 1860, the first successes. In Bavaria, he won with his club the runner, by the third rank in the games to the Süddeutsche championship attracted the "lion" in the final round of the German football championship one. There, the young player sat on the side of his teammates Alois Pledl, Eugene and Joseph Kling Hornauer against FC Schalke 04 and VfB Leipzig and failed by only 1:4 in the semifinal with gates at the later champions 1 FC Nuremberg. In all finals games Wendl was at left-runners in action. In the 1930/31 season, Wendl qualified for the second time for the 1860 finals matches in the German championship. The elf from Giesing jumped over the hurdle in the semifinals, she switched with a 2-0 success to Holstein Kiel and drew for the first time in club history in the final of the German football championship one. 50,000 spectators at the final on 14 June 1931 lost in Cologne with 2:3 goals by a 2-1 half-time lead against Hertha BSC. Wendl made with Max Schaefer, the defense in front of goalkeeper Alfred Riemke pair and left runners on his previous position acted Fritz Eiberle. Two years later, 1932/33, lost Wendl and his teammates the semi-final match in the final with 0:4 against Schalke 04 goals in Leipzig In the Gauliga era he came again in 1941 as a 34-year veteran in the final round. He conducted a center half in the group matches against Stuttgarter Kickers, VfL Neckarau SK Rapid Wien and the defense of the "lions". Outstanding it was the 2-1 home win on 27 April before 30,000 spectators, as he had to compete against the particular Rapid Scorers Franz Binder and made the attack Heinz Krückeberg and Louis Janda for the pulses. The decisive second leg in Vienna, the Wehrmacht and captain Wendl was prevented and Rapid won with a 2-0 victory with two points ahead of the 1860 group first place. The Vienna sat down in the final later on 22 June by a 4-3 win against Schalke 04 and won the German championship by 1941. When his club in 1942 on 15 November, we get a 2-0 success in the final against Schalke 04 to Tschammer Cup in Munich, he had due to the war only in 5:3 home victory on 19 July 1942 in the first final round against SK Rapid Vienna participated at left-back alongside George Pledl. Overall, the decade, the captaincy performing defensive player was 21 years for 1860 active players in league and played more than 1,000 games. Wendl last time was in the spring of 1945 during a leave from the front in a competitive match for the "Lions" has been in use. At 19, the man for the left defensive side has been appointed to the Munich-City selection, for which he played a total of 28 games in his career. In the Süddeutsche selection of the 60 debuted on 9 October 1927 in the Federal Cup competition in the 3:4 defeat against West Germany in Duisburg. The national football team "lions" players debuted together with goalkeeper Hans Jacob on 2 November 1930 at the international match against Norway in Wroclaw. In his second appeal on 30 October 1932 in Budapest against Hungary celebrated Paul Janes its national debut. In his third and fourth international match - in January and March 1933 against Italy and France - he made before each goalkeeper Jacob Haringer the German defenders couple. Wendl goodbye with his fifth international duty on 19 November 1933 in Zurich's 2-0 victory against the Confederates from the national team. The Bayern players Ludwig Goldbrunner hand opened the game against the "Nati" his international career. Appointed to the honorary captain Wendl received in 1934 for outstanding athletic achievements urban honorary letter. The city of Munich took over Wendl 31 August 1934 as a clerk in the employment relationship workshops, the first March 1935 he got a job as a guard in the road. On 17 June 1940 he was drafted into the Wehrmacht and was, until the war at the front. In May 1945, he fell into Soviet captivity and was only on 5 January 1950 to return home where he again joined the Munich office in road service. Soon after his return from captivity he began at TSV 1860 Munich in the youth department to work as a coach. At the Sports University in Cologne in 1953 he ran successfully through the training to become football coach. Until the end of July 1965, he worked as a trainer and supervisor in the youth department of the club. He died in 1980.