| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Date of birth | (1940-02-12)12 February 1940 | ||
| Place of birth | Frankfurt, Germany | ||
| Date of death | 24 March 2017(2017-03-24) (aged 77) | ||
| Position | Winger | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 1949–1958 | Union Niederrad | ||
| 1958–1959 | Eintracht Frankfurt | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1959–1968 | Eintracht Frankfurt | 182 | (63) |
| 1968–1971 | Darmstadt 98 | ||
| 1971–1974 | SpVgg Bad Homburg | ||
| 1974–1975 | SpVgg Neu-Isenburg | ||
| International career | |||
| 1962–1964 | West Germany | 2 | (0) |
| Managerial career | |||
| 1970–1971 | Darmstadt 98 (player-manager) | ||
| * Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
Wolfgang Solz (12 February 1940 – 24 March 2017) was a German professionalfootballer who played as awinger.
The youth internationalist moved from Union Niederrad to Eintracht Frankfurt in 1958. The first season he had to spend in the youth team due to transfer regulations. From the 1959–60 campaign on, Solz was an Oberliga team member. On 6 December 1959, he debuted as left winger againstSSV Reutlingen. For theEuropean Cup final match in Glasgow againstReal Madrid on 18 May 1960 he was benched. Because of his excellent technique he was called "Brasilianer",Brazilian. From 1959 until 1963 he appeared in 69 Oberliga matches, netting 17 goals and contributed to the runner-up titles in 1961 and 1962 in the Oberliga Süd. In the 1963 foundedBundesliga he gathered 46 goals in 113 matches. In theInter-Cities Fairs Cup, Solz experienced international flair in 1964–65 and 1966–67. His last Bundesliga appearance was a 0–0 draw atSchalke 04 on 25 May 1968.
After his departure from Eintracht Frankfurt, Solz signed atDarmstadt 98 where he stayed from 1968 until 1971. The first two rounds in theRegionalliga Süd as a player Spieler, the 1970–71 season as aplayer-manager in the amateur league Hessen. He won the championship with theLilies, leading them back to the Regionalliga.
As 33-year-old player-manager, Solz won the German amateur championship withSpVgg Bad Homburg against the 1. FC Kaiserslautern amateurs on 30 June 1973.
Solz gained his first cap in the pre-Bundesliga time. On 24 October 1962, the winger played together with the ones ofUwe Seeler,Heinz Strehl andFriedhelm Konietzka in Stuttgart againstFrance when the match ended 2–2. After1962 FIFA World Cup in Chile, BundestrainerSepp Herberger had to re-build the team and the 22-year-old Frankfurt native received the chance to play for Germany. His second match for the national team was on 29 April 1964 in Ludwigshafen at the 4–3 loss againstCzechoslovakia. He formed the left wing together withWolfgang Overath but was not capped again. In acceleration he was not an excessively pacy winger and on the playmaker positionHelmut Haller, Wolfgang Overath andGünter Netzer could not be pushed away.
After eleven honours won in the amateur tiers, he retired his manager careerFSV Frankfurt in 1989. He had a reputation as a sound manager and had some success withViktoria Aschaffenburg,VfR Bürstadt, FC Erbach,RW Frankfurt,Borussia Fulda undHanau 93.
The former bureau employee founded an insurance agency in Frankfurt.