Tasso Wild (born 1 December 1940) is a former German football

midfielder A midfielder is an outfield position in association football. Midfielders may play an exclusively defensive role, breaking up attacks, and are in that case known as defensive midfielders. As central midfielders often go across boundarie ...

who played for

1. FC Nürnberg 1. Fußball-Club Nürnberg Verein für Leibesübungen e. V., often called 1. FC Nürnberg (, en, 1. Football Club Nuremberg) or simply Nürnberg, is a German association football club in Nuremberg, Bavaria, who currently compete in the 2. Bund ...

and

Hertha BSC Hertha, Berliner Sport-Club e. V., commonly known as Hertha BSC (), and sometimes referred to as Hertha Berlin, Hertha BSC Berlin, or simply Hertha, is a German professional football club based in the locality of Westend of the borough of Charl ...

Career

Wild started his career with

. Between 1959 and 1963, he made 74 appearances for in the

Oberliga Süd Oberliga ( en, Premier league) may refer to: Association football * Oberliga (football), currently the fifth tier of the German football league system, formerly the first * DDR-Oberliga, the first tier of football in East Germany until 1990, re ...

, scoring 37 goals, and won the

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with the club in 1961. He also scored the winning goal for Nürnberg in the final of the

1961–62 DFB-Pokal The 1961–62 DFB-Pokal was the 19th season of the annual German football cup competition. It began on 28 July 1962 and ended on 29 August 1962. 16 teams competed in the tournament of four rounds. In the final 1. FC Nürnberg defeated Fortuna D� ...

against

Fortuna Düsseldorf Düsseldorfer Turn- und Sportverein Fortuna 1895 e.V., commonly known as Fortuna Düsseldorf (), is a German football club in Düsseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia, which competes in the 2. Bundesliga. Founded in 1895, Fortuna entered the league ...

. He made a further 79 appearances for the club in the

Bundesliga The Bundesliga (; ), sometimes referred to as the Fußball-Bundesliga () or 1. Bundesliga (), is a professional association football league in Germany. At the top of the German football league system, the Bundesliga is Germany's primary footbal ...

between 1963 and 1967, scoring 18 goals. Wild was signed by

in 1967. He appeared 88 times for the club in the Bundesliga, scoring seven goals. In 1971, Wild was banned by the DFB from playing in German football for his involvement in the

1971 Bundesliga scandal The Bundesliga scandal (''der Bundesliga-Skandal'') refers to the malicious, for-profit manipulation of games in the 1970–71 German football championship season. History The manipulation of games was revealed when the president of Kickers O ...

. Although the ban was later lifted, Wild did not return to professional football. After retiring, Wild served briefly as vice-chairman at 1. FC Nürnberg.

Honours

* German football championship:

1961 Events January * January 3 ** United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower announces that the United States has severed diplomatic and consular relations with Cuba (Cuba–United States relations are restored in 2015). ** Aero Flight 311 ...

* DFB-Pokal:

1962 Events January * January 1 – Western Samoa becomes independent from New Zealand. * January 3 – Pope John XXIII excommunicates Fidel Castro for preaching communism. * January 8 – Harmelen train disaster: 93 die in the wo ...

References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Wild, Tasso 1940 births Living people German footballers Association football midfielders Bundesliga players 1. FC Nürnberg players Hertha BSC players