The death of the first goalkeeper to score a goal in the German League

The German football club MSV Duisburg announced the death of Manfred Mangelitz, the first goalkeeper to score a goal in the German Bundesliga, at the age of 86.

The Duisport Club quoted his family as saying that Mangelits died on Monday after a short and serious illness.

The club added: “One of the greatest players in the history of Duisburg has passed away.”

Manglitz played in four matches with the former West Germany national team and was part of the team that won the 1970 World Cup. He played 257 matches in the (Bundesliga), for the Duisburg and Cologne teams in the period from 1964 and 1971, and participated in three German Cup final matches.

Mangelits is famous for scoring a penalty kick for the Duisburg team in the match that the team lost to Borussia Mönchengladbach 1-3 in June 1967, as the penalty kick made him the first goalkeeper to score in the Bundesliga era that began in 1963.

He was involved in a match-fixing case in the Bundesliga during the early 1970s, where he was banned for life, before he was later allowed to return to the stadiums, which he actually did by playing in the lower divisions.