Helmut Fendel

Helmut Fendel (born July 27, 1937 in Cologne ; † March 3, 2019 ) was a German football player . From 1956 to 1963 the attacker played a total of 142 games for the clubs 1. FC Köln and Borussia Mönchengladbach in what was then the first-class football league West , scoring 48 goals.

career

Cologne, until 1960

Born and raised in Cologne, Helmut Fendel became a member of the youth department of 1. FC Cologne in 1951. When his parents moved to Refrath in 1953 , his FC time was interrupted for two years before he returned to FC in the 1955/56 season. He reached the cathedral city by tram, and took line 20 to Klettenberg. After a year in the amateur team of the "billy goats" he was taken over like his previous teammates Rudolf Eder and Hans Pfeiffer in the league squad for the 1956/57 season.

During his time at 1. FC Köln, Helmut Fendel made exactly 100 appearances in which he scored 41 goals . The striker made his debut on October 28, 1956 in a 2-2 away draw against Schwarz-Weiß Essen under coach Hennes Weisweiler in the league. The young player stood out as a two-time goalscorer alongside Hans Sturm and Hans Schäfer . The agile attacker could be used in all positions in the attack in the World Cup system that was practiced at the time and was primarily a template for goal-threatening inside strikers. He won the runner-up with FC in 1958 and 1959 and the title in the Oberliga West in 1960. Fendel had his best lap record in the 1958/59 season when he scored ten goals for the “billy goat” eleven in 27 league appearances. In the final round of the German football championship in 1959, he was used in all six matches against Eintracht Frankfurt, FK Pirmasens and SV Werder Bremen. When 1. FC Cologne was able to win the championship in the Oberliga West in 1959/60, he only played eleven league games in which he scored seven goals. With Helmut Rahn , Coşkun Taş and Karl-Heinz Thielen there were other competitors on the wings in the squad. In these four years he experienced three different coaches : Hennes Weisweiler, Péter Szabó and Oswald Pfau . Under Pfau, 1. FC Köln became German runner-up in 1960. Fendel's teammates at the time included Fritz Ewert , Georg Stollenwerk , Josef Röhrig , Hans Sturm and the 1954 world champion Hans Schäfer . During his time at FC, the trained carpenter got a job in the in-house coffee roastery at “Kaufhof”, which enabled him to participate in the time-consuming training and game operations. After he was plagued by bad luck with injuries in his fourth league year in 1959/60 and could only play eleven league games with seven goals, he moved to Borussia Mönchengladbach with his attacking colleague Franz Brungs in the 1960/61 season .

Mönchengladbach, 1960 to 1963

The ex-player of 1. FC Köln lost his first league game with Mönchengladbach on August 14, 1960 against Hamborn 07 with 1: 3 goals. The two games against the “billy goats” -Elf were lost with Borussia in his first season at Bökelberg. In the 2: 3 home defeat on April 30, 1961, Fendel had achieved the interim 2: 2 equalization in the 75th minute in front of 35,000 spectators. At the side of top scorer Ulrich Kohn (30-21) he was together with Franz Brungs (30-9) in his 24 league appearances with ten goals one of the most dangerous strikers in Borussia. In the Oberliga West Mönchengladbach finished 6th. Fendel and his new teammates had already caused a surprise in the West German Cup with their successes in the semi-finals on August 6 with 4: 3 goals at Borussia Dortmund and the 3: 1 win on August 24 in the final against 1. FC Köln , that's how it increased in the DFB Cup . In the attack line-up with Franz Brungs, Albert Brülls , Ulrich Kohn, Karl-Heinz Mulhouse and Helmut Fendel won Moenchengladbach on October 5, 1960 in Dusseldorf under coach Bernd Oles 3: 2 goals the Cup of the year 1960 .

In his second year with Borussia, 1961/62, recognized top league players in goalkeeper Manfred Orzessek and attacker Willibert Kremer were added, but the performance of the previous year could not be repeated. Mönchengladbach played to stay in the league and finished 13th at the end of the round; Fendel had scored four goals in 20 league appearances. The last year of the old first-class league, 1962/63, the Borussia opened the modernized Bökelbergstadion with an "opening game" on July 28, 1962 against Glasgow Rangers after extensive renovation work . In front of 25,000 spectators, the European Cup competitors from 1960 (0: 3, 0: 8) parted with 1: 1. At the side of Fendel, the newcomers Siegfried Burkhardt , Heinz Crawatzo and Werner Moldovan in the team of Oles' successor Fritz Langner were deployed. Due to injury, the attacker completed only 19 league games in the 1962/63 series in which he scored six goals and ended his career as a contract footballer with the away game on April 28, 1963 at Hamborn 07 (0: 1). At the end of the round he returned to his home in Cologne for professional reasons and was reamateurised.

From 1964 to 1967 Fendel worked as a player- coach at SV Refrath in his home in Bergisch Gladbach .

statistics

• Oberliga West

  79 games; 30 goals 1. FC Cologne

  63 games; 20 goals Borussia Mönchengladbach

• Final round of the German championship

  11 games; 3 goals 1. FC Cologne

• West Cup

  10 games; 8 goals 1. FC Cologne

successes

• 1960 German runner-up with 1. FC Cologne
• 1960 DFB Cup winner with Borussia Mönchengladbach

literature

• Lorenz Knieriem, Hardy Grüne : Player Lexicon 1890 - 1963 . In: Encyclopedia of German League Football . tape 8 . AGON, Kassel 2006, ISBN 3-89784-148-7 , p. 82 f .
• Dirk Innschuld, Frederic Latz: With the billy goat on his chest. All players, all coaches, all officials of 1. FC Köln. Publishing house Die Werkstatt. Göttingen 2013. ISBN 978-3-7307-0047-1 . P. 77.
• Markus Aretz, Stephan Giebeler, Elmar Kreuels: Borussia Mönchengladbach. The Chronicle. Publishing house Die Werkstatt. Göttingen 2010. ISBN 978-3-89533-748-2 .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Obituary notice of the board of Borussia Mönchengladbach
2. ↑ obituary on www.borussia.de from March 12, 2019
3. ^ Aretz, Giebeler, Kreuels: Borussia Mönchengladbach. The Chronicle. P. 189