Horst Zingraf

Horst Zingraf (born March 24, 1939 ) is a former German soccer goalkeeper who played 120 games in the Southwest Soccer League from 1958 to 1963 for Sportfreunde 05 Saarbrücken and has been President of the Association of German Soccer Teachers since 2003 .

career

Goalkeeper until 1971

Zingraf was a successful and versatile athlete in his youth (athletics, handball, volleyball, soccer), who then decided to play soccer and joined the Sportfreunde Saarbrücken in the 1957/58 season as a runner-up in the 2nd division in the first-class soccer team. Oberliga Südwest returned to the 1958/59 round. The former handball player from Saarland celebrated his first league debut as a goalkeeper on the first day of play, on August 17, 1958, in a 2-2 draw at TuRa Ludwigshafen in the goal of the Sportfreunde. At the end of the round, he had completed 21 league games for the red and white promoted team from the Burbach district and the “Hiddeklower” took sixth place. Also in the rounds of 1960/61 and 1962/63 Zingraf took sixth place with the Sportfreunde in the southwest league. In the last league year, 1962/63 , ex-professional Horst Buhtz trained the team and the career of goalscorer Johannes Löhr began in the west of Saarbrücken on the Saarwiesen with 18 goals. In the first year of the newly installed Southwest Football Regionalliga, 1963/64, the Burbach team came eighth. In the second year, Sportfreunde fought heavily against financial hardships - the average number of spectators was 1,312 in the 1964/65 season - and the club voluntarily withdrew from the regional league after the round was over. Zingraf then joined the regional league club SV Röchling Völklingen and returned to the 1969/70 round with his move to 1. FCS to Saarbrücken, where he temporarily held the position of player-coach during the 1970/71 round.

Overall, he came in the Regionalliga Südwest from 1963 to 1971 for the clubs Sportfreunde Saarbrücken, Röchling Völklingen and 1. FC Saarbrücken to 183 league games.

Trainer - teacher - functionary

In the 1971/72 round he took over as coach of 1. FC Saarbrücken and finished twelfth. From January 1973 he stepped in for the dismissed trainer Otto Rehhagel in the 1972/73 round.

From 1978 onwards, Zingraf led Herbert Binkert's successor in the Association of German Football Teachers as chairman of the Southwest Association. At the beginning of the eighties, the qualified sports teacher worked as a lecturer in the training of sports teachers for football at the University of Saarbrücken. He later decided to work for a large sporting goods company and became sales manager for Germany, Switzerland and Austria. He appeared several times as a speaker in theory and practice within the framework of various annual main courses of the BDFL. At the International Trainer Congress (ITK) in Freiburg in 2003, he was elected President of the Association of German Football Teachers to succeed Klaus Röllgen , who retired for reasons of age. He advocates the demand that the association, as opinion leader, be responsible for matters relating to the coaches and that the professional coaches from the Bundesliga allow themselves to be more closely involved in the BDFL in order to also take responsibility there.

literature

• Werner Skrentny (Ed.): The fear of the devil in front of the pea mountain. The history of the Oberliga Südwest 1946–1963. Klartext, Essen 1996, ISBN 3-88474-394-5 .
• Hardy Grüne , Lorenz Knieriem: Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 8: Player Lexicon 1890–1963. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2006, ISBN 3-89784-148-7 .