Karl Flink

Karl Flink
Personnel
birthday	December 7, 1895
place of birth	Weilerswist ,  German Empire
date of death	November 28, 1958
position	midfield
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1909-1910	Brühler SV 06
1910-1914	Cologne BC
1914-1918	BTuFC Viktoria 1889
1918-1920	Borussia Neunkirchen
1920-1925	Cologne BC
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1922	Germany	1 (0)
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
	Siegburger SV 04
1934-1935	Fortuna Dusseldorf
1937-1939	Fortuna Dusseldorf
1948	1. FC Cologne
1948-1949	Fortuna Dusseldorf
1951-1952	TSV Eller 04
	VfB Bottrop
1 Only league games are given.

Karl Flink (born December 7, 1895 in Weilerswist ; † November 28, 1958 ) was a German football player and coach .

Life

Flink was the son of an innkeeper and began his sporting career as a gymnast. After he had started playing football at the municipal grammar school in Brühl and the local Brühler SV 06 , he joined the top club Kölner BC in 1910 , where he slowly worked his way up from the eighth team to the first team. During the First World War he played as a guest player in Berlin. There he completed his training as a football teacher in 1919. Karl Flink was appointed three times in the Berlin selection, three times in the selection of southern Germany and in the selection of western Germany, he made twenty appearances.

On July 2, 1922, Flink played his only international match for the German national football team in a 0-0 win against Hungary in front of 35,000 spectators . The midfielder on the right runner , who is only 1.57 m tall , was only used because some regular staff were missing.

As early as the 1920s, Flink took up his first football teaching position when he was a coach at Siegburger SV 04 . In the 1930s he ran the Kölner Hof inn in Weilerswist. Twice, from 1934 to autumn 1935 and from 1937 to 1939, he was in charge of Fortuna Düsseldorf . Flink was the first coach there after 1. FC Köln was founded in February 1948, before he returned to Fortuna Düsseldorf in July 1948. He was in charge of Fortuna until January 1949 when he was replaced by Theo Breuer . He later coached TSV Eller 04 and VfB Bottrop, among others . After his coaching career, he ran a Toto acceptance point at Düsseldorf Central Station.

Karl Flink, who married for the second time after the death of his wife, died at the age of 62 on November 28, 1958.

literature

• Jürgen Bitter : Germany's national soccer player: the lexicon . SVB Sportverlag, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-328-00749-0 .
• Heiner Gillmeister : Football in the Cologne region. The history of SC Brühl , Verlag Die Werkstatt Göttingen 2012, ISBN 978-3-89533-881-6 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b list of} trainers Fortuna Düsseldorf