Adolf Scheidt (soccer player)

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Adolf Scheidt (born August 17, 1930 in Cloppenburg ; † February 4, 2018 in Erkelenz ) was a German football player who played 110 games with 54 goals for Prussia Münster in the Oberliga West from 1955 to 1960 .

career

The talent of the attacker Adolf Scheidt developed in the A-youth and senior team of BV Cloppenburg in Lower Saxony. In the season 1953/54 succeeded with the 54-time scorer with 102: 27 goals the championship in the amateur league 2 and thus the promotion in the amateur upper league west for the season 1954/55. After a year with BVC in the amateur league , the goal-scoring striker could no longer be kept in amateur football, he accepted the offer from Preußen Münster and moved to the football league west .

From the round 1955/56, the striker Adolf Scheidt belonged to the league team of Prussia Münster. He made his debut in the Oberliga West on August 27, 1955 in the home game against Bayer 04 Leverkusen , which ended with a number of goals with 5: 5 goals. Coach Paul Böhm brought the newcomer as a center forward on the side of Felix Gerritzen , Edelbert Rey and Siegfried Rachuba and the powerful Scheidt introduced himself with two hits. In 19 games he scored four goals in his first league round and Preußen Münster took 12th place. In the second year of coaching Günter Hentschke , 1957/58, Scheidt increased his hit rate to 15 goals and was appointed by national coach Sepp Herberger on May 1, 1958 in the national B team at the international match against Luxembourg. With the attack by Richard Kreß , Michael Pfeiffer , Ulrich Biesinger , Willi Schröder and Scheidt, the game was surprisingly lost with 1: 4 goals. This year Adolf Scheidt was in the 40s squad for the World Cup in Sweden, but ultimately did not make the jump into the tournament squad. In the 1958/59 season , the seven-time student national player came third with 21 goals in the top scorer list in the West. Scheidt played his last league game on March 13, 1960 in a 3-1 home win against Black and White Essen . Coach Kuno Klötzer brought the attacker back into action in 14 games in the 1959/60 season and Scheidt scored two goals.

From Easter 1958 to November 1959 Scheidt worked as a study assistant for German and Sport at the Collegium Augustinianum Gaesdonck . After his active career he became a teacher of English, catholic. Religious teaching and sport at the Johann-Conrad-Schlaun-Gymnasium in Münster.

literature

  • Hans Dieter Baroth : Boys, Heaven is yours! The history of the Oberliga West 1947–1963. Klartext, Essen 1988, ISBN 3-88474-332-5 .
  • Harald Landefeld, Achim Nöllenheidt (ed.): Helmut, tell me dat Tor ... New stories and portraits from the Oberliga West 1947–1963. Klartext, Essen 1993, ISBN 3-88474-043-1 .
  • Hardy Grüne , Lorenz Knieriem: Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 8: Player Lexicon 1890–1963. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2006, ISBN 3-89784-148-7 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Commemorative page by Adolf Scheidt. Retrieved February 10, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Gaesdoncker matriculation 1930–1995. High school graduates. Teachers. Educators. Edited by Laurenz van der Linde. Collegium Augustinianum Gaesdonck, Gaesdonck bei Goch 1996. p. 111.
personal data
SURNAME Scheidt, Adolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH 17th August 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Cloppenburg
DATE OF DEATH 4th February 2018
Place of death Erkelenz