Alfred Beck

This article deals with the soccer player, for other people of the same name, see Alfred Beck (disambiguation) .

Alfred "Coppi" Beck
Personnel
birthday	April 12, 1925
place of birth	Immelborn ,  German Empire
date of death	September 28, 1994
Place of death	Büblikon ( AG ),  Switzerland
position	Left outrunner
Juniors
Years	station
	SV Weida
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1947-1949	Bremen SV	23 (15)
1949-1955	FC St. Pauli	155 (45)
1955-1958	Wuppertal SV	66 (22)
1958–1962	FC Thun	92 (29)
1962-1964	FC Aarau	36 (14)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1954	Germany	1 (1)
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
1958–1962	FC Thun
1962-1964	FC Aarau
1965-1968	FC Chur
1966-1967	FC Langenthal
1969-1970	FC Baden
1971-1973	Young Fellows Zurich
1974-1975	SV Laufenburg (D)
1975-1976	FC Chur
1976-1979	FC Wettingen
circa 1987	SV Laufenburg (D)
1 Only league games are given.

Alfred "Coppi" Beck (born April 12, 1925 in Immelborn , † September 28, 1994 in Büblikon ( AG )) was a German football player and coach . The offensive player came on December 1, 1954 in the international match in London against England (1: 3) for a use in the national team .

Player career

societies

Beck began in Thuringia Weida the local SV Weida playing football. Used for military service, he served as a soldier in World War II and returned to Germany from his British captivity . In footballing terms, he gained a foothold in Bremen and from 1947 to 1949 played for Bremer SV in the Oberliga Nord , in one of the top five divisions in Germany, 23 point games in which he scored 15 goals.

From 1949 to 1955 he played for league rivals FC St. Pauli . For the Elf from Millerntor , he played 155 games and scored 45 goals. He also played a total of eight final rounds of the German championship in two seasons, making his debut on May 21, 1950 in the 4-0 round of 16 victory over TuS Neuendorf and his first of a total of 3-0 in the 80th minute scored two goals in that competition.

From 1955 to 1958 he played for Wuppertaler SV in the Oberliga West and scored 22 goals in 66 games.

After the Wuppertal's relegation, he moved to FC Thun , for whom he worked as a player- coach in the National League B from July 1958 , as well as for FC Aarau afterwards . He finally settled in Switzerland, where he coached other clubs.

During his time in Wuppertal, Beck tried, like Ludwig Janda in the later 1940s, albeit in vain, to found a union for contract players.

National team

Beck crowned his only international match for the senior team on December 1, 1954 in London in the 1: 3 defeat against the national team of England with the 1: 2 goal in the 77th minute. National coach Sepp Herberger had acted in the attack with the players Gerhard Kaufhold , Michael Pfeiffer , Uwe Seeler , Jupp Derwall and Beck. Kaufhold, Pfeiffer, Derwall and Beck were debutants and center forward Seeler played his second international match against the hosts led by Billy Wright and Stanley Matthews .

Beck, but had already gained experience in the selection of Northern Germany, including the game on October 10, 1953 in Dortmund against West Germany (0: 2). Beck made his debut in the selection of the NFV on October 2, 1949 in Munich against the representation of southern Germany. At 2-2 he formed the left wing of the north selection together with Heinz Bung Bottle.

Coaching career

He came to Thun in the Canton of Bern with Wuppertaler SV for a training camp . There he impressed the club management of FC Thun and was hired as a player- coach for the 1958/59 season where he turned a relegation candidate from the second division, the National League B , into a healthy midfield club. «Young players like Kurt Grünig , Bruno Lüthi and Walter Gagg were able to benefit from his qualities . He created the spaces for his teammates so that they could shine », said later Hanspeter Latour , goalkeeper and later coach of the club, who himself became one of the club's legends. Beck first came eleventh with FC Thun, then twice sixth and once fifth. The best remembered success, however, is when the Thuners defeated the champions Young Boys Bern in their Wankdorf stadium 4: 3 in the round of 16 of the Swiss Cup at the end of December 1958 , which was included in the legends of the club's history.

He then coached two and a half seasons long until January 1965 in the same function second division FC Aarau and then the unterklassigen (then known as the "First Division") Graubündener club FC Chur , with which he won in the 1965/66 season all 20 league games , but failed in the promotion round. In 1966/67 he was assigned to FC Langenthal in the canton of Bern . Further stations were from January 1969 the Aargauer FC Baden , with whom he had to accept relegation, and from 1971 to the eighth matchday of the 1973/74 season, the later relegated FC Young Fellows Zurich .

During the 1974/75 season he coached SV Laufenburg, which is just a few meters across the border between Aargau and Germany in Baden , before he was in charge of FC Chur for another season in 1975/76.

From 1976 to 1979 he was relegated to the National League B FC Wettingen with whom he managed to get promoted again in his first season. In March 1979 he was released from FC Wettingen after the 16th match day. The team was eighth at the time. Among his successors, the Aargauer finished the season in 14th of 16th places. In the mid-1980s he trained again for SV Laufenburg. He may also look after other amateur clubs in the Aargau region.

The hobby fisherman Beck, known for his red hair, who settled in Büblikon in Aargau , has fond memories, especially in Thun. When he died in 1997 he left behind his wife Sigi, a daughter and a son.

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. 23 .
• Jürgen Bitter : Germany's national soccer player: the lexicon . SVB Sportverlag, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-328-00749-0 , p. 31 .
• Fritz Tauber: German national football team: Player statistics from A to Z . 3. Edition. AGNON, Kassel 2012, ISBN 978-3-89784-397-4 , p. 14 (176 pages).

Web links

• Alfred Beck in the database of weltfussball.de
• Alfred Beck on dfb .de

Single references

1. ↑ Thuner Tagblatt of August 22, 1963 (as an example, Beck is still playing himself)
2. ↑ Sport-Magazin from September 9, 1963, page 16
3. ^ Football: New Colleagues , Der Spiegel , October 16, 1963
4. ↑ Urs Häfliger: Great trainers - in the words of a great trainer , Jungfrau Zeitung , Thun, August 9, 2018
5. ↑ Sport-Magazin from July 19, 1965, page 18
6. ↑ 20 games - 20 wins - 40 points - No promotion! , Thuner Tagblatt , June 14, 1966
7. ↑ See database of world football
8. ↑ Kicker from January 6, 1969, page 31
9. ↑ Coppi Beck, ex-player-coach of FC Thun, died , Thuner Tagblatt, October 4, 1994, p. 13