Alfred Horn (soccer player)

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Alfred Horn
Personnel
birthday September 7, 1936
place of birth Donndorf ,  Germany
date of death 3rd April 2018
position Half forward , outside runner
Juniors
Years station
1950-1954 TSV Donndorf
1954-1955 VfB Bayreuth
1955-1957 FC Bayern Hof
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1957-1961 FC Bayern Hof 120 (54)
1961-1965 Eintracht Frankfurt 66 (14)
1 Only league games are given.

Alfred Horn (born September 7, 1936 in Donndorf ; † April 3, 2018 ) was a former German football player . From 1959 to 1963, the inside forward or external rotor in the then graduated from the WM system for the clubs FC Bayern Hof and Eintracht Frankfurt in the Oberliga Süd total of 102 league games and scored 28 goals.

Career

The attacking midfielder came to FC Bayern Hof in 1954 via TSV Donndorf and VfB Bayreuth. In the black and yellow from the Green Au stadium , he experienced promotion to the Oberliga Süd in 1958/59 as a runner-up. The development player with shot power from the second row made his debut on August 23, 1959 in the 2: 6 away defeat at Kickers Offenbach in the league. At the end of the round he had played 29 league games and scored nine goals; Hof achieved relegation with 13th place in the table. His performance led him on November 7, 1959 in the junior national team U 23 of the DFB, which played a friendly international match against Hungary in Miskolc. In the attack formation Elmar May , Horn, Heinz Strehl , Bernhard Steffen and Dieter Backhaus it was enough for the DFB Juniors to a 2-2 draw. After his second league year with Hof (27 games - eight goals), Horn moved to Eintracht Frankfurt in the Oberliga Süd in 1961 .

With the team from Riederwald he won the runner-up in the south in 1961/62; he had scored three goals in 18 appearances. At halftime, Eintracht led the table with 26: 4 points and 51:16 goals. In the final round of the German championship, which was shortened because of the soccer world championship in Chile, he was used in the games against 1. FC Köln (1: 3) and FK Pirmasens (8: 1). In the last year of the old first-class league, 1962/63, Horn was a regular in coach Paul Oßwald's team with 28 league games and eight goals . The Hessians took fourth place and were thus qualified for the newly introduced Bundesliga . In May / June 1962 Horn was on a world tour with his club. Stops were Athens, Cairo, Bombay, Calcutta, Bangkok, Kuala Lumpur, Tokyo, Hawai, San Francisco, Vancouver, Winnipeg, Toronto and New York.

After two years in the major league, Horn stood for Eintracht on the 1st match day of the newly introduced Bundesliga at the home game on August 24, 1963 against 1. FC Kaiserslautern as the right wing runner. Throughout the season, Horn played 20 games in which he scored three goals. Equal on points with runner-up Meidericher SV - both 39:21 points - Frankfurt took third place. In the season 1964/65 he could not play another game due to injuries; therefore he was declared a sports invalid in 1965 and ended his career.

literature

  • Ulrich Matheja: Schlappekicker and sky striker. The story of Eintracht Frankfurt. Publishing house Die Werkstatt. Göttingen 2004. ISBN 3-89533-427-8

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Alfred Horn - player profile. Retrieved March 1, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Horn, Alfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH September 7, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Donndorf
DATE OF DEATH 3rd April 2018