Alfred Mikuda

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Alfred Mikuda ( June 12, 1924 - September 25, 1991 ) was a German soccer player. The defensive player played at the clubs STV Horst-Emscher , Borussia Dortmund and Schwarz-Weiß Essen from 1947 to 1957 in a total of 239 league games in what was then the first-class West Football League . In the 1952/53 season the defender won the league championship with Dortmund.

Career as a footballer

After the 1946/47 season, Mikuda had played with Sportfreunde Gladbeck in the Gelsenkirchen district class, the defensive player joined the STV Horst-Emscher at the start of the Oberliga West in 1947/48. With the team from the Horst district , he opened the era of the first-class Oberliga West on September 14, 1947. The "Emscher Hussars" lost their debut game in the Fürstenberg Stadium against Rot-Weiß Oberhausen with 2: 5; Mikuda formed the host's runner row with Erich Wieding and Ewald Wischner . In a season of 13, the STV took third place and Mikuda had completed 22 league games. FC Schalke 04 had to be content with 6th place. The first round match on November 30, 1947, Horst won 1-0 in Schalke, in the second half of the season a 3-1 home win was achieved. After the league round Mikuda lost on May 9th in Hamburg with Horst-Emscher in the competition for the British Zone Championship with 1: 3 against FC St. Pauli. Like his teammates Wieding and Alfred Kelbassa, Mikuda was listed in the "Revier Team" for the 1947/48 season.

In the second year of the Oberliga West, 1948/49, the STV again reached 3rd place, while Schalke fought against relegation. Mikuda had played 22 league games and Bernhard Klodt had now stormed on the wing for the Horster. The team from Fürstenbergstadion won both derbies against Schalke (4: 2, 4: 1). In the 1949/50 season, the STV took first place with 23: 7 points after the first half of the season, one point ahead of Dortmund and three ahead of Erkenschwick. With a 2-1 home win, the Horsters started the round against Borussia Dortmund on September 11, 1949. In a catch-up game on December 18, FC Schalke 04 were defeated 2-1. In the second half of the season things didn't go so well, at the end of the round Horst finished fourth with 37:23 points. Due to injury, Mikuda had only played 14 league games. Shortly before the end of the round it became known that the Emscher Hussars would lose four regular players - Kurt Sahm , Mikuda, Wischner, Wieding - to Borussia Dortmund. Under these circumstances, the 2: 3 defeat on May 21 in the round of 16 of the German soccer championship against SpVgg Fürth is not particularly surprising. Mikuda and Bernhard Wieschmayer formed the defenders of the STV in front of goalkeeper Heinz Flotho .

Mikuda, Wieding and Wischner were banned until the end of November by a ruling chamber. As a result, Mikuda made his debut in the major league at BVB on December 3, 1950 in a 2-1 away win at 1. FC Köln. At the end of the round, the black and yellow occupy 3rd place and Mikuda had played in 16 games. In his second year in Dortmund, 1951/52, the defender experienced a bad first half of the season with 14:16 points, including a 2-3 home defeat in November 1951 against his previous club STV Horst-Emscher. In the second half of the season it rolled again at BVB, with a balance of 20:10 points, Mikuda and colleagues still reached 4th place in the final table. Mikuda has played all 30 rounds and is listed in the Revier team as a left defender.

The season 1952/53 was the outstanding season in his footballing career for Mikuda. With a three point lead over 1. FC Cologne and six points over defending champion Rot-Weiss Essen, he won the championship in the Oberliga West with Dortmund . The class defender, who was quick to start and had a good header game, had played all 30 round matches in the league, like attacker Edmond Kasperski . Together with goalkeeper Heinrich Kwiatkowski , center runner Paul Koschmieder and outside runner Erich Schanko, he was the constant on the defensive of coach Hans Schmidt's team , which had the best record in the western league with 36 goals conceded. In the attack, Franz Farke , Alfred Niepieklo (17 goals each), Alfred Preißler (15) and Kasperski with 14 goals provided the greatest threat to the champions.

Borussia started the group stage of the final round of the German championship on May 3, 1953 in the Rote Erde stadium, which was sold out with 45,000 spectators, with a 2-1 home win against VfB Stuttgart. As a left defender in the World Cup system at the time, Mikuda had to deal with VfB right winger Otto Baitinger in the predominant duels . This was followed by two successes each against Hamburger SV (4: 3, 4: 1) and Union 06 Berlin (4: 0, 2: 0), before the decisive final group game in Stuttgart on June 7th against VfB, who were two points behind decency. In front of 63,000 spectators in the Neckar Stadium , coach Georg Wurzer's team won the game 2-1 with two goals in the second half. Equal on points, both teams showed 10: 2 points, with a hit ratio better by 0.238 goals, the Swabians moved into the final on June 21 in Berlin against 1. FC Kaiserslautern. Mikuda had played all six final round matches and after three years in Dortmund moved to Schwarz-Weiß Essen for the 1953/54 round.

Under coach Fritz Buchloh and alongside teammates like Edmund Kasperski, Siegfried Burkhardt , Adolf Knoll , Hubert Schieth , Hans Zerres and Kurt Zaro , the ETB finished sixth, one point behind Borussia Dortmund. Both games against the red and white local rivals from Bergeborbeck were lost (1: 2, 3: 4). Mikuda had only missed two league games. In his second round in Essen, 1954/55, the defender completed all 30 rounds, but at the end of the round, the black and whites finished 12th. In the 1956/57 season, the 32-year-old Mikuda rose with black and white food from the Oberliga West. Young people with Theo Klöckner , Heinz Steinmann and Karlheinz Mozin had now moved up, but with 4:26 away points it was not possible to keep the league. On the last round match day, May 18, 1957, Mikuda and colleagues lost 3-2 in the away game at Fortuna Düsseldorf, where they had been in the lead 2-0 up to the 52nd minute. With a 2-0 home win, SV Sodingen was equal on points with SW Essen and thus kept the class with a goal difference three tenths better.

Mikuda went with the ETB for another year in the 2nd League West, completed another 22 rounds when he reached the 7th rank in 1957/58 and ended his eleven-year career in top West German football in the summer of 1958.

literature

  • Ralf Piorr (Ed.): The pot is round. The lexicon of Revier football: The clubs. Klartext Verlag. Essen 2006. ISBN 3-89861-356-9 . Pp. 76-79.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Lorenz Knieriem, Hardy Grüne : Spiellexikon 1890 - 1963 . In: Encyclopedia of German League Football . tape 8 . AGON, Kassel 2006, ISBN 3-89784-148-7 , p. 259 .
  2. ↑ Ralf Piorr (ed.): The pot is round. The lexicon of Revier football: The chronicle from 1945 to 2005. Klartext Verlag. Essen 2005. ISBN 3-89861-358-5 . P. 19
  3. ↑ Ralf Piorr (ed.): The pot is round. The lexicon of Revier football: The chronicle from 1945 to 2005. Klartext Verlag. Essen 2005. ISBN 3-89861-358-5 . P. 33
personal data
SURNAME Mikuda, Alfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH June 12, 1924
DATE OF DEATH September 25, 1991