Alfred Niepieklo

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Alfred Niepieklo
Personnel
birthday June 11, 1927
place of birth Castrop-Rauxel ,  German Empire
date of death April 2, 2014
Place of death Castrop-Rauxel,  Germany
position Storm
Juniors
Years station
Castrop 02
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
0000-1951 Castrop 02
1951-1960 Borussia Dortmund 183 (107)
1960-19 ?? Letmathe 07
1 Only league games are given.

Alfred Niepieklo (born June 11, 1927 in Castrop-Rauxel ; † April 2, 2014 there ) was a German football player . The striker played a total of 173 league games with 104 goals at Borussia Dortmund from 1951 to 1960 in what was then the first-class football Oberliga West and won two German championships with BVB in 1956 and 1957 .

career

societies

Niepieklo grew up in Bladenhorst . He learned to play football from the Red-Blacks of Castrop 02 , with whom he was promoted to the district league in 1949/50 as a playmaker and top scorer.

In 1951 he moved to Borussia Dortmund, where he formed the legendary inner trio of the three Alfredos with the other half- forward Alfred Preißler in the then maintained World Cup system from the 1954/55 season after the arrival of center forward Alfred Kelbassa . The two-footed corner and flank specialist immediately became an indispensable part of the team from the Rote Erde stadium with his ball technique and goal danger . In his debut season in the Oberliga West, 1951/52 , he immediately scored 19 goals in 23 appearances. He made his debut on August 19, 1951 in a 2-2 home draw against Rot-Weiss Essen, where he shot his new club 1-0 in front of 35,000 spectators. After “Adi” Preißler returned from Münster for the 1952/53 season , he experienced his first championship win in the Oberliga West under coach Hans “Bumbas” Schmidt . Preißler contributed 15 and “Niepo” 17 to the total of 87 goals in the association round. In his first final round of the German championship in 1953 he was used in all six group games and scored two goals. He and Hans wing formed the left attacking side. VfB Stuttgart made it into the finals tied with 10: 2 points, just ahead of the black and yellow ones.

Under coach Helmut Schneider , the 1955/56 season was his outstanding year with Borussia. In the Oberliga West he topped the top scorer list with 24 goals, won the championship with his team and also prevailed in the final round in the group games against VfB Stuttgart, Viktoria 89 Berlin and Hamburger SV. In the final on June 24, 1956 in Berlin against the South German champions Karlsruher SC , he scored his tenth goal in a 4-2 win in the successful final. In the attack line-up with Wolfgang Peters , Alfred Preißler, Alfred Kelbassa, Alfred Niepieklo and left wing Helmut Kapitulski , the team around goal scorer Niepieklo brought the German championship to Dortmund.

In the following season 1956/57 illness and injuries prevented the top scorer of the previous year from repeating his performance. In the league he had to be content with 15 appearances and one goal; the young Aki Schmidt represented him as a half-striker, and "Fredy" Kelbassa took over the top scorer's crown when defending his title in the western league with 30 goals. In the final round, however, coach Schneider relied on Niepieklo and the defending champion's well-rehearsed position. In the group matches against Kickers Offenbach, 1. FC Kaiserslautern and Hertha BSC, the half-striker promptly hit the opposing housing three times and was again in the final of the German championship against Hamburger SV on June 23, 1957 in Hanover . In the final, Niepieklo scored two goals in a 4-1 win despite being guarded by the young HSV outrunner Jürgen Werner . Overall, he ran in the finals from 1953 to 1957 in 17 games for Dortmund and scored 17 goals.

In the European Cup games in 1956 the goalless game against Manchester United and in 1958 the two games against AC Milan stood out. In the San Siro , the team around Cesare Maldini , Nils Liedholm , Ernesto Grillo and Luigi Radice clearly prevailed with 4-1 goals, and Niepieklo and colleagues were out of the race after the 1-1 home draw.

In the 1958/59 season he came under the new coach Max Merkel only to five missions and scored five goals. The long-time strike partner of Preißler and Kelbassa played his last league game on April 19, 1959 in a 6-2 home win against Viktoria Köln. BVB was attacking with Peters, Konietzka, Kelbassa, Niepieklo and Manfred Koslowski on the left wing. From the round 1959/60 Merkel relied on the attacking pair Jürgen Schütz and Friedhelm “Timo” Konietzka , and Niepieklo's active playing career at Borussia Dortmund was over. He scored 125 goals for the black and yellow in 198 competitive games by 1960.

After 1960, Niepieklo ended his sporting career in Iserlohn at Letmathe 07. Even after that, he stayed in Borussia Dortmund: until his death in April 2014, he was a member of the BVB's council of elders .

Selection teams

In the selection of the regional association of West Germany, the technician and goalscorer was taken into account in the two representative games on February 1, 1953 against Saarland (7-0) and on October 10 of the same year against Northern Germany (2-0). It was not enough for the selection of the national soccer team for the 1954 World Cup in Switzerland. The fact that he was not included in his outstanding 1955/56 season in the national team is difficult to understand from the distance. There were eight full international matches this year, with the reigning world champion playing five games against the Soviet Union (2-3), Yugoslavia (1-3), Italy (1-2), the Netherlands (1-2) and England ( 1: 3) lost and only had two successes against Norway and one draw against Sweden. Heinrich Peuckmann states the following in his book “The Heroes from the Football West”: “Alfred Niepieklo has never been considered, an unbelievable process from today's perspective. With his goals he has decided two finals, in the 1955/56 season he scored a total of 44 goals, ten of them in the championship finals ”. He attributes the statement to Niepieklo on the subject of the national team: “A coach has to choose the players he wants to play with. And Herberger didn't want me. Something like that is the decision of the coach alone. "

Private

In his private life, Niepieklo was also closely connected to his team-mate Kelbassa: his daughter married the son of his strike partner, from whose connection a common grandson of the two strikers emerged. Most recently he lived in the Castrop-Rauxel district of Frohlinde .

Achievements and Awards

with Borussia Dortmund:

literature

  • Hardy Grüne , Lorenz Knieriem: Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 8: Player Lexicon 1890–1963. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2006, ISBN 3-89784-148-7 .
  • Ralf Piorr (Ed.): The pot is round. The lexicon of Revier football: The chronicle from 1945 to 2005. Volume 1. Klartext Verlag. Essen 2005. ISBN 3-89861-358-5
  • Dietrich Schulze-Marmeling: The fame, the dream and the passion. The story of Borussia Dortmund. Publishing house Die Werkstatt. Göttingen 2011. ISBN 978-3-89533-810-6
  • Hans Dieter Baroth : Boys, Heaven is yours! The history of the Oberliga West 1947–1963. Klartext, Essen 1988, ISBN 3-88474-332-5 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Alfred Niepieklo passed away. borusseum.de, April 3, 2014, accessed April 3, 2014 .
  2. ^ Heinrich Peuckmann: The heroes from the soccer west. Aschendorff publishing house bookstore. Münster 2001. ISBN 3-402-06480-4 . Pp. 42/43

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personal data
SURNAME Niepieklo, Alfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH June 11, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Castrop-Rauxel
DATE OF DEATH April 2, 2014
Place of death Castrop-Rauxel