Alfred Post (soccer player)

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Alfred Post (born August 20, 1926 in Ochtrup ; † March 7, 2013 in Gronau-Epe ) was a German football player who played 156 games with eleven goals in the Oberliga West and North from 1950 to 1959 .

career

Rheydter Spielverein, until December 1953

The young football player Alfred Post came to the Rheydter Spielverein in the Lower Rhine region from Arminia Ochtrup from Münsterland . With the black and whites in the Jahnstadion Nordstrasse, he developed into a reliable figure on the defensive. Uncompromising and strong in duels, he did his defending job for years. With the game club trained by Fritz Pliska , he succeeded in the 1949/50 round through the championship in the 2nd League West , Group 1, promotion to the Oberliga West. In the debut year 1950/51 in the league, Borussia Mönchengladbach rose from and Rheydt took 9th place. Post played 17 games with three goals. As 15th - one point behind SpVgg Erkenschwick on the saving 14th place - Post and Rheydt were relegated in the second round. Franz Islacker's goals could not prevent that either. Under the new coach Hennes Weisweiler , however, the immediate rise again succeeded. In the 1953/54 round, the post, who worked as a textile engineer for a living, was only able to play seven games for Rheydt for professional reasons and at the turn of the year 1953/54 moved to the most south-westerly corner of Lower Saxony, near the Dutch border, to Eintracht Nordhorn .

Eintracht Nordhorn, January 1954 to 1959

Post, which had remained amateur during his career, found a permanent job in the textile city of Nordhorn , and from then on was also among the top performers in the Eintracht dress. With coach Ernst Fuhry he found the perfect partner for amateur philosophy. With the "Weinroten" from the county of Bentheim , he rose to the Oberliga Nord after the second championship in 1954/55 in the Lower Saxony-West amateur league. In the promotion round, the Fuhry protégés prevailed against Concordia Hamburg , TSV Havelse and VfB Lübeck . From 1955 to 1959 Alfred Post played 109 league games for Eintracht and scored eight goals. He was responsible for the defensive, Heinz Conradi and Heinz Schumann for the offensive. Since the skeleton of the team had already exceeded thirty and the institution of unity, coach Ernst Fuhry, was dismissed after eleven years of activity at the end of March 1957, Nordhorn rose from the Oberliga Nord after the round in 1958/59. Alfred Post ended his playing career at the age of 33.

German national soccer team of amateurs, 1952 to 1955

When the DFB played the first international matches with the amateur national team in 1952 , the defender from the Rheydter Spielverein belonged to this team from the start. The first three international appearances of the team supervised by national coach Sepp Herberger in May and June 1952 saw the intelligent and strong duel defender from the Lower Rhine in action. Nothing stood in the way for Post to take part in the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki. At the Olympic tournament in Turku and Helsinki, he played the games against Egypt, Brazil and Sweden, only in the semifinals against Yugoslavia he paused. In the next three years - 1953 to 1955 - the DFB only played four international matches with the amateur team. Post played all matches for the German team. In the first four years of the amateur national team, eleven international matches were played, Alfred Post was only absent from one tournament match in 1952. Willi Gerdau and Hermann Höfer then replaced the defender of Eintracht Nordhorn at the 1956 Olympics in Melbourne.

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SURNAME Post, Alfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH August 20, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Ochtrup
DATE OF DEATH March 7, 2013
Place of death Gronau-Epe