Alfred Pyka

Alfred Pyka
Personnel
Surname	Alfred Pyka
birthday	June 28, 1934
place of birth	Silesia ,  German Empire
date of death	January 10, 2012
Place of death	Herne ,  Germany
position	Defense
Juniors
Years	station
1949-1953	Westfalia Herne
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1953-1964	Westfalia Herne	268 (9)
1964-1965	TSV 1860 Munich	0 (0)
1965-1967	FC Schalke 04	58 (5)
1967-1969	Westfalia Herne	67 (4)
1980	Westfalia Herne (2nd team)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1956-1957	Germany U-23	2 (0)
1958	Germany B	1 (0)
1958	Germany	1 (0)
1 Only league games are given.

Alfred Pyka (* 28. June 1934 in Silesia ; † 10. January 2012 in Herne ) one was German footballer , who with Westfalia Herne in the round 1958/59 the championship in the Oberliga West won and on 28 December 1958 in Cairo during The national team's international match against Egypt was used.

Career

Westfalia Herne, 1949 to 1964

Alfred Pyka, originally from Silesia, grew up in Herne and from 1949 worked in the youth department of Westfalia Herne. He celebrated with the blue-whites in the stadium at Schloss Strünkede in the 1953/54 season at the age of 20, the promotion from the 2nd division to the Oberliga West. The young talent had played seven league games in winning the runner- up at the side of regular players such as Günter Grandt , Kurt Sopart , Alfred Ilmer , Willi Overdieck and Ehrenfried Wydra . Due to the league promotion , the talent from within its own ranks also experienced the exciting local derbies against the green-whites from SV Sodingen , who had made the promotion two years earlier. On October 3, 1954, Westfalia lost the home game in front of 27,000 spectators with 0: 1 - Gerhard Harpers scored the winning goal in the 58th minute of the game - and on February 20, 1955 the second leg with 2: 5 goals. Alfred Pyka, he had played 29 games straight away, and his teammates from Westfalia came in 13th at the end of the round with 26:34 points, while Sodingen celebrated the runner-up with 39:21 points and thus moved into the final round of the German soccer championship 1955 a. The following three rounds in the Oberliga West were always marked for Pyka and Herne by the fight to stay up. In 1958/59, the year after the soccer world championship in Sweden, in 1958/59, the team of coach Fritz Langner and the top player Alfred Pyka - he played all 30 competitive games in the top division - completely surprisingly won the championship in the west. The team's showpiece was the defense, conceding only 23 goals in 30 games, with goalkeeper Hans Tilkowski and defensive boss Pyka still standing out. In the final round it was not enough against Offenbacher Kickers , Hamburger SV and Tasmania Berlin to make it into the final. As defending champion, Herne landed on the runner-up place in the west in 1959/60 and made it into the final round for the second time. But even in the second attempt they could not prevail in the games for the German championship against Hamburger SV, Karlsruher SC and Borussia Neunkirchen . Pyka, who distinguished him with excellent ball handling and a very good header game, played 13 finals with Herne. Despite the axis with goalkeeper Hans Tilkowski, defensive conductor Pyka and striker Gerhard Clement , Herne could not repeat the top positions of the rounds in 1959 and 1960 in the last three league rounds. In the senior year 1962/63, Westfalia even slipped to 14th place despite the new talents Otto Luttrop and Jürgen Bandura . Alfred Pyka had completed 268 games with nine goals for Herne from 1954 to 1963 in the Oberliga West. He had only missed two league games in nine rounds. Since Herne was not accepted into the new Bundesliga for the 1963/64 round , Pyka played with the blue-whites in the Regionalliga West that season . After the round - Westfalia came in sixth place - he accepted the offer from 1860 Munich and moved to the Bundesliga at the age of 30.

TSV 1860 Munich and FC Schalke 04, 1964 to 1967

In terms of sport, the year in Munich turned into a disaster. Under coach Max Merkel , Pyka was not used in a Bundesliga game or in the 1964/65 European Cup Winners' Cup . Merkel built on the defense with goalkeeper Radenkovic, the defenders Patzke and Steiner and on the runner row with Luttrop, Reich and Zeiser. Only in the DFB Cup did the ex-Herner play two competitive games for the Munich “Löwen”, where he scored the winning goal on January 16, 1965 against VfL Wolfsburg to make it 4: 3. When he got an offer from his former Herner coach Fritz Langner in the summer of 1965, he switched to his club FC Schalke 04. He became one of the guarantors of relegation in Schalke. The Royal Blues reached with a completely changed team - in Gelsenkirchen they had to cope with the departures of Hans Nowak , Egon Horst , Willi Schulz , Reinhard Libuda , Waldemar Gerhardt , Willi Koslowski , Manfred Berz , Heinz Crawatzo and Gyula Tóth - in the 1965 round / 66 with the 14th place the relegation. Pyka proved his qualification for the Bundesliga with four goals in his 34 games. Together with the two other newcomers Klaus Fichtel and Heinz Pliska, he formed the runner-up line of coach Langner's team. In his second Schalke season, he came to 24 games and one goal. At the age of 33 Pyka ended his career in the Bundesliga after the 1966/67 round.

End of career

For the 1967/68 round Alfred Pyka returned to his hometown club Westfalia Herne and ran in the Regionalliga West. The round ended with the away game on May 12, 1968 at Lüner SV and Pyka ended his higher-class playing career after the relegation of Westfalia. In total, he played 67 games with four goals in two rounds in the Regionalliga West for Herne. When the Westfalia in 1968/69 in the Association League Westphalia with coach Werner Stahl finished sixth, Pyka played 17 games.

Selection games

National coach Sepp Herberger tested the player from Herne for the first time on the international stage on December 19, 1956 in Liège when the U23 junior national team played against Belgium. On March 3, 1957, Pyka played representative of the selection of West Germany in the game in Bochum against Berlin. The second appointment to the DFB junior team took place on March 27, 1957 in Essen during the second leg against Belgium. In the B national team , he made his debut as a center runner in the 1-0 win on October 22, 1958 in Karlsruhe against Austria. National coach Herberger called him to the squad for the international match of the senior national team on December 21, 1958 in Augsburg against Bulgaria. In Cairo, Pyka made his debut for the German national team seven days later . Three players from Westfalia Herne were on the field in the game against Egypt. Pyka as middle runner, Helmut Benthaus as outside runner and the goal was guarded by Hans Tilkowski in the 1: 2 defeat. Four days later, on January 1, 1959, he was challenged as head of defense in the 2-1 victory of the Herberger protégés against an Egyptian selection in an unofficial international match. This was followed by national team courses and several appointments in provisional squad for international matches, but it was no longer used. With the game for West Germany on March 19, 1960 in Frankfurt against South Germany, at the side of the young defender Karl-Heinz Schnellinger , Alfred Pyka's appointments in selected teams ended.

After the career

Pyka was a trained lathe operator, but earned his living after his career as an innkeeper and driver. In the course of the Erhard Goldbach affair and the break-up of the professional team at Westfalia Herne, he celebrated a comeback at the age of 46 in the 2nd team, which was then playing in the regional league. Until 2007 Pyka still played for the Westfalia Herne AH team.

literature

• Jürgen Bitter : Germany's national soccer player: the lexicon . SVB Sportverlag, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-328-00749-0 .
• Jürgen Bitter: Germany's football. The encyclopedia. Sportverlag, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-328-00857-8 .
• Hardy Greens : From the Crown Prince to the Bundesliga . In: Encyclopedia of German League Football . tape 1 . AGON, Kassel 1996, ISBN 3-928562-85-1 .
• Matthias Weinrich: Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 3: 35 years of the Bundesliga. Part 1. The founding years 1963–1975. Stories, pictures, constellations, tables. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 1998, ISBN 3-89784-132-0 .
• Hans Dieter Baroth : Boys, Heaven is yours! The history of the Oberliga West 1947–1963. Klartext, Essen 1988, ISBN 3-88474-332-5 .
• Harald Landefeld, Achim Nöllenheidt (ed.): Helmut, tell me dat Tor… New stories and portraits from the Oberliga West 1947–1963. Klartext, Essen 1993, ISBN 3-88474-043-1 .
• Ulrich Merk, André Schulin: Bundesliga chronicle 1965/66. Volume 3: Newcomers cause a sensation. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2005, ISBN 3-89784-085-5 .
• Raphael Keppel : Germany's international football matches. Documentation from 1908–1989. Sport- und Spielverlag Hitzel, Hürth 1989, ISBN 3-9802172-4-8 .
• Lorenz Knieriem, Hardy Grüne : Player Lexicon 1890 - 1963 . In: Encyclopedia of German League Football . tape 8 . AGON, Kassel 2006, ISBN 3-89784-148-7 .
• The great stoic , detailed obituary for Pyka by Ralf Piorr , in: Reviersport 5/2012, p. 12

Individual evidence

1. ^ Biographical data in the Munzinger archive
2. ^ Obituary for Alfred Pyka: Of all things, the heart, DerWesten, January 15, 2012
3. ↑ The great Stoic , detailed obituary for Pyka by Ralf Piorr , in: Reviersport 5/2012, p. 12