Bernd Rupp

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Bernd Rupp (born February 24, 1942 in Burgsolms ) is a former German soccer player who played a total of 274 games and 119 goals in the Bundesliga from 1965 to 1974 as a striker for the clubs Borussia Mönchengladbach , Werder Bremen and 1. FC Köln scored. In 1966 he also played once in the national team and scored one goal.

career

The small center forward, who had started playing football at the Hessian Post-SV Phönix Kassel, escaped the "spies" of the big neighbor KSV Hessen Kassel and later moved from FC Burgsolms (not far from Wetzlar) to the SV Wiesbaden station after the final German amateur championship in paid football. He began his career in the Regionalliga West at Borussia Mönchengladbach in 1964 under coach Hennes Weisweiler . In his first season he was promoted to the Bundesliga . Mönchengladbach was in the Regionalliga West with the impressive goal difference of 92:39 goals champion before Alemannia Aachen and Fortuna Düsseldorf. Rupp was the only player from Gladbach to play all 34 rounds and scored the most goals with 24 goals. In the promotion round against SSV Reutlingen, Holstein Kiel and Wormatia Worms, four more goals were added. In his first season in the German football club, 1965/66, he played all 34 games and scored 16 goals. At the end of May 1966 he was reported in the DFB's 40 list to FIFA among the attacking players for the World Cup. But it was not enough for inclusion in the 22-man squad. After the 1966 World Cup, national coach Helmut Schön tried out a few new players. Bernd Rupp played his only international match against Turkey on October 12, 1966 . Germany won 2-0 and Rupp scored the 2-0 goal in the 85th minute. Gerd Müller also made his national team debut at this international match ; the most successful goalscorer in German football, however, remained without a goal.

In 1967 Rupp moved to Werder Bremen , where he played for two years. In 1969 he came to 1. FC Köln . He ended his career with Borussia Mönchengladbach between 1972 and 1974 . In 1973 he achieved the greatest success of his career with the Gladbach team. He won the DFB Cup final against his former club 1. FC Köln with 2: 1, which went down in the annals as one of the “best, most playful and most exciting in the history of this competition”. Bernd Rupp played a total of 274 Bundesliga games and scored 119 goals. Rupp was twice German runner-up - in 1968 with SV Werder Bremen and 1974 with Borussia Mönchengladbach. With 1. FC Köln he made it to the DFB Cup finals in 1970 and 1971. He also played for Borussia Mönchengladbach in the two UEFA Cup finals on May 10 and 23, 1973 against Liverpool . The fast and dribbling attacker played his last Bundesliga game on the 34th matchday of the 1973/74 season , on May 18, 1974, in a 5-0 home win against FC Bayern Munich n. He formed the three-way attack with Allan Simonsen and Jupp Heynckes Borussia, who ended up just one point behind German champions Bayern Munich in 1974.

In 1974 he returned to the Hessen division SV Wiesbaden .

societies

statistics

successes

Web links

  • Bernd Rupp in the weltfussball.de database
  • Bernd Rupp in the database of fussballdaten.de
  • Bernd Rupp in the database of National-Football-Teams.com (English)

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Horst Biese, Herbert Peiler: Flanks, goals and parades. 100 years of football in Kassel. , Agon-Verlag, Kassel 1993, ISBN 3-928562-37-1 , page 184
  2. ^ Merk / Schulin / Großmann: My club: Borussia Mönchengladbach. Chronicle of the 1960s. , Agon-Verlag, Kassel 2007, ISBN 978-3-89784-293-9 , page 46
  3. ^ Matthias Arnhold: Bernd Rupp - International Appearances . Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. December 3, 2015. Accessed December 8, 2015.
  4. ^ Matthias Weinrich, Hardy Greens : Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 6: German Cup history since 1935. Pictures, statistics, stories, constellations. Agon-Sportverlag, Kassel 2000, ISBN 3-89784-146-0 , p. 272.
  5. ^ Matthias Arnhold: Bernd Rupp - Matches and Goals in Bundesliga . Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. December 3, 2015. Accessed December 8, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Rupp, Bernd
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH February 24, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Burgsolms , Germany