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Bob Kap (actually Robert Kapoustin , during his Hungarian time Božidar Kapušto , born as Bojidar Nikolaiovich Kapusto, born June 10, 1923 in Skopje , then Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes , now North Macedonia ; † March 14, 2010 in Ottawa , Ontario ) was a Yugoslav - American football and American football - coach .

Kap moved from Yugoslavia to Canada in the 1950s ; According to his own statements, he fled after a decade as a professional footballer in Yugoslavia as a result of the Hungarian uprising . 1954 to 1956 he completed a degree at the Budapest Sports University Testnevelési Egyetem on the proposal of the Hungarian Football Association , which he graduated with a coaching diploma in June 1956. In Toronto he worked as a reporter for a soccer magazine. 1967 commissioned Lamar Hunt Cape for his NASL - Franchise Dallas Tornado put together a team in Europe. Kap hired a very young (almost all under 20 years old) team in Europe, mainly English, Scandinavians and Dutch, and went with the team on a 7-month tour through Europe and Asia - including a guest appearance in the NASL season Saigon, which was marked by the Vietnam War . During the NASL season, the team only won two games. Kap was sacked with most of the crew.

In the early 1970s he was a kicking scout for the Dallas Cowboys , who was the first trained European soccer player to join the NFL as a kicker . The first was the Austrian Toni Fritsch , he placed a total of nine Europeans in the NFL.

1974/75 was involved in the first attempt at a satellite league of the NFL in Europe, the Intercontinental Football League , which failed in the planning phase, but is considered the pioneer of the World League of American Football / NFL Europe .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b David Wangerin: Soccer in a Football World: The Story of America's Forgotten Game . WSC Books Limited, London 2006, ISBN 0-9540134-7-6 , pp. 140 .
  2. ^ A b Bobby Moffat: The Dallas Tornado World Tour 1967-68. In: Southern Soccer Scene. November 5, 2017, accessed February 11, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Entry: Ottawa, Ontario and Fonthill from February 27, 2010 on the website of his son Michael Kapoustin (visited August 17, 2010)
  4. ↑ a b Gerry Fraley: Bob Kap, innovator in kicking approach who helped bring soccer style to NFL, dies . In: The Dallas Morning News . March 14, 2010 ( Bob Kap, innovator in kicking approach who helped bring soccer style to NFL, dies [accessed August 22, 2010]).
  5. ^ Robert W. Creamer: Scorecard. Sidewinders. In: Sports Illustrated . October 4, 1971, archived from the original on December 3, 2012 ; Retrieved August 14, 2010 .
  6. ^ Paul Kennedy: OBITUARY: Bob Kap (1923-2010). In: SoccerAmerica. March 19, 2010, accessed August 14, 2010 .
personal data
SURNAME Cape, Bob
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kapoustin, Robert; Kapusto, Bojidar Nikolaiovich (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Yugoslav-American soccer and American football coach
DATE OF BIRTH June 10, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Skopje
DATE OF DEATH March 14, 2010
Place of death Ottawa