Edmond Kaspersky

Edmond Kasperski (born December 13, 1923 - February 21, 2005 ) was a German football player . The initial striker and later head of defense played a total of 264 league games and scored 86 goals in the first-class West Football League from 1948 to 1960 for the clubs Borussia Dortmund (1948 to 1953) and Schwarz-Weiß Essen (1953 to 1960). In 1949 he was in the final of the German championship with Dortmund and in 1959 he won the DFB Cup with Essen .

Career

societies

BV Brambauer / Borussia Dortmund

With the black and whites of BV Brambauer , “Ede” Kasperski, described as an “exceptional talent”, was champion in the district class in the 1946/47 season. He rose with the "small BVB" from the miners' community in Lünen for the 1947/48 season in the then second division of the West German Football Association, in the Landesliga Westfalen, Group 2. At the latest in the following association games against Preußen Münster, VfB Bielefeld, FV Hombruch and Eintracht Nordhorn, the tall striker drew the attention of those responsible at Borussia Dortmund with the specialty "pike head balls". The attacker, who played equally well with both his left and right leg, joined the first champions of the Oberliga West , Borussia Dortmund, for the 1948/49 season .

The black and yellow from Borsigplatz he celebrated under the Vienna coach Eduard "Edy" Havlicek and on the side of the play-bearing runners row with Max Michallek , Paul Koschmieder and Erich Schanko and colleagues in the attack, Alfred Preissler and former international August Lenz , with eight points ahead of defending his title in the 1948/49 season . The newcomer from Brambauer had scored twelve goals in 18 league games in the 13th division. In the World Cup system at that time , he was mainly a center or half-forward. In the final round of the German championship he came in the games against Berliner SV 1892 (5: 0) and the two outstanding sporting challenges against the strong "Walter" eleven of 1. FC Kaiserslautern (0: 0 aet; 4: 1) and stood with the BVB team on July 10, 1949 in the Stuttgart Neckar Stadium, which was overcrowded with 92,000 spectators, in the final against the South German runners-up VfR Mannheim . In exhausting temperatures, the team around technician and playmaker Rudolf de la Vigne decided the "heat battle" for themselves with a 3-2 extra win.

In his second BVB year, 1949/50 , the second championship win in the Oberliga West followed. The technician in attack had scored 13 goals in 29 league appearances. In the very first game in the final round of the German championship, he and his club faced last year's final opponent, VfR Mannheim, who qualified fourth in southern Germany. On May 21, 1950, Kasperski brought BVB 1-0 lead in the 32nd minute in Gladbeck, but the Baden team prevailed with 3-1 goals in the second half and the final round was over for Dortmund. From the 1951/52 round, the former national player and master maker of FC Schalke 04 and VfR Mannheim, Hans Schmidt , trained the black and yellow with the Rote Erde stadium . Kasperski was able to win his third western championship with Alfred Preissler and Alfred Niepieklo returning from Münster in 1952/53 . He had played all 30 league games and scored 14 goals. In the final round a duel with defending champion VfB Stuttgart developed in the group matches. The team of coach Georg Wurzer beat BVB by 0.238 goals according to the then applicable division procedure and blocked the Westmeister with the same points - both clubs had 10: 2 points each - the finals. Kasperski had played 124 league games at Dortmund from 1948 to 1953, scoring 62 goals. After five years in black and yellow, he joined the ETB black and white Essen for the 1953/54 round.

Black and white food

In 1953, in addition to Kasperski, Hubert Schieth , Alfred Mikuda , Adolf Knoll and Siegfried Burkhardt had also signed up with the black and whites ; The team from the south of Essen was trained by ex-national goalkeeper Fritz Buchloh . With the improvement to sixth place, the reinforcements compared to the 13th place of the previous year paid off for the team from the Uhlenkrugstadion in tabular form, but due to the vice-championship of the local rival from Hafenstrasse, RWE, the supremacy of the red-whites could not be achieved really be put at risk. Kasperski had scored ten goals in 27 league games. When the team around Fritz Herkenrath , Heinz Wewers , Helmut Rahn , August Gottschalk , Franz Islacker and Bernhard Termath also won the German championship in 1955, the balance of power in Essen football was clear. In his fourth year at ETB, 1956/57, Kasperski even experienced relegation to the 2nd League West as the table penultimate. In the meantime he acted in the middle position as defense chief and Schieth determined the offensive game in the front row.

In the first second division year 1957/58, "Ede" Kasperski scored eleven goals under coach Willi Multhaup when he reached seventh place in 28 league games. Theo Klöckner became the internal striker with 19 goals and the talents Hans Küppers and Heinz Steinmann were already part of the team. With the runner-up in 1958/59 the return to the league succeeded. Kasperski had made his contribution as a defensive conductor in 28 games and Klöckner carried out the passes from Küppers and Schieth with 24 hits on the offensive. For the 1959/60 season, coach Multhaup took over the Red-Whites from Bergeborbeck, who had to do without Helmut Rahn, who had changed to 1. FC Köln, and the league returnee SW Essentrat with Hans Wendlandt as the new coach. At the end of the game round 1958/59, Kasperski and colleagues had to compete in games for the West German Cup. In the fourth round a 1-0 win against local rivals von der Hafenstraße was achieved on June 6, 1959, in the intermediate round a 2-1 win against TSV Marl-Hüls followed on June 20, before they met on June 27 in Semi-finals at Rot-Weiß Oberhausen with a 0-0 after extra time separated. The replay took place before the round started in 1959/60 on August 1, 1959 and the black and whites prevailed with a 5-4 after extra time. On August 8, the defensive conductor and captain won the West German Cup with his team 3-2 in Bochum against the favored West German champion Westfalia Herne and was thus able to take part in the DFB Cup.

Immediately before the start of the round, on August 16, 1959, SW Essen achieved a 6-3 victory at Hertha BSC in the qualifying game for the cup. Kasperski and colleagues opened the league on August 22, 1959 with a 4-0 home win against Rot-Weiß Oberhausen. On December 6, 1959, defense chief Kasperski and his defensive colleagues Merchel, Mozin, Pips, Steinmann and Ingenbold stopped Schalke 04's attack with Willi Koslowski , Willi Soya , Hans Nowak , Helmut Jagielski and Bernhard Klodt in the 3-1 success in the Glückauf- Arena in check. Six days later, on December 12th, the semi-final match in the DFB Cup took place at Hamburger SV. Essen won the game with 2-1 in overtime at the north series champions of the Oberliga Nord with two goals from center forward Manfred Rummel . In Hamburg, too, the defensive performance against the HSV offensive around Uwe Seeler , Klaus Stürmer , Horst Dehn , Peter Wulf and Gert Dörfel was the guarantee of success. Three days after Christmas, on December 27, 1959, the DFB Cup final took place in the Kassel Auestadion against Borussia Neunkirchen. Here the team from the Oberliga Südwest could not stand up to the men around the two veterans Kasperski in the defense center and Schieth in the midfield. ETB prevailed with a 5-2 win and won the DFB Cup in 1959.

If SW Essen had finished the first half of the season with a good 17:13 points, the Uhlenkrug-Elf collapsed completely in the first half of the season. Only eight points could still be booked. On the last two round match days they lost the home game against Schalke 04 with 1: 2 and on the final day with 0: 3 goals at Westfalia Herne. With 25:35 points, the black and whites were relegated to the 2nd division west. Hamburger SV, on the other hand, defeated cup semi-final opponents in December 1959, won the German football championship on June 25, 1960 with 3-2 goals against 1. FC Köln. "Ede" Kasperski had played 27 league games and local rivals Rot-Weiss took sixth place. The veteran went back to the second division and completed his last six league games when he won the championship in 1960/61 before he ended his sporting career.

Selection team

In the selection team of the West German Football Association , Kasperski played three representative games in the Oberliga era. On March 18, 1951, he stormed in Duisburg in the 4-0 defeat against the selection team of the South German Football Association , on February 1, 1953 in Saarbrücken in the 7-0 success (two goals) against the selection team of the Saarland Football Association and on October 10, 1953 in Dortmund in a 2-0 victory over the national team of the North German Football Association .

Others

Professionally, Kasperski first worked as the operator of a petrol station in Essen's Stadtgarten and later as the owner or senior manager of several laundry companies in Dortmund. Son Gerd denied in the Bundesliga 71 league matches and scored 17 goals.

Web links

• Edmond Kasperski in the database of weltfussball.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ralf Piorr (ed.): The pot is round. The lexicon of Revier football: The clubs. Klartext Verlag. Essen 2006. ISBN 3-89861-356-9 . P. 37.
2. ^ DSFS: Football in West Germany 1952–1958. P. 240.
3. ^ DSFS: Football in West Germany 1958–1963. P. 20.
4. ^ DSFS: Football in West Germany 1958–1963. P. 117.

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 .
• Dietrich Schulze-Marmeling: The fame, the dream and the passion. The story of Borussia Dortmund. Publishing house Die Werkstatt. Göttingen 2011. ISBN 3-88474-055-5 .
• 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 .
• German sports club for football statistics (ed.): West Chronicle. Football in West Germany 1958–1963. Berlin 2013.