Franz Islacker

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Franz "Penny" Islacker (born February 3, 1926 in Essen , † July 1, 1970 ) was a German football player . As a player for Rot-Weiss Essen , he won the DFB Cup in 1953 and the German soccer championship in 1955 .

career

The outside runner , who was also used as a half-striker and who distinguished shots from almost all positions and acrobatic interludes, began his career at TuS Helene Altenessen . About VfR Mannheim (1949/50) and Rheydter SpV (1950-1952) he came to the round 1952/53 - goalkeeper Fritz Herkenrath was another new addition to RWE - to Rot-Weiss Essen , where he celebrated his greatest successes.

In 1953, after victories against SSV Jahn Regensburg (5: 0), VfL Osnabrück (2: 0), Hamburger SV (6: 1) and SV Waldhof Mannheim (3: 2) , Rot-Weiss Essen was in the final for the DFB Cup and won 2-1 against Alemannia Aachen . Islacker and Rahn scored the Essen goals, Jupp Derwall could only score the connection goal.

A year later, the Essenes were runner-up in the Oberliga West : Only a winning goal by Cologne in the 90th minute of the last game of the season on April 11, 1954 was the decisive factor for the Domstadt team. As a result, Cologne won the game with 2: 1 goals at SV Sodingen and thus the simultaneous 4: 2 - in the 87th minute "Penny" Islacker scored the 3: 2 and in the 89th minute Helmut Rahn made the 4: 2 Final score - home success of the team from Hafenstrasse against FC Schalke 04 with one point behind, not more than the runner-up. Due to the football world championship in Switzerland in 1954 , the DFB carried out a shortened championship final round, the western vice could not take part. The team from Bergeborbeck was more than compensated by the club's patron Georg Melches through a nine-week trip to America, which took them to Argentina, Uruguay, Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia and the USA.

In the 1954/55 season it went much better. Equipped with a comfortable 6-point lead in the Oberliga West, the team with the new coach Fritz Szepan made it into the final round of the German championship. In Group 2, they took first place with 10: 2 points from six games ahead of Bremerhaven 93 , Kickers Offenbach and Wormatia Worms . In the group game on June 5 against Kickers Offenbach, Islacker excelled in a 4-1 home win as a four-time goalscorer. In the final they met 1. FC Kaiserslautern .

In Hanover in front of 80,000 spectators, the Palatinate were just beaten 4: 3. “Penny” Islacker scored three goals from Essen, the decisive winning goal in the 85th minute was one of them. It is remarkable that from the 70th minute after a duel with Horst Eckel he injured his knee and had to be carried off the pitch. Since there was no substitute option in football at the time, he had to limp through and still scored three goals.

The successful streak of the Essenes ended a year later. The loss of Bernhard Termath and August Gottschalk could not be compensated and so you only landed fifth in the Oberliga West.

Due to the successes in Essen, “Penny” Islacker was also able to record an international match in 1954 . However, they lost 3-1 to France and that was the end of their national team career. Previously, he was used by national coach Sepp Herberger once in the B national team at the international match on March 22, 1953 in Vienna against Austria.

At RWE he played until 1961. Islacker played a total of 251 league games (28 for Mannheim, 48 for Rheydt, 175 for RWE) and scored 136 goals (12 for Mannheim, 24 for Rheydt, exactly 100 for Bergeborbecker). At the end of his career he joined SV Neukirchen, which had been promoted to the 2nd League West, for the 1961/62 season .

After his football career, Islacker ran a restaurant with his wife. He died on July 1, 1970 after a stroke and not, as is occasionally stated, in a car accident.

His son Frank Islacker played in the Bundesliga at VfL Bochum - three games in the 1982/83 round - and his granddaughter Mandy Islacker made it to the national team.

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 , p. 167.
  • Georg Schrepper, Uwe Wick: “… RWE again and again!” The story of Rot-Weiss-Essen. Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2004, ISBN 3-89533-467-7 .
  • Hans Dieter Baroth : “Boys, Heaven belongs to you!” The history of the Oberliga West 1947–1963 . Klartext-Verlag, 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 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hardy Green, Lorenz Knieriem: Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 8: Player Lexicon 1890–1963. P. 167.
  2. ↑ Schrepper / Wick: “… always RWE!” P. 75.
  3. ↑ Schrepper / Wick: “… again and again RWE!” P. 76.
  4. ↑ Schrepper / Wick: “… always RWE!” P. 78.
  5. ^ Klaus Querengässer: The German football championship. Part 2: 1948–1963 (= AGON Sportverlag statistics. Vol. 29). AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 1997, ISBN 3-89609-107-7 , p. 95.
  6. ↑ Schrepper / Wick: “… always RWE!” P. 84.
  7. ↑ Hardy Green, Lorenz Knieriem: Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 8: Player Lexicon 1890–1963. P. 167.
  8. ↑ Markus Franz: The boys from Castroper Strasse. The history of VfL Bochum. Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2005, ISBN 3-89533-506-1 , p. 341.
  9. ↑ Debutante Islacker brings DFB women to winning ways. In: kicker.de . October 22, 2015, accessed October 22, 2015 .
personal data
SURNAME Islacker, Franz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Islacker, Penny
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH February 3, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH eat
DATE OF DEATH July 1, 1970