Franz Seybold

Franz Seybold (born April 9, 1912 , † September 22, 1978 ) was a German soccer player and soccer coach.

At the age of twelve Seybold joined the C youth team at VfB Stuttgart . At the age of 18 he played in the first team. In 1935, 1937 and 1938, Seybold won the Gauliga Württemberg championship with VfB Stuttgart . In the same years he played all 22 games in the finals for the German championship, in which VfB was runner-up in 1935 and third in 1937. While Seybold was mainly called up as a left defender in 1935, he later played on the right defensive side. In February 1943, Reich trainer Sepp Herberger invited him to a preparatory course for the international match planned for April in Spain. Seybold's international playing career fell through, however, because no international matches were played until the end of the Second World War because of the declaration of "total war" .

Seybold was a prisoner of war until 1950, after which he began to work as a trainer. In the 1950/51 season he coached the amateur league club VfR Aalen and led him to the second league . Then he left the club again and became a junior coach at VfB Stuttgart. With the amateurs, he became the Württemberg and South German champions in 1960, German amateur champions in 1963, again Württemberg champions in 1967 and German runner-up in 1971.

When VfB coach Kurt Baluses was dismissed after the 22nd Bundesliga match day, Seybold briefly took over the coaching position of the Bundesliga team on February 25, 1965. On March 7, 1965, there was room for the new head coach Rudi Gutendorf . Seybold took another seat in the 1969/70 season on the coaching chair of VfB Stuttgart and led the Bundesliga team to seventh place at the end of the season. After arguments with VfB President Weitpert, Seybold switched to the amateur league team SpVgg 07 Ludwigsburg in 1973 .

literature

• Achim Pfeifer: The history of VfR Aalen. The long way up. Verlag Sport und Historie, Aalen 2008, p. 45.
• kicker SPORTMAGAZIN: Only four players came back after the war , issue 94 of November 22, 2010.

Web links

• Franz Seybold in the database of weltfussball.de