Friedel Mensink

Friedel Mensink (born August 30, 1949 - August 4, 1997 ) was a German football player . In the 1971/72 season, the midfielder and defensive player played twelve games in the Bundesliga with Borussia Dortmund .

career

For the 1969/70 season, the former Westphalian amateur footballer from SpVgg Rheine signed a contract with Bremerhaven 93 in the Regionalliga Nord . He made his debut on August 24, 1969 in a 3-0 home win against Itzehoer SV in what was then the second division of the Regionalliga Nord. Bremerhaven finished sixth at the end of the round and the man from Rheine had scored a goal in 25 missions alongside teammates Horst Bertl , Willi Reimann and Gerhard Zebrowski . In his second season, 1970/71, Mensink increased his stakes with the Weinroten from the port city to 32 games (1 goal) and the team from Zollinland Stadium reached eighth place. After 57 regional league games with two goals from 1969 to 1971 for Bremerhaven 93, he accepted Borussia Dortmund's offer for the 1971/72 season and switched to the “black and yellow” team at the Rote Erde stadium to prove himself in the Bundesliga.

In addition to Mensink, BVB also signed the other players Siegfried Köstler , Werner Lorant , Reinhold Mathes , Jürgen Wilhelm , Horst Bertram , Walter Hohnhausen , Alfons Sikora and Dieter Mietz . Under coach Horst Witzler , the departures of Horst Trimhold , Ferdinand Heidkamp , Wolfgang Paul , Wilhelm Sturm , Sigfried Held , Willi Neuberger , Werner Weist and Reinhold Wosab should be compensated. Mensink made his debut on the third match day, August 28, 1971, in the 0-1 away defeat at 1. FC Cologne in the Bundesliga, where he formed the Dortmund midfield with Lorant and Jürgen Schütz ; But he didn't make it to become a regular player. With his twelfth appearance on May 6, 1972, in the 1: 3 away defeat under Witzler's successor Herbert Burdenski against Arminia Bielefeld, he was substituted in for Branko Rašović in the first half , ending his career in the Bundesliga. Dortmund was relegated to the Regionalliga West and Mensink joined KSV Hessen Kassel in the Regional Football League South for the 1972/73 season .

He made his debut in North Hessen from Auestadion on July 30, 1972 under coach Hans-Wilhelm Loßmann in a 2-0 away win against FC Wacker Munich in the Regionalliga Süd. He came to the side of the teammates Otto Kastl, Wolfgang Hausmann, Reiner Künkel and Alfred Resenberg on 31 regional league games and the "Lions" took tenth place. In the last year of the old second-rate regional league, 1973/74, Mensink repeated his number of appearances from the previous year, but the Hessians gambled away with the 16th place the nomination for the next season 1974/75 starting 2nd Bundesliga . Mensink played his last league game for Kassel on May 4, 1974 in a 1-1 away draw at the Möslestadion against Freiburg FC . Personally, by moving to 1. SC Göttingen 05 for the 1974/75 season, he was still able to find his way into the 2. Bundesliga.

Under coach Reinhard Roder , he made his debut with Göttingen on the start day, August 3, 1974, with a 5-2 home win against DJK Gütersloh in the new substructure of the Bundesliga. With players such as Harald Evers, Heinz-Dieter Hansing , Helmut Hinberg, Dieter Hochheimer , Lothar Huebner and Walter Plaggemeyer , the team from the university town took tenth place and Mensink had scored a goal in 36 league games. In the second year of the 2nd Bundesliga, 1975/76, the eleven around Walter Gruler, Jürgen Krawczyk, Horst Hayer and Klaus Wolf were able to place themselves in the middle of the table with an 11th place. Mensink had played 27 league games. On the 38th matchday, June 12th, 1976, with a 4-1 home win against the bottom line Spandauer SV, he said goodbye to the 2nd Bundesliga and Göttingen 05. After 63 games in the 2nd Bundesliga, he finished with a goal he started his professional career as a professional player and returned to his homeland, the Münsterland, and joined VfB Rheine in the amateur league of Westphalia.

In his second season, 1977/78, he reached the runner-up championship with VfB from the Delsen stadium and thus reached the nomination for the amateur Oberliga Westfalen for the round 1978/79.

In 1997, the year of his death, he is still listed as an active player in the traditional Borussia Dortmund team.

literature

• Christian Karn, Reinhard Rehberg: Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 9: Player Lexicon 1963-1994. Bundesliga, regional league, 2nd league. Agon-Sportverlag, Kassel 2012, ISBN 978-3-89784-214-4 .
• Hardy Greens: Between stronghold and province. 100 years of football in Göttingen. Publishing house Die Werkstatt. Göttingen 1998. ISBN 3-89533-219-4

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Sportfreunde Echo of May 25, 1997, p. 11