Friedel Späth

Friedel Späth (born April 3, 1935 ) is a former German football player who was able to win the championship once in the Oberliga Südwest and Oberliga Süd with his former clubs 1. FC Kaiserslautern and Karlsruher SC .

career

Clubs, major leagues until 1962

The versatile all-rounder in the left field of play, Friedel Späth, came from the youth team at SV Weisenau and just won the senior team, in the 1953/54 round with the Red-Whites from Bleichstrasse, the championship in the amateur league southwest and was thus on the rise involved in the 2nd league southwest. He gained two rounds of playing experience in the II. Division and then took the Walter-Elf offer from 1. FC Kaiserslautern for the round in 1956/57 and moved to Betzenberg.

On the third match day, September 2, 1956, he made his debut in the away game against Mainz 05 in the Oberliga Südwest. He played on the right winger and was involved in the attack of the "Red Devils" by Fritz Walter - who conducted the Lautrer game on half right. Lautern won 7-0 goals and the debutant scored one goal. 1. FC Kaiserslautern won the 1957 championship in the southwest and the man from Weisenau had scored eight goals in 16 missions. In the final round he was active in June 1957 in the games against Hertha BSC (14-1 victory), Borussia Dortmund and Kickers Offenbach each as a left winger and scored a total of two goals. In the year of the Soccer World Cup in Sweden in 1958 , Kaiserslautern appeared as Southwest runner-up - Späth had played 29 games with seven goals - in the qualification against 1. FC Köln, he replied on April 19, 1958 in a 3-0 draw Extension with Karl Schmidt the defenders of Lautrer. In the first year without Fritz Walter, 1958/59, Späth's 23 goals in 22 games were not enough for the renewed championship in the Southwest. Kaiserslautern ended up in third place. After 67 league games with 38 goals Friedel Späth moved to the 1959/60 round in the Oberliga Süd to Karlsruher SC.

With the new coach Eduard Frühwirth - Späth played 28 games and scored seven goals - the KSC won the South German championship in 1960 and made it to the final round of the German soccer championship. Späth made his debut in the Oberliga Süd on the first day of the match, August 23, 1959, in the 2: 3 away defeat at SSV Reutlingen. The KSC attack consisted of Willy Reitgaßl , Reinhold Wischnowsky , Heinz Schmitt , Günter Herrmann and Friedel Späth. Späth also underlined his versatility in May – June 1960 in the final round in the six games against Westfalia Herne , Hamburger SV and Borussia Neunkirchen . He opened the finals in the home game against Herne as a left winger - scored two goals in the 5: 4 win in the Wildparkstadion against Hans Tilkowski - eight days later as a right defender in Hamburg he fought the fast winger Gert Dörfel , played in the two games against the team from the Ellenfeldstadion once as a right or left defender, was in the 4: 3 home win against the eventual German champions HSV as a half left two-time scorer and again ended the final as a left connector on June 18, 1960 with a 2-2 draw in the stadium at Strünkede Castle against Westfalia Herne. Friedel Späth's versatility was definitely an advantage for his respective clubs, but whether that applies to his career to the same extent can be doubted. On July 30, 1960, he won the South German Cup with a 2-1 win in Mannheim against Eintracht Frankfurt. In the DFB Cup he was in the 2-0 semi-final victory against FK Pirmasens on September 21, 1960. On October 5, he was half-left for KSC at the final in Düsseldorf against Borussia Mönchengladbach, but the Bökelbergelf won the cup with a 3-2 win. In his second year in Karlsruhe he scored 18 goals in 23 appearances and the KSC came third in the final ranking. After 51 games with 25 goals, Späth ended his activity in Karlsruhe in the summer of 1961 and moved on to FSV Frankfurt .

In the Bornheimer Hang stadium , he experienced relegation to the second league south in 1962 with the black and blue team, and in 1963 by winning the championship, he was accepted into the new regional football league in the 1963/64 round . From 1956 to 1962 Friedel Späth played 142 league games for the clubs 1. FC Kaiserslautern, Karlsruher SC and FSV Frankfurt and scored 65 goals.

Regionalliga Süd, 1963 to 1971

The first two rounds of the Regionalliga, 1963/64 and 1964/65, Späth played with FSV Frankfurt. Outstanding were the two home wins against FC Bayern Munich : on November 17, 1963 with 3-0 goals and on May 2, 1965 with 2-1 goals. From 1963 to 1965 Späth played 66 games with 28 goals for the FSV.

At the age of 30 he joined the newly promoted SC Opel Rüsselsheim for the 1965/66 round . For six rounds he was part of the regular line-up of the black and yellow team from the stadium on Sommerdamm. Friedel Späth ran from 1965 to 1971 in 163 regional league games for Rüsselsheim and scored 37 goals. He has a total of 229 regional league games with 65 goals. He played his last game on May 19, 1971 in a 3-2 home win against SSV Reutlingen when he again stormed right winger.

Selection games, 1957 to 1959

In his second year in Kaiserslautern, 1957/58, Friedel Späth played his way into the ranks of the DFB teams. On November 17, 1957, as a left-back, he faced the fast Richard Kreß from Eintracht Frankfurt in the representative game between Southwest Germany and South Germany. On February 26, 1958, he defended the U23 of the DFB at the international match in Wuppertal against Belgium. He was part of the international squad for the encounter on March 19, 1958 in Frankfurt against Spain and formed the defender pair with Georg Stollenwerk in Basel on March 26 in a test match of a Swiss selection against a German B selection. Then he was nominated for the international match on April 2, 1958 in Prague against Czechoslovakia, he injured himself immediately before and could not start the trip. Späth was also not nominated by national coach Sepp Herberger for the squad for the 1958 World Cup in Sweden.

As a player of Karlsruher SC, he completed a B international match against Hungary on November 8, 1959 in Saarbrücken. In the German 2-1 success, the DFB defense acted with goalkeeper Horst Schnoor , defenders Gustav Witlatschil and Friedel Späth and in the runner row with Hermann Nuber , Willi Koll and Dieter Seeler . Thereafter, Späth was no longer appointed to the DFB's selection teams.

End of career

From the 1971/72 round, Friedel Späth ended his long career in the amateur field by moving to Germania Ober-Roden.

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 .
• Werner Skrentny (Ed.): The fear of the devil in front of the pea mountain. The history of the Oberliga Südwest 1946–1963. Klartext, Essen 1996, ISBN 3-88474-394-5 .
• Werner Skrentny (Ed.): When Morlock still met the moonlight. The history of the Oberliga Süd 1945–1963. Klartext, Essen 1993, ISBN 3-88474-055-5 .
• Matthias Weinrich, Hardy Greens: Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 6: German Cup history since 1935. Pictures, statistics, stories, constellations. AGON-Sportverlag, Kassel 2000, ISBN 3-89784-146-0 .