Friedel Trapp

Friedel Trapp (born March 8, 1932 ; † in the 21st century ) was a German soccer player who, in the 1957/58 season as a striker for TuRa Ludwigshafen in the Southwest Soccer League, topped the scorers list with 28 goals .

career

Ludwigshafen, 1952 to 1961

The 20-year-old attacking player Friedel Trapp came in the summer of 1952 from the municipality of Heßheim - located in the then Frankenthal district - to the south-west upper division club Phönix Ludwigshafen . On the third game day, September 7, 1952, he made his debut in the league. In the 2: 5 home defeat of Phönix against Wormatia Worms, Trapp was used as a right half-forward. In five rounds - including the 1956/57 season - he could not fight for a place in the main lineup of Phoenix. In his fifth year with Phönix, 1956/57, he only came to the top division in the away meeting on March 24, 1957 at Saar 05 Saarbrücken . Friedel Trapp did not belong to the regular formation - this was made up of the players Rolf Lukan , Wilfried Pilkahn , Heinz Kempf , Werner Pohl, Fritz glasses , Robert Heinrich , Walter Dächert and Helmut Oster . Only 19 games with three goals are on his record at Phönix Ludwigshafen from 1952 to 1957. In the 1957/58 round he signed a contract with local rivals TuRa Ludwigshafen - TuRa had just returned to the league - and made a second attempt to assert itself in the Oberliga Südwest.

The gymnastics and lawn sports club 1882 landed with 27:33 points and 58:63 goals in 10th place and was able to manage relegation as a climber. Trapp, who did not get a chance at Phönix, played all 30 league games for TuRa and sensationally shot himself to the top of the top scorer list in the southwest with 28 goals. Only Albert Adlfinger , along with Trapp, played all 30 league games in this round for TuRa's “cornflower blue”. As the second best goalscorer, the young player Rudolf Kraft distinguished himself with twelve goals. Trapp scored two goals each against Borussia Neunkirchen, 1. FC Kaiserslautern, Wormatia Worms and 1. FC Saarbrücken; He scored three goals each in the two games against FV Speyer and once against VfR Kaiserslautern and SV St. Ingbert. The first derby against his previous club Phönix Ludwigshafen ended particularly impressively for him. In the 4-2 home win on September 29, 1957, he distinguished himself as a four-time goalscorer. In the southwest scorers list, Rudi Dörrenbächer and Helmut Kapitulski ranked second with 24 goals each, ahead of Karl Ringel (23) and Herbert Martin with 21 goals.

In the second round at TuRa, 1958/59 , the “blues” were able to get just under the class with 22:38 points, but with 38 goals they even scored two goals less than the bottom group SpVgg Weisenau with 15:45 points. Trapp scored 15 goals and was thus a guarantee for continued membership in the league. Trapp was replaced in the next two rounds by Wolfgang Wittemaier within the club as a goal scorer and moved to the 1961/62 round for Oberliga Absteiger VfR Frankenthal in the 2nd League Southwest. From 1957 to 1961 Trapp had scored 49 goals in 89 league games for TuRa Ludwigshafen.

Frankenthal, 1961 to 1969

Trapp succeeded with his new team in the 1961/62 season, the immediate promotion to the Oberliga Südwest. As runner-up, the team from the Ostparkstadion rose together with the champions SV Niederlahnstein . Niederlahnstein experienced a sporting fiasco in the upper league and came out of the round as bottom with 3:57 points in the last year of the football league in 1962/63 . Frankenthal had difficulties starting with 0: 6 points and 2:10 goals, but at the end of the round he belonged to the lower midfield together with FSV Mainz 05, VfR Kaiserslautern and BSC Oppau as eleventh place in the table. Friedel Trapp, on the other hand, shot himself to third place in the Südwesttorschützenliste with 24 hits. This was led by Dieter Krafczyk with 29 goals in front of Winfried Richter with 27 goals. Walter Emler was the second best scorer in Frankenthal with seven goals. Friedel Trapp played a total of 138 games in the Southwest Football League from 1952 to 1963 for the clubs Phönix and TuRa Ludwigshafen and VfR Frankenthal, scoring 76 goals.

As from the 1963/64 season the new Bundesliga represented the top in German football, Frankenthal belonged to the Southwest Regional Football League. After the first two rounds with 15th and 12th place Frankenthal was able to work his way up to seventh place in the world championship year 1965/66. The 34-year-old Trapp came third with 22 goals in the southwest scorer list together with Werner Hölzenbein . Emil Poklitar and Karl-August Tripp took the first two places. In the following three rounds things went downhill in Frankenthal and in 1968/69 VfR was relegated from the Regionalliga Südwest. The 37-year-old attacker Friedel Trapp played his last regional league game on the final day of the round, on May 11, 1969, in a 4-1 home win against FC 08 Homburg . Again he signed the scorers list with two hits. Trapp played a total of 145 games for Frankenthal from 1963 to 1969, scoring 55 goals in the Regionalliga Südwest.

literature

• 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 .
• Hardy Grüne , Lorenz Knieriem: Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 8: Player Lexicon 1890–1963. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2006, ISBN 3-89784-148-7 .