Günter Pröpper

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Günter Pröpper (born December 8, 1941 in Dorsten ) is a former German football player .

Life

Günter Pröpper originally worked as a weaver . In 1964 he played for the fourth division club BVH Dorsten , where his talent was discovered by the then soccer coach of VfL Osnabrück , Karl-Heinz Marotzke .

With his move to Osnabrück, Pröpper began his career as a professional footballer ; For three years at VfL he was the outstanding player alongside storm colleague Udo Lattek in an average team, for which he scored 57 goals in 89 games. His strength as a striker in the penalty area was his header technique , with which he became the top scorer in the Regionalliga Nord with 25 goals in the 1967/68 season. On the last day of the season he scored four goals in a 12-1 win against VfB Oldenburg . Pröpper's next station was the regional league team Rot-Weiss Essen , under whose coach Erich Ribbeck he was rarely used.

In 1969 he then moved to the neighboring league rivals Wuppertaler SV , where he was soon nicknamed Master Pröpper . In the 1971/72 season Günter Pröpper scored 52 of the club's 111 goals in the then Regionalliga as well as eight of the 26 WSV goals in the successfully completed promotion to the Bundesliga. In the Regionalliga West he had made a total of 150 missions with 125 hits (93/95 for Wuppertal and 57/30 for Essen). With him as the team's best shooter, then coach Horst Buhtz led the club to fourth place in the Bundesliga in the 1972/73 season ; Günter Pröpper was also at the top of the list of goalscorers there: with 21 goals, he was the third best league goal hunter behind Gerd Müller and Jupp Heynckes . In the following, so far only European Cup appearance of the WSV against Ruch Chorzów ( UEFA Cup 1973/74 ) he also managed a goal, namely the 3: 3 in the 5: 4 won second leg. In the Bundesliga, Pröpper scored a total of 39 goals in his 87 appearances. In these encounters, the player who was considered cautious and fair was only cautioned once and was never sent off the field.

Günter Pröpper remained loyal to his club, even when in 1975 the team, which was regarded as outdated at the time, had to be relegated to the 2nd Bundesliga North as the far behind. In the following years he was replaced by Franz Gerber and Rainer Budde as the most successful strikers of Wuppertaler SV. He played his last professional game on June 9, 1979 in the 2nd Northern League. After 294 competitive games, in which he scored 182 times for Wuppertaler SV, he was honored with a farewell game.

After his football career, Pröpper worked at the sports and swimming pool office of the city of Wuppertal . In the 1985/86 season he worked as Detlef Pirsig's assistant coach for WSV, which has since been relegated to the amateur league in North Rhine-Westphalia. At times he was still active as a goalkeeping coach for the national division club Cronenberger SC and assistant coach for the upper division club SV Borussia Wuppertal .

Günter Pröpper's son Carsten and his nephews Michael and Thomas Pröpper also played in professional football.

literature

  • Peter Keller / Otto Krschak: 50 years of Wuppertaler SV. Sutton, Erfurt 2003 ISBN 3-89702-602-3
  • Manfred Osenberg: The WSV will never go under! 50 years of the Wuppertal Sports Club 1954–2004. Edition Osenberg, Wuppertal 2004 ISBN 3-9808059-4-8

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ulrich Homann (Ed.): Höllenglut an Himmelfahrt. The history of the promotion rounds to the Bundesliga 1963-1974. Klartext, Essen 1990, ISBN 3-88474-346-5 , p. 132.
  2. ↑ Achim Nöllenheidt (ed.): Fohlensturm am Katzenbusch. The history of the Regionalliga West 1963–1974. Volume 2, Klartext, Essen 1995, ISBN 3-88474-206-X , pp. 119 and 131.
  3. ^ Matthias Weinrich: The European Cup. 1955 to 1974. AGON, Kassel o. J. [2007] ISBN 978-3-89784-252-6 , p. 418
  4. ↑ DFL (Ed.): Bundesliga Lexikon. The Official Reference Book [1963-2003]. Europa, Zurich 2003 ISBN 3-9522779-0-8 , p. 238
  5. ↑ Hardy Greens : Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 2: Bundesliga & Co. 1963 to today. 1st division, 2nd division, GDR Oberliga. Numbers, pictures, stories. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 1997, ISBN 3-89609-113-1 , pp. 96 and 104.
  6. ↑ Osenberg, pp. 82 and 168
  7. ↑ Osenberg, p. 196
personal data
SURNAME Pröpper, Günter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Master (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH December 8, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Dorsten