Gerd Becker (soccer player)
Gerd Becker (born October 18, 1943 in Breidenbach ) is a former German football player and coach . From 1963 to 1973 he played a total of 317 rounds with 112 goals in the Regional Football League South and the Bundesliga for the clubs KSV Hessen Kassel , Kickers Offenbach and Karlsruher SC .
career
Hessen, until 1969
He started his football career at FV Breidenbach 09. At the age of 19, he took part in the promotion to the Hessen League . In the second half of the 1962/63 season, Kassel took up concrete negotiations with him and signed him to the Football Regionalliga 1963/64 .
With Horst Assmy , Rolf Fritzsche , Ernst Kuster and Klaus-Peter Jendrosch , the newcomer from Breidenbach formed a dangerous attack in the debut year of the Regionalliga Süd, 1963/64 . On February 9, 1964, in the home game of the South German Cup, Kassel had scored 6-1 goals for Bayern out of the competition - Becker scored one - and was thus also in the main round of the DFB Cup. In the promotion round to the Bundesliga in 1964, coach Walter Müller's team faced rivals Hannover 96 , Alemannia Aachen and FK Pirmasens . The 20-year-old Becker played three promotion games against Hanover, Aachen and Pirmasens; Kassel took second place, Hannover rose to the Bundesliga. On April 29, 1964, Becker was used in the junior international match in Karlsbad against Czechoslovakia: in the 1-0 victory of the German juniors, he formed the attack together with Gerhard Kentschke , Horst Gecks , Hans-Otto Peters and Günter Netzer . Becker did worse in his second regional league year with seven goals than in the previous year. After 69 regional league games with 27 goals, he accepted an offer from Kickers Offenbach for the 1965/66 round.
In three years at OFC, from 1965 to 1968, Becker reached the runner-up position twice, winning the title in the Regionalliga Süd in 1967 and advancing to the Bundesliga in 1968 . When he won the championship in 1967, he had his best hit record in Offenbach with 14 goals. When the OFC was able to achieve promotion for the first time in 1968 as vice-champions in the promotion round against Bayer Leverkusen, TuS Neuendorf, Tennis Borussia Berlin and SV Arminia Hannover, Becker played all eight games and scored four goals. His 2-1 winner in the 90th minute against Leverkusen on June 9, 1968 was of decisive importance. Overall, Becker came to Offenbach from 1965 to 1968 on 88 regional league games with 33 goals. In the Bundesliga season 1968/69 he came under coach Paul Oßwald to 27 missions and four hits; with his 1: 2 connection goal on August 17, 1968 in the defeat at 1. FC Cologne, he had scored the first Offenbach Bundesliga. After relegation in the following season, he followed the call of his former Offenbach coach Kurt Baluses together with goalkeeper Rudolf Wimmer for the round 1969/70 and moved to the Regionalliga Süd for Karlsruher SC.
Karlsruhe, 1969 to 1973
In his first round in 1969/70 in the Karlsruhe Wildpark Stadium , he completed all 38 league games for the blue-whites and scored 15 goals. With 87:37 goals Becker landed with the KSC in second place and again moved into the Bundesliga promotion round. After the promotion round in 1973 against SC Fortuna Köln, St. Pauli, Mainz 05 and Blau-Weiß 90 Berlin, he said goodbye to Karlsruhe and moved back to FV Breidenbach. From 1969 to 1973 he had played 133 league games with 48 goals for KSC in the Regionalliga Süd, plus 20 appearances with three goals in three Bundesliga promotion rounds. In total, Gerd Becker and his three regional league clubs took part in seven Bundesliga promotion rounds.
After the end of his playing career in Breidenbach, he took over the coaching position in 1982 in the "football village of the hinterland" and led the FV back in the 1984/85 round as a promoted player in the regional league center.
literature
- Uwe Nuttelmann (ed.), Regionalliga Süd 1963–1974, Jade, 2002, ISBN 3-930814-28-5
- Ulrich Merk, André Schulin, Maik Großmann: Bundesliga chronicle 1968/69. Volume 6: FC Bayern out of competition. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2006, ISBN 3-89784-088-X .
- Matthias Kropp, Germany's major soccer teams, part 11: Karlsruher SC, AGON Sportverlag, 1998, ISBN 3-89609-115-8
- Ulrich Homann (Hrsg.): Hellfire on Ascension. The history of the promotion rounds to the Bundesliga 1963–1974. Klartext, Essen 1990, ISBN 3-88474-346-5 .
Web links
- Profile at ksvhessenkassel.de ( Memento from February 18, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Becker, Gerd |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German soccer player and coach |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 18, 1943 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Breidenbach |