Gerd Koll

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Gerd Koll (1963)
Gerd Koll (1967)
Gerd Koll (front left) and the 2nd chairman of KSV Holstein Kiel Willi Gruß (right) before the game against Altona 93 . Greetings give Koll a bouquet of flowers for his 401st game for Holstein. (1968)

Gerd Koll (born April 1, 1938 in Rendsburg ; † March 18, 2013 in Kiel ) was a German football player and coach who, as a striker for Holstein Kiel, played 113 games in the Oberliga Nord from 1959 to 1963 and scored 58 goals scored. After the Bundesliga was founded, he stayed with KSV Holstein and played there until 1968 in the Regionalliga Nord, where he scored 76 goals in 148 games. In 1965 he was the superior regional league champion with the Kiel team, but failed in the promotion round to the Bundesliga.

career

Oberliga Nord, 1959 to 1963

At the age of 20, Gerd Koll moved from TSV in Rendsburg to Holstein Kiel in 1958 . The attacker who came from the 2nd amateur league played in the 1958/59 round over the Holstein amateurs in the league team for the 1959/60 season. Under coach Helmuth Johannsen , he immediately belonged to the regular cast and came on 30 missions with nine hits. In his third year with the “Storks”, 1961/62, he scored 28 goals in 29 games and, with Uwe Seeler, was at the top of the scorers list in the north. In the last year of the top leagues, 1962/63, Holstein Kiel and Koll and his storm colleagues Alfred Bornemann , Fritz Boyens , Manfred Greif , Horst Martinsen and Manfred Podlich had a dangerous attack that scored 73 goals. At the end of the season, Holstein only finished fifth and thus missed the qualification for the football Bundesliga introduced for the 1963/64 season .

Regionalliga Nord, 1963 to 1968

The fast-paced, agile striker equipped with goal instinct continued his chase for goals in the Regionalliga Nord for Holstein Kiel. On the first day of the regional football league 1963/64 , on August 11, 1963, Koll transformed VfR Neumünster's 2-0 half-time lead with four goals in the second half into a 4-2 win for Kiel. The sporting highlight was the 1964/65 season , in which Koll finished second on the top scorer list in the north behind his teammate Gerd Saborowski (34 goals) with 23 goals and Holstein Kiel won the championship and thus made it into the promotion round to the Bundesliga. In the promotion round, Koll scored five goals, two for a 4-2 win on June 19, 1965 against the later promoted Borussia Mönchengladbach . In the two following seasons, Kiel only finished third and thus failed to make it into the promotion round. In 1967 Gerd Koll again contributed 23 goals for the "Störche" and thus took third place in the list of goalscorers behind Günter Pröpper (VfL Osnabrück) with 25 and Peter Osterhoff (St. Pauli) with 24 goals.

From 1963 to 1968, Koll played 148 games for Kiel in the Regionalliga, scoring 76 goals. At the age of 30 he ended his contract playing career. With the selection of the North German Football Association (NFV) , the attacker played six games from 1962 to 1964 and scored four goals. Outstanding was the USA tour in May 1962 with games against the DAFB selection, Chicago All Stars, New Jersey selection and National Ukrainians. Participants were Hans Jäcker , Joachim Bäse , Walter Schmidt , Jürgen Moll (all Eintracht Braunschweig), Rolf Gieseler , Ingo Porges , Peter Osterhoff , Uwe Witt (all St. Pauli), Werner Gerstle , Wolfgang Träger , Claus Winkelmann , Heiner Klose ( all VfV Hildesheim) and club colleague Manfred Greif.

Trainer

Koll studied English and sports during his time as a teacher for the teaching profession. At the age of 30 he ended his active career with Holstein Kiel and became a teacher for sport and English at the Max Planck Gymnasium in Kiel . He hadn't planned a career as a coach. A temporary engagement at Holstein Kiel turned out to be the greatest possible success: The then 40-year-old senior teacher led the Kielers as a coach in the 1977/78 season to promotion to the 2nd Bundesliga , where he had to give up the post for professional reasons. In 1982 he also saved VfB Lübeck from relegation from the league.

literature

  • Jens Reimer Prüß (Ed.): Bung bottle with flat pass cork. The history of the Oberliga Nord 1947–1963. Klartext, Essen 1991, ISBN 3-88474-463-1 .
  • 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 .
  • Hardy Grüne , Lorenz Knieriem: Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 8: Player Lexicon 1890–1963. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2006, ISBN 3-89784-148-7 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Koll himself was of the opinion that there were 29 goals. He backed this up with marks in press articles (owned by JC).
  2. ↑ Bernd Jankowski, Harald Pistorius, Jens Reimer Prüß: Football in the North. 100 years of the North German Football Association. History, chronicle, names, dates, facts, figures. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2005, ISBN 3-89784-270-X , p. 363.
  3. ↑ cje: Mourning Holstein Kiel's record goal scorers . In: shz . March 20, 2013 ( online [accessed April 19, 2011]).

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personal data
SURNAME Koll, Gerd
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH April 1, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Rendsburg
DATE OF DEATH March 18, 2013
Place of death Kiel