Guy Acolatse

Kokou Guy Acolatse (born April 28, 1942 ) is a former Togolese football player .

Life

The tricky striker , who was a member of the Togo national soccer team at the age of 17 and had already played in several African countries as a Togolese national player, was brought with him from Togo by Otto Westphal in 1963 when he took up his position as coach for the northern regional division FC St. Pauli competed. Acolatse stayed with Hamburg for three seasons and was one of the first black Africans in Germany's paid football. He played a total of 43 point games there, in which he scored six goals. In 1963/64 he was also used in the promotion round to the 1st Bundesliga , which the team from Heiligengeistfeld had achieved as northern champions; in it he managed their honorary goal at 1: 6 at Bayern Munich . His position was mostly that of an attacker hanging behind the strikers Horst Haeck and "Oschi" Osterhoff .

Guy Acolatse suffered from adjustment problems in the unfamiliar environment (“When it rains, nothing good”) and was considered “too idiosyncratic” by Westphal's successors, Otto Coors and especially Kurt Krause . In the promotion round achieved again at the end of the 1965/66 season , he was no longer used at all; then he immediately moved to the regional league promoted HSV Barmbek-Uhlenhorst , who placed 14th in each of the following two years. In 1968 Acolatse left the Barmbeker. During his time in Hamburg he made his coaching license. He married a woman from Hamburg and starred in a movie with Gitte Hænning . In 1981 he moved from Hamburg to Paris, where he still lives and trains youth teams.

literature

• Ronny Galczynski, Bernd Carstensen: FC St. Pauli Club Encyclopedia. The workshop, Göttingen 2009, ISBN 978-3-89533-613-3
• Kurt-J. Heering: “The decisive factor is on the pitch!” 50 years of the Bundesliga - types, triumphs, tragedies . Heyne Verlag, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-641-07561-3 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Gabi Bauer, Peter Piro: They had never seen a black man . In: analysis & criticism , No. 551 of June 18, 2010
2. ↑ At least as quoted: Nothing good when it rains. In: Die Zeit , No. 34/1963
3. ^ Andreas Meyer, Volker Stahl, Uwe Wetzner: Football Lexicon Hamburg . Die Werkstatt , Göttingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-89533-477-1 , p. 30 (396 pages).
4. ↑ 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. 113f.
5. ↑ Johannes Freytag: Acolatse - an African causes a stir , article from April 22, 2013 in the portal ndr.de , accessed on October 1, 2017
6. ↑ sportal.de ( Memento of the original from May 30, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.