Hans Küppers

This article is about the soccer player; for the politician of the same name, see Hans Küppers (politician) .

Hans Küppers
Personnel
birthday	December 24, 1938
place of birth	Essen ,  Germany
position	midfield
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1957-1961	Black and white food
1961-1968	TSV 1860 Munich	177 (63)
1968-1969	1. FC Nuremberg	33 (10)
1969-1971	SV Wattens	60 (25)
1971	SSW Innsbruck	9 0(4)
1971-1972	FC Lugano	16 0(4)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1962-1967	Germany	7 0(2)
1 Only league games are given.

Hans Küppers (born December 24, 1938 in Essen ) is a former German football player who won the DFB Cup with Schwarz-Weiß Essen in 1959 and the German championship with TSV 1860 Munich in 1966 .

Career

societies

The career of the blonde midfielder (half-forward) began in the 1957/58 round in the 2nd League West at ETB SW Essen . Under coach Willi Multhaup , the excellent technician completed 22 second division games at the side of teammates such as Edmond Kasperski (28-11), Theo Klöckner (29-19), Hubert Schieth (18-14) and Heinz Steinmann (28-8) Reaching the 7th rank of ETB six goals. In his second season at Uhlenkrug, 1958/59, he was promoted to the Oberliga West with the runner- up . Küppers had been in 24 games and scored five goals. In the league, Küppers came to 28 games and six goals for the ETB black and white. A year later (1959/60) the surprising DFB Cup winner of 1959 could not hold the class and played in 1960/61 again in the 2nd League West. The sporting highlight of the time at SWE was the success in the DFB Cup in the 1959 round. In the semifinals, Küppers and his comrades eliminated the favorite Hamburger SV in the Volksparkstadion. The final on December 27, 1959 in Kassel against Borussia Neunkirchen was a smooth affair for Essen, they won with 5-2 goals. As the coach of Borussia Dortmund, Max Merkel recognized the talent of the young half-striker and initiated his move to Munich in 1961.

In the senior year of the Oberliga Süd 1962/63, the "Löwen" won the championship and thus entry into the newly created Bundesliga . In the final round in 1963 they failed to Borussia Dortmund, which then also won the German championship. Küppers played 57 games in the two rounds in the south and scored 16 goals. With Peter Grosser he had another technician at his side who also mastered the combination game and, together with Küppers, shaped the game of the "lions" on the offensive. On June 13, 1964, the ex-Essen celebrated his second triumph in the DFB Cup . 1860 Munich won the final in Stuttgart against Eintracht Frankfurt 2-0. In the 1964/65 European Cup Winners' Cup , Union Sportive Luxembourg, FC Porto , Legia Warsaw and, after three dramatic games in the semifinals, won against AC Turin in 1860 . This moved Küppers and colleagues into the final against West Ham United on May 19, 1965 at Wembley Stadium . After an exciting game in front of 98,000 spectators, the team around captain Bobby Moore prevailed 2-0. This European Cup round was nevertheless a high point in the athletic career of the technician with the hard shot.

Nationally, Max Merkel achieved the highest triumph with his “Löwen” in the 1965/66 season by winning the German championship in the Bundesliga. In addition to Hans Küppers, other great players such as Alfred Heiss, Friedhelm Konietzka, Rudi Brunnenmeier, Peter Grosser and Hans Rebele were available for the offensive. Since there were also outstanding masters at work on the defensive with Petar Radenković , Bernd Patzke, Otto Luttrop, Hans Reich and Zeljko Perusic, there could be no question of a surprising championship. From 1963 to 1968 Küppers played in 120 Bundesliga games for 1860 and contributed 47 goals. In the summer of 1968 he moved to the German champions of the same year, 1. FC Nürnberg . Küppers played 33 times for the defending champion, but not for the championship: rather, the club crashed athletically, at the end of the round even in the Regionalliga Süd. That was a bitter round for Nuremberg and its new playmaker.

After this disappointment, Küppers said goodbye to the Bundesliga and moved to Austria for SV Wattens in the National League . In Tyrol he became the top scorer of his new club, scoring 10 goals in his first season, 15 goals a year later and not missing a single championship game in both years. The team around Friedl Koncilia , Walter Skocik , Roland Hattenberger , Helmut Siber and Helmut Redl also caused a sensation at the local competitor FC Wacker Innsbruck . For economic reasons, the new SSW Innsbruck was presented in 1971 as a merger of the two Tyrolean first division clubs. In the 1971/72 season, Hans Küppers only ran for the new SSW Innsbruck in autumn, was involved in winning the Austrian championship and switched to Swiss club FC Lugano in winter , where he ended his career after six months.

National team

On December 23, 1962, Hans Küppers made his debut under national coach Sepp Herberger in a 5-1 success in the Karlsruhe Wildpark Stadium with a goal against Switzerland . The national coach seemed to have found a replacement for Helmut Haller, who had migrated to Bologna ; But it was not until Herberger's successor, Helmut Schön , that Küppers received further appointments in 1965. He played against Italy, Switzerland and on June 6th in Rio de Janeiro in the 2-0 loss to Brazil. However , it was not enough for Küppers to participate in the 1966 World Cup in England. In the first game after the World Cup, in a 2-0 win against Turkey on October 12, 1966 in Ankara, he was able to contribute another goal for the DFB. In 1967 Helmut Schön trusted in the playmaker qualities of the Merkel protégé in the two decisive European championship qualifiers against Yugoslavia and Albania. Since the 0-0 in Tirana on December 17th meant the end of the European Championship, the time in the national team for Hans Küppers was over after seven appearances.

Finale

The trained technical draftsman later returned to his hometown of Essen.

literature

• Hardy Grüne , Lorenz Knieriem: Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 8: Player Lexicon 1890–1963. Agon-Sportverlag, Kassel 2006, ISBN 3-89784-148-7 , p. 217.
• Christian Karn, Reinhard Rehberg: Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 9: Player Lexicon 1963-1994. Bundesliga, regional league, 2nd league. Agon-Sportverlag, Kassel 2012, ISBN 978-3-89784-214-4 , pp. 289-290.