Harald Konopka

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Harald Konopka
Personnel
birthday November 18, 1952
place of birth Echtz ,  Germany
size 175 cm
position Defense
Juniors
Years station
1959-1961 Teutonia Echtz
1961–0000 SG Düren 99
0000-1971 1. FC Cologne
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1971-1983 1. FC Cologne 335 (21)
1983-1984 Borussia Dortmund 17 0(0)
SSG 09 Bergisch Gladbach
Rot-Weiß Neubrück
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1971-1973 Germany U-23 7 (2)
1972-1988 Germany B 10 (0)
1978-1979 Germany 2 (0)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
SSG 09 Bergisch Gladbach
1 Only league games are given.

Harald Konopka (born November 18, 1952 in Echtz ) is a former German soccer player . From 1971 to 1984 he played 352 games in the Bundesliga and scored 21 goals. Senior career of 1. FC Köln of mostly as a right has full-back defensive player used in the season 1977/78 the German championship , and in the years 1977 , 1978 and 1983 the German Cup win.

Career

Club football in the Bundesliga

In the 1970/71 season, "Harry" Konopka played his way through the A-youth team of 1. FC Köln in the West German team and in October 1970 took part in the DFB Youth Cup against North and South Germany. On April 14, 1971, the young player who had come from SG Düren 99 made his debut in the DFB national youth team . Together with Rudi Kargus and Hartmut Huhse, he formed the final German triangle in the 1-0 win over Italy in Marcareta, a qualifying match for the UEFA youth tournament . In May he took part in the UEFA tournament in Czechoslovakia with the DFB youth team. The games for the German championship in July 1971 in Nuremberg formed a successful conclusion to his A-junior period . On July 11th, he won the final with 1. FC Köln against 1. FC Nürnberg with 3-1 goals.

He was taken over to the licensed team of the 1971/72 season and made his debut a month later, on August 14, under coach Gyula Lóránt in the Bundesliga. The home game against Werder Bremen ended with a 0-0 draw, and the talent had taken its first steps in the Bundesliga alongside Matthias Hemmersbach , Heinz Simmet , Werner Biskup , Bernd Cullmann , Wolfgang Weber , Bernd Rupp and Johannes Löhr . On November 16, three days after the Bundesliga match against Hannover 96, he was used by the DFB in the U-23 junior team at the European Championship qualifier against Poland in Bremen. In the 1-0 win, he formed the defender pair with Hans-Josef Kapellmann . In his first year in the senior division, the ambitious defensive player with strong duels made 33 Bundesliga appearances and scored one goal. 1. FC Köln took fourth place. On March 29, 1972 Konopka made his debut in the international match in Tatabánya against Hungary in the B national team . In the 2-0 win, he defended with Düsseldorf Fortunen Heiner Baltes .

In its second year in the Bundesliga, 1972/73 , the "billy goat-Elf" came to the runner-up with coach Rudolf Schlott . Konopka appeared in 28 games. Now Herbert Hein and Herbert Neumann moved out of their youth . The highlight of the season was the DFB Cup final on June 23, 1973 in Düsseldorf against the "foals" from the Lower Rhine, Borussia Mönchengladbach. In a seldom beautiful final, coach Hennes Weisweiler's team prevailed with 2-1 goals in extra time thanks to a goal from Günter Netzer, who was substituted on in the 91st minute . Konopka came on in the 71st minute for captain Wolfgang Overath . After the interim solutions in the coaching area with Zlatko Čajkovski and Georg Stollenwerk , the ex-player and ex-coach Hennes Weisweiler took over 1. FC Cologne for the 1976/77 round . Now the tough two-fighter, he was also called "Mister Eisenfuß" on the Rhine, learned a further development as a strong-running flank giver from the wing side to the transformation by the center forward Dieter Müller, who was strong at head and shot . In the first Weisweiler year, 1976/77, the striker screwed his mark to 34 hits and Konopka appeared several times as a flank giver. With the defensive formation Toni Schumacher (goal), Konopka, Gerd Strack , Roland Gerber and Herbert Zimmermann , the Cologne team won the DFB Cup on May 30, 1977 in Hanover in a replay against Hertha BSC. With the same defensive line-up, this triumph was repeated on April 15, 1978 in Gelsenkirchen with a 2-0 win against Fortuna Düsseldorf. The round 1977/78 was crowned by the success in the championship , Cologne won the double in 1978 and Konopka had scored three goals in 31 league games. His consistently good lap performance earned him inclusion in the squad of the DFB-Elf for the 1978 World Cup in Argentina.

Under coach Rinus Michels Konopka reached the runner-up with 1. FC Cologne in the 1981/82 round for the second time after 1972/73. He completed it 26 games and scored one goal. In his last season for 1. FC, 1982/83, the defensive player only played 15 league games, but was part of the successful formation on June 11, 1983 at the DFB Cup final against local rivals SC Fortuna Köln, which won 1-0 -Win the fourth cup for the billy goats. He formed the midfield of the victorious FC team with Herbert Neumann and Stephan Engels . On the first day of the 1983/84 season, August 13, 1983, he was substituted in the 61st minute of play at the score of 1: 1 and then played no more game for Cologne. In the winter change period he accepted an offer from Borussia Dortmund and made his debut with the Westphalia on December 3, 1983 in the away game against FC Bayern Munich in the BVB-Elf. Dortmund wore out four coaches this season with Uli Maslo , Helmut Witte , Hans-Dieterippenhauer and Horst Franz and finished 13th at the end of the round with 30:38 points. Harald Konopka ended his career as a professional footballer in the summer of 1984 after a total of 352 Bundesliga games with 21 goals.

Alongside Herbert Hein , Jürgen Glowacz and Herbert Neumann, Konopka is one of the four players at 1. FC Köln who became German A youth champions in 1971 and also took part in the German professional championship seven years later. He played a total of 450 competitive games for 1. FC Köln and is 9th in the overall statistics for Cologne, behind Bernhard Cullmann (453) and ahead of Heinz Flohe (448).

International games and national team teams

After being appointed to the national youth team and participating in the UEFA youth tournament in May 1971, the young player made his debut in the Bundesliga with 1. FC Köln in August and took his first steps in the European Cup on September 15 when he played 1: 1 draw at AS St. Etienne was used in the UEFA Cup and was also considered for the first time on November 16, 1971 by the DFB in the U-23 youth team. Konopka played in the DFB's junior eleven until 1973, in the national B team he played his tenth game in the run-up to the 1978 World Cup in Argentina, when he defended the DFB juniors 1-0 victory in Norrköping on April 18. A day later, the senior team with captain and right-back Berti Vogts lost against Sweden with 1: 3 goals. Konopka was a member of the 1978 World Cup squad and was substituted on for the game against Italy on June 14. His second appearance in the A-Elf was on May 26, 1979 in a 3-1 win over Iceland. From 1971/72 to 1978, Vogts was an undisputed regular player in his position as right full-back. This role was then taken over from Mönchengladbach by the man from Hamburger SV, Manfred Kaltz . That is why Konopka only has two games in the senior national team.

With 1. FC Köln he played 59 games in European competitions from 1971 to 1982 and scored three goals. In the rounds of 1978/79 and 1980/81 he was eliminated with his teammates only in the semifinals. On April 25, 1979 by a 0-1 home defeat in the European Cup against Nottingham Forest , in whose ranks goalkeeper Peter Shilton and attacker Tony Woodcock demonstrated their skills. Again in April 1981 a British team prevented Cologne from reaching a final, Ipswich Town in the UEFA Cup. Nevertheless, the never-giving fighter experienced high points in the European challenges in individual games: on November 7, 1973, Olympique Marseille with Marius Trésor , Roger Magnusson and Josip Skoblar was sent home with 6-0 goals; in the 1974/75 round he was on the ball in two 5-1 successes against Partizan Belgrade and FC Amsterdam ; on December 8, 1976 succeeded a 4-1 home win against Queens Park Rangers ; on November 5, 1980 he celebrated a spectacular 4-0 away win at FC Barcelona with Cologne and also played a 5-0 home win against Glasgow Rangers on November 3, 1982 . His last game in the European Cup he completed on November 24, 1982 in a 1-0 home win against AS Roma , in whose ranks Bruno Conti and Falcao stormed.

Conclusion in the amateur area

He was also successful as a trainer . In the 1990s, the ex-national player who lived in Bergisch Gladbach led SSG 09 Bergisch Gladbach from the state league to the Oberliga Nordrhein . He also worked as a coach at SV Rot-Schwarz Neubrück .

Konopka has been working in the food sector at Kraft, Jacobs and Suchard in foreign trade since 1987.

statistics

  • DFB Cup
    57 games; 1 goal 1. FC Cologne

successes

See also: Germany at the 1978 World Cup in Argentina

literature

  • Matthias Kropp: Germany's big soccer teams, part 10: 1. FC Cologne. AGON Sportverlag. Kassel 1997. ISBN 3-928562-96-7 .
  • Jürgen Bitter : Germany's national soccer player: the lexicon . SVB Sportverlag, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-328-00749-0 .
  • Thomas Hardt, Thomas Hohndorf, Bruno Morbitzer, Hubert Dahlkamp, ​​Hardy Grüne: Hennes & Co. The history of 1. FC Cologne. Publishing house Die Werkstatt. Göttingen 2005. ISBN 3-89533-470-7 .
  • Fritz Tauber: German national football team: Player statistics from A to Z . 3. Edition. AGNON, Kassel 2012, ISBN 978-3-89784-397-4 , p. 68 (176 pages).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.fc-koeln.de/news/profis/detailansicht/?tx_ttnews%5Btt_news%5D=2224&cHash=47a718271db26d85e5c24c8b7bf68f2d
  2. ↑ Sport-Bild from November 12, 1997, p. 46.
  3. ↑ A man from a great time , Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger , September 22, 2004
  4. ↑ Düren: What is ex-professional Harald Konopka doing today? , Aachener Zeitung , May 21, 2015
personal data
SURNAME Konopka, Harald
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH November 18, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Real