Helmut Köglberger

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Helmut Köglberger (born January 12, 1946 in Steyr ; † September 23, 2018 ) was an Austrian football player and coach .

career

Helmut Köglberger grew up as the son of an Afro-American occupation soldier and an Austrian in the municipality of Sierning near Steyr in Upper Austria and initially played for SK Amateure Steyr .

His professional football career began in 1964 in Linz at LASK , with whom he was able to celebrate the championship title in the 1964/65 season . In 1968 he moved to Wiener Austria , with whom he celebrated his second championship title in the 1968/69 season, not least thanks to his 31 goals, the third followed in the following season. He played a total of 227 official games for Austria and scored 122 goals. During the 1974/75 season he switched back to LASK and was top scorer for a second time with a total of 22 goals .

On September 5, 1965 Köglberger made his debut in the national team against Hungary . He came to a total of 28 missions, scored 6 goals and also wore the captain's bow . He described the game against Brazil on May 1, 1974 in São Paulo as his biggest game , in which Austria achieved a more than honorable 0-0 against the reigning world champions in front of a crowd of over 120,000 spectators. Most recently, he spent his retirement in Altenberg near Linz , where, after his football career, he ran a trading company for serving and cooling equipment. On November 20, 2008, Köglberger was voted LASK Player of the Century.

Private

Köglberger never met his father, an Afro-American US occupation soldier. Since raising his mother was very difficult in the post-war period, he grew up with his grandmother and aunt in Sierning . The news magazine profil published an interview with Helmut Köglberger about his life in Austria as the son of a US occupation soldier as part of an article about no-man's children under the title A man of color .

In its weekend supplement of May 9, 2015, the Salzburger Nachrichten published articles about the fate of so-called "occupation children" under the title Schattenkinder , including an interview with Helmut Köglberger. In it he told about his life and reported u. a. that he does not know the name or a picture of his father, and described his commitment to the ACAKORO Football campaign, which enables 150 children to receive school and football training in a slum in Nairobi .

He had been married to his wife Christine since 1966 and had three sons with her. Köglberger died on September 23, 2018 at the age of 72. He was buried at the St. Magdalena cemetery (Linz) .

successes

  • 3 × Austrian champion : 1965 (LASK), 1969, 1970 (Austria Wien)
  • 3 × Austrian Cup winner 1965 (LASK), 1971, 1974 (Austria Wien)
  • 2 × Austrian top scorer : 1969, 1975
  • Captain of the Austrian national team (28 appearances, 6 goals)
  • Bronze shoe for Europe's third best goalscorer in 1968/69

Clubs as players

Clubs as coaches

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Upper Austria football mourns Helmut Köglberger. In: Nachrichten.at . September 24, 2018. Retrieved September 24, 2018 .
  2. ↑ News magazine profil 39/2012, p. 37.
  3. ↑ Wolfgang Winheim: The many lives of Helmut Köglberger. In: Kurier.at . August 31, 2014, accessed September 25, 2018 .
  4. ^ Philip Bauer: Obituary for Helmut Köglberger: team captain, occupation child, human. In: derStandard.at . September 24, 2018. Retrieved September 25, 2018 .
  5. ↑ Hundreds of companions said goodbye to Helmut Köglberger. In: nachrichten.at. October 5, 2018, accessed August 27, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Köglberger, Helmut
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian soccer player and soccer coach
DATE OF BIRTH January 12, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Steyr , Austria
DATE OF DEATH 23rd September 2018