Horst Holubeck

Horst Holubeck (born February 14, 1947 - April 27, 2020 ) was a former German football player . The goalkeeper played 42 games in the 2nd Bundesliga at SC Viktoria Köln from 1978 to 1981 . In 1975 and 1976 he guarded the goal of the German national team of amateurs in three international matches .

career

Horst Holubeck experienced the first high point in his career that reached beyond local borders as a goalkeeper for the amateur team of 1. FC Köln in the 1973/74 season. In the association round, the amateurs of the Bundesliga club only finished seventh, but with the association selection of the Middle Rhine , the goalkeeper won the competition of the state cup . First, the Middle Rhine prevailed under association coach Klaus Röllgen in the group matches against the Lower Rhine, Bremen and Saarland. The semi-final against the selection of Bayern ended on April 13, 1974 1-1 after extra time and brought the decision for the Middle Rhine on penalties. In the final, Holubeck and colleagues - including Manfred Eickerling, Gerhard Kentschke , Willi Rehbach - narrowly won 1-0 against Westphalia on April 15 in Herford , in whose ranks the young defender Udo Horsmann attracted attention.

Since Holubeck did not have a serious chance of being included in the licensed squad of the billy goat eleven - the Bundesliga club's goalkeepers were Toni Schumacher and Gerd Welz, and Wolfgang Mattern was also taken on from the youth - he joined Viktoria Köln for the 1974/75 season the Association League Mittelrhein . The games in the DFB Cup were outstanding . Via the stations of Stuttgarter Kickers (4: 0), Usinger TSG (6: 1 a.s.) and Eintracht Braunschweig (2: 1) the way led to the round of 16 against Borussia Dortmund . On March 16, 1975, Holubeck's performance in the Viktoria goal was a guarantee for the 0-0 home draw after extra time. Players like Klaus Ackermann , Burkhard Segler and Zoltan Varga on the side of BVB could not beat the Viktoria keeper that day. Ten days later the replay in Dortmund was lost 3-0. At the end of the season, the DFB carried out a trip to Asia with its amateur national team. Holubeck was part of the travel team alongside the other goalkeeper Manfred Behrendt . Under the then responsible DFB coach Jupp Derwall , he completed his first two appearances in the amateur national team: on July 5 in Beijing against China (1: 1) and on July 8 in Singapore against Singapore (4: 1). Team members included Gernot Rohr , the twin brothers Heinz and Ernst Traser , Uli Stielike , Egon Schmitt , Lorenz-Günther Köstner , Norbert Eder and Hans-Otto Hiestermann .

In the two rounds 1975/76 and 1976/77 he reached third place with the black-white-red Viktoria; the promotion goal to the 2nd Bundesliga was missed. On March 9, 1976 Holubeck completed his third international match with the amateur national team. In Offenburg, the DFB amateurs beat Austria 1-0. The Cologne player came on for Jürgen Muche in the second half . In the 1977/78 season, the team from Viktoria-Kampfbahn in Cologne-Höhenberg under coach Fritz Pott won the championship in the Middle Rhine League. Holubeck achieved promotion to the northern group of the 2nd Bundesliga with team-mates such as Manfred Däne, Manfred Kreis, Dieter Matt, Klaus Czizewski and Jürgen Jendrossek after the successful promotion round against DSC Wanne-Eickel , VfL Wolfsburg and Göttingen 05 with 9: 3 points .

In his first year in the 2nd Bundesliga, 1978/79 , the ex-amateur goalkeeper asserted himself against Slobodan Topalović . He came to 29 league games and Topalovic to eleven. In attack, newcomer Kurt Pinkall was able to set accents with nine hits in 34 league appearances. Holubeck made his debut in the 2nd Bundesliga on August 12, 1978 in the 1: 2 lost away game against Bayer 05 Uerdingen . On the final day he finished the round on June 9, 1979 with a 2-0 away win at Hannover 96 in 16th place. Ernst-Günter Habig had replaced coach Pott in March 1979. To round 1979/80 came Bernd Helmschrot the club of Cologne right bank areas and completed all 38 league games; Holubeck only had a place on the bench when he reached fourth place in the 2nd Bundesliga.

In the last year of the 2nd Bundesliga in the two seasons South and North, 1980/81 , Viktoria took eleventh place in the 22 North Season . In 13 league games, Holubeck was able to prove his skills again alongside other players such as Klaus Albert, Roland Mall, Burkhard Segler, Jürgen Jendrossek, Reiner Künkel and Bernhard Hermes . On the twelfth match day - in the away game at Tennis Borussia Berlin (2: 2) on October 7, 1980 - he represented goalkeeper Helmschrot for the first time. In both games against local rivals Fortuna Köln (2: 3; 2: 2) in October 1980 and April 1981 he was in goal. In terms of sport, the games against the two Bundesliga promoters Eintracht Braunschweig (2: 1) and in the catch-up game on May 16, 1981 against Werder Bremen (0: 0) stood out. Holubeck could not qualify with Viktoria for the single-track 2nd Bundesliga, which was introduced in 1981/82, and therefore played with his club in the amateur top division of North Rhine.

He reached the runner-up championship with Viktoria Cologne in 1982 and entered the competition for the German amateur championship. In the two games on May 30th and June 5th, the future German amateur champion Mainz 05, led by captain Herbert Scheller and coach Herbert Dörenberg , prevailed 4-1. Holubeck ended his long playing career in the amateur camp.

Holubeck died in 2020 at the age of 73. At his request, a burial at sea took place in the Baltic Sea .

literature

• Matthias Weinrich: Second League Almanac. All players. All clubs. All results. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2001, ISBN 3-89784-190-8 .
• Raphael Keppel: Chronicle of the 2nd Bundesliga 1974–1989. Sports and games publisher Hitzel. Hürth 1990. ISBN 3-9802172-7-2 .
• Karl-Heinz Heimann, Karl-Heinz Jens: Kicker-Almanach 1989. Copress-Verlag. Munich 1988. ISBN 3-7679-0245-1

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Obituaries of Horst Holubeck | We are sad. Retrieved on May 14, 2020 (German). 
2. ↑ Heimann, Jens. Kicker Almanach 1989. p. 220