Imre Farkaszinski

Imre Farkaszinski (born September 2, 1924 - October 10, 2015 in Hungary ), correct spelling: Farkasinski was a Hungarian football coach . In Germany, he coached VfL Wolfsburg from 1966/67 to 1973/74 in what was then the second -rate regional soccer league , and in 1970 he was runner-up with the green-whites from the VfL stadium on Elsterweg . Previously, he was the first time in the 1958/59 season in the first-class soccer Oberliga Nord and immediately after the Regionalliga 1974/75 in the new 2nd Bundesliga , as well as 1978 and 1983/84 in the third-class Oberliga Nord as a coach Exercised in Allerstädtern.

Career

Farkaszinski, who grew up in south-east Hungary, was an active footballer in the student national team and successfully completed a degree in physical education. As a participant in the Hungarian uprising , he left his home country in 1956 and came to Germany via Austria and Italy. The main reason for this was that the Hungarian teacher training was very similar to the German one. He arrived in Wolfsburg on June 28, 1958. He took up a position as a sports teacher at the Ratsgymnasium and took over as the successor to Walter Risse as coach at VfL Wolfsburg in the then first-class Oberliga Nord in 1958/59. At the end of the round, however, VfL was relegated to the amateur league and the paths parted.

This was followed by an interim period with local rivals 1. FC Wolfsburg in the Lower Saxony amateur league, before the sports teacher with the distinctive glasses, usually called "Farka", started as a coach at VfL for the second time in the 1966/67 season . Now the connection lasted nine game years. They culminated in the runner-up in 1969/70 in the Regionalliga Nord and the subsequent participation in the Bundesliga promotion round. But also the two games in the 1970/71 DFB Cup in December 1970 against Bundesliga club FC Schalke 04 - on December 13 in Wolfsburg 2: 2 a.d. in front of 21,000 spectators; the replay on December 23rd in Gelsenkirchen 1: 1 a.s. and a 3: 1 defeat on penalties - were outstanding sporting highlights of the Farkaszinski era. With the two third places in 1972 and 1973 , as well as fourth place in 1974 , VfL qualified for the 2nd Bundesliga, which started in 1974/75 . The connection ended in December 1974.

From July 1, 1975 he took over the coaching position at SV Union Salzgitter in the third-class Oberliga Nord. In his second year, 1976/77 , he led Union to the runner-up and thus in the promotion round to the 2nd Bundesliga. This goal was not achieved. On February 18, 1978 , his activity in Salzgitter ended and on March 3, 1978, he again took over the coaching position at VfL Wolfsburg as a "fire fighter". At the end of the round he and his team were runner-up in the promotion round to the 2nd Bundesliga, but the promotion did not succeed with Wolfsburg either.

In his main occupation Farkaszinski was a teacher at the Ratsgymnasium and always exercised his coaching engagements on a part-time basis; he jumped again in the 1983/84 season at VfL as a coach. At the age of 63 he left the Ratsgymnasium in 1986 and after the fall of the Berlin Wall moved back to his Hungarian homeland, where he lived alternately in Budapest and on Lake Balaton.

Formative players of his time at VfL included Wilfried Kemmer , Wolf-Rüdiger Krause , goalkeeper Dieter Grünsch , Wolfgang Matz , Fredi Rotermund , Dieter Thun and Wolfgang Wallek .

In 1989 Farkaszinski moved to his Hungarian homeland.

literature

• Hans-Günter Klemm, Michael Richter: VfL Wolfsburg 2000 . Publishing house Die Werkstatt. Göttingen 1999, ISBN 3-89533-277-1 .
• Hardy Greens (Ed.): Of gray mice and great masters. The book about the Bundesliga. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 1999, ISBN 3-89784-114-2 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Mourning Imre Farkaszinski . Obituary on the VfL Wolfsburg website, October 12, 2015.
2. ^ Obituary notice in the Aller newspaper from October 24, 2015
3. ↑ Four-time VfL coach: Imre Farkaszinski is dead . Wolfsburger Allgemeine Zeitung , October 12, 2015.