Jens Knop

Jens Knop (born June 21, 1952 ) is a former German football player who played an international match in the German amateur football team on March 20, 1976 in Schwenningen against Italy in the 1978/79 season . From 1976 to 1979, the offensive player in the soccer Oberliga Nord for the clubs SV Werder Bremen Amateure and SV Atlas Delmenhorst played a total of 89 games and scored 24 goals.

career

The attacker Jens Knop, who came to the amateurs of Werder Bremen in 1975 via the stations TuS Vahr , Hastedter TSV and TSV Osterholz-Tenever , sat in the promotion round in 1976 with his teammates of the Werder amateurs against the competitors ASV Bergedorf 85 , Hannover 96 amateurs and Rendsburger TSV and rose for the 1976/77 season in the Oberliga Nord. At the side of fellow players like Karl-Friedrich Wessel , Karl-Heinz Geils , Rolf Behrens , Dimitrios Daras , Franz-Josef Ripke and Harald Snater , he was in all six games in the promotion round and scored three goals. The Werder attack mostly consisted of Ripke, Behrens and Knop.

In his first league year, 1976/77 , he completed 31 league games with the Werder amateurs and scored five goals. The newcomer, in whom the manager of the professional division Rudi Assauer made twelve league appearances, took eighth place. In the competition for the German amateur championship Knop no longer took part with the Werder amateurs, he joined the blue-yellow of SV Atlas Delmenhorst for the 1977/78 season.

In the industrial city between Bremen and Oldenburg, where SV Atlas was promoted to the league in the 1975/76 season, he did not experience the fight for the top of the table, but the struggle to stay in the league. At the end of September 1977, coach Helmut Mrosla was replaced by Max Konopka . Despite the other newcomers Rolf Behrens and Norbert Auras, as well as the teammates Günter Selke, Edgar Nobs, Heinz-Dieter Hasebrink , Michael Blaschek and Hans-Heinrich Radbruch, Delmenhorst only achieved 15th place in 1977/78 with an average audience of 2,400. Knop had scored four goals in 24 appearances. With the team in 1978/79 the performance improved only marginally (14th place), but personally it was a special round for the attacker. He completed all 34 round matches and was the superior internal top scorer with 15 goals scored. In September and November 1978 he was used in two games of the state cup in the Lower Saxony selection against Westphalia (1: 0) and Württemberg (1: 2). Finally, he made his debut under the then responsible DFB coach Erich Ribbeck on March 20, 1979 at the international match in Schwenningen against Italy in the amateur national team. In the 2-0 defeat of the newly compiled amateur selection, he played alongside other players such as Peter Ament , Uwe Eplinius , Rainer Prieß and Karl Richter . In his last association game for Delmenhorst, on June 2, 1979, in the home game against the amateurs of SV Werder Bremen, he scored another goal in a 5-0 win. After a total of 58 games with 19 goals in the Oberliga Nord for Delmenhorst, he joined SpVgg Bad Homburg in the Hessian state league for the 1979/80 season .

With coach Erich Gehbauer , Knop won the championship and was promoted to the Oberliga Hessen . With the blue and white zero fives from the stadium at the Sandelmühle, he played two rounds in the Oberliga Hessen until 1983.

literature

• German Sports Club for Football Statistics (DSFS): North Chronicle. Amateur Oberliga Nord 1974–1979 . Part 4. Berlin 2010.
• Karl-Heinz Heimann, Karl-Heinz Jens: Kicker-Almanach 1989. Copress-Verlag. Munich 1988. ISBN 3-7679-0245-1 .

Individual evidence

1. ^ DSFS: Amateur Oberliga Nord 1974–1979. P. 266.