Johann Adamik

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Johann Adamik in the 1950s

Johann "Hännes" Adamik (born July 16, 1925 in Sodingen ; † March 24, 2005 there ) was a German football player .

Life

"Hännes" Adamik only played for one club in his life, SV Sodingen , which he joined at the age of ten. At the age of 16, the half-striker made his debut in the first team, and this was followed by a total of around 650 missions for this workers' club, whose players worked almost entirely at the local Mont Cenis colliery in the 1940s and 1950s and who had their Glück-Auf stadium built on the colliery site . Adamik himself worked as a so-called attacker directly in coal mining underground.

From 1948 to 1950 player-coach in Sodingen, the "Schwatte", as Adamik was also called, rose in 1950 with his green-whites in the 2nd division, in 1952 further in the Oberliga West . With this " Knappenelf ", about which Sepp Herberger said because of her uncompromising kick-and-rush style and the unconditional commitment of all actors, she was "the only German team that plays English", Johann Adamik achieved second place in 1954/55 in the Oberliga and the subsequent participation in the final round of the German championship . Here, too, he was on the pitch in the qualifying game against SSV Reutlingen as well as in the six group games (against 1. FC Kaiserslautern , Hamburger SV and BFC Viktoria 1889 ), with a 1-0 overhead kick at 5: 1 also scored a particularly spectacular goal over Berlin.

The highlight was the encounter against the Lauterer, who competed with all their “ Bernese World Champions ” on May 22, 1955; Due to the expected rush of visitors, the home game had been moved to the Schalke Glückauf-Kampfbahn , where chaos arose hours before the start of the game because around 80,000 people crowded into the stadium, which only had 40,000 seats. At kick-off, around 55,000 of them had found admission, who - although the game had to be interrupted several times because the crowd of spectators stood meters away on the field - saw a highly dramatic game with a rather unfortunate outcome for Adamik's men (2: 2). In the end it wasn't enough to make it into the final, but Sodingen was a respectable third party with 7: 5 points behind 1. FCK (9: 3) and HSV (8: 4) and the name of the suburban club was well beyond the Ruhr area also become a household name.

In the period that followed, there was a change of guard in Herne: the "bourgeois" Westfalia overtook the workers' association and in 1959 even became West Master. In the same year SV Sodingen had to move into the 2nd division, but a change of club was out of the question for "Hännes"; instead, he helped the club to return to the Bel Etage of West German football after just one year . It was not until 1962, at the age of almost 37, that Johannes Adamik ended his career, but after that he lived in Sodingen for another 43 years. In total, he has made 207 league games and scored 24 goals. During the 1962/63 season he jumped in again as a coach of the league eleven.

Although, unlike his teammates Günter Sawitzki , Gerhard Harpers , Josef Marx , Leo Konopczynski and Hans Cieslarczyk , he was never allowed to wear the jersey with the federal eagle , the supporters of the club - and thus practically "all of Sodingen" - regarded him as a personification of the SVS . Baroth and Knieriem / Grüne ( lit. ) describe the anecdote according to which the parish priest complained from the pulpit one Sunday about “the pagan people”, “who never talk about God, but only about Adamik”.

In September 2012 a street in Herne was renamed Hännes-Adamik-Straße .

literature

  • Hans Dieter Baroth : Boys, Heaven is yours! The history of the Oberliga West 1947–1963. Klartext, Essen 1988, ISBN 3-88474-332-5 .
  • Hardy Greens : Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 1: From the Crown Prince to the Bundesliga. 1890 to 1963. German championship, Gauliga, Oberliga. Numbers, pictures, stories. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 1996, ISBN 3-928562-85-1 .
  • Hardy Grüne, Lorenz Knieriem: Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 8: Player Lexicon 1890–1963. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2006, ISBN 3-89784-148-7 .
  • Harald Landefeld, Achim Nöllenheidt (ed.): Helmut, tell me dat Tor ... New stories and portraits from the Oberliga West 1947–1963. Klartext, Essen 1993, ISBN 3-88474-043-1 .
  • Günter Mydlak: Boy, those were little torches . 75 years SV Sodingen. Verlag Gronenberg, 1987. ISBN 3-88265-143-1 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Mydlik, p. 93
  2. ↑ Reviersport.de, viewed September 17, 2012
personal data
SURNAME Adamik, Johann
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Adamik, Hännes (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH July 16, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Sodingen
DATE OF DEATH March 24, 2005
Place of death Sodingen