Jupp Simon

Franz-Josef "Jupp" Simon (born December 24, 1931 ) is a former German soccer goalkeeper. With Turbine Erfurt he was GDR champion in 1954 and 1955 .

Athletic career

After the previous regular goalkeeper Heinz Grünbeck of Turbine Erfurt was excluded from the league team for disciplinary reasons in March 1954, the substitute goalkeeper, regular striker Wolfgang Nitsche , the 22-year-old Franz-Josef Simon, called "Jupp", joined the team. He played his first league point game on March 21, 1954 in the encounter of the 26th matchday BSG Einheit Ost Leipzig - Turbine Erfurt (0-0), but was only 72 minutes in goal and was then replaced by Nitsche. On the last day of the match, Simon was given another chance to play when he was allowed to replace Nitsche in the final quarter of an hour. Since he did not allow a goal in these 15 minutes, he secured his team the previously scored 2-0 over Wismut Aue and thus the championship. A year later, Simon was allowed to call himself GDR champion again, as the Erfurters had successfully defended their title. This time Simon was involved with only one mission, where he had replaced the new goalkeeper Rolf Jahn on the third match day. Since Jahn reliably guarded the goal in the following years and from 1955 onwards, Günter Gleis, a reserve goalkeeper who was five years younger than him, Simon was not used at Turbine Erfurt or in other teams in higher-class football.

literature

• German sport echo : Born in 1954. ISSN  0323-8628
• Andreas Baingo, Michael Horn: The History of the GDR Oberliga. 2nd Edition. Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2004, ISBN 3-89533-428-6 , pp. 47, 312.
• DFSF (Ed.): GDR Chronicle - GDR Football 1949–1991 (Volume 8). Berlin 2010, p. 334

Web links

• Jupp Simon in the database of the German Football Association
• Jupp Simon in the database of weltfussball.de