Karl Adam (soccer player)

Karl Adam
Personnel
birthday	February 4, 1924
place of birth	Koblenz ,  German Empire
date of death	July 9, 1999
Place of death	Koblenz,  Germany
position	Midfield / Goal
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
0000-1940	SC 07 Moselle white
1940-1944	TuS Neuendorf
1944	Dresdner SC
1945-1949	TuS Neuendorf
1949-1951	1. FC Kaiserslautern	48 (2)
1951-1953	TuS Neuendorf
1953-1955	FC Bayern Munich	34 (0)
1955-1956	TuS Neuendorf
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1951-1952	Germany	3 (0)
1 Only league games are given.

Karl Adam (born February 4, 1924 in Koblenz ; † July 9, 1999 ibid) was a German football goalkeeper who won the German championship with 1. FC Kaiserslautern in 1951 and played three international matches for the senior national team as a player for TuS Neuendorf .

Career

societies

Adam started playing football at the Koblenz district club SC 07 Moselweiß before he moved to the TuS Neuendorf district club at the age of 16 and was used for it from 1941 to 1944 in the Moselland sports class . As the winner of the sports class in 1943, he was qualified with the team as a participant in the final round of the German championship . His first final game with the team he played on May 2, 1943 in the 0-2 defeat in the home game against SV Victoria Cologne . In 1944 he played a number of games as a guest player at Dresdner SC - including with the later national coach Helmut Schön .

After the end of the Second World War he returned to Koblenz. Previously still as a middle runner , also active in the Palatinate selection , he was surprisingly used as a goalkeeper in 1947 due to the absence of Georg Unkelbach , who was professionally in a transfer service with the Deutsche Reichsbahn in the United Economic Area . In the following years he was instrumental in helping the club soar in what was then the North Group of the Southwest Oberliga . The team in which he played with Rudi Gutendorf , among others , received nationwide recognition as “Gauchel-Elf”; named after the striker Josef Gauchel .

1. FC Kaiserslautern, which built up a promising team around players like Fritz Walter , Ottmar Walter , Werner Kohlmeyer , Werner Liebrich and Horst Eckel , became aware of Adam and signed him at the beginning of the 1949/50 season . There he was able to oust the previous goalkeeper Willi Hölz , but was in turn replaced in the final phase of the 1950/51 season after a few mistakes by Dieter Schaack, who was briefly obliged by 1. FSV Mainz 05 ; then Adam angrily left the club in the direction of Koblenz.

After the club management of 1. FC Kaiserslautern only found after the first game of the preliminary round of the German championship that Schaack was not eligible to play (the regulations stipulated that a player had to be used in at least two games of the season before; Schaack only one Use), coach Richard Schneider resumed talks with Adam who had emigrated and convinced him to return to the Palatinate.

With him in goal, 1. FC Kaiserslautern also reached the final of the German championship in Berlin in 1951 . In the 2-1 victory over Preußen Münster , Adam not only convinced his previous critics, but also national coach Sepp Herberger .

Adam joined the season 1953/54 for FC Bayern Munich , for whom he on August 9, 1953 (1st Round), the 3: 3 draw at home against Karlsruher SC , debuted and has not been used on only two matchdays. In the following season he played only six point games; his last on January 23, 1955 (18th matchday) in a 2-1 win at home against Karlsruher SC. With the relegation of Bayern to the 2nd Oberliga Süd at the end of the season, he returned to TuS Neuendorf in the Oberliga Südwest to take part again in the finals of the German championship after finishing second in the 1955/56 season . After the game in the first qualifying round at VfB Stuttgart 0: lost eight gates, was Adam amplified in the criticism and was ultimately for the game in the second qualifying round against Hannover 96 coach Helmut Bolz by the young Karl Edgar Hopfenmüller replaced . Hannover won the encounter 3-2 in the replay after the first encounter with the 3-3 draw did not produce a winner; Adam ended his active football career a short time later due to knee problems.

National team

The performances that Adam showed in the final of the German championship on June 30, 1951, prompted Sepp Herberger to immediately appoint him to the senior national team for the encounter with Austria's selection in Vienna . The international match on September 23, 1951, which was won 2-0, was played by Toni Turek . Adam - playing for TuS Neuendorf again at the start of the 1951/52 season - made his debut on November 21, 1951 in the senior national team, which won 2-0 over Turkey's selection in Istanbul . In his next two, at the same time last appearances for the DFB , he did not concede both in the 3-0 win over Luxembourg in Luxembourg and in the 3-0 win over Ireland in Cologne . In the following years, Turek prevailed as a regular goalkeeper. In addition, Adam was increasingly unable to defend himself against the new competition from Heinrich Kwiatkowski from Dortmund , Fritz Herkenrath from Essen and Heinz Kubsch from Pirmasens .

successes

• German champion 1951
• Master of the Gauliga Moselland 1943 , 1944
• Country Cup finalist 1950 (with the Landesverband Pfalz)

Awards

• Silver bay leaf 1957

Others

• Werner Adam, son of Karl Adam, was also a soccer goalkeeper and was active at TuS Neuendorf in the 1970s.
• The Karl-Adam-Platz in the Koblenz district of Oberwerth is a sports field named after the football player in the Oberwerth sports park , which is mostly used for training purposes during courses within the Rhineland Football Association .

Web links

• Karl Adam in the database of weltfussball.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ German Bundestag : Printed matter 7/1040 (PDF; 1.7 MB), September 26, 1973, p. 58, accessed on January 29, 2020.