Karl Klug (soccer player)

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Karl Klug (born April 8, 1925 in Osterfeld (Oberhausen) ; † January 11, 1971 in Oberhausen ) was a German soccer player who took part in the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki as a member of the German national soccer team of amateurs .

career

society

Karl Klug came from the youth of BV Osterfeld , where he was a playmaker and goalscorer and matured into a Niederrhein selection player. From the round 1948/49 Klug was active for the game association Sterkrade 06/07 . For five years in a row, the game association won the runner-up in the Lower Rhine regional league with the outstanding attacker from 1949 to 1953. This was followed by the championships in 1954 and 1955. After the second championship title, Sterkrade took part with Karl Klug in the group games for the German amateur championship against Sportfreunde Siegen , SV Bergisch Gladbach and FC Neukölln. The Westphalian champion Siegen prevailed with Herbert Schäfer and also won the title of German amateur champion with 5-0 goals in the 1955 final. Even after the Niederrhein Association League was introduced in the 1956/57 season, Karl Klug was still on the ball for the blue-whites from the Am Dicken Stein stadium.

With the association selection from the Lower Rhine, Karl Klug won the national cup of amateurs in 1951 . On May 3, 1951, the final took place in Berlin's Olympic Stadium in front of 50,000 spectators against Berlin. The Sterkrader contributed a goal to the 5-4 success after extra time for the Lower Rhine. In addition to his teammate Horst Gärtner in goal, the two active players of Cronenberger SC Gerd Hoffmann and Herbert Jäger in defense, he formed the right wing with half right Matthias Mauritz from Fortuna Düsseldorf. In 1952 and 1956 he was twice in the finals of the national cup with the Lower Rhine. In total, the outstanding player personality of Sterkrad's football history played 20 games for the Lower Rhine.

Further selection appointments

The outstanding class of the striker Karl Klug was also underlined by his commitment on May 14, 1950 in Cologne in the selection of West Germany against North Germany. The player from the Landesliga Niederrhein stormed in the center forward position at the side of Bernhard Klodt , Alfred Preißler , Kurt Zaro and Hans Schäfer and scored a goal for the West in the 3: 4 defeat against Northern Germany. National coach Sepp Herberger tested him at the beginning of August 1950 in a national team course at the sports school in Duisburg-Wedau. At the two international A matches on December 23, 1951 in Essen and on April 20, 1952 in Luxembourg, each against the Grand Duchy, Klug sat on the reserve bench. He was not used in either game.

Instead, the striker from the Sterkrade game association made his debut on May 18, 1952 in Nuremberg at the international match of the amateur national team in the DFB team. The national coach took Klug to the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki. There he played two games against Egypt and Brazil and scored one goal each. A torn ligament in his right foot prevented his further participation after the 4-2 win against Brazil. On April 29, 1953, he played alongside Richard Kreß , Georg Stollenwerk , Hans Zeitler and Willi Schröder in the 3-1 win in Linz against Austria on the left wing for his fourth appearance in the amateur national team. With one hit, Klug said goodbye to the amateur team of the DFB.

literature

  • 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 Greens: Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 7: Club Lexicon . AGON-Sportverlag, Kassel 2001, ISBN 3-89784-147-9 .
  • Hardy Grüne, Lorenz Knieriem: Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 8: Player Lexicon 1890–1963. AGON-Sportverlag, Kassel 2006, ISBN 3-89784-148-7 .

Individual evidence

  1. sports-reference.com: Karl Klug , accessed on January 4, 2018