Karl Ringel

Karl Ringel (born September 30, 1932 in Fürth ) is a former German soccer player who completed three international matches for the Saarland and was used once for the German senior national team in 1958 .

Career

Beginning, 1945–1953

Until 1950, Karl Ringel belonged to the youth department of the SpVgg Fürth in his hometown . In 1950 he found his way to Friedrichshafen on Lake Constance to look for a job , where he worked as a machine fitter in a gear factory until 1953. From 1950 to 1953 he played football for VfB Friedrichshafen in the 1st Amateur League Württemberg . After club representatives from Borussia Neunkirchen had made contact, he came to Neunkirchen in Saarland in the summer of 1953 .

Borussia Neunkirchen, 1953-1965

Oberliga Südwest, 1953-1963

On August 9, 1953 (1st matchday) he made his debut in the Oberliga Südwest in a 3-2 win in the away game against SV Phönix Ludwigshafen and scored his first goal with the 1-0 opening goal in the 10th minute of the game. Karl Ringel developed into a half-striker with playmaker qualities and final strength. From the 1957/58 season , the team from the Ellenfeldstadion belonged to the top in the southwest. The team finished second four times from the 1958/59 season , and in 1962 the Saarland championship title was won. In the finals for the German championship in 1962 , Ringel and his teammates were able to compete with the top teams of the other major leagues. In 1960 they decided to move into the final by winning three points against Karlsruher SC for Hamburger SV . In the final round of the German championship in 1963 , the Neunkircher opened the group games with a 3-0 win in front of 40,000 spectators in Saarbrücken against Hamburger SV. Even then, the storm with Elmar May , Karl Ringel, Paul Pidancet , Horst Berg and Günter Kuntz indicated that “Borussia” had the format for the Bundesliga. From 1953 to 1963 Ringel played 244 point games in the Oberliga Südwest and scored 107 goals. Since 1. FC Saarbrücken was considered for the newly created top German division, the Bundesliga , 1963/64 , Borussia Neunkirchen and Karl Ringel remained in the second-rate Regionalliga Südwest during this season .

Regionalliga Südwest / Bundesliga, 1963-1965

With nine goals in 27 league games, veteran Karl Ringel contributed to the championship at the end of the first season of the Regionalliga Südwest and qualified with the team for the promotion round to the Bundesliga. FC Bayern Munich was considered a high favorite in Group 1 of the Saarlanders . After the 0-1 home defeat of “Borussia” on June 14, 1964 against “Bayern”, the expected progression of the promotion round seemed to become reality. Six days later, however, the team of coach Horst Buhtz caused the 2-0 sensation in the victory in the stadium on Grünwalder Strasse in Munich and suddenly had a real chance of promotion again. With two 1-0 wins against FC St. Pauli and SC Tasmania 1900 Berlin , they left FC Bayern Munich behind and were promoted to the Bundesliga . Karl Ringel had provided valuable service in all six promotion round matches for Neunkirchen, in which he contributed two goals (including a penalty against FC Bayern Munich). On May 8, 1965 (29th matchday) he played his only Bundesliga game. In the 1-1 draw in the away game against Hertha BSC , the 33-year-old had to deal with defender Otto Rehhagel . After the season, Ringel moved to 1. FC Saarbrücken in the Regionalliga Südwest, but only played seven games there. After six knee operations, he ended his career as a football player in the summer of 1966.

National team, 1955–1958

The Saarland Football Association existed from July 25, 1947 to July 7, 1956, and on June 23, 1950, it was also accepted as an independent member of FIFA . From 1950 to 1956, 19 international matches were played under the umbrella organization of the SFB. On May 1, 1955, Karl Ringel made his international debut in the game of the B national team of the Saarland against the B selection of the Netherlands, which was won 4-2 in Neunkirk's Ellenfeldstadion . On March 17, 1956, he was substituted in in the "unofficial international match" of the Saarland against a German selection in Homburg . On June 3 and 6, 1956 he came under the Saarland national coach Helmut Schön to two missions in the national team of Saarland ; in the goalless draw against Portugal's B selection and in the 3-2 defeat in Amsterdam against the Netherlands , where he scored his only international goal. For the DFB , national coach Sepp Herberger appointed him to the senior national team on the occasion of his trip to Egypt in December 1958 . In the 1: 2 defeat in Cairo against the selection of Egypt , he came on in the 62nd minute for striker Ulrich Biesinger .

Others

The former machine fitter was employed by the Neunkircher Stadtwerke , for which he worked as a clerk until his retirement.

Web links

• Karl Ringel in the database of weltfussball.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Match pairing on dfb.de.

literature

• Werner Skrentny (Ed.): The fear of the devil in front of the pea mountain. The history of the Oberliga Südwest 1946–1963. Klartext, Essen 1996, ISBN 3-88474-394-5 .
• Ulrich Homann (Hrsg.): Hellfire on Ascension. The history of the promotion rounds to the Bundesliga 1963–1974. Klartext, Essen 1990, ISBN 3-88474-346-5 .
• Jürgen Bitter : Germany's national soccer player: the lexicon . SVB Sportverlag, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-328-00749-0 .