Klaus Kösling

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Klaus Kösling (born March 17, 1958 in Bonn ) is a former German soccer player . The offensive player played eight league games (1 goal) in the Bundesliga in the 1976/77 season under coach Hennes Weisweiler at 1. FC Cologne .

career

Having grown up in the Auerberg district of Bonn , Klaus Kösling's club career began in 1970 in the youth department of PSV Bonn. It was continued from 1972 to 1975 at Bonner SC and led the goal-scoring playmaker type over the Middle Rhine to the West German selection. After a five-month intermediate step at Preußen Münster, Kösling joined the FC A1 youth team, which Josef Röhrig looked after, on December 1, 1975 . The coach Weisweiler, who returned to Cologne from Barcelona, ​​was impressed by the talent of the offensive hope and spoke out in favor of a licensed player contract for the 1976/77 season. In addition to Kösling, FC also signed Roger van Gool , Preben Elkjær Larsen and Ferdinand Rohde . The professional newcomer, who graduated from the Friedrich-Ebert-Gymnasium in Bonn, completed his first competitive game as a professional on August 8, 1976 in the DFB Cup against Itzehoer SV (7-0). A week later he was used by trainer Weisweiler at the Bundesliga start on August 14th in a 3-1 home win against 1. FC Kaiserslautern for the first time in the Bundesliga. In the 82nd minute he came on the field for Johannes Löhr . In the 2-0 home win on August 28, 1976 against Eintracht Frankfurt , he scored the second Cologne goal in the 86th minute in front of 51,000 spectators, coming on for Löhr in the 73rd minute. In September and October 1976 he was also used in the games against GKS Tychy and GC Zürich three times in the UEFA Cup. The eighth and last Bundesliga appearance of the 1.80 m tall blond boy was on December 11, 1976 in a 1: 2 away defeat at Werder Bremen. When he was called up for basic military service in the Bundeswehr from October 1976, he was no longer able to take part in training regularly. The attacking peaks in the Weisweiler team in 1976/77 were usually occupied by van Gool, Dieter Müller (34 goals) and Löhr; Elkjær Larsen and Kösling were the complementary players in the FC offensive.

From October 1977 a Japanese attacked Yasuhiko Okudera on the left wing of FC and Kösling suffered a broken tibia and fibula during training in December 1977. Almost a year later to the day, he sustained the same injury for the second time in training. Since his attending physician issued the warning that “if the lower leg is broken again, amputation of the lower leg is possible”, Kösling ended his contractual relationship with 1. FC Köln in September 1980 at the age of just 22 and left the professional business forever .

He then completed an apprenticeship as an office clerk in Siegburg and has been working in a Bonn security company since 1984

The striker was used 13 times by then coach Hennes Weisweiler in the 1976/77 season for 1. FC Köln: eight games in the Bundesliga (1 goal), two games in the DFB Cup and three appearances in the UEFA Cup .

societies

  • 1970–1972 PSV Bonn (youth)
  • 1972–1975 Bonner SC (youth)
  • 7 / 1975–11 / 1975 Preußen Münster (youth)
  • 12 / 1975–6 / 76 1. FC Köln (youth)
  • 1976–1980 1. FC Cologne

successes

  • 1977 DFB Cup winner (without commitment)

literature

  • Dirk Innschuld, Frederic Latz: With the billy goat on his chest. Publishing house Die Werkstatt. Göttingen 2013. ISBN 978-3-7307-0047-1 . Pp. 178/179.
  • Dirk Innschuld, Thomas Hardt, Frederic Latz: Under the sign of the billy goat. The history of 1. FC Köln. Publishing house Die Werkstatt. Göttingen 2014. ISBN 978-3-7307-0127-0 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Klaus Kösling - player profile. Retrieved June 2, 2019 .
  2. ^ Jürgen Bitter: Germany's football. The encyclopedia. FA Herbig. Munich 2008. ISBN 978-3-7766-2558-5 . P. 396

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personal data
SURNAME Kösling, Klaus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH March 17, 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Bonn