Kurt Koch (soccer coach)

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Kurt Koch (born November 2, 1919 - † November 9, 2000 ) was a German football coach . His greatest success was reaching the final of the European Cup Winners' Cup in 1967/68 with Hamburger SV .

Career

The first stations of his career included the 1. SSV Ulm , the Spfr. Saarbrücken and the upper and regional league team VfB Oldenburg, which he looked after between 1960 and 1965. After his wife fell ill, he withdrew a promise to return to Ulm, this time to TSG Ulm 1846, in the summer of 1965, and said goodbye to football for a short time. Instead, he taught as a physical education teacher at the grammar school in Nordenham , Lower Saxony , before returning to football for the 1966/67 season and taking over the coaching position at the regional league team Altona 93 . There the team attracted attention with their 2-1 first-round success over the then record champions 1. FC Nürnberg in the 1966/67 DFB Cup , and in the next round the club was eliminated in the local derby against Hamburger SV with a clear 6-0 defeat .

In the two seasons 1967/68 and 1968/69 Koch moved to the Bundesliga club Hamburger SV as the successor to Josef Schneider . Under Schneider, the club had reached the final of the DFB Cup in 1966/67 and lost it to FC Bayern Munich , but as the defending champions of the 1966/67 European Cup Winners 'Cup , the Munich team qualified for the 1967/68 European Cup Winners' Cup HSV also participated. While only 13th place in the table was reached in the Bundesliga (manager Georg Knöpfle stepped in briefly as coach at the end of the season), the team moved into the European Cup final in 1968 as the fourth DFB representative in a row. There the Hanseatic League was defeated by the Italian representative AC Milan around the two-time goalscorer Kurt Hamrin with 0-2. In the spring of 1969, Knöpfle took over the training work of HSV, which was in second place in the table at the time, and Koch joined the northern regional division SV Arminia Hannover in the following season 1969/70 . He then returned to VfB Oldenburg as the successor to Emil Izsó . At the end of the 1970/71 season , the club rose from the second division, then parted ways.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. swp.de: "Sport 50 years ago: national striker for sparrows" (accessed on July 6, 2020)
  2. ^ A b c Nordwest-Zeitung : "In conversation - Kurt Koch" (May 20, 1970, p. 6)