Kurt Ucko

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Kurt Ucko (born February 29, 1924 in Breslau ; † December 16, 2009 ) was a German football player. From 1948 to 1961 he played a total of 305 league games in the old first-class soccer league south , scoring 27 goals. As an active member of 1. FC Nürnberg , he won the South German championship three times in 1951 , 1957 and 1961 and played 18 games in the finals for the German championship with the “Club” .

career

After the end of the Second World War , the Ucko family came to Franconia from Lower Silesia . After his station in Franconian amateur football at 1. SC Feucht , a season at 1. FC Schweinfurt 05 in the Oberliga Süd followed in 1948/49 . Ucko made his debut on September 11, 1948 in the away game against FC Bayern Munich (1: 1) in the league. He completed 25 league games alongside teammates Fritz Käser (goalkeeper), Andreas Kupfer , Albin Kitzinger and Robert Bernhard and scored seven goals. Schweinfurt took 10th place, two points and one place ahead of 1. FC Nürnberg. The all-round player with a tendency to defensive played from the beginning of the round in 1949/50 at the "Club". Helmut Böttiger describes the circumstances of the change in Skrentny's book about the southern league:

“But he didn't dare to knock at the big club, but wanted to try Fürth first. The Nuremberg team, however, suddenly appeared in the kitchen of the Ucko family, negotiated a contract and had the player sign: “So Kurt, see you at the Zabo until Monday!” Was the farewell. “Yes what”, Ucko replied, “I think 'I'll play' at the Ronhof”, in Fürth that is, and wanted to withdraw from the contract in the first uproar: he felt “not mature enough” for the club. Coach "Bumbas" Schmidt knew better, and the ex-Schweinfurter became a major player in the 50s; in 1961 at the German championship he was part of the squad. "

Kurt Ucko played for 1. FC Nürnberg from 1949 to 1961 . He made his debut in the 1949/50 season for the Zabo-Elf on September 4, 1949 in a 3: 3 home draw against BC Augsburg on half right. The newcomer scored two goals on his debut. Under the Austrian coach Lorenz Polster , he played all 30 league games and the "Club" came in eighth. When in his second year for 1. FCN, 1950/51, under the old "clubber" Hans Schmidt as a coach, winning the title in the south before local rivals SpVgg Fürth, he was in all league games (34-4) again 18 clubs extended the southern season in action. Max Morlock led the scorer list with 28 goals. In its first final round of the German championship, the "Club" competed against Preußen Münster , Tennis Borussia Berlin and Hamburger SV . Due to the two defeats against the legendary "100,000 Mark Storm" from Münster, the last day of the group games brought the decision about the entry into the final. Ucko and colleagues faced HSV in their home stadium on June 10, 1951, and Münster met Tennis Borussia in Berlin, which won the first leg with a 3-2 win on May 20. At halftime the "Club" led 4-0 goals and after the 2-1 halftime score for the "Veilchen" in the Berlin Olympic Stadium, they felt like they were sure to take part in the final. After that, the club spared itself for the final that was believed to be safe. Bumbes Schmidt had issued the appropriate motto in the cabin: “Let it go. Take care that nobody gets injured. ”Due to the division procedure used at the time in the event of a tie, the Münster goal quotient of 1.375 compared to the 1.308 of the“ Club ”decided in favor of the western runner-up. Ucko had played all six finals.

In the round of 1951/52 he came runner-up with Nuremberg - the course of the 1952 finals was also exciting, Nuremberg lost the decisive group game on the last day of the round on June 8 at 1. FC Saarbrücken with 1: 3 goals and thus the Saarlanders moved with them one point ahead in the final - after a four-year "dry spell" under coach Franz Binder he was again the South German champion in 1956/57 and was once again part of the club team in the 1958 soccer world championship in Sweden, which was another runner-up in the Noris could get. In the eleventh year, 1959/60, at the club, the end of the career of the long-standing defensive player appeared. In Franz Binder's last year as coach, he only made ten league appearances and the club was only sixth in the Oberliga Süd despite the record goalscorer Heinz Strehl (30 goals in 28 games). When the new coach Herbert Widmayer brought the championship to Nuremberg very convincingly in his twelfth club round, 1960/61, with a lead of seven points over Eintracht Frankfurt, Ucko was no longer part of the regular line-up. Only on the seventh game day, September 25, 1960, in the 4: 3 away win against the later relegated TSG Ulm 1846, he completed his last appearance in the Oberliga Süd.

In a total of 509 games he scored 20 goals for Nuremberg from 1949 to 1961. After the end of his career, he devoted himself more to his textile goods business in Feucht and was also a coach at the local sports club.

In Nuremberg frankenstadion the block is named after him 15a.

literature

  • Christoph Bausenwein, Harald Kaiser, Bernd Siegler: 1. FC Nuremberg. The legend of the club. Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 1996, ISBN 3-89533-163-5 .
  • 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. ↑ Werner Skrentny (ed.): When Morlock still met the moonlight. The history of the Oberliga Süd 1945–1963. Klartext-Verlag, Essen 1993, ISBN 3-88474-055-5 , p. 22.
  2. ^ Bausenwein, Kaiser, Siegler: 1. FC Nürnberg. The legend of the club. P. 127.

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personal data
SURNAME Ucko, Kurt
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH February 29, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Wroclaw
DATE OF DEATH December 16, 2009
Place of death Nuremberg