Kurt Zapf

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Kurt Zapf
Personnel
birthday August 16, 1929
place of birth PlauenGermany
date of death August 11, 2010
position Defense
Juniors
Years station
VfB Plauen
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1946-1952 VfB Plauen / Plauen North
1952-1954 Up louder 32 (0)
1954-1968 SC Empor Rostock / 242 (4)
FC Hansa Rostock
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1957-1958 GDR 4 (0)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
04 / 1965-06 / 1965 FC Hansa Rostock
1 Only league games are given.

Kurt Zapf (born August 16, 1929 in Plauen ; † August 11, 2010 ) was a German football player. He played 249 GDR league games and four international games for the GDR.

Kurt Zapf started playing football at VfB Plauen in 1940. Even after the war he remained loyal to his neighborhood and from 1946 played for SG Plauen-Nord, which emerged from VfB and then BSG Einheit Plauen from 1949 to 1951, BSG Konsum Plauen from February to September 1951 and from September 1951 BSG Empor Nord Plauen was called. For the 1952/53 season he moved to the GDR Oberliga to Empor Lauter where he played 32 competitive games. When in 1954 the players from Empor Lauter were delegated to SC Empor Rostock , he went as one of twelve Empor players from the Ore Mountains to the Baltic coast. In the new team of SC Empor Rostock, he immediately took over the captaincy. In 1956 he rose from the league with upward and in 1957 straight up again. As a defense organizer, Zapf played in Rostock until 1968. He played a total of 217 league and 25 league games for Rostock and scored three league goals and one league goal.

Kurt Zapf (right) with Willy Tröger

Kurt Zapf was in the final of the FDGB Cup four times with Empor / Hansa Rostock and lost all four games. In 1955 they lost to SC Wismut Karl-Marx-Stadt with 2: 3 after extra time. In 1957, the team had to admit defeat as a second division to SC Lok Leipzig 1: 2 afterwards. The winning goal for Leipzig in extra time resulted from a hand penalty caused by Zapf. The third defeat in the final followed in 1960 - Empor lost to SC Motor Jena 2-1, again after extra time. In 1967 there was a clear 3-0 defeat for Zapf and Hansa Rostock against BSG Motor Zwickau .

Zapf played four times for the GDR national soccer team .

After his active time, Zapf worked for many years in the youth division of FC Hansa Rostock. Between April 15, 1965 and June 30, 1965, Zapf also briefly coached the first team.

Later he was a member of the council of elders.

After his active time, Kurt Zapf worked as a sports teacher at the vocational school of the VEB Seeverkehr und Hafenwirtschaft.

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