Lothar Kobluhn

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Lothar Kobluhn
Personnel
birthday April 12, 1943
place of birth Oberhausen ,  Germany
date of death January 21, 2019
Place of death Oberhausen, Germany
position Defense , midfield
Juniors
Years station
Rot-Weiß Oberhausen
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1962-1963 BV Osterfeld
1963-1974 Rot-Weiß Oberhausen 317 (94)
1974-1976 SG Wattenscheid 09 49 0(6)
1 Only league games are given.

Lothar Kobluhn (born April 12, 1943 in Oberhausen ; † January 21, 2019 there ) was a German football player . From 1969 to 1973 he played with SC Rot-Weiß Oberhausen in the Bundesliga and in 1971 was the only defensive player to date to be the top scorer.

Career

Like his older brother Friedhelm , Lothar Kobluhn came from the youth of Rot-Weiß Oberhausen . After he was not immediately appointed to the league team after his youth , he went to the Oberhausen local competitor, the Niederrheinmeister from 1960, BV Osterfeld . There he made a name for himself in the third-class association league in the 1962/63 season as a center runner with his excellent positional play, and was then brought back by RWO President Peter Maassen .

Meanwhile, RWO played in the second-rate Regionalliga West, where coach Adi Preissler made the big hit in the 1968/69 season. Before the eternal rival Rot-Weiss Essen , RWO was champion, Kobluhn contributed with 18 goals in 34 games and was also able to prevail in the promotion round to the Bundesliga.

The headed defensive midfielder , who usually played with the number 4, was described by the trade journal kicker after his death as follows: “ He was a powerhouse of around 90 kilograms, a leader. “Kobluhn only scored five goals in his first Bundesliga season, but Oberhausen achieved their best Bundesliga placement with 14th place. In 1971 he was the top scorer in the Bundesliga with 24 goals; two more than Gerd Müller , who was the top scorer in 1969 and 1970 and from 1972 to 1974. His most important goal of that season was probably his goal to make it 1-1 on the last day of the match at Eintracht Braunschweig , which secured relegation. Kobluhn was the only top scorer in the Bundesliga who was not a regular striker; In addition, he was the only top scorer in the Bundesliga with German citizenship, who still never played for the German national team until Alex Meier from Eintracht Frankfurt managed all of this in 2015 . Another specialty: Lothar Kobluhn was the first player to see the then newly introduced red card in October 1970 in a 1: 4 defeat in Kaiserslautern in the 36th minute.

Because of the upheavals caused by the Bundesliga scandal , the kicker initially did not award the top scorer , the usual trophy for the Bundesliga top scorer. 36 years later, at the end of October 2007, the sports magazine changed its mind. It was finally given to him on the occasion of his 65th birthday on April 12, 2008.

Before the 1971/72 season, Kobluhn should have had several attractive offers, including from PSV Eindhoven . But he extended with Oberhausen by three years. Before the new season he had to undergo knee surgery that put him out of action for the preliminary round. When he made his comeback in January, he immediately initiated the Oberhausen team's third win of the season with a dust-off goal against DSC Arminia Bielefeld . That was his only goal in a total of 15 games this season. The now coach Günter Brocker even replaced him one or the other time , and even his most loyal fans gave him merciless occasional whistling concerts. RWO was able to hold onto the class again with 15th place.

In the following year that didn't work anymore, and the Rhinelander, who only attended 900 spectators on the last matchday against Kickers Offenbach , were bottom of the table. Lothar Kobluhn left the Bundesliga with six goals in 29 games.

1973/74 he had another strong season in the Regionalliga West. His 25 goals in 33 games helped to secure the runner-up. In the following promotion round, RWO was only third in his group, and Kobluhn remained goalless in his eight games.

Kobluhn scored 94 goals in 317 league games for RWO from 1963 to 1974, 36 of them in 107 Bundesliga games.

From 1974 he moved to the second division club SG Wattenscheid 09 for a transfer fee of 50,000 marks , where he ended his career in 1976 after two further knee operations.

Kobluhn, who had to endure two cardiac bypasses in later years , last lived in Oberhausen. He died on January 21, 2019 at the age of 75.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Matthias Arnhold: Lothar Kobluhn - Matches and Goals in Bundesliga . RSSSF . February 14, 2019. Retrieved February 15, 2019.
  2. ↑ Frank Lußem: If it got too colorful for the opinionated “Lo”, he stormed ahead. In: kicker sports magazine . February 4, 2019, page 33.
  3. ^ Ulrich Hartmann: Cannon with delay. Süddeutsche Zeitung, March 2, 2019, accessed on March 23, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Late satisfaction: Kobluhn receives a goal scorer cannon. Retrieved October 29, 2007 .
  5. ↑ Torjäger cannon 37 years late , accessed on April 14, 2014
  6. ↑ Lothar Kobluhn died at the age of 75, press release from RW Oberhausen, February 2, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Kobluhn, Lothar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH April 12, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Oberhausen
DATE OF DEATH January 21, 2019
Place of death Oberhausen