Manfred Krafft (soccer coach)

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Manfred Krafft
Personnel
birthday December 11, 1937
place of birth Dusseldorf ,  Germany
size 179 cm
position Defender
Juniors
Years station
Fortuna Dusseldorf
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1957-1966 Fortuna Dusseldorf 125 0(12)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
1966-1967 Fortuna Düsseldorf (assistant coach)
1967-1970 VfR Neuss
1970-1971 SG Union Solingen
1971-1973 VfR Büttgen
1973-1976 Fortuna Düsseldorf amateurs
1975-1976 Fortuna Dusseldorf
1976-1988 1. FC Saarbrücken
1978-1981 Karlsruher SC
1982-1983 SV Darmstadt 98
1983 Offenburg FV
1983-1985 1. FC Kaiserslautern
1986-1987 SG Union Solingen
1987-1990 Stuttgart Kickers
1991-1992 1. FC Pforzheim
1 Only league games are given.

Manfred Krafft (born December 11, 1937 in Düsseldorf ) is a former German soccer player and coach .

career

Krafft, who came from his own youth, played in the first team of Fortuna Düsseldorf from 1959 to 1966 , mostly as an outside runner. By 1963 he played 49 times in the Oberliga West . After the Düsseldorfer were not accepted into the Bundesliga in 1963 , 63 games followed in the then second-rate Regionalliga West by 1966 . In 1966 he was promoted to the Bundesliga with Düsseldorf and was also part of the Bundesliga squad, but was no longer used in the first division, but began his coaching career.

As a coach, he was first assistant coach of the Bundesliga team in the 1966/67 season , then he looked after lower-class teams with VfR Neuss and VfR Büttgen, and from 1973 to 1976 the amateur team of Fortuna Düsseldorf. In 1975 and 1976 he jumped in shortly before the end of the season as an interim coach for the professional team. From October 25, 1976 to February 21, 1978 he was in charge of 1. FC Saarbrücken, which was promoted to the Bundesliga in 1976 . For the 1978/79 season he was obliged by the second division club Karlsruher SC , which he led to promotion to the Bundesliga in the following season, where KSC played its most successful season to date in 1980/81 under his leadership with 10th place. On November 26, 1981 he was released early (and replaced by Max Merkel .); KSC President Roland Schmider later described this step as a personal mistake.

Krafft found a new club in the Bundesliga on March 22, 1982 with SV Darmstadt 98 , but could no longer prevent relegation to the second division. He looked after Darmstadt for another season in the 2nd division. In October 1983, the ambitious third division club Offenburger FV signed him as the successor to Klaus Blawert after the runner-up of the Oberliga Baden-Württemberg failed to start the season . The contract contained an exit clause, which he said he wanted to draw after the end of the preliminary round at the earliest. After two defeats, however, he made use of this at the beginning of November and took over the Bundesliga club 1. FC Kaiserslautern . The Offenburg club officials allegedly only found out about the coach's change of club from television, as this was reported on First German Television following a European Cup broadcast. He was there in office until his contract expired in the summer of 1985, before being replaced by novice coach Hans Bongartz . This was followed by an engagement with Union Solingen in the 2nd Bundesliga in the 1986/87 season . In the 1987/88 season he took over the second division side Stuttgarter Kickers and led the club into the Bundesliga, where the Kickers only finished 17th in their first Bundesliga season and were immediately relegated. Then Krafft coached the club for another year in the second division, where he narrowly missed direct resurgence with the team as fourth.

In May 1991, after the end of the regular season, he took over the first division club 1. FC Pforzheim before the promotion round to the 2. Bundesliga after the club had separated from the master coach Slobodan Jovanić , as he had already signed a contract with SV Sandhausen for the following season . At the latest after a 1: 4 defeat against TSV 1860 Munich in the last game of the round, the team missed the promotion, with four points behind their competitors, the Goldstadters were ultimately only third in the table. In the following season, however, the club slipped into the middle of the table, then Krafft was released from his duties after the 21st match day.

successes

as a player

  • Promotion to the Bundesliga in 1966 (with Fortuna Düsseldorf)

as a trainer

  • Promotion to the Bundesliga in 1980 (with Karlsruher SC)
  • Promotion to the Bundesliga in 1988 (with the Stuttgarter Kickers)

literature

  • Hardy Grüne , Lorenz Knieriem: Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 8: Player Lexicon 1890–1963. Agon-Sportverlag, Kassel 2006, ISBN 3-89784-148-7 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ "Sensational comeback: Max Merkel near Karlsruhe" . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna November 28, 1981, p. 14 ( Arbeiter-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  2. ↑ "The OFV Association History from 1907 to the Present" (p. 30)
personal data
SURNAME Krafft, Manfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH December 11, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Dusseldorf