Martin Luppen

Martin Luppen (born April 5, 1936 ) is a former German soccer coach who won the German amateur championship three times in a row from 1969 to 1971 with SC Jülich in 1910 .

Career

SC Jülich 1910, 1968 to November 1, 1972

Martin Luppen, who had passed his teaching examination at the Pädagogische Akademie Aachen in 1959 , came to the 1968/69 round at the age of 32 as a new coach from the national league club Viktoria Alsdorf to the association league club Jülich 1910. He was in charge of the "Black and Whites" in the Rurstadion ( today Karl-Knipprath-Stadion ) a successful era. In the 1968/69 round, the new coach immediately won the championship in the Mittelrhein Association League with 49: 7 points ahead of Borussia Brand . The club decided to forego the promotion round to Regionalliga West and instead took part in the games for the German Amateur Championship. After successes against 1. FC Pforzheim , Bremerhaven 93 and SV Göppingen , they were in the final against SpVgg Erkenschwick on July 12, 1969 in Uerdingen . The championship was won with 2-1 goals. If you had to experience two defeats in the association round when you won the first championship in 1969 in the Middle Rhine League, this experience was completely lacking in the seasons 1969/70 and 1970/71. After two years without a defeat and each 49: 7 points with 21 wins and seven draws, the rivals from Brand and Cologne were only left with the role of runner-up. Since Jülich did not take part in the promotion round for financial reasons in the following two years, the Middle Rhine champions played again for the German amateur championship in 1970 and 1971. In 1970, the team of coach Martin Luppen first prevailed against the two West German rivals Rheydter SpV and SVA Gütersloh, before the high hurdle of the North Baden representative VfL Neckarau had to be overcome in the semifinals . VfL coach was Philipp Rohr . In Jülich, the local "tens" prevailed with 3: 1 goals in extra time . On July 11th, the title of German amateur champion was defended in Siegen with a clear 3-0 victory against the amateurs of Eintracht Braunschweig . The triple came a year later, on July 10, 1971, in Würzburg against the amateurs of VfB Stuttgart with a 1-0 victory. This success against the later Bundesliga players Karl Berger, Wolfgang Frank , Gerd Komorowski, Dieter Schwemmle, Dieter Ungewitter, as well as goalkeeper routinist Günter Sawitzki was anything but a sure-fire success. The statements made by contemporary witnesses Peter Kosprd, defender of the championship team from 1969, and Reinhard Schilde, permanent assistant coach Martin Luppens, about the frequency of training in this successful phase in Jülich are downright sensational. Martin Luppen and Reinhard Schilde conducted two training sessions a week with SC Jülich in 1910. Luppen's strengths must therefore not only have included his detailed planning of the players' meeting with the meticulous attitude to the opponent, his tactical ability and his quality in the team management. In order to explain the duration of success and the steady, shining physique of the team, training units are to be assumed that are compact, intense, harmonious in the alternation of stress and recovery, and come close to the optimum in the balance of the use of the training equipment technique, tactics and fitness had been. The class of the players did not provide a sufficient explanation. Although the co-guarantor of the defensive strength, goalkeeper Werner Kamper, was a skill beyond the scope of his three years as a master craftsman in Jülich, Bundesliga appearances for him - as well as for Classen, Kosprd, Marx, Mühlenberg and Zander - were few and far between after Jülich's departure . High starters for the Bundesliga did not cavort at SC Jülich in the Luppen era. Trainer Luppen made a contribution to the success by recognizing and promoting the character strengths of the individual players. In the fourth season in Jülich in 1972 it was enough for the runner-up on the Middle Rhine - one point behind the Bonner SC . In the fourth participation in the German Amateur Championship, it was only in the semifinals on penalties against TSV Marl-Hüls that the last stop was. After the devastating 6-0 defeat at TSV, the qualities of coach Luppen showed in a special way. His successful psychological armament and tactical attitude were the basis for the 6-0 success in the second leg. Jülich pulled the Libero into midfield , which resulted in a superior number and disorder in the opposing defense. In the penalty shootout, Jülich failed to make it into the final again. Martin Luppen started his fifth year as a coach with Jülich in 1972/73. On November 1, 1972 he moved to the Regionalliga West after massive recruitment from the president and patron Hans Löring of SC Fortuna Cologne . Löring, whose absolute wish was promotion to the Bundesliga , relied on the qualities of Martin Luppen, the successful coach of Jülich in 1910.

SC Fortuna Cologne, 1972 to 1973; July to December 1974; 1980 to 1983

Promotion to the Bundesliga in 1973

Fortuna's boss Löring even had to pay a transfer fee for the full-time school principal Luppen. The new trainer in the Regionalliga West came with his new team at the end of the round in second place in the table and had thus achieved the hoped-for entry into the Bundesliga promotion round. Against the competitors FC St. Pauli , Mainz 05 , Karlsruher SC and Blau-Weiß 90 Berlin , the Südstädter prevailed sovereignly in the summer of 1973. The first two away games in Karlsruhe and St. Pauli were played with 2-1 successes. With this, Martin Luppen had trimmed Fortuna on a path to promotion. The only defeat of the promotion round afforded the already established promoted team on June 24th in the final home game against the guests from St. Pauli. At Fortuna Köln, too, the meticulous preparation was an expression of Martin Luppen's working method. His carefully and time-consuming advice on how to position his opponents showed some active, experts and journalists a tendency to pedantry among Luppen. This assumption was probably confirmed by Luppen's drawing up of a nutrition plan for the team, which was probably based on grains and noodles. Martin Luppen led SC Fortuna into the Bundesliga. President Hans “Jean” Löring then hired a new trainer, namely the physiotherapist and former track and field athlete Volker Kottmann. After the 1: 5 away defeat at Fortuna Düsseldorf on January 19, 1974, Luppen returned to Fortuna as a tactical advisor, as he could not be active as a coach due to his service with the school authorities; The former ten- combat Olympic champion Willi Holdorf acted as the official trainer from January 21, 1974 . SC Fortuna was relegated from the Bundesliga after one round. This caused the President of the SC to reconsider Luppen's personality. He committed Luppen again to the 1974/75 round. The aim was to return to the Bundesliga immediately. The start with 11: 1 points spoke for itself. After the replay on December 22, 1974 against VfL Osnabrück , who ran up with Kamper and Mühlenberg, Martin Luppen's time at Fortuna Cologne was up again. He was dismissed with 24:12 points in fourth place in the table. From January 1975 Löring relied on ex-national player Heinz Hornig as the new coach. But the ascent did not succeed.

Then he rose with the third-rate Bonner SC 1975/76 in the 2nd Bundesliga . After the team was there after the 33rd matchday in 17th place and thus a relegation rank, two points behind in 16th place, he was replaced by Siegfried Melzig , under whom the team was 16th with two points ahead of 17th place. Because of financial irregularities, the Bonner SC was sentenced to relegation after the season - as the first professional club in German history.

DFB Cup final 1983

For the 1980/81 season, "Jean" Löring brought Martin Luppen to his Fortuna for the third time. This led his way from the North Rhine Amateur-Oberliga from FV Honnef to the Cologne South Stadium. The promotion to the Bundesliga did not want to succeed. In the third season 1982/83 they celebrated successes in the DFB Cup , which, however, stood in the way of the hoped-for success of promotion to the 1st Bundesliga. The cup success in the replay in March 1983 in the quarter-finals against Borussia Mönchengladbach was followed by a 2-1 defeat in the 2nd Bundesliga at SV Waldhof Mannheim . The triumphant 5-0 success in the DFB Cup semi-final against Borussia Dortmund was followed by a defeat with 1: 4 goals in the league game against Kickers Offenbach . So it was only enough for sixth place in the table in the 1982/83 round in the 2nd Bundesliga. In the DFB Cup, however, the team and coach showed themselves from the sunny side. In the first main round they won 2-0 goals against SC Freiburg . In the midfield of the Breisgau-Elf, Joachim Löw could not turn the tide. In the second round it took two games to get the Ulm “Spatzen” out of the race with midfielder Ralf Rangnick . In the round of 16 on December 14, 1982 at Bundesliga club Eintracht Braunschweig, Dieter Schatzschneider celebrated his debut in Martin Luppen's team. He contributed a goal to the 2-1 away win. In the quarterfinals, a replay against Borussia Mönchengladbach was necessary to narrowly prevail with 2-1. The semi-finals were a triumph for Fortuna in front of 14,500 enthusiastic spectators in the south stadium. Borussia Dortmund was played out with 5-0 goals. The final on June 11, 1983 went down in cup history as the “Cologne City Derby”. Martin Luppen's team was opposed to local rivals 1. FC Köln , who, along with the successful Dutch coach Rinus Michels and the storm trio Littbarski - Fischer - Allofs, were also the clear favorites. Before the game, Martin Luppen said he was not a respectable success here and now, but wanted the trophy, fiercely and confidently. The pain about the missed ascent again should certainly be appeased. In fact, the Südstädter started after a quarter of an hour of mutual scanning and brought the big favorite in a lot of trouble. As the playing time increased, the audience swung to the side of the underdog and gave him his sympathy. The team of coach Luppen still didn't want to score a goal. FC coach Rinus Michels summed up the events after the 1-0 victory of his team as follows: "The others are called Fortuna, but we were Fortune". For the 1983/84 round, Martin Luppen switched to Hertha BSC as the new coach .

End of training in 1984

The former head of a district seminar for teacher training in Aachen, who only worked as a professional coach in the 2nd Bundesliga at SC Fortuna Köln from the 1980/81 season onwards, ended his coaching career at Hertha BSC after the 1983/84 season. In the 2nd Bundesliga he came in eleventh place with the Bundesliga relegated team. In the DFB Cup he was eliminated with the Berliners in the quarter-finals in a replay at FC Schalke 04 in March 1984. This marked the end of the coaching career of Martin Luppen, who had acquired the football instructor license in 1975 together with Karlheinz Feldkamp , Diethelm Ferner , Udo Klug , Werner Olk , Istvan Sztani , Erwin Türk , Heiner Ueberle and Peter Velhorn .

After football

Martin Luppen is married to a teacher and works in a management consultancy filling management positions.

Coaching

• Viktoria Alsdorf, 1966–68, Landesliga Mittelrhein
• Jülich 1910, 1968-30. October 1972, Verbandsliga Mittelrhein, German amateur champion 1969, 1970, 1971
• SC Fortuna Köln, November 1972 to June 30, 1973, promotion to the Bundesliga
• SC Jülich 1910, from October 19, 1973 to June 30, 1974, Verbandsliga Mittelrhein
• SC Fortuna Cologne, July 1974 to December 1974, 2nd Bundesliga North
• Bonner SC, 1975 to April 1977, championship and promotion to the 2nd Bundesliga in 1976, 2nd Bundesliga in 1976/77
• FV Honnef, 1977 to 1980, Amateur Oberliga Nordrhein
• SC Fortuna Köln, 1980 to 1983, 2nd Bundesliga, DFB Cup final
• Hertha BSC, 1983/84, 2nd Bundesliga

swell

• Jürgen Bitter : Germany's football. The encyclopedia. Sportverlag, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-328-00857-8 .
• Matthias Weinrich, Hardy Greens : Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 6: German Cup history since 1935. Pictures, statistics, stories, constellations. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2000, ISBN 3-89784-146-0 .
• Hardy Greens : Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 2: Bundesliga & Co. 1963 to today. 1st division, 2nd division, GDR Oberliga. Numbers, pictures, stories. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 1997, ISBN 3-89609-113-1 .
• Ulrich Homann (Ed.): Farmer's heads, miners and a pascha. The history of the Regionalliga West 1963–1974. Volume 1, Klartext, Essen 1991, ISBN 3-88474-345-7 .
• Ulrich Homann (Hrsg.): Hellfire on Ascension. The history of the promotion rounds to the Bundesliga 1963–1974. Klartext, Essen 1990, ISBN 3-88474-346-5 .
• Matthias Weinrich: 25 years 2nd division. The second division almanac. All players. All clubs. All results. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2000, ISBN 3-89784-145-2 .
• Chronicle of the 2nd Bundesliga 1974–1989, Sport- und Spielverlag Hitzel, Hürth, 1990, ISBN 3-9802172-7-2 .
• Hardy Greens: Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 7: Club Lexicon . AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2001, ISBN 3-89784-147-9 .
• Conversations with Peter Kosprd and Reinhard Schilde in September 2006.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Axel Pollheim: Luck like me and you. 50 years of SC Fortuna Cologne. KS-Verlag. Pulheim. ISBN 3-00-002350-X . P. 289.