Ole Sørensen (football player)

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Ole Sørensen (born November 25, 1937 - † January 29, 2015 ) was a Danish football player . The half-forward in the World Cup system at that time made 25 international matches for the Danish national soccer team from 1961 to 1969 and also took part in the European soccer championship in 1964 . With his hometown club KB Copenhagen he won the championship in 1968 and the cup in 1969 . In the 1965/66 season he played 13 league games (1 goal) in the Bundesliga with 1. FC Cologne and 44 games in the Eredivisie with eleven goals at PSV Eindhoven from 1966 to 1968 .

career

Until shortly before his 28th birthday, the half-forward Ole Sørensen - he was born, grew up and went to school in Copenhagen and trained as a merchant at a fish and seafood wholesaler - played in the 1st division at KB Copenhagen in his hometown Soccer. The former U21 player was a member of the Kjøbenhavns Boldklub league team from 1955. He took 2nd place with his club in 1959, 1960 and 1961. Due to his playmaking skills, he was an integral part of the Danish national football team from 1961 onwards. He played in the European Championship qualifiers and also took part in the 1964 finals in Spain, where he reached 4th place with Denmark. He played his last two international matches before moving to the Bundesliga for 1. FC Köln on June 9 and 20, 1965 against Finland (3: 1) and Sweden (2: 1).

Cologne, the first Bundesliga champion in 1964 and runner-up in 1965, had to replace the end of the career of the long-standing driver, playmaker and goal scorer Hans Schäfer before the round in 1965/66 and also the departure of Helmut Benthaus to FC Basel. A qualitative substitute had to be found for the midfield game, even if Wolfgang Overath was a new midfield player. Franz Kremer and his colleague decided on the experienced playmaker from Denmark, the attacker Srdjan Cebinac from OFK Belgrade, Franz Krauthausen from Jülich and the two talents from their own ranks Franz-Peter Neumann and Wolfgang Rausch . Cologne started with Sørensen on August 14, 1965 in the Bundesliga, the home game was lost 0-1 against Hannover 96. In the Bundesliga chronicle it is recorded that Hanover's new signing Stefan Bena had successfully stood on the feet of Cologne's Bundesliga debutants and that the Cologne game lacked brilliant ideas. In the second home game, the man from Denmark scored his only Bundesliga goal on August 28 in a 3-1 win against VfB Stuttgart. In the first half of the season he belonged to the circle of regular players, in the second half of the season he only ran on matchday 28, April 2, 1966, in a 4-0 home win against Tasmania 1900 Berlin for 1. FC Cologne. With Karl-Heinz Thielen , Hans-Jürgen Kleinholz , Franz Krauthausen and Johannes Löhr he formed the Cologne attack on the half-left. In addition to the 13 Bundesliga games (1 goal), Sørensen also played two games for the trade fair cup against Aris Saloniki (1: 2) and Ujpest Dozsa Budapest (0: 4) and the two games for the DFB Cup against Tasmania 1900 (1: 1 a.d., 2-0) were used. Cebinac made three appearances and Krauthausen made eleven appearances, so Sørensen was not the only newcomer who had not made it to 1. FC Köln in this round. How far it was up to coach Georg Knöpfle , his teammates or the performance of the Bundesliga cannot be said, in any case, the Dane could not succeed Hans Schäfer and at the end of the season left the cathedral city and went to the Netherlands , where he joined PSV Eindhoven .

In the case of Innocence and Latz , a statement by Sørensen about his time in Cologne is noted: “Everything was good and very professional. In Denmark I worked every day from half past four in the morning until noon, then went to training. At FC I only played football and my fitness level first had to get used to the Bundesliga. To this day, I particularly fondly think back to Leo Wilden and Hansi Sturm. "

There he finished sixth with PSV in the Eredivisie in 1966/67 and had also scored nine goals in 32 league appearances. After returning to KB Copenhagen, he was able to celebrate the championship in 1968 and the cup success in 1969. He also celebrated a successful comeback in the national team on May 27, 1969 in a World Cup qualifier against Ireland in Copenhagen: Denmark won the game 2-0 and Sørensen stood out as a two-time goalscorer alongside left winger Ulrik Le Fevre .

societies

literature

  • Dirk Innschuld, Frederic Latz: With the billy goat on his chest. All players, all coaches, all officials of 1. FC Köln. Publishing house Die Werkstatt. Göttingen 2013. ISBN 978-3-7307-0047-1 . P. 343.
  • Christian Karn, Reinhard Rehberg: Player Lexicon 1963–1994. Agon Sportverlag. Kassel 2012. ISBN 978-3-89784-214-4 . P. 481.
  • Uwe Nuttelmann (Ed.): The great European football book, Volume 2, international matches and cup finals, 1st part: international matches Albania – Netherlands. Jade 1999. ISBN 3-930814-02-1 .
  • Ulrich Merk, Andre Schulin, Heinz Fricke: Bundesliga chronicle 1965/66. Agon Sportverlag. Kassel 2005. ISBN 3-89784-085-5 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dødsfald: En af fortidens fodboldhelte he gået bort
  2. ↑ Merk, Schulin, Fricke: Bundesliga Chronicle 1965/66. P. 54
personal data
SURNAME Sørensen, Ole
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Danish soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH November 25, 1937
DATE OF DEATH January 29, 2015