Peter Koch (soccer player)

Peter Koch (* 3. November 1950 in Frankfurt am Main ) is a German football player, who until 1979 for the years 1975 FSV Frankfurt in the 2. Bundesliga South denied 108 games and scored seven goals.

Amateur league and regional league, 1971–1975

Peter Koch came to the Bornheimer Hang for the 1971/72 season at the age of 20 . In the previous two years the native of Eckenheim had attracted attention for the district club Viktoria Prussia in the Frankfurt district league with 46 goals, so that the new FSV trainer Erich Gehbauer next to the most prominent newcomer, the ex-professional and national player Horst “Schotte “Trimhold , among other things, signed the Frankfurt striker talent for the league team. Koch scored three goals when he made his debut at 8: 3 against VfB Gießen. At the end of his first season with the Bornheimers there were 23 league goals, making him the top goalscorer of the Gehbauer team. In the course of the round, Koch was also sent off two places at the two away games in Wiesbaden - at SVW and Germania . Despite a goal difference of 124:39, the FSV had to be satisfied with the runner-up behind VfR Bürstadt . The highlight of the season was therefore the final of the German amateur championship in 1972 , in which the team defeated the Westphalian representative TSV Marl-Hüls 2-1.

With almost the same squad, strengthened only by Klaus-Peter Stahl (Eintracht Frankfurt) and Mitar Krajšić (back from SV Göppingen), the FSV won the championship in the Hessian amateur league in 1972/73 and thus returned to the second-class Regionalliga Süd after three years . The lead over the competition was very clear with seven points over the second in the table, SpVgg Bad Homburg , and the dominance of the Bornheimer Hang team was also reflected in the fact that six FSV players, including six FSV players, were at the two national cup matches of the Hessian national team also Peter Koch. Newcomer Klaus-Peter Stahl also made the leap into the amateur national team .

The 1973/74 regional league was dominated by the imminent introduction of the 2nd Bundesliga , which was to replace the five regional leagues as the second highest level in the following year. Since the results of the last five years were used for qualification, the FSV were only given outsider chances, but the Bornheimers kept the possibility open until the last match day, finished the season in eleventh place and only narrowly failed. After several injuries in the preseason, Peter Koch was already thinking of quitting, but was persuaded to continue. With Ottmar Groh as the new coach and largely the same player base as in the previous year, the FSV secured the autumn championship and was one point ahead of pursuer VfR Oli Bürstadt in the table before the last matchday . In the last game against Bürstadt, a draw for the championship was enough for the FSV. The game in front of a record crowd of 20,000 spectators on Bornheimer Hang was the highlight of Peter Koch's football career: With a header goal and two penalties, one of which was converted, he played a major role in the 2-2 draw that gave the Bornheimers promotion secured in the 2nd Bundesliga South.

2nd Bundesliga South, 1975–1979

For the first season in the 2nd Bundesliga South, 1975/76 , Milowan Beljin was signed for the first time by SSV Reutlingen, and eight newcomers joined the FSV, including goalkeeper Karlheinz Volz (1. FC Cologne) and Striker Wolfgang Metzler (Germania Niederrodenbach) as real reinforcements. An innovation for the players, who all had one main occupation, was the daily training introduced by Beljin. He was of the opinion that this is the only way to establish yourself in the second division. Despite the numerous newcomers, Peter Koch - in addition to other long-term supporters such as Peter Rübenach , Klaus-Peter Stahl and Horst Trimhold - was also part of the Bornheimer regular in the second division. In the first season he played all 38 games and scored his first goal as a "professional" on matchday 13 against SpVgg Fürth (4-0). However, with a total of only two hits, he remained well below the rate he was used to in previous years; With 13 goals at FSV this season, the newcomer Metzler in particular contributed to the fact that the Bornheimers were never in danger of relegation during the season and were able to keep the class.

In the 1976/77 and 1977/78 seasons , the FSV established itself under coach Beljin and largely the same player staff in the midfield of the second division. For the 1977/78 round, however, it was questionable whether Peter Koch would remain loyal to the club after falling out with Beljin during the summer break. The discrepancies could be resolved, but Koch had to serve seven weeks of suspension after receiving a red card in a friendly match. Koch made 30 and 24 appearances in the two seasons and scored two goals each time. Shortly after the start of the second half of the 1978/79 season , Koch had to end his active career at the age of 29 due to severe cartilage and ligament injuries. Coach Milowan Beljin, "Schotte" Trimhold and Klaus-Peter Stahl had already left the club at the beginning of the round.

The last second division game for FSV was played by Peter Koch on January 21, 1979 on Bornheimer Hang against KSV Baunatal (1-0). He then became a youth coach at his home club SV Viktoria Preußen. There he took over the juniors in the 1980/81 season and led them directly to the Hessen Championship in the same season. He has remained loyal to the FSV to this day as a regular visitor to the games on Bornheimer Hang.

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• Stadium magazine FSV life , No. 4 / 2007/08 season from September 15, 2007, page 23
• Harald Schock, Christian Hinkel: One Century FSV Frankfurt 1899 eV The history of a traditional Frankfurt sports club. FSV Frankfurt 1899 eV (Ed.), Frankfurt am Main 1999, ISBN 3-89784-189-4