Rolf Kupfer

Rolf Kupfer (born June 23, 1942 in Schweinfurt ; † October 4, 2015 ) was a German football player. Between 1960 and 1970, the midfielder played a total of 181 league games for 1. FC Schweinfurt 05 in what was then the first-class soccer Oberliga Süd or the second-class Regionalliga Süd and scored 23 goals. The captain of the zero five of the 1966 championship team from the Lower Franconian industrial city in the Regionalliga Süd was the son of 44-time national player and club icon Andreas Kupfer .

career

Oberliga Süd, 1960 to 1963

Coming straight from his youth, the young player, who had just turned 18, made his debut under coach Alfons Remlein on September 11, 1960, at the home game against 1. FC Nürnberg, with the Green-Blacks in the Oberliga Süd. In front of 14,000 spectators in the Willy Sachs Stadium , the young talent acted on the half- left in the World Cup system practiced at the time and formed the hosts' left wing with Helmut Krauss . The later South German and German champions, the "Club" from Nuremberg, gave Schweinfurt no chance in the 3-0 home defeat. On the last round match day, April 30, 1961, in a 1: 2 home defeat against FC Bayern Munich, the technician and combined footballer scored his first goal in the Oberliga Süd. Already in the second league year, 1961/62, the young man belonged to the regular cast of the zero five fighting to stay in the league. In 22 league appearances, he scored nine goals and thus played a part in reaching the saving 14th rank. In the last season of the old first-class league era, 1962/63, Schweinfurt improved to 11th place under coach Fritz Käser and the young copper had played 25 league games and scored three goals. He was in midfield in all four positions as a half-forward and outside runner. When he lost the home game with Schweinfurt on January 27, 1963 against the eventual southern champions 1860 Munich 3: 4, he succeeded two goals against "best goalkeeper of the world", Petar Radenković . The last game in the Oberliga Süd took place for Kupfer junior with Schweinfurt on matchday 30, April 28, 1963, at 1. FC Nürnberg, which won the runner-up and again made it to the finals with a clear 5-1 home win the German soccer championship secured. The defense of the Kugelstädter was in the formation in Nuremberg with Günter Bernard in goal - the son of former national player Robert Bernard had made his debut in the national team on October 24, 1962 -, Werner Rumpel and Walter Lang as a defender pair and in the runner row with Gert Brunnhuber , Heinz Krämer and Rolf Kupfer started. After 54 league appearances with 13 goals in the summer of 1963, the first class in the DFB football league was over for Rolf Kupfer and from the 1963/64 season the top league started with the new Bundesliga and the regional second division of the regional football leagues . Schweinfurt had not been nominated for the Bundesliga and belonged to the Regional Football League South from 1963/64.

Regionalliga Süd, 1963 to 1970

Fritz Käser - former long-time Oberliga goalkeeper of the zero five - was also the coach in the first year of the second-rate regional soccer league South, 1963/64 , and Kupfer started the round with his teammates on August 4, 1963 with a home game against Hessen Kassel. Kassel prevailed 2-1 and surprisingly became champions at the end of the round in front of the favored Bayern Munich. In the first leg in Munich Schweinfurt lost with half-forward Kupfer at Bayern on October 27, 1963 the away game 2-7 , Rainer Ohlhauser scored five goals for the team of coach Zlatko Čajkovski . On matchday 30, March 15, 1964, Schweinfurt defeated the guests of FC Bayern 4-1 with the right wing runner copper. Schweinfurt finished 7th at the end of the round and Rolf Kupfer had scored five goals in 34 league appearances. In the second Regional League season, 1964/65, things did not go well, not for Schweinfurt and not for Kupfer: Schweinfurt slipped back to 15th place and the midfielder had scored four goals in 26 appearances.

Now a change of coach was announced: Gunther Baumann took over the training management from Fritz Käser for the 1965/66 season and with Manfred Berz and Kurt Dachlauer two new additions that were dangerous to the game and goal- scoring strengthened the squad around team captain Kupfer. In addition, the ex-Augsburg Manfred Rühr increased considerably in his second year in Schweinfurt and the 2-1 home win on the second game day, August 22, 1965, against Kickers Offenbach initiated an outstanding series of 33: 1 home points, with Schweinfurt One point ahead of Offenbach at the end of the lap, completely surprising, winning the championship in the south. The captain was mostly a right wing runner and had scored a goal in 34 league appearances. In the Bundesliga promotion round, the southern champion failed to the rivals Rot-Weiss Essen, FC St. Pauli and 1. FC Saarbrücken and finished fourth with 3: 9 points. Kupfer had played for Schweinfurt in all six group games.

As the defending champion in 1966/67, Kupfer und Kollegen did not get beyond 10th place; Coach Baumann was replaced by Bernd Oles in the current round and Kupfer played 20 more regional league games. In the next three rounds under Jenö Vincze , Kupfer preferred the advancement of his professional career more and more to football and was no longer part of the top line-up of the zero five. After two missions in October 1969 against SV Darmstadt 98 (1: 2) and SpVgg Fürth (1: 4), Rolf Kupfer ended his high-class playing career after a total of 127 regional league appearances with ten goals for FC Schweinfurt.

This was followed by short sequels in the amateur field at the Würzburger Kickers and FC Haßfurt, before he finally ended his career as a player-coach at TG Schweinfurt and SC Obereisenheim in 1985.

job

Kupfer had been employed by the city of Schweinfurt since 1960 , from the beginning in the financial administration, in which he was made head of the city treasury in 1984 and was promoted to administrative director. Kupfer, who lived in Schwebheim, died on October 4, 2015.

literature

• Lorenz Knieriem, Hardy Greens : Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 8: Player Lexicon 1890–1963 . Agon-Sportverlag, Kassel 2006, ISBN 3-89784-148-7 .
• Werner Skrentny (Ed.): When Morlock still met the moonlight. The history of the Oberliga Süd 1945–1963 . Klartext-Verlag, Essen 1993, ISBN 3-88474-055-5 .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Christian Karn, Reinhard Rehberg: Spiellexikon 1963–1994. Agon Sportverlag. Kassel 2012. ISBN 978-3-89784-214-4 . P. 289