Rudolf Kröner
| Rudi Kröner | ||
| Personnel | ||
|---|---|---|
| Surname | Rudolf Kröner | |
| birthday | January 6, 1942 | |
| date of death | December 16, 2017 | |
| Place of death | Wernau (Neckar) , Germany | |
| size | 180 cm | |
| position | midfield | |
| Juniors | ||
| Years | station | |
| until 1961 | TSV Wernau | |
| Men's | ||
| Years | station | Games (goals) 1 |
| 1961-1965 | SSV Reutlingen 05 | 82 (12) |
| 1965-1967 | Stuttgart Kickers | 64 (24) |
| 1967-1969 | Hertha BSC | 46 (16) |
| 1969-1970 | Stuttgart Kickers | 26 (4) |
| 1970-1973 | 1. FC Nuremberg | 80 (11) |
| 1973-1974 | Germania Bietigheim | ? (?) |
| Stations as a trainer | ||
| Years | station | |
| 1973-1974 | Germania Bietigheim | |
| 09 / 74-05 / 77 | Stuttgart Kickers | |
| 1977-10 / 78 | FV 04 Würzburg | |
| 03 / 79-1982 | KSV Hessen Kassel | |
| 1982-03 / 83 | 1. FC Kaiserslautern | |
| 10 / 83-12 / 83 | 1. FC Nuremberg | |
| 01 / 85-05 / 85 | Nigeria | |
| 1985-12 / 85 | SSV Reutlingen 05 | |
| 01 / 86-08 / 86 | KSV Hessen Kassel | |
| 1988-1989 | Offenburg FV | |
| 1989-1991 | Al-Ahli SC | |
| 1 Only league games are given. | ||
Rudolf "Rudi" Kröner (born January 6, 1942 ; † December 16, 2017 in Wernau (Neckar) ) was a German football player and coach .
Player career
From 1961 the midfielder Rudi Kröner played for SSV Reutlingen 05 . In the first two seasons he played in the Oberliga Süd , then the top division, and from 1963, after the introduction of the Bundesliga , in the second-rate Regionalliga Süd . After the promotion was missed in the promotion round to the Bundesliga in 1964/65, he moved to the league competitor Stuttgarter Kickers . He also played at the front of the table with the Stuttgarten (5th, 4th), but again failed to make it to the Bundesliga . So he moved to Hertha BSC in the Berlin city league for the 1967/68 season . Hertha had failed in the promotion round a season earlier. With his new club, he finally managed to move up to the top division. In 1968/69 he then completed 25 games in the first division, in which he scored three goals. He and his team managed to stay in the league with a 12th place, but after the end of the season he went back to the Regionalliga Süd to the Stuttgarter Kickers for a year . In the end, they only finished 12th. This was followed by a commitment to 1. FC Nürnberg from 1970. The "Club" had been relegated from the Bundesliga in 1969 as the reigning champions and went into the second year with corresponding ambitions. Kröner became regional league champions with the Franks, but he and his team could not prevail in the promotion round. In the following years they did not make it to the top of the table. In 1973, the now 31-year-old retired from the upper leagues.
Coaching career
The following season he started his first coaching position at Germania Bietigheim .
Stuttgarter Kickers (1974–1977)
From September 1974 he was head coach at his ex-club Stuttgarter Kickers . The club started the season under Fritz Millinger with just one win and one draw after five defeats. Kröner's first game against 1860 Munich on matchday 8 was lost 4-1, but he and his team finally managed to stay in the league in tenth place. In 1975/76 the club narrowly escaped relegation - again with a 16th place. On October 4, 1975, the 10th matchday, the Kickers managed to win their last derby against city rivals VfB Stuttgart in a competitive game (2-0). The 1976/77 season closed the club with a face midfield position (10th), but Kröner left the club after the end of the season.
FV 04 Würzburg (1977–1978)
This was followed by an engagement with the second division club FV 04 Würzburg in the 1977/78 season . After an acceptable 11th place in his first season in Würzburg, the following season got a false start (bottom of the table after nine games with one win, one draw and seven defeats), whereupon Rudi Kröner himself canceled his contract. Incidentally, after another coach change, Würzburg finally managed to stay in the league.
KSV Hessen Kassel (1979–1982)
With Hessen Kassel , Kröner rose in 1980 from the Oberliga Hessen to the 2nd Bundesliga . As the best newcomer, the club finished fourth at the end of the 1980/81 season (season south) and qualified for the single-track second division. This season, Kröner turned down offers from MSV Duisburg and 1. FC Nürnberg . After an eighth place in the following season, he left the club at the end of the season - he had signed a contract for the new season with the Bundesliga club 1. FC Kaiserslautern .
1. FC Kaiserslautern (1982-1983)
On the Betzenberg, Rudi Kröner took over the difficult legacy of Karl-Heinz Feldkamp , who had reached fourth place in the table with the “Red Devils” in the previous season. After 24 Bundesliga games on the bench at FCK, Kröner was dismissed. His last game was a 1: 2 defeat in Düsseldorf against Fortuna on March 19, 1983. The dismissal took place on March 21. However, this was only the second loss in their last 18 games. The reasons for separation were reported as follows:
“ The appearance of the rhetorically awkward football teacher was not only found by the studied (FCK President) Udo Sopp to be embarrassing. "
Kröner himself drew the following conclusion:
“ I didn't fail because of the technical and material qualifications, but because of the too high expectations before the start of the season. I couldn't meet them with the team. "
At the time of the split, the Palatinate were in seventh place in the table and were finally sixth under Kröner's successor Ernst Diehl .
1. FC Nuremberg (1983)
This was followed by a 41-day stint as coach of 1. FC Nürnberg, where he was more noticeable with an arrogant demeanor than with sporting success. His tenure also included the club's biggest defeat in its Bundesliga history (7-0 in Stuttgart on matchday 13 of the 1983/84 season). He was only on leave a month and a day later after a 3: 4 defeat against his ex-club Kaiserslautern. In addition, he had previously made negative comments about members of the Presidium. In total, he only got one point from five games as the Franconian coach.
After his penultimate game, a 0: 4 in Hamburg, he made the famous saying
“ Today we created a new system: closed the front and opened the back. "
Nigeria (1985)
From January to May 1985, Kröner coached the Nigerian national team .
SSV Reutlingen (1985)
After promotion to the amateur league in 1985, the player-coach of SSV Reutlingen, Werner Nickel, left the club and moved to SSV Ulm in 1846 . The Reutlingers found what they were looking for in Rudi Kröner. He could not fulfill the high hopes that were placed in him as a former Bundesliga coach and was released from his duties on December 31, 1985. The SSV completed the round with Kröner's successor Lothar Emmerich in 13th place and thus managed to stay in the league.
KSV Hessen Kassel (1986)
On January 5, 1986, Rudi Kröner was a second time coach at Hessen Kassel . This far less successful employment ended on August 21 of the same year after a false start in the second division season 1986/87 .
Offenburg FV (1988–1989)
After Kröner was a candidate for the coaching position in Offenburg in 1984/85, he was introduced as the new coach of the Oberliga team for the 1988/89 season . Kröner managed the consolidation of the team quite successfully after the club, which actually wanted to move up to the 2nd Bundesliga in the medium term , had suffered relegation last year. The OFV reached the 6th place in the table. Nevertheless, his contract was not extended after the end of the season. The reasons for this were financial.
statistics
As a player
| league | Games (goals) |
|---|---|
| Bundesliga (I) | 25 (3) |
| Oberliga Süd (I) | 25 (3) |
| Regionalliga Süd (II) | 227 (48) |
| City League Berlin (II) | 21 (13) |
successes
As a player
- Promotion to the Bundesliga with Hertha BSC in 1968
As a trainer
- Promotion to the 2nd Bundesliga with KSV Hessen Kassel in 1980
Individual evidence
- ↑ www.11freunde.de ( Memento from February 5, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) »MV had to listen to something«
- ↑ www.ksvhessenkassel.de ( Memento from July 12, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 941 kB) Kicker special issue 1980/81, page 182
- ↑ http://www.ksvhessenkassel.de/ Football day holiday season report 1981/1982
- ↑ a b www.nn-online.de 1. FC Nürnberg: coaches, revolutions and naked men
- ^ Leibfried, Kreilinger, Lenk: "Bastion Betzenberg", p. 180
- ↑ www.glubberer.de Portrait of Rudi Kröner
- ↑ SSV Reutlingen, season 1985/86 on www.statistik-klein.de ( memento from September 19, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) on archive.is from January 3, 2015, accessed on September 15, 2016
- ↑ a b www.ofv.avenit.de ( Memento from March 6, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 1.23 MB) Association history of the OFV
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kröner, Rudolf |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Kröner, Rudi |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German soccer player and coach |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 6, 1942 |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 16, 2017 |
| Place of death | Wernau (Neckar) |