Rudolf Koelbl

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Rudolf Koelbl
Personnel
birthday June 11, 1937
place of birth Unterschleissheim ,  Germany
size 178 cm
position Storm
Juniors
Years station
0000-1956 FC Bayern Munich
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1956-1960 TSV 1860 Munich 82 (55)
1961-1964 AC Padua 93 (35)
1964-1966 CFC genoa 39 0(7)
1967-1968 St. Louis Stars 37 (19)
1969-1970 TSV 1860 Munich 21 0(1)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1955 DFB youth selection 1 0(0)
1959 Germany U23 1 0(0)
1959 Germany B 2 0(0)
1 Only league games are given.

Rudolf Kölbl (born June 11, 1937 in Unterschleißheim ) is a former German soccer player who played 76 games with 49 goals in the Oberliga Süd from 1957 to 1960 as a striker for TSV 1860 Munich and ended his career in 1969/70 - after an international career in Italy and the United States - has completed 21 games with one goal in the Bundesliga.

career

Munich, until 1960

As a youth player for FC Bayern Munich, Kölbl was nominated by the DFB for the 1955 UEFA youth tournament in Italy. In Florence he came on April 11 as a center forward in the 0-1 defeat against the tournament host on the side of the wingers Horst Jesih and Dieter Backhaus . From the 1956/57 season he stormed the "Lions". Under the guidance of the coach Hans Hipp and at the side of the teammates Johann Auernhammer , Kurt Mondschein and Alfons Stemmer , the "blues" celebrated the championship in the 2nd division south and thus the return to the football league. In the next three rounds in the league , the young center forward triumphed with 49 goals. 1860 ranked sixth in 1958 and 1959 and fourth in 1960 in the south. Kölbl had his most successful round record in 1959/60 when he scored 22 goals in 28 league games, finishing fourth in the top scorers' list behind Heinz Strehl (30), Erwin Stein (24) and Hermann Nuber with 23 goals. Against Ulm he distinguished himself as a triple goalscorer on February 14, 1960, he contributed two goals each in the games against 1. FC Nuremberg, Kickers Offenbach, FC Schweinfurt 05 and VfR Mannheim. Kölbl was also among the scorers in the two local derbies against Bayern's Reds . In the preliminary round on September 27, 1959, he brought the Lions 1-0 lead in the fourth minute (final result: 6: 4 for Bayern ) and in the second half of the season he scored 3: 1- on February 7, 1960 Final score for the victorious blues . With Johann Auernhammer and Alfred Heiß , the striker also had excellent teammates on the offensive by his side.

The talented goalscorer was first appointed to the U-23 national team by the DFB on May 10, 1959 for the international match in Bochum against the selection of England. With the storm series Ernst Kuster , Günter Herrmann , Kölbl, Heinz Höher and Dieter Backhaus , the German selection reached a 2-2 draw. However, national coach Sepp Herberger had already used the young attack hope of the Lions in 1957 and 1958 in internal test matches of A-versus-B selection teams in Hanover, Düsseldorf and Essen . In October and November 1959 he then used Kölbl in two international matches for the national B team against the Swiss and Hungarian selections. The attacker from 1860 also stormed Munich in the South German selection. As a center forward, he led the south on March 19, 1960 in Frankfurt in the comparison against the west selection.

In 1960 Kölbl was recruited by the Stuttgarter Kickers. In addition to the fee, they also promised him a gas station as “hand money”. This procedure contradicted the contract player statute of the German Football Association valid at the time , which did not allow players to be changed without approval in other, similar cases. Adalbert Wetzel , then boss of TSV 1860 Munich, complained successfully to the DFB in this case and obtained a ban for one year. Kölbl had to serve this suspension, but then didn't play for the Stuttgarter Kickers. Representatives of AC Padua had registered with the Stuttgarter Kickers and bought Kölbl for a fee of 150,000 D-Marks . Thus, Rudolf Kölbl became one of the first German football professionals to move from the domestic league to Italy.

1961–1970: Italy, USA, again 1860 Munich

From 1961/62 he played for the first division club AC Padua , for which he scored eight goals in 24 games in the first season. After the club was relegated to third last after this season, he played for the Venetians two seasons in Serie B , which ended with eighth and fourth place. Kölbl scored 27 goals in 69 games.

For the 1964/65 season he returned to Serie A at CFC Genoa . In 16 games he scored five goals, but Genoa was also relegated third from bottom of 18 clubs. Various Serie A clubs tried to get Rudolf Kölbl, but the club wouldn't let Kölbl go. In the following season he scored two more goals in 23 games in Serie B for the Hafenstädter. After the Genoese failed to rise again in fifth, Kölbl wanted to change clubs, but the requested transfer fee of 130,000 DM deterred interested parties.

After half a year of inactivity, he moved in January 1967 together with a large number of other European players - mainly Yugoslavs, but also the Germans Jupp "Joe" Fuhrmann and Erich Hahn - to the USA to the St. Louis Stars trained by Rudi Gutendorf . These played in the newly founded National Professional Soccer League , a so-called "wild league", which means that the NPSL was not associated with the world association FIFA , so there were no transfer charges.

In the Western Division, one of two subdivisions of the league, the Stars finished second behind the Oakland Clippers , who were to become champions, missing the championship finals. In its first season, Kölbl was third on the scorer list and “most valuable player” of the Saint Louis Stars with 14 goals and eight assists in 23 games . In a 1: 3 defeat against the Baltimore Bays he was briefly ordered into the goal of the stars later in the game after an injury to goalkeeper Branko Topalović , who guarded the gate for some time at Preußen Münster in the early 1970s .

In 1969 the NPSL was united with the United Soccer Association, which was part of the FIFA, to form the North American Soccer League , which up until the 1980s was to attract international attention , primarily through players like Pelé and Beckenbauer . In the first season of the new league, the St. Louis Stars remained inconspicuous and were only third of four participants in the Gulf Division - one of the four subdivisions of the NASL. Kölbl also remained relatively inconspicuous and scored four times in 14 games and provided an assist.

The 33-year-old veteran took on the Bundesliga challenge after his return from the United States in 1969. The “lions” were no longer financially competitive. The recognized Bundesliga players Peter Grosser , Bernd Patzke , Hans Rebele , Hans Reich and Jürgen Schütz had to be handed in and it was hoped that the inexpensive newcomers - Kölbl, Horst Blankenburg , Ferdinand Keller - with the remaining old masters Petar Radenković , Rudolf Zeiser , Alfred Heiß and Wilfried Kohlars , as well as the young striker hope Klaus Fischer , under coach Fritz Langner would show themselves to be able to cope with the expected relegation battle. But this was not so. From November 13, 1969, Franz Binder was a new trainer in office. With 5:29 points in the away games, the class could not be held. Kölbl was used in 21 Bundesliga games, was able to celebrate one more goal (in the 4-1 home win on January 24, 1970 against VfB Stuttgart), but relegation to the second-rate Regionalliga Süd could not be prevented. At the age of 34, he ended his high-class career in the summer of 1970.

literature

  • Werner Skrentny (Ed.): When Morlock still met the moonlight. The history of the Oberliga Süd 1945–1963. Klartext, Essen 1993, ISBN 3-88474-055-5 .
  • Hardy Grüne , Lorenz Knieriem: Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 8: Player Lexicon 1890–1963. AGON-Sportverlag, Kassel 2006, ISBN 3-89784-148-7 .
  • Claudius Mayer: History of a traditional club TSV 1860 von München e. V. published by TSV München von 1860 e. V., Gotteswinter Verlag Munich, 1997, ISBN 3-00-002204-X .
  • Hardy Grüne, Claus Melchior: Legends in White and Blue. 100 years of football history for a traditional Munich club. Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 1999, ISBN 3-89533-256-9 .

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personal data
SURNAME Kölbl, Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH June 11, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Unterschleissheim