Wilfried Kapteina

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Wilfried Kapteina , called "Käpt'n" (born June 9, 1930 in Gelsenkirchen ) is a former German football player and coach. The long-time regular player at TuS Bremerhaven 93 completed 174 league games from 1951 to 1962 in what was then the first-class soccer Oberliga Nord and scored 54 goals.

career

Player, until 1962

Wilfried Kapteina started playing football as a youth at SC Gelsenkirchen 07 . After the end of the Second World War , the Westphalians moved to Bremerhaven. In terms of football, the trained crane operator joined the local SC in the Geestemünde district . In the season 1948/49 the promotion to the amateur league Bremen was achieved and the header and strong fighting all-rounder in the World Cup system at that time joined after two rounds in the Bremen amateur upper house for round 1951/52, the league club Bremerhaven 93.

From the 1950/51 season onwards, Helmuth Johannsen took over the training of the club from the city at the mouth of the Weser. With his seriousness, professionalism and correctness of work, the later Bundesliga coach established the 93er in the midfield of the Oberliga Nord. Kapteina made her debut under Johannsen on August 20, 1951 in a 2-2 draw at Victoria Hamburg as a right defender in the Oberliga Nord. At the end of the round, the team from "Zolli" finished eighth and the newcomer from Geestemünde had scored twelve goals in 20 league games. Initially used on the defensive, he was pushed into the storm during the course of the lap. Also in the second league year, 1952/53, Kapteina (26-9) and his team-mates placed eighth.

For the 1953/54 season, however, he moved back to Gelsenkirchen; he signed a new contract with FC Schalke 04 . On the second round match day, August 23, 1953, he made his debut in the away game against Borussia Mönchengladbach in the football Oberliga West . The "Royal Blues" won the game with 1-0 goals and Kapteina had played on the half-left next to attacking colleagues Bernhard Klodt , Otto Laszig , Günter Wilmovius and Hans Krämer . This was immediately followed by three more appearances against Meidericher SV (4: 1; 1 goal), Alemannia Aachen (3: 2) and on the fifth match day, September 13, 1953, a 1-1 draw in the home game against Prussia Dellbrück. After that, however, the disagreements with coach Fritz Szepan were so serious that for Kapteina the chapter Schalke 04 ended with a goal after four league appearances. Schalke played the round to the end without him and Kapteina rejoined his previous club Bremerhaven 93 for the second half of the 1954/55 season.

Kapteina experienced the most successful season in Bremerhaven after the departure of coach Johannsen to Holstein Kiel and the takeover of coaching by Robert Gebhardt , who played five games for the "Weinroten" in the last Johannsen season in 1953/54, in the round of 1954 / 55 as a returnee from FC Schalke 04. The round start had brought the team around captain Werner Lang on August 22, 1954 a 3-1 home win in the Zollinlandstadion against the reigning German champions Hannover 96. This was followed by three more successes against Bremer SV, VfB Oldenburg and VfL Osnabrück and thus leading the table with 8-0 points. The 0: 3 away defeat by three goals by the young center forward Uwe Seeler at Hamburger SV on matchday five brought disillusionment to the "Zolli", but it did not lead to a crash into the midfield of the league. In the second half of the season Heimkehrer Kapteina made his debut on February 6, 1955 in the 2-0 home win against Göttingen 05 in the "Zolli" -Elf. When the "Weinroten" fought a 2-2 home draw against the record champions of the north, Hamburger SV, in front of 13,000 spectators on April 17, 1955, Kapteina scored a goal on half left. With the best defense in the north, only 38 goals conceded, the 96ers landed in second place and moved into the finals of the German football championship in 1955 as runner-up . Hamburger SV became champions with a goal difference of 108: 41 goals, while the two goal scorers of the "Rautträger", Günter Schlegel and Uwe Seeler, had exactly the same number of goals as vice-champions Bremerhaven with 56 goals with 28 goals each. Heiner Mokroß distinguished himself as the top scorer with 19 goals for Bremerhaven.

Before the actual final round, the Gebhardt protégés had to play a qualifying game against Southwest runner-up Wormatia Worms on May 4th in Düsseldorf. The game ended after extra time with a Kapteina goal 3: 3 draw. One (!) Day later, on May 5th, Bremerhaven prevailed in the replay with two Kapteina goals with a 3-2 win and was thus qualified for Group II in the final round. Opponents were Rot-Weiss Essen, Wormatia Worms and Kickers Offenbach, but not in the "Zolli" in the Lehe district, determined by the DFB in the Weserstadion in Bremen. In the "away" home games, Kapteina and his teammates prevailed 1-0 against Worms and 2-0 against Südmeister Kickers Offenbach and defied the eventual German champions Rot-Weiss Essen - RWE won the final on June 26 with 4: 3 goals against 1. FC Kaiserslautern - a 1-1 draw in front of 15,000 spectators. TuS took second place in the group with 6: 6 points. Kapteina had played six finals and scored four goals.

Bremerhaven was unable to continue the runner-up in the next few rounds, the two fifth places in 1958 and 1960 were the best placings. In the 1961/62 season, the "Captain" finished with the last four appearances against Holstein Kiel (2: 2), Eintracht Braunschweig (1: 1), Hannover 96 (2: 1; 1 goal) and the 0: 0 -Remis started his playing career in the Oberliga Nord on April 4, 1962 at Bremer SV. In the four games Bremerhaven scored 5: 3 points and secured the league as 14th in the table.

Coach, 1962 to 1964

In the last year of the old first-class soccer Oberliga Nord, 1962/63, Kapteina took over the coaching position at TuS Bremerhaven 93 and did so in the first year in the then second division of the soccer regional league North , 1963/64. With the players Helmut Fischer (goalkeeper), Horst-Dieter Berking and Manfred Bertl , he finished the last league season in 13th place. In the debut year of the Regionalliga Nord, he finished 12th with his team. After two years as a major league and regional league coach, his former teammate Werner Lang took over the coaching office for the 1964/65 season and Kapteina was still active in the game committee of the TuS 93 league team for years.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Prüß: Bung bottle with flat-fitting cork. P. 225.
personal data
SURNAME Kapteina, Wilfried
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH June 9, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Gelsenkirchen