Wilfried Trenkel

Wilfried Trenkel (born November 3, 1953 in Offenburg) is a former German soccer player and coach. The midfielder played a total of 253 league games for Karlsruher SC from 1974 to 1983 in the 2nd Bundesliga or Bundesliga , scoring 28 goals.

career

The son of Heinz Trenkel - a successful post-war footballer with Hamburger SV and VfB Mühlburg and after the merger with Karlsruher SC - came to Karlsruhe as a youth national player in 1972 from Offenburger FV and played for Karlsruher SC for more than a decade. In October 1970 he won the DFB Youth Cup with the South German selection. The tech-savvy playmaker rose and fell several times with the KSC between the 2nd division and the Bundesliga and completed a total of 121 Bundesliga (10 goals) and 132 second division (17 goals) and 65 regional league games (4 goals).

Under coach Heinz Baas , the new signing from Offenburg made his debut on the start day of the 1972/73 season in what was then the foundation of the Bundesliga, the South Regional Football League . The blue and whites from the Wildpark Stadium prevailed with midfielders Wolfgang Platz , Hans Haunstein and Trenkel with 2-0 goals at SSV Reutlingen. At the end of the round, the talented technician had played 27 league games and KSC moved into the Bundesliga promotion round as runner-up in the southern season. Trenkel was on the field in all eight matches against the promoted rivals SC Fortuna Köln, FC St. Pauli, FSV Mainz 05 and Blau-Weiß 90 Berlin, but the KSC only finished fourth. In the last year of the old second-rate regional league, 1973/74 , he was active in 30 games with four goals under the new coach Carl-Heinz Rühl , but the Baden team had to be content with eighth place.

In the debut year of the 2. Bundesliga, which started in the two seasons North and South, 1974/75 , the midfielder who shaped the game with Martin Kübler was able to win the championship with the club from the “fan city” and thus direct promotion to the Bundesliga to celebrate. Trenkel had scored five goals in 33 games and brought the top three in the then 4: 3: 3 system - the two wingers Karl Berger and Roland Vogel as well as center forward and striker Bernd Hoffmann (38-25) - into play. The promoted team started on August 9, 1975 with a 2-0 away win at Eintracht Frankfurt - with Jürgen Grabowski , Bernd Hölzenbein and Bernd Nickel - in the Bundesliga season 1975/76. At the end of the round, Trenkel and colleagues secured their place in the league with 15th place. Like Jürgen Kalb , Rainer Ulrich and Winfried Schäfer , Trenkel had played all 34 games of the season.

In the second year of the Bundesliga, 1976/77 , the Baden Bundesliga team finished 14th in the table after the first half of the season with 14:20 points. After the 34th matchday, May 21, 1977, the KSC rose as 16th in the 2nd division. Trenkel had scored a goal in 17 games. After the 26th matchday, March 19, 1977, KSC was in 15th place with 22:30 points and 1. FC Saarbrücken in 17th place with 17:35 points. From the 11th to the 23rd matchday, coach Rühl did without Trenkel. The personnel changes with Vančo Balevski and Thomas Sjöberg did not help to prevent the fall. Trenkel's last round was on matchday 33, May 14, 1977, when there was a clear 1: 5 defeat at Bökelberg against defending champion Borussia Mönchengladbach. The KSC midfield line-up with Schäfer, Trenkel, Niedermayer and Kübler could not stand up to the MF quartet of the “Foal Elf” with Horst Wohlers , Rainer Bonhof , Herbert Wimmer and Christian Kulik .

In the third season in the 2nd Bundesliga, Karlsruher SC took second place behind champions and direct promoters 1. FC Nürnberg in 1979/80 . Winfried Trenkel had scored four goals in 32 games and the Karlsruhe team, trained by Manfred Krafft in the second year, had proven their strength in particular in 36: 4 home points. This should also lead to the decision in favor of the KSC in the two promotion games against the north vice Rot-Weiss Essen. On June 6th, the KSC prevailed in front of 42,000 spectators in the local Wildpark Stadium with 5-1 goals. The host's midfield with Martin Wiesner , Stefan Groß , Trenkel and Gerhard Bold was the scaffolding of the southern vice-president. On June 13th, Willi Lippens and Frank Mill 's 3-1 home win in Essen was not enough for the men around Willi Lippens and Frank Mill to prevent the KSC from rising. Matthias Weinrich noted: “The supporters of the Wildpark-Elf were striker Emanuel Günther , his neighbor Raimund Krauth , midfield players Gerhard Bold and Wilfried Trenkel, the powerful defensive forces Kalle Struth (15 goals) and Stefan Groß and of course goalkeeper Methuselah Rudi Wimmer . "

This season, Trenkel and colleagues also impressed in the DFB Cup . The team from Baden beat SC Freiburg (5: 1), FC Augsburg (1: 1 aet; 3: 0) and in front of 30,000 spectators in the Wildpark Stadium against the later UEFA Cup finalists Mönchengladbach with 1 : 0 after extra time and only failed on February 16, 1980 with a 3-5 home defeat by Fortuna Düsseldorf, who won the cup on June 4 with a 2-1 win against 1. FC Köln .

This was followed by three years of football in the Bundesliga from 1980 to 1983. After the tenth place in the 1980/81 season under the promotion coach Krafft, he was dismissed on November 26, 1981 in Karlsruhe and replaced by Max Merkel from November 27. For the 1982/83 round, Horst Franz took over the coaching position in the wildlife park and was replaced by his assistant Lothar Strehlau after the 19th matchday on February 1, 1983 with a score of 13:25 . But it was in vain, the KSC was relegated to the 2nd division. Trenkel had played 70 league games and scored five goals in the three rounds of the Bundesliga.

After his departure from professional football in 1983 - the KSC had just descended once again in the Bundesliga - returned Trenkel for a season to Offenburg FV back and won with his youth club on 16 June 1984 a 4: 1 victory over SC Eintracht Hamm the German Amateur championship . He then played for FV Weinheim and VfB Gaggenau .

Trainer

After Wilfried Trenkel successfully completed his training as a soccer teacher at the German Sport University Cologne in 2001 , he worked as a trainer at Karlsruher SC; he coached the U-16s in the EnBW-Oberliga B-Juniors Baden-Württemberg. From the beginning of 2015 he coached the women's upper league team of the KSC and won the Badischer Fußball-Pokal with her on June 13, 2015.

In July 2017, Trenkel was hired by the Karlsruhe FV as head coach of the newly formed women's soccer team. In the first year he was with her master of the state league and rose to the association league of the BFV .

literature

• Christian Karn, Reinhard Rehberg: Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 9: Player Lexicon 1963-1994. Bundesliga, regional league, 2nd league. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2012, ISBN 978-3-89784-214-4 , p. 513.
• Matthias Kropp: Germany's great football teams . Part 11: Karlsruher SC. AGON Sportverlag. Kassel 1998. ISBN 3-89609-115-8
• Matthias Weinrich: Second League Almanac. All players. All clubs. All results. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2001, ISBN 3-89784-190-8 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Wilfried Trenkel - player profile. Retrieved September 9, 2019 . 
2. ^ Matthias Weinrich: Second division almanac. P. 25
3. ↑ "Ex-Bundesliga professional Wilfried Trenkel becomes coach of the KFV women" , press release of the Karlsruhe FV from July 18, 2017, accessed on July 19, 2017 (PDF)