Hans Küppers

Hans Küppers ( born December 24, 1938) is a former German football player who in 1959 DFB Cup and the 1860 Munich in 1966 won the German championship with Schwarz-Weiß Essen.

Career

Clubs

The career of the blond midfielder ( inside forward ) began in the Round in 1957/58 in the 2nd League West ETB SW Essen. In his second season at Uhlenkrug promotion to the Oberliga West succeeded. In a league of Küppers came to 28 games and scored six goals for the ETB black and white. A year later (1959 /60) but was the surprising DFB Cup winner in 1959, the class does not hold and played 1960/61, again in the 2nd League West. The sporting highlight of the time in SWE was the success in the DFB Cup round of 1959. In the semifinals could Küppers and his comrades off the favored Hamburger SV Volksparkstadion. The final on December 27, 1959 in Kassel against Borussia Neunkirchen was a smooth affair for the Essenes, they won 5-2 gates. Max Merkel had recognized as manager of Borussia Dortmund match the art of the young striker half and led his move in 1961 to 1860 München.

The "Lions" won in the final year of the Oberliga Süd 1962/63 championship, and thus the inclusion in the newly created Bundesliga. In the final round in 1963, they failed to Borussia Dortmund, which then also won the German championship. Küppers denied in the two rounds in the south 57 matches and scored 16 goals. With Peter Grosser he had another technician at his side., Who also dominated the passing game and coined together with Küppers the game of "Lion " on the offensive On 13 June 1964, the ex- Essen celebrated the second victory in the DFB Cup. 1860 München won the final in Stuttgart against Eintracht Frankfurt 2-0. In Europe Cup Winners' Cup 1964/65 continued through 1860, Union Sportive Luxembourg, FC Porto, Legia Warsaw and after three dramatic games in the semi-final against AC Torino. This Küppers and colleagues recruited in the final against West Ham United on 19 May 1965 at Wembley Stadium. After begeisterndem game before 98,000 spectators but sat the team captained by Bobby Moore 2-0. This was the European Cup round but still a highlight in the sporting career of the engineer with the hard shot.

National succeeded Max Merkel with his " lion " in the 1965/66 season the highest triumph by winning the German championship in the Bundesliga. In addition to Hans Küppers a few more class players like Alfred hot, Friedhelm Konietzka, Rudi fountain Meier, Peter Grosser and Hans Rebele stood for the offensive are available. Since musicianship were on the defensive but also with Petar Radenković, Bernd Patzke, Otto Luttrop, Hans Reich and Zeljko Perusic at work, could be of a surprising mastery of the question. From 1963-1968 Küppers ran in 120 Bundesliga games for 1860 and still controlled 47 Goals. In the summer of 1968, he joined the German champion of the same year, on 1 FC Nuremberg. Although Küppers played 33 times for the defending champions, but not about the championship: rather the club even crashed a sporting, at the end of the round in the Regionalliga Süd. That was a bitter round of Nuremberg and his new playmaker.

After this disappointment Küppers retired from the Bundesliga and moved to Austria for SV Wattens in the National League. In the Tyrol, he became the top scorer of his new club, shot in his first season 10, one year later 15 goals and was missing in both years not a single championship game. The team around Friedl Koncilia, Walter Skocik, Roland Had Berger, Helmut Siber and Helmut Redl also aroused a great sensation at local rivals FC Wacker Innsbruck. So the new SSW Innsbruck 1971 presented as a merger of the two Tyrolean first division for economic reasons. Hans Küppers ran in the 1971/72 season only in the fall for the new SSW Innsbruck, was involved in winning the Austrian Championship and joined in the winter for Swiss club FC Lugano, where he ended his career after half a year.

National

On December 23, 1962 Hans Küppers debuted under national coach Sepp Herberger 's 5-1 success at Karlsruhe Wildlife Park Stadium with a goal against Switzerland. The coach seemed to have found a replacement for the migrated to Bologna Helmut Haller; but only under Herberger's successor, Helmut Schön, Küppers in 1965 came to more vocations. He played against Italy, Switzerland, and on 6 June in Rio de Janeiro in the 0-2 loss against Brazil. To participate in the World Cup in England in 1966 it was not enough for Küppers but. In the first game after the World Cup, 2-0 against Turkey on 12 October 1966 in Ankara, he was able to make a goal for the DFB again. 1967 Helmut Schön familiar in the two crucial European Championship qualifiers against Albania and Yugoslavia to the playmaker qualities of the Merkel - protégé. Since the 0-0 in Tirana on 17 December meant the EM -off, and the time in the national team for Hans Küppers after seven missions was over.

Finale

The trained draftsmen later returned back to his home city of Essen.

• National football team ( Germany )
• German master ( football)
• Austrian Champion ( football)
• Born in 1938
• Man
• German
• DFB Cup winners