Horst Leupold

Career

Leupold came with ten years with the 1st FC Nuremberg and played in the school and youth teams of the Frankish association. With the two-time Southern German championship with the A- youth, he recommended himself for the first team and was the first time in 1961 to the circle of the team that in 1962 won the German Cup competition. In the season 1962/63, the defender played as early as the tenth match day in the trunk of the league team in the top division at that time. He was in the final of the eight best teams in the German Cup and reached the semi-finals of the Club Europa Cup Winners' Cup.

In the following years he was an integral part of the first team of the club on the right-back position in the Premier League existing since 1963. Although he represented the prototype of the modern offensive defense and flank encoder of his game here, lasted until September 17, 1966 until he scored his first Erstligator. But it was also the winning goal to make it 1-0 at Hamburger SV.

By his second goal Leupold prevented in the success of 1967/68 season on the 12th matchday of the first defeat of the season 1.FCN with the balance to the 3-3 final score against 1 FC Cologne. The season ended with the championship title for the club, the biggest success in Leupold's career.

The following year came catastrophic: The reigning champion was to relegation candidates and precisely in the grueling season sprint to the defender acted the only red card in his 167 league games a - because of a referee insult that had been a misunderstanding after his representation only. At the end of the season, the descent was in the subprime Regional. Famous photographs of unrestrained weeping Leo Leupold are after the decisive defeat in the last game.

After another year in the club jersey he fell after the missed resurgence rebuilding a young team to the victim. He left in 1972 after over 400 missions in club jersey the club, but always remained true to its central Franconia home. Until the mid- 1970s he played for third division ASV Herzogenaurach. He then worked as a football coach at the 1st SC Feucht and TSV Röthenbach.

Horst Leupold trained as a technical draftsman, but gave up his job in favor of the football career. A store with lottery outlet, he had already opened in the early professional years in which the footballers still got little money, in the south of Nuremberg, he continued even after his football career. Later he added a very serious car accident a permanent knee disability it.

Since the first FCN for the season 2006 /07, its most deserving player honored with the renaming of the stadium blocks, then the block 10 of the Nuremberg stadium in the upper part of the fan curve Horst Leupold name.

Statistics

Stations

As coach

Inserts

  • 22 times in the Oberliga Süd (bis 1963)
  • 167 appearances in the Bundesliga ( 1963-1969 ), 2 goals
  • 23 missions in the Regionalliga Süd (1969 /70), 1 goal
  • 402 games for the 1st FC Nuremberg total

Title / successes

  • German football champions 1967/68
1942 Defender (association football) 1. SC Feucht 1962–63 European Cup Winners' Cup
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