Adolf Bechtold

Career

Gauliga and Oberliga Süd, 1942-1960

After the Second World War, he played with the harmony from the first season, 1945/46, up to and including 1959/60 through 15 rounds in the Oberliga Süd. The man from the Wetterau was the reliability in person. The defensive player finished under coach Emil Melcher season 1945/46, on June 23, 1946 with a 9-0 away win at Karlsruher FV. He played on the position of right-back in what was then practiced WM system and harmony came in eleventh place. In his second league year, 1946/47, he was now with 25 league stakes regulars, occupied the Elf from Riederwald with the coaches Melcher and Willi Treml, as well as the service providers Toni Turek, Heinz Baas, Heinrich Gärtner, Erwin Schadler, Albert Wirsching, Edmund Adamkiewicz Ludwig Kolb, Willi Kraus and Adolf Schmidt third. With piston he formed mostly the defender pair. However, this high-flying did not stop.

Under coach Walter Hollstein Bechtold lived in the 1949/50 season the fight to avoid relegation; this is happening in the 50 - year anniversary of concord. The round opened Bechtold and colleagues at September 4, 1949 with a 1:5 away defeat at SV Waldhof Mannheim. At the end of the round eagle carrier landed on the 14th place and had it the last eight games lost in a row. To round 1950/51 took over with Kurt wind man a new man as coach. It went into the next rounds continuously in the table to the front. The Elf at Eintracht captain Bechtold - he completed all 34 league games - finished in the first year of the new coach eighth grade and had performed over the Christmas holidays, a trip abroad to Spain with games against Atletico Madrid and Sevilla FC. The highlight was held immediately after the season between May 2 and June 3 place in 1951 with a trip to America. On the German-American Football Association ( DAFB ) organized visit to the USA men contributed to Captain Bechtold between 6 and 30 May from eight games.

In the season 1952/53, Bechtold won the South German championship with the harmony. With a point lead over the defending champions VfB Stuttgart, Frankfurt prevailed; Bechtold had completed all 30 games in the Oberliga Süd. In the final joined six games against 1.FC Kaiserslautern, 1.FC Köln and Holstein Kiel. The Betz mountain - Eleven to the brothers Walter sat in the group matches played by - on May 17 in front of 68,000 spectators in the stadium Forest 1-0 against Eintracht - and also won the German championship superior in the final against VfB Stuttgart. The concord - Defensive sat mostly composed of goalkeeper Helmut Henig, the defender pair Bechtold and Ernst Kudraß, as well as the runner series with Kurt Krömmelbein, Hans Werner Wloka and Christmas. In the following season 1953/54, it was enough for the Hessians with New Richard Kress, Alfons Remlein and Hans Weilbächer to the runner-up in the south. With 24:6 points and 38:12 - gates had even led the first round table. The final round of games in 1954 were played in shortened form because of the upcoming World Cup in Switzerland. Bechtold lost with disastrous appearance both games against 1 FC Kaiserslautern 1.FC Cologne.

For the season 1956/57, took over Adolf Patek - the Vienna had won the championship with the Karlsruhe SC 1955/56, - for two years, the coach of Eintracht Frankfurt. After the first round in 1957/58 the Patek Elf stood with 22:8 - points on the second place and had allowed in 15 games under the leadership of the new defense chiefs Ivica Horvat only 14 goals conceded. On the final day of the series in 1957/58, on 13 April 1958 Frankfurt playful with a 0-1 defeat at the already fixed relegated SSV Jahn Regensburg the re- entry into the finals. When advised by coach Bela Sarosi Jahn- Eleven Eintracht had acted in the defensive formation with goalkeeper Loy, the defenders Bechtold and Höfer, as well as the runner series with Schymik, Horvat and Weilbächer. In two seasons of 1956 to the honorary captain appointed defender still belonged to the starting eleven.

This changed only from the season 1958/59, as under Patek successor Paul Oßwald with Friedel Lutz and Hermann Hofer as a defender pair and Ivica Horvat as a center half acted the central axis on the defensive and the championship win with 49:11 points and goal difference of 71:25 was successful. In the league season Bechtold came only six missions - against SpVgg Fürth, VfB Stuttgart, FSV Frankfurt, 1st FC Nuremberg, SSV Reutlingen and the last time on January 11, 1959 in a 2-2 home match against Kickers Offenbach - and succeeded in the final the concord of winning the German Cup against local rivals Kickers Offenbach without a game of honor captain. In his last season in the Oberliga Süd, 1959/60, the concord legend came again to eleven missions and the Riederwald - Eleven achieved despite the additional burden of the games in the European Cup behind champion Karlsruher SC and Vice from Offenbach to third place. The last league Match of the honorary captain on March 6, 1960, the 0-3 away defeat at Bayern Munich. Like three days earlier, on March 3 in the European Cup in a 2-1 home win against SC Wiener, he had exercised the central role on the defensive as a center half.

The fact the last competitive match was completed by the 34 -year-old on June 11, 1960 in a 4-2 success in the South German Cup against the Bornheimer from FSV Frankfurt. Again, he was active as a center half and center forward Erwin Stein scored three goals.

European Cup, 1960

In Europapokal1959/60 Frankfurt reached the final against the previously four times in a row winning Real Madrid. The defending champion won in the final 7-3 in Glasgow gates. Bechtold, then no more, and in the final regular players not on the court, but graduated in the European Cup this season, just watch the match on March 3, 1960 against the Wiener SC. In the 2-1 home success, he acted as center half, and together with goalkeeper Egon Loy, the defender pair Friedel Lutz and Hermann Höfer, and the two outer runners Eberhard Schymik and Dieter Stinka the defensive. It was his only international duty stakes, for he was never international.

Bechtold was an honorary member and honorary captain of Eintracht Frankfurt. He died after a short illness in his hometown.

Achievements

• German Champion 1959
• South German Champion 1953, 1959
• German Floodlight Cup Winners 1957
• Hessen Cup Winners 1946