Alfred Niepieklo
Alfred Niepieklo ( born June 11, 1927 in Castrop -Rauxel, † April 2, 2014 ) was a German football player. The striker played a total of ten years at Borussia Dortmund and was awarded the German champions Borussia Dortmund twice. The striker completed at Borussia Dortmund in the then world-class soccer Oberliga West from 1951 to 1960 a total of 173 league games with 104 goals and was awarded the BVB in 1956 and 1957 two German masters.
Career
Clubs
Niepieklo comes from Castrop -Rauxel, where he grew up in the district Bladenhorst. The football games he learned at the red - black from Castrop 02, with whom he reached 1949/50, as a playmaker and scorer promotion to the County League.
In 1951 he moved to Borussia Dortmund, where he met the other half striker Alfred Preißler formed from the 1954/55 season after receipt of Striker Alfred Kelbassa in the then well-kept WM system, the legendary interior trio of three Alfredo. The two-footed corner and edge specialist was immediately with his ball skill and goalscoring become an indispensable part in the offensive team from Red Earth Stadium. He scored in his debut season in the Oberliga West, 1951/52, right off the bat in 23 events 19 goals. Debuted he had on August 19, 1951 in a 2-2 home draw against Rot -Weiss Essen, where he had shot his new club before 35,000 viewers and a 1-0 lead. After returning from " Adi " Preißler from Münster to season 1952/53, he experienced under coach Hans " Bumbas " Schmidt the first championship win in the Oberliga West. Preißler had contributed scored 17 goals for a total of 87 in the Association of Round 15 and " Niepo ". In his first final round of the German Cup, he came in 1953 in all six group matches and scored two goals for use. He trained with Hans wing, the left wing. VfB Stuttgart moved level on points with 10:2 points, just ahead of the black and yellow, in the final one.
Under coach Helmut Schneider, the 1955/56 season was his outstanding year at Borussia. In the Oberliga West, he sat down with 24 hits to the top of the scoring list, won with his team the championship and continued into the final round in the group matches against VfB Stuttgart, Viktoria 89 Berlin and Hamburger SV by. In the final on 24 June 1956 in Berlin against the South German master Karlsruher SC scored his tenth goal in a 4-2 victory in the final successful. In the attack occupation with Wolfgang Peters, Alfred Preißler Kelbassa Alfred, Alfred Niepieklo and left winger Helmut Kapitulski, the team sought to scorer Niepieklo the German Cup in Dortmund.
In the following season 1956/57, prevented disease and injuries to leading scorer last year at the repetition of his performance. In the league he had to be content with 15 appearances and one goal; the young Alfred " Aki " Schmidt represented him as inside forward, and " Fredy " Kelbassa took over the title defense in the Western League with 30 goals, the top scorer. In the finals, coach trimmer but turn on Niepieklo and Eingespieltsein the Defender. In the group matches against Kickers Offenbach, 1.FC Kaiserslautern and Hertha BSC the inside forward promptly met three times in the opponent's body and stood on 23 June 1957 in Hanover against Hamburger SV again in the final of the German Cup. In the final Niepieklo reach 4-1 win despite the guard by the young HSV- external rotor Jürgen Werner two hits. Overall, he ran in the finals from 1953 to 1957 on in 17 games for Dortmund, scoring 17 goals also.
In the European games towered 1956, the scoreless game against Manchester United and 1958, the two games against AC Milan out. In the San Siro, the team continued to Cesare Maldini, Nils Liedholm, Ernesto Grillo and Luigi Radice clear 4-1 gates through, and Niepieklo and colleagues were so after a 1-1 home draw of the race.
In the season 1958/59 he came under new coach Max Merkel only to five appearances, scoring five goals. His last league Match of the long-time strike partner of Preißler and Kelbassa on April 19, 1959 in a 6-2 home victory against Viktoria Cologne. BVB was started in attack with Peters, Konietzka, Kelbassa, Niepieklo and Manfred Koslowski on the left wing. From the round 1959/60 Merkel sat on the attack pair Jürgen Schütz and Friedhelm Konietzka and active playing career of Niepieklo at Borussia Dortmund was completed. He scored to 1960 in 198 official matches 125 goals for the black and yellow. He left after 1960 to his sports career in Iserlohn Letmathe at 07 bar. Even after that remained Niepieklo Borussia Dortmund weighed: Until his death in April 2014 he was a member of the Council of Elders of the BVB.
Selected teams
In the selection of the Regional Association of West Germany, the technician and Goal Scorer found in the two representative games on February 1, 1953 infringed Saarland (7:0) and on 10 October the same year against North Germany (2-0) into account. In the selection of the national soccer team for the 1954 World Cup in Switzerland, it was not enough. That he was not even in his outstanding 1955/56 season included in the national team, is very difficult to understand from the temporal distance. Was but in this game year eight A- international matches take place, of which the reigning world champion five games against the Soviet Union ( 2:3 ), Yugoslavia (1:3 ), Italy ( 1:2 ), Netherlands (1:2 ) and England ( 1:3 ) and lost only to two victories over Norway and a draw against Sweden came. Heinrich Peuckmann holds in his book " The heroes of the Football West" that: " Alfred Niepieklo has been taken into account not once, from today's perspective, an incredible process. With his gates, he has nevertheless decided two finals in the 1955/56 season he scored 44 goals in total, ten of them in the final round of the championship. " Niepieklo he writes about the national team's statement: " A coach, players must choose with whom he wants to play. And I was just Herberger not want. Something is solely the decision of the coach. "
Private
Private Niepieklo was his teammate Kelbassa also closely connected: His daughter married the son of his strike partner, from their connection emerged a common grandson of the two strikers. Most recently, he lived in Castrop- Rauxeler district Frohlind.
Awards and achievements
With Borussia Dortmund:
- German champions: 1955 /56, 1956/57,
- Scorer in the Oberliga West: 1955/56 with 24 goals