Alfred Pyka
Alfred Pyka ( born June 28, 1934 in Silesia, † January 10, 2012 in Herne ) was a German football player who won with Westfalia Herne in the Round 1958/59 the championship in the Oberliga West and on 28 December 1958 while in Cairo international match of the national team against Egypt was used.
Career
SC Westfalia Herne, 1949-1964
A native of Silesia Alfred Pyka grew up in Herne, the city of coal mining, on and ran from 1949 through the youth division of Westfalia Herne. He celebrated with the blue-white in the stadium on Strünkede Castle in the season 1953/54, with 20 years, the rise of the second division to the Oberliga West. This talent from within the company experienced in the first year Oberliga West and the exciting local derby against Werder from SV Sodingen, who had two years previously managed the climb. On October 3, 1954 Westfalia lost the home match before 27,000 spectators with 0:1 - the winning goal scored Gerhard Harpers in 58 minutes - and on 20 February 1955, the return match with 2:5 goals. Alfred Pyka, he had 29 games contested at first, and his teammates arrived at the Westfalia broadcast with 26:34 points to 13th place, Sodingen celebrated contrast with 39:21 points, the runner-up and moved so that the German football championship in the final round 1955. The following three rounds in the Oberliga West were for Pyka and Herne always marked by the struggle to avoid relegation. In the year after the Football World Cup 1958 in Sweden, 1958/59, took the team of coach Fritz Langner with the service provider Alfred Pyka - he completed all 30 competitive games in the league round - totally surprising the championship in the West. Showpiece of the team was the defense, in 30 games, there were only 23 goals, with goalkeeper Hans Tilkowski and defensive boss Pyka still sticking out. In the finals it was enough against the Offenbacher Kickers, not to feed Hamburger SV and Tasmania Berlin in the final. As defending champion landed Herne 1959/60 in the west to the runner-up place, and pulled for the second time in the finals. But even in the second attempt could not prevail in the games for the German championship against Hamburger SV, Karlsruher SC and Borussia Neunkirchen. Pyka, drew from him an excellent ball handling and a very good heading ability, graduated with Herne 13 finals matches. Despite the axis with goalkeeper Hans Tilkowski, defense conductor Pyka and the scorer Gerhard Clement, Herne 1959 and 1960 could not repeat the top spots of the rounds in the last three league rounds. The final 1962 /63 Westfalia even ranked 14th from slipped despite the nachgerückten talents Luttrop Otto and Jürgen Bandura. Alfred Pyka had completed for Herne 1954-1963 in the Oberliga West 268 games with nine goals. Only two league games he had missed while in nine rounds. Since Herne was not included to round 1963/64, in the new football league, Pyka played this season with the Blue -Whites in the West Regional. After the round - Westfalia came a sixth place - he accepted the offer of 1860 Munich and joined with 30 years in the Bundesliga.
TSV 1860 München - FC Schalke 04, 1964-1967
Sporty year in Munich was a disaster. Under coach Max Merkel Pyka was not in a game of Bundesliga round as well not used in the European Cup Winners 1964/65. Merkel relied on the defense with goalkeeper Radenkovic, the defenders Patzke and Steiner as well as the runner series with Luttrop, rich and Zeiser. Only in the DFB Cup denied the ex - Herner two appearances for the Munich "Lion ", where him the away match against VfL Wolfsburg the winning goal to 4:3 succeeded on 16 January 1965. When he got an offer from his former Herne coach Fritz Langner in the summer of 1965, he joined his club FC Schalke 04 he became one of the guarantors of the class Erhaltes in Schalke. The Royal Blues reached with a personnel were rolled-up team - in Gelsenkirchen had to cope with the departures of Hans Nowak, Egon Horst, Willi Schulz, Reinhard Libuda, Waldemar Gerhardt, Willi Koslowski, Manfred Berz, Heinz Crawatzo and Gyula Tóth - in the Round 1965 / 66 to the 14th place in the league. Pyka proved in his 34 games with four goals his Bundesliga suitability. He trained with the other two new additions Klaus Fichtel and Heinz Pliska the rotor row of the team coached by Langner. In his second season, he came to Schalke 24 games and one goal. At the age of 33 years Pyka ended after the round 1966/67, his career in the Bundesliga.
End of the runway, 1968
To round 1967/68 Alfred Pyka returned to his hometown club Westfalia Herne and ran on in the Regionalliga West. With the away game on May 12, 1968 at Lüner SV ended the round and Pyka ended after the descent of the higher class Westfalia his playing career. In total, he completed 67 games with four goals in two rounds in the Regionalliga West for Herne. When the Westfalia in 1968/69 with coach Werner steel finished sixth in the league federation Westphalia, Pyka has been involved in 17 games. The trained Dreher earned his living as a truck driver.
Selection of games, from 1956 to 1960
National coach Sepp Herberger tested the players from Herne the first time on the international stage on 19 December 1956 in Liege during the game against Belgium U23 junior national team. On March 3, 1957 Pyka played representative for the selection of West Germany during the match against Bochum in Berlin. The second appointment to the DFB boys team was on March 27, 1957 in Food in the return match against Belgium. In the B national team he debuted as a center half in a 1-0 success on 22 October 1958 in Karlsruhe against Austria. Germany coach Herberger appointed him in the squad for the game between the senior team on 21 December 1958 in Augsburg against Bulgaria. In Cairo Pyka came seven days later to his debut in the German National Team. Three players from Westfalia Herne stood in the match against Egypt on the field. Pyka as center half, Helmut Benthaus an external rotor and the gate guarded Hans Tilkowski in the 1-2 defeat. Four days later, on 1 January 1959, he was also required for an Egyptian selection in an unofficial international match in a 2-1 victory for the Herberger protégés as defense chief. This was followed by national courses and several callings provisional detachments internationals, to use one but did not get it. With the game for West Germany on 19 March 1960 in Frankfurt against Southern Germany, at the side of the young defender Karl -Heinz Quick Inger, completed the appointments of Alfred Pyka in selected teams.