Burkhard Pape

Burkhard Pape ( born October 30, 1932 in Magdeburg ) is a former German football player and football coach. After a brief career as a player Pape trained for almost 40 years national soccer teams from Asia, Africa and the Pacific.

Life

Pape learned the trade of electrician and was in the early years of GDR junior champion in the decathlon. After the events of 17 June 1953 he gets in espionage and is arrested. After his release, he fled to the Federal Republic.

Career

As a player

Pape played in his career for Hannover 96, VfR Neumünster and FSV Frankfurt. He preferred the position on the right wing. He then attended the Sports University in Cologne, around 1959 to complete the exam trainer at Hennes Weisweiler.

As a coach

In June and July 1961 Pape coached the Baden Amateur All-Stars, with whom he traveled throughout the northeastern United States and has won five of six games.

In 1966, Pape of the Federal Government and the DFB commissioned to conduct a soccer coach as a long -term project in the West African Sierra Leone. He became coach of Uganda, which Pape won 41 of 70 games in office 1968. In 1972 he left Uganda. Between 1975 and 1977 he coached the Egyptian national team.

Then left Pape Africa and trained some Asian and Pacific teams like Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Thailand, Papua New Guinea and Tuvalu.

In 2000 he returned to Africa to train back to the Tanzanian national team at the Four Nation Castle Lager Cup.

Among his greatest successes include the four-time victory with Uganda to the East Africa Cup and also vieralige victory with the U-18 national teams from Indonesia and Thailand in the Asian Cup.

Honors

For his at this time 30 years as a development worker in the football Pape received the 1996 Federal Cross of Merit.