Wolfgang Trapp
Wolfgang Trapp ( born August 1, 1957) is a former German football player. He played a total of 189 league games, scoring 12 goals.
Life and career
Trapp comes from Hattersheim and came across the youth and amateur Eintracht Frankfurt in the first half of the Bundesliga season 1977/78 for his first two missions in the first team. On 8 November 1978, he came to a use in the German national football team of amateurs at the international match against the Netherlands in The Hague. The Eintracht counted in those years to the best clubs in Germany and won the UEFA Cup in 1980 and 1981, the DFB Cup. In the spiked with experienced players like Grabowski, Pezzey, Korbel, nickel and Neuberger team was never able to play in his first four years as a professional in the long run in the starting eleven and completed only a few games over the full season, the young defender Trapp.
During the current season 1981/82 Trapp to SV Darmstadt 98, where he conquered immediately secured a regular place and was coached by Manfred Krafft to the captain of the " lilies ". After descending to the 2nd Bundesliga, he remained the club for another year of faithful. Then he followed the call of Lothar Buchmann, under whom he had already played for Eintracht, and moved in the summer of 1983 to the Offenbacher Kickers, who had just been promoted to the Bundesliga. Trapp also developed the OFC to one of the pillars of the team and scored as a defensive midfielder in the Bundesliga season 1983/84 in 32 inserts five goals. However, the Kickers were the class does not hold, but as two years earlier remained in Darmstadt Trapp also the club after relegation received. However, he could not cope with the new coach Fritz Fuchs and was even excluded from this short time out of the squad. Even before completion of the first round of the second division season 1984/85 Trapp left the club in November 1984 and joined the league rivals Union Solingen. The Solingen, experts dubbed "Eleven of the Nameless ", reached under Eckhard Krautzun in this round and a sixth place in the DFB Cup quarter-finals.
It was again Lothar Buchmann, the Trapp appealed to his footballing next station. Buchmann had taken over the relegation-threatened Bundesliga Karlsruher SC in March 1985. He had to descend though can not prevent, but in the second division season 1985/86 he should make for a rebuilding team. Besides Trapp were this season with Bogdan, Lars Schmidt, Pilipovic and the KSC " home-grown " Schütterle cruisers and five new players in the squad who should establish the club as a service provider in the following years in the Bundesliga. The umformierte team needed in this first year some time before they showed good performance, so that already at an early stage was foreseeable that a direct re-emergence was not an option. Internal disagreements between coaches and Board ensured that Buchmann was before the end of the season. Trapp, however, remained with the Badeners that were trained on the new season 1986 /87 by Winfried Schäfer. Under Shepherd KSC succeeded in promotion to the Bundesliga, and Trapp belonged with 34 inserts ( 3 goals ) as the mainstays of the team like in the first Bundesliga seasons. Was during the year 1990, the now 32 -year-old, however, considered by coach Schaefer increasingly rare for the starting eleven and finally came on Matchday 8 of the season 1990/91 to its last use in the Bundesliga. Opponent was FC St. Pauli; the team against which he had almost exactly 13 years earlier, on 22 October 1977 celebrated his Bundesliga debut at the Frankfurt Forest Stadium.
Overall Trapp graduated 189 Bundesliga second division and 109 games in which he scored 12 or 16 goals.