Horst Hülß
German association football player (1938–2022)
Horst Hülß (5 September 1938 – 7 October 2022) was a German football player and manager who played as a midfielder.
Career
Hülß came to Cologne in 1959 from his home in the Coburg district, where he had played for TSV Rossach, to study sports, geography and chemistry. Here he played at this time together with Erich Ribbeck and Gero Bisanz at SC Viktoria Köln under Hennes Weisweiler in the top division, the Oberliga West, and from 1963 in the Regionalliga West, and then second division after the introduction of the Bundesliga. As the "foster son" of the master coach, he obtained his coaching license at the sports academy in 1962. The midfield director left Cologne in 1965 as a contract player for 1. FSV Mainz 05 in the Southwest Regionalliga. In his first league game, the playmaker scored his first of six goals of the season. He played with the '05s until 1968; during this time the team reached the end of the season once in third place, twice in fourth place. At the age of 30, he then went to VfB Ginsheim as a player-coach.
A year later, he became coach of SV Weisenau in the regional league and returned to VfB Ginsheim for two years after one season.
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