Adolf Frenken
| Adolf Frenken | ||
 Frenken (below; 2nd from left)
and teammate in the 1908 championship team |
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| Personnel | ||
|---|---|---|
| birthday | 1885 | |
| place of birth | Pfungen , Switzerland | |
| date of death | February 11, 1930 | |
| Place of death | London , England | |
| Men's | ||
| Years | station | Games (goals) 1 |
| at least 1907–1908 | FC Winterthur | |
| National team | ||
| Years | selection | Games (goals) |
| 1908 | Switzerland | 1 (1) |
| 1 Only league games are given. | ||
Adolf Frenken (born 1885 in Pfungen , Switzerland ; died February 11, 1930 in London ), nicknamed Dölf , was a Swiss football player . He won the Swiss championship in 1908 and was the first goal scorer for the Swiss national team .
Career
Frenken belonged to FC Winterthur as a striker . In the Serie A championships held in two regional groups , he and his team emerged victorious from the eight-club group East and won the final of the Swiss championship on May 31, 1908 in Basel with 4-1 against BSC Young Boys , the winner of Group West .
On March 8, 1908, he played his only international match for the Swiss national team in the Stade des Charmilles in Geneva . In the 1: 2 defeat in the friendly against the French national team , he scored the goal to lead 1-0 in the 41st minute; thus he became the first goal scorer in only the second international match of the Swiss national team .
successes
Others
Frenken attended school in Winterthur and after a year in Welschland completed an apprenticeship at the metalworking school in Winterthur . He completed further training in Munich and Reutlingen . After 1908 he worked in London as a representative for Swiss and French companies in the silk industry. He died in the British capital on February 11, 1930 at the age of 44 (or 45).
Web links
- Adolf Frenken in the weltfussball.de database
- Adolf "Dölf" Frenken in the FC Winterthur club archive (no longer available)
Individual evidence
- ↑ 1907/08 season on iffhs.de . Retrieved on February 28, 2013. (not useful)
- ↑ Beat Jung (Ed.): The Nati. The history of the Swiss national football team. Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2006, ISBN 3-89533-532-0 , p. 29.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Frenken, Adolf |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Dölf (nickname) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss football player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1885 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Pfungen , Switzerland |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 11, 1930 |
| Place of death | London , England |