Albert Sing

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Albert Sing
Personnel
birthday April 7, 1917
place of birth Eislingen / Fils ,  German Empire
date of death August 31, 2008
Place of death Origlio ,  Switzerland
position midfield player
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
0000-1935 1. FC Eislingen
1936-1948 Stuttgart Kickers
1940-1941 → VfR Mannheim (guest player)
1948-1949 TSG Ulm 1846
1951-1957 BSC Young Boys 75 (28)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1940-1942 Germany 9 0(1)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
1948 Normannia Gmuend
1949-1951 SpVgg Ceresio Schaffhausen
1951-1964 BSC Young Boys
1954 Germany (assistant coach)
1962 Stuttgart Kickers
1964-1966 Grasshopper Club Zurich
1966-1967 VfB Stuttgart
1967-1968 TSV 1860 Munich
1968-1970 FC St. Gallen
1970-1971 FC Lugano
1971-1974 FC Luzern
1974 FC Friborg
1974-1975 VfB Stuttgart
1976 FC Chiasso
1977-1988 FC Luzern
1980 FC Zurich
1 Only league games are given.

Albert Sing (born April 7, 1917 in Eislingen / Fils ; † August 31, 2008 in Origlio ) was a German football player and coach . As a player for Stuttgarter Kickers , he was used by Reich trainer Sepp Herberger in nine international matches in the German national soccer team from 1940 to 1942 and scored one goal. Sing was very successful as a coach in Switzerland at BSC Young Boys and won the Swiss championship four times in a row with Bern from 1957 to 1960 and the Swiss Cup twice in 1953 and 1958 .

Career as a player

Sing began his active career at 1. FC Eislingen . In 1936 he moved to the Stuttgarter Kickers, with whom he won the championship of the Gauliga Württemberg from 1939 to 1942 and qualified for the final round of the German soccer championship. Overall, Sing, who was mostly used on the half-left or as a left outside runner, completed 13 final rounds of the German football championship for the Kickers and scored one goal.

Between 1940 and 1942 he played nine times for the German national soccer team. He made his international debut on October 20, 1940 in a 7-3 win in the friendly against Bulgaria. Eight more international matches followed in 1942. He scored his only international goal in a 5-3 away win over Hungary on May 3, 1942. It was also the 500th goal in German international history. After the end of the Second World War - he returned from the war with a shot in the stomach - Sing played three rounds with the Kickers in the new soccer Oberliga Süd and made 75 league appearances and five goals. In the 1947/48 season , the Kickers caused a sensation with a great offensive game and scored 113 goals, finishing in 3rd place.

Career as a coach

Sing began his coaching career in 1948 in Schwäbisch Gmünd . He then became a coach (initially player-coach) in Switzerland . With the BSC Young Boys, Sing won a total of four championships in a row from 1957 to 1960 and two cup wins. No other coach in Switzerland achieved this success. Under Sing, YB also reached the semi-finals in the European Cup (today's Champions League). Sing also held positions at Grasshoppers Zurich , FC St. Gallen , FC Lugano and FC Luzern .

Under Sepp Herberger , Sing was assistant coach of the German national team at the 1954 World Cup in Switzerland. He chose the team quarters on Lake Thun for the later world championship team.

Later he was still in the Bundesliga as coach of VfB Stuttgart and from 1860 Munich .

After Sing had to give up coaching because of a war injury in 1975, he returned to Switzerland and worked there as a club advisor. From 1970 until his death, Albert Sing lived with his wife Hilde in Origlio near Lugano in Ticino .

Quotes

As his dismissal at VfB Stuttgart threatened and a reporter worried about his future asked, he replied (free from the "Well go i just uff d'Fildre Krombiere gruble." Swabian translated: "Then I'll go just to the Fildern , potato dig.")

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personal data
SURNAME Sing, Albert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH April 7, 1917
PLACE OF BIRTH Eislingen
DATE OF DEATH August 31, 2008
Place of death Origlio