Alfons Moog
Alfons Moog (born February 14, 1915 in Kottenheim , † December 7, 1999 in Cologne ) was a German football player .
Career
societies
Moog began playing football with the local Fortuna in Kottenheim before he moved from the Eifel to the Rhine for Kölner SC in 1899 and for this from 1935 to 1937 in the Gauliga Mittelrhein , in one of initially 16, later increased to 23 Gauligen at the time of National Socialism as a uniformly highest division in the German Reich , contested games. The 1937/38 and 1938/39 seasons he then played for VfL Cologne 1899 , which had emerged from the merger with the Cologne CfR , and to which he - after his time at Eintracht Frankfurt in the Mainhessen relay of the Gauliga Südwest - in March 1941 returned to the Gauliga Köln-Aachen . From July 1941 to April 1942 he worked again for Eintracht Frankfurt, this time in the Gauliga Hessen-Nassau , before he returned to Cologne and was active there until the end of the 1943/44 season .
While he was a member of the Cologne club, he won two Gaume championships alongside his brother Ernst. In the subsequent final round of the German championship 1940/41 , the Cologne team relegated to the places in Group 3 Kickers Offenbach , TuS Helene Essen and FC 93 Mülhausen . In the semifinals , which took place in Dresden on June 8, 1941, he failed with his team after the 1: 4 defeat (all goals by Hermann Eppenhoff ) against FC Schalke 04 in the final. The game for 3rd place was also lost at the same venue with 1: 4 - against Dresdner SC . In the following season he and his team were eliminated from the competition in the round of 16 with 1: 3 against Kickers Offenbach.
After the end of the Second World War he played until the end of the 1948/49 season for SC West Cologne in the Rhine district.
Selection / national team
As a player in the Middle Rhine region selection team , he took part in the elimination game in the 1939/40 season and in the preliminary round of the competition for the Reichsbund Cup in 1940/41 . After the Second World War he was called up again on June 30, 1946 to play the representative game between the West and the South. With Paul Janes he formed the defenders of the West selection.
For the senior national team he played seven international matches as a player for VfL Cologne in 1899 . He made his debut on June 29, 1939 in Tallinn in a 2-0 victory over the Estonian national team . In his second international match on July 14, 1940 in Frankfurt am Main, in a 9-3 win against the Romanian national team , Fritz Walter made his debut as a national player . He had his seventh and last appearance in the DFB-Elf on November 17, 1940 in Hamburg in a 1-0 victory over the national team of Denmark .
Major Hermann Graf , in 1943 commodore of Jagdgeschwader 11 in Jever and founder of the Rote Jäger military football team , succeeded in winning Moog, who worked at the news school in Halle an der Saale , for his team. With him, Hermann Eppenhoff , Franz Hanreiter and Fritz Walter , whom he was able to guide as Herberger confidante from the island of Elba to Friesland, the team had four national players at their disposal. Moog occupied the middle position in the team and was also head of the defense.
On January 16, 1944, the meeting with LSV Hamburg took place on Victoria-Platz in today's Lokstedt in front of 12,000 spectators. Sepp Herberger was also among the spectators and saw a 3-2 victory for the Graf troupe. In the soldiers' eleven he was called "Brummes" and Fritz Walter "Friedrich".
successes
Others
After his active career, he built up a very successful glass factory in Cologne.
Web links
- Alfons Moog in the database of weltfussball.de
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Moog, Alfons |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German soccer player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 14, 1915 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kottenheim , Rhine Province , Kingdom of Prussia , German Empire |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 7, 1999 |
| Place of death | Cologne , North Rhine-Westphalia , Germany |