German national school team

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The German national school team was founded in 1956 by the DFB . It was composed of 15 year old talents. It is comparable to today's U-16 national team .

At first she only played once or twice a year (Easter) against British teams ( England , Scotland , Wales ). The first international match took place on April 23, 1956 in Portsmouth against England. It was first against the Netherlands in 1967 and against France on September 27 in Berlin in 1970. From 1974 onwards, so-called training courses for the formation of the new U-15 national team , each with two international matches, were held in France . The highlights were always two games against England at the end of the season (alternating annually either in Wembley or in Berlin ) in front of a good 60,000 mostly young spectators. In 1975 the DFB introduced a “1. International Schools Tournament ”in the cities of Gelsenkirchen, Lüdenscheid, Bielefeld and Dortmund against the Republic of Ireland (1: 0), Switzerland (6: 0), Wales (3: 1) and England (2: 4). In 1979 the national team took part in an "International School Tournament in England".

The German national school team achieved one of the greatest victories on May 13, 1982 in Frankfurt am Main. Coach Holger Osieck's team defeated England 3-0. The line-up at that time: Kubik (Prussia Krefeld), Knäbel (VfL Bochum), Grün (1. FC Köln), Weinrich (SpVgg.Bayreuth), Schäfer (CSC Kassel), Goschler (VfL Neuhofen), Krümpelmann (Fortuna Düsseldorf), Klaus (1. FC Nürnberg), Janssen (Bayer Uerdingen), Simmes (Borussia Dortmund) and Hahn (VfL Kamen).

The traditional student internationals against England took place for the last time in 1998. International matches against France now mark the end of the season. Since 2001, the U-16 national team has been called the student national team . Very few have made the way from school national player to senior national team player.

literature

  • DFB (Ed.): Football Yearbook 1980 . Limpert-Verlag, 1980, ISBN 3-7853-1304-7 .
  • Kicker Sportmagazin, No. 44 from June 1, 1982, supplement for youth football