Emil Faas

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Emil Faas (* 1884 in Pforzheim ; † 1906 there ) was a German football player .

Career

Faas belonged to his younger brother Robert the 1. FC Pforzheim also as a goalkeeper on; but almost ten years earlier.

With the founding of the club in 1896 until the end of the 1906/07 season , he was a member of the club for which he worked from the first final round of the South German Championship 1898/99 , from the 1901/02 season in the Württemberg district and from the 1904/05 season in Gau Mittelbaden, one of four districts within the southern district in the championships organized by the Association of South German Football Associations , was used or played in point games.

In 1905, as a newcomer to the Gauliga Mittelbaden, he and his team took second place behind the Karlsruher FV , and in the following season he emerged as a champion. This success was followed by the southern district championship and the southern German championship , which was won by the 5-3 victory on April 25, 1906 against the northern district champion 1. Hanau Football Club in 1893 .

In order to qualify as a participant in the final round of the German championship , he made his debut on May 6, 1906 in Mannheim in a 4-2 victory afterwards in the quarter-finals over FC 1899 from Cologne . He then played the semifinals, won 4-0 in Braunschweig on May 20, 1906, against the BTuFC Union 92 from Berlin . The final against VfB Leipzig on May 27, 1906 in Nuremberg was lost 2-1. His last season in the Gauliga Mittelbaden he and his team finished second again behind the Karlsruher FV.

Faas died of a heart condition in 1906 and was buried in the main cemetery in Pforzheim. His two- ton memorial stone donated by 1. FC Pforzheim was moved to the standing grandstand of the stadium in the Brötzinger Tal in 1961.

Faas (5th from left) and teammate at
1. FC Pforzheim; South German master 1906

successes

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b “Posthumous honor of a footballer after 55 years. Gravestone of the Pforzheim final goalkeeper Emil Faas moved to the club square ”, in Pforzheimer Zeitung of April 13, 1961, p. 7
personal data
SURNAME Faas, Emil
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH 1884
PLACE OF BIRTH Pforzheim
DATE OF DEATH 1906
Place of death Pforzheim