Erich Schröder (soccer player)

Erich Schröder (born November 20, 1898 in Dresden , † December 24, 1975 ) was a German football player .

Career

Born in Dresden, he started playing football in the youth department of the local Dresdner SC . Outgrown adolescence and into the Rhineland arrived, he was from the season 1918/19 the VfR Köln 04 rrh. on, for which he played in the district championship organized by the West German Game Association in the Rheinisches Südkreis , from the 1921/22 season in the Rheingau . In 1924/25 he was group winner of the South Rhine within the Rheingau. However , he and his team lost the final of the Rheingau championship against the group winners of the west Rhine, the Rheydter Spielverein , from the city of the same name (since 1975 part of Mönchengladbach ), with 1: 3. In the following season there was a new edition of the final encounter ; this time he won with his team 2-1 and also the subsequent final of the West German championship . In order to qualify as a participant for the final round of the German Football Championship, he played his only final game in the round of 16 in the 1: 2 defeat in Cologne at home against SV Norden-Nordwest , the second in the Berlin championship .

He played his only international match for the senior national team on April 26, 1931 in Amsterdam in a 1-1 draw in a friendly against the Dutch national team when he was 32 years old .

Hardy Grüne , Lorenz Knieriem: Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 8: Player Lexicon 1890–1963. Agon-Sportverlag, Kassel 2006, ISBN 3-89784-148-7 .