Fritz Servas

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Fritz Julius Servas (born November 24, 1877 in Berlin , † December 8, 1942 in Eutingen an der Enz ) was a German football player and coach .

Life

Fritz Servas played football in Berlin at Britannia 92 Berlin, among others . After moving to Nuremberg for professional reasons , in the summer of 1901 he joined 1. FC Nürnberg, which was founded a year earlier . At that time, the game was still heavily influenced by rugby . Servas taught the club players that in football it is not crucial who can kick the ball the furthest, but stopping and shooting with the inside of the foot. He also introduced the header game.

Under Serva's training, the 1. FC Nürnberg team developed so well that when regular game operations were introduced in Northern Bavaria in the 1905/06 season, they immediately became Northern Bavarian champions and one year later Bavarian champions. In addition, under Servas, the younger players who moved up quickly displaced the older founding fathers, as they were not able to learn the techniques taught by Servas due to their age.

However, Servas himself was not only active for the club at the time. With Reinhard Barthel , an early club member who wanted to develop football in his actual hometown , SpVgg Fürth was founded in 1903 in the neighboring town . Through his contacts with FCN, he succeeded in lending Servas to SpVgg as a player-coach. From 1904 to 1905 he also taught the basics of football to the SpVgg Fürth team. In this way, Servas enabled the early competition at a high level of play between the club from Nuremberg and the SpVgg from Fürth, both of which were to dominate German football in the 1920s.

1. FC Nürnberg owes not only the beginning of the regular football game to the work of Fritz Servas, but also a term for the local Nuremberg dialect : the verb häppen as designation for “to play the ball quickly and safely” is derived from Servas' habit, “ häpp ”when he wanted to be played with a quick pass.

In addition, Servas is credited with introducing black trousers as part of 1. FC Nürnberg's playing attire. A total of 39 games by Fritz Servas for the first team have been recorded for 1. FC Nürnberg.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Birth register Berlin IV a, 1877, entry no.2663
  2. ↑ Burial book of the Evangelical-Protestant parish Eutingen 1905 - 1961, p. 238, entry no. 34/1942
  3. ↑ Christoph Bausenwein, Bernd Siegler, Harald Kaiser: The legend of the club. The history of 1. FC Nürnberg . Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2006, p. 416. ISBN 3-89533-536-3
  4. ↑ Bausenwein et al. 2006, p. 16
  5. ↑ Bausenwein et al. 2006, p. 18
  6. ↑ a b c Fritz Servas , www.glubberer.de (December 30, 2007)
  7. ↑ Simone Ziegler: The first decades of SpVgg , in: Chronicle of SpVgg Greuther Fürth , official website of SpVgg Greuther Fürth (December 30, 2007)
  8. ↑ Jürgen Schmidt: The Founder - How Football Came to Fürth , in: Chronicle of SpVgg Greuther Fürth , Official Website of SpVgg Greuther Fürth (December 30, 2007)
  9. ↑ Trainer , in: Chronicle of SpVgg Greuther Fürth , official website of SpVgg Greuther Fürth (December 30, 2007)
  10. ↑ Bausenwein et al. 2006, p. 16
  11. ↑ Bausenwein et al. 2006, p. 39

literature

  • Christoph Bausenwein, Bernd Siegler, Harald Kaiser: The legend of the club. The history of 1. FC Nürnberg . Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2006, ISBN 3-89533-536-3
personal data
SURNAME Servas, Fritz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Servas, Fritz Julius (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH November 24, 1877
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH December 8, 1942
Place of death Eutingen an der Enz