Football city selection Munich

The soccer city selection Munich was the combination of several soccer players from different soccer clubs in the city of Munich to host city games, which often had the character of a friendly .

history

The city selection games took place especially before the Second World War . Frequent opponents were e.g. B. the football city selection Berlin or Vienna . Usually there was a year -and-away each as a home and away. The Munich city selection has notable successes, for example it won 4-1 for the first time on June 19, 1927, 6-1 in December 1929 and 7-1 on January 6, 1931 at home in front of 25,000 spectators (scorers: three times Köppl, each twice Haringer and Schmid). Overall, the record of the 23 games against the Berliners remained balanced with nine wins, five draws and nine defeats.

On June 18, 1939, the selection in Munich against Salzburg scored 4-0.

In some cases there were still selection games after 1945.

Player (selection)

• Alfons Beckenbauer
• Sigmund Haringer
• Wiggerl Hofmann
• Alois Pledl
• Wilhelm Simetsreiter
• Ludwig Stiglbauer
• Hennes Weisweiler
• Josef Wendl

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b} Anton Löffelmeier in: Stadtarchiv München (Hrsg.): Fußball in München. München Verlag, 2006, ISBN 3-937090-12-6 , pp. 52/53.
2. ^ Gerhard Fischer, Ulrich Lindner: Striker for Hitler. On the interplay between football and National Socialism. Verlag Die Werkstatt , Göttingen 1999, p. 168.
3. ↑ Erich Kauer at Fußball Oberberg ( DOC ).
4. ↑ Hans Appel at Fußball Oberberg ( DOC )
5. ^ Austrian international selection games 1930–1945. Austria Soccer.
6. ↑ Torsten Körner : Franz Beckenbauer. The free man. Scherz, Frankfurt am Main 2005, p. 26.