Georg Friedel (soccer player)

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Georg Friedel (born September 6, 1913 in Nuremberg , † June 1, 1987 ) was a German football player .

Career

societies

Friedel joined the youth department of 1. FC Nürnberg at the age of 13 and was promoted to the first team in 1930. Together with Josef Schmitt , Karl Gußner and Max Eiberger , he formed one of the most successful assault lines in German club football in the mid-1930s. On June 24, 1934 he reached the final of the German championship for the first time with 1. FC Nürnberg ; in the game that was lost against FC Schalke 04 with 1: 2, he scored the opening goal in the 54th minute.

Despite this defeat, he earned the nickname of the Schalke scare in the following years : On December 8, 1935, his goal to the 2-0 final against FC Schalke 04 led 1. FC Nürnberg to win the first cup for club teams which he succeeded again in 1939 with the team. 7½ months after his first title win, he also won his only German championship, due to the 2-1 win n. V. against Fortuna Düsseldorf in Berlin . Before that, he won the semi-finals with the Nuremberg team against FC Schalke 04 with two goals 2-0. For the Nuremberg team, he played a total of 325 games in which he scored over 400 goals. In the final round of the German championship he was used 31 times and scored 22 goals, in the Tschammerpokal competition 18 times with 12 goals.

National team

His storm talent did not go unnoticed by Reich trainer Sepp Herberger and invited him to the international match of the senior national team against the national team of the Netherlands . The country comparison on January 31, 1937 in Düsseldorf ended 2: 2 in a draw; in his only appearance as a national player , he missed all opportunities three times standing alone in front of goal.

successes

Others

At the beginning of the Second World War he was called up for military service after the cup final in 1940 and took part in the Africa campaign. When he returned to Nuremberg from the war unharmed, he was no longer considered in the post-war team of 1. FC Nuremberg.

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