Henry Muller

Henry Müller (born August 12, 1896 in Hamburg ; † September 8, 1982 ) was a German national football player who made nine appearances in the national team between 1921 and 1928.

career

society

Der Hamburger Jung 'made his breakthrough at SC Victoria Hamburg in the 1914/15 season . There he experienced winning the North German championship in the 1918/19 season. In the following season Victoria was able to win the championship in Hamburg with a 5-3 win against Altona 93 , but it was not enough to defend the title in Northern Germany. The decisive breakthrough for Müller took place under the training direction of William J. Townley from March 1921 to December 1922. Now began the international career of the tall, matter-of-fact defense lawyer. Henry Müller formed the defensive axis at Victoria together with his club mates Ernst Eikhoff and goalkeeper Charly Pohl . Henry Müller embodied the type of "attack defender" that was in demand at the time. Third place with Victoria in the north was countable again in the 1927/28 round. However, it was not enough to participate in the final round of the German championship.

Crown Prince Cup, Federal Cup, Fighting Game Cup

On May 29, 1919, the defender of Victoria Hamburg played the first game in the North German selection in a 5-1 success at home in the Hoheluft Stadium in the semi-final against Brandenburg. In his second assignment on June 8, 1919 in Berlin, he won the crown prince's cup of the round 1918/19 with northern Germany with a 5-4 win against southern Germany . The reliable defender also celebrated his second final victory against southern Germany. On February 22, 1925, northern Germany defeated the team from southern Germany with 2-1 goals, with Mannheim center forward Sepp Herberger not being able to prevent the northern selection from winning. In another five finals, Müller represented the North German colors. From 1919 to 1929, Henry Müller, mostly with his defender partners Walter Risse or Albert Beier , played 26 games in the association cup games for Northern Germany.

German national soccer team

On June 5, 1921, Henry Müller made his national team debut in the 3-0 defeat in Budapest against Hungary. In the reporting it is stated that " Karl Tewes and Henry Müller prevented worse". After a seven-month break, he stood for the second time in the defense of the German team in the sensational 2-0 victory against Austria on April 29, 1922 in Vienna in front of 70,000 spectators. In the seventh international match, Müller underwent an own goal in the 10th minute of the game in the 1: 2 defeat against Finland on August 12, 1923 in Dresden. On November 23, 1924 he came by substitution in the 78th minute of play for Anton Kugler in the encounter against Italy to his eighth game in the DFB-Elf. Four years later, on September 23, 1928 in Oslo against Norway, the first game under the responsibility of Reich coach Otto Nerz , his ninth and last appointment was added.

After football

At the beginning of the 1930s, Henry Müller ended his active career and now devoted himself to his profession as an insurance broker in his home town of Hamburg.

literature

• Hardy Greens : Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 1: From the Crown Prince to the Bundesliga. 1890 to 1963. German championship, Gauliga, Oberliga. Numbers, pictures, stories. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 1996, ISBN 3-928562-85-1 .
• Hardy Greens: Legendary football clubs. Northern Germany. Between TSV Achim, Hamburger SV and TuS Zeven. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2004, ISBN 3-89784-223-8 .
• LIBERO, No. D9, 1994, IFFHS.