Jakob May (soccer player)

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Jakob May
Personnel
position Storm
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1935-1937 VfB Leipzig
1 Only league games are given.

Jakob May (life dates unknown) is a former German soccer player.

Career

May belonged to VfB Leipzig , for which he played point games from 1935 to 1937 in the Gauliga Sachsen , in one of initially 16, later increased to 23 Gauligen at the time of National Socialism as the uniform top division in the German Reich .

With the team he took part in the competition for the Tschammerpokal , the cup competition for club teams introduced in 1935. He crowned his debut on June 14, 1936 in a 5-0 first round win against 1. SV Jena with his first goal, the 2-0 goal in the 60th minute. Then he came on August 23, 1936 in the necessary and 3-0 won replay against Vorwärts-Rasensport Gleiwitz to use, after the encounter in the 2nd final round on June 28, 1936 with the 2-2 draw after extra time no winner had found. He won the round of 16 with his team - as the only home team - 2-0 against Berliner SV 1892 . After he was able to victoriously finish the encounter with VfB Peine in the quarter-finals - also because of two goals from him - he did not contest the semi-finals - he moved into the final with VfB Leipzig.

The final, scheduled for January 3, 1937 in the Berlin Olympic Stadium , took place against last year's finalists FC Schalke 04 , with Fritz Szepan and Ernst Kuzorra in their ranks - and ended 2: 1 for VfB Leipzig, where he scored the His team took the lead 1-0 in the 20th minute.

successes

Web links

  • Jakob May in the database of weltfussball.de