Johannes Schneider (soccer player)

Johannes Schneider (born August 5, 1887 in Leipzig , † September 8, 1914 at Vitry-le-François , France ), also called "Hans", was a German football player .

Career

societies

Schneider began playing football at the age of nine in the youth department of VfB Leipzig . Since he had to fear sanctions from the school because of football as a pupil, he took the first name John and later changed it to Johannes; sometimes he asked for Hans too.

Out of adolescence, at the age of 17 he was already a member of the first team for which he played point games in the championships organized by the Association of Central German Ball Game Clubs in the Gau North-West Saxony , the regional highest division. As a goalkeeper , he took part for the first time with VfB Leipzig as defending champion in the final round of the German championship. He made his debut on May 15, 1904 in a 3-2 win n. V. in the semi-final game against Duisburg SpV . Only with his goal in the 132nd minute - after a goalless half hour the game was extended again - he secured his team a place in the final.

However, the final against BTuFC Britannia 1892 , scheduled for May 29, 1904 in Kassel , did not take place. The Karlsruher FV had lodged a protest against the rating of this championship at the DFB. The DFB had not complied with the schedule of the final round matches in a neutral location; as a result, the final was canceled in the morning and the championship final was annulled.

Two years later - through the Gau and Central German Championship again qualified for the final round of the German Championship - it was used in all three final round matches. After FC Norden-Nordwest Berlin was defeated 9-1 in the quarter-finals in Leipzig on April 22, 1906 , the semi-final won 3-2 against Berlin's FC Hertha 92 on May 6, 1906 in Berlin . On May 27, 1906, he was at the goal of his greatest success; the final in Nuremberg he and his team won 2-1 against 1. FC Pforzheim . The doctor of business and the son of a canning manufacturer was able to repeat this success again on May 11, 1913 in Munich , having won numerous regional championships . Duisburg SpV was defeated 3-1. The final of the German championship, reached again on May 31, 1914 , in which he was in the goal of a final game for the 14th time, went in Magdeburg 2: 3 n.V. against SpVgg Fürth - among others with Karl Burger , Georg Wellhöfer , Hans Schmidt, Georg Wunderlich , Julius Hirsch  - lost with his winning goal in the 153rd minute of the game.

Selection / national team

In the year of his greatest success again, he played two international matches for the senior team . He made his debut on October 26th in the pouring rain in Hamburg in the 1: 4 defeat against the national team of Denmark . He conceded two more goals on November 23 - again in constant rain - in Antwerp in the 2-6 defeat against the Belgian national team . It remains to be assumed that as he wears glasses, his ability to see and react is impaired.

As the successor to goalkeeper Ernst Raydt , he also played in the selection team of the Association of Central German Ball Game Clubs in the competition for the Crown Prince's Cup . The final held on February 22, 1914 in Berlin against the team of the North German Football Association was lost with 1: 2. In the Nuremberg semifinals, however, the strong selection team of the South German Football Association with their runners - Eugen Kipp , Max Breunig , Hans Schmidt - was defeated 2-1.

successes

• German champion 1906 , 1913
• Central German master 1906 , 1907 , 1911 , 1913
• Gaumeister Nordwestsachsen 1904 , 1906 , 1907 , 1908 , 1909 , 1910 , 1913

Others

At the beginning of the First World War he was drafted into military service and almost a year after his international appearances, he fell in France in September 1914 , at Vitry-le-François .

Web links

• Johannes Schneider in the database of weltfussball.de
• Johannes Schneider on dfb .de

literature

• Hardy Grüne , Lorenz Knieriem: Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 8: Player Lexicon 1890–1963. Agon-Sportverlag, Kassel 2006, ISBN 3-89784-148-7 .