Josef Schmitt (soccer player)

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Portrait of Schmitt (with trophy)
on a flag at the easyCredit stadium

Josef Schmitt (born March 21, 1908 in Nuremberg ; † April 16, 1980 ), also called “Seppl”, was a German football player and coach. The offensive player won the German soccer championship with 1. FC Nürnberg in 1927 and 1936 and the Tschammer Cup in 1935 . He was used twice in the German national soccer team in 1928 .

Career

society

Seppl Schmitt was a true home-grown member of the club. The English club trainer Fred Spiksley is considered the discoverer of his talent. The delicately built player, who knew how to compensate for a lack of robustness with perfect technique and wit, made his debut in 1926 as a center forward. It was one of the greatest club games ever. It was in Hamburg in July 1926. “The record victory of 1. FCN!” Was the headline of the kicker . “You don't even want to write it down - 9: 1 for Nuremberg!” Against Hamburger SV, the old rival and biggest competitor in the north. The club players would have "forgotten the horror of the HSV player", analyzed the kicker . "Nuremberg won as it wanted." And the debutant was mentioned with special praise: "The new Sturmführer Schmitt knows exactly how to operate the boiled wings."

The man from Nuremberg was able to do so in his first season; 1926/27, celebrate the German championship with 1. FC Nürnberg . After winning the southern German championship , Seppl Schmitt made his debut in a 5-1 win on May 8, 1927 in Fürth against Chemnitzer BC in the final round of the German championship. As a center forward he scored three goals alongside established players such as Heinrich Stuhlfauth , Luitpold Popp , Hans Kalb , Hans Schmidt , Wolfgang Strobel , Ludwig Wieder and Heiner Träger . At club level, he was able to win his second championship title in 1936 when the club won 2-1 after extra time against Fortuna Düsseldorf . A year later, 1. FC Nürnberg was back in the final, but lost 2-0 to FC Schalke 04 , which was also due to the fact that the club had to make do with 10 players for the last half hour, as Schmitt was sent off for kicking off the field has been. In 1935 he also won the German Cup with Nuremberg. Under the Hungarian coach Jenő Konrád (1930-32) and Alfred Schaffer (1933-35) Seppl Schmitt matured to become a playmaker and team captain of the club teams of the 1930s. As a superior strategist, he was a key figure in the newly awakened Nuremberg flat-pass ballet.

He is listed in the club statistics with 605 games in club dress. In the final round of the German championship alone, the offensive conductor played 47 games from 1927 to 1940, scoring 24 goals. Schmitt played his last three final round matches in the 1940 final alongside Willi Billmann , Wilhelm Sold , Georg Kennemann and Willi Kund against SV Waldhof Mannheim (1: 1), Kickers Offenbach (8: 0) and Stuttgarter Kickers (0: 2) .

Since 1932 he and his brother Fritz ran a tobacco shop on the Plärrer, which after World War II developed into a "Mecca" for the Toto Lotto.

After the war, Schmitt became the coach of 1. FC Nürnberg and won the first German championship with the club in 1948 after the end of the Second World War. 1. FCN's recipe for success - Max Morlock scored 30 goals when winning the championship in the Oberliga Süd - explained coach Seppl Schmitt, the former half-striker: “We don't play a system. We play football. This is our whole magic formula. But because our current team members really know how to play football, they can sometimes win with head and legs with half their strength. "

Selection games

In his second senior year, the half-forward and center forward was nominated for the squad that took part in the 1928 Olympic Games in Amsterdam for Germany . The following were planned for the attack: Ernst Albrecht , Ludwig Hofmann , Josef Pöttinger , Richard Hofmann , Franz Horn , Josef Hornauer , Ernst Kuzorra , Baptist Reinmann and Seppl Schmitt. Schmitt was not used in the tournament in the two games against Switzerland (4: 0) and Uruguay (1: 4). He made his international debut in the first two internationals after the Olympics, in September against Denmark and Norway. In Nuremberg he ran on September 16 in a 2-1 win against Denmark as a center forward on the side of club mate Reinmann, Horn, Pöttinger and L. Hofmann. A week later, on September 23, he came under Reich trainer Otto Nerz in Oslo against Norway (2-0) for his second appearance in the DFB-Elf. The center forward scored the 1-0 lead for the German team in the 17th minute.

However, he was not granted any further international matches, although the Nuremberg striker was still part of the international team a few times.

In July 1934, he moved into the final on July 29th in Nuremberg against the Southwest selection in the final on July 29th in Nuremberg in the Kampfspielpokal with successes over Württemberg (4: 1), North Hesse (5: 1) and Nordmark (2: 1) . With the attacking formation Ernst Lehner (Schwaben Augsburg) and the four club players Max Eiberger , Georg Friedel , Seppl Schmitt and Willi Kund, Bayern lost the final 3: 5. In all games, Schmitt had pulled the strings in the Bayern attack as the left connector.

literature

  • Lorenz Knieriem, Hardy Grüne : Player Lexicon 1890 - 1963 . In: Encyclopedia of German League Football . tape 8 . AGON, Kassel 2006, ISBN 3-89784-148-7 , p. 342 f .
  • Jürgen Bitter : Germany's national soccer player: the lexicon . SVB Sportverlag, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-328-00749-0 , p. 426 f .
  • Christoph Bausenwein, Harald Kaiser, Bernd Siegler: Legends. The best club players ever. Publishing house Die Werkstatt. Göttingen 2010. ISBN 978-3-89533-722-2 . Pp. 178-185.
  • Fritz Tauber: German national football team: Player statistics from A to Z . 3. Edition. AGNON, Kassel 2012, ISBN 978-3-89784-397-4 , p. 112 (176 pages).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bausenwein, Siegler, Kaiser: The legend of the club. The history of 1. FC Nürnberg. Publishing house Die Werkstatt. Göttingen 2012. ISBN 978-3-89533-907-3 . P. 446
  2. ↑ Bausenwein, Siegler, Kaiser: Legends. The best club players ever. P. 178
  3. ^ Klaus Querengässer: The German Football Championship, Part 1: 1903-1945. Agon Sportverlag. Kassel 1997. ISBN 3-89609-106-9 . P. 83
  4. ↑ Bausenwein, Siegler, Kaiser: Legends. The best club players ever. P. 179
  5. ↑ Bausenwein, Siegler, Kaiser: The legend of the club. The history of 1. FC Nürnberg. Publishing house Die Werkstatt. Göttingen 2012. ISBN 978-3-89533-907-3 . P. 465
  6. ↑ Lorenz Knieriem, Hardy Grüne : Spiellexikon 1890 - 1963 . In: Encyclopedia of German League Football . tape 8 . AGON, Kassel 2006, ISBN 3-89784-148-7 , p. 343 .
  7. ↑ Werner Skrentny (ed.): When Morlock still met the moonlight. The history of the Oberliga Süd 1945–1963. Klartext Verlag. Essen 1993. ISBN 3-88474-055-5 . P. 166
  8. ↑ IFFHS: LIBERO . Special German. No. D 17. Wiesbaden 1998. pp. 12-15

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personal data
SURNAME Schmitt, Josef
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schmitt, Seppl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH March 21, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH Nuremberg
DATE OF DEATH April 16, 1980