Leopold Richter (soccer player)

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Leopold Richter (born May 22, 1885 - † August 3, 1941 ) was a German football player .

Career

societies

Richter belonged to the Dresdner SC , for which he was used from 1901 to 1906 in the championships organized by the Association of Central German Ball Game Clubs . After the regional championships, initially in the Dresden Gau, from the 1902/03 season in the East Saxony Gau, he also reached the final of the Central German Championship each time, which he and his club only played against the Halle soccer club on April 21, 1905 in Leipzig won 3-2 in 1896 .

The finals of 1902 and 1903 were lost to the Leipzig competition ( FC Wacker Leipzig and VfB Leipzig ); the finals of 1904 and 1906 - each against VfB Leipzig - not played and not played by the Dresdner SC.

Moved to Leipzig due to his studies, he joined VfB Leipzig, for which he only played the 1906/07 season, which ended with two regional championships.

Due to the win of the Central German Championship, he also took part in the respective finals for the German Championship. First he played the quarter-finals , which he won 5: 3 in Berlin on May 28, 1905 against the football club Victoria of 1895 from Hamburg, and then the semi-finals, which he lost 5: 2 to later champions BTuFC Union 92 on June 4, 1905 in Leipzig . He played his last final round match on May 12, 1907 in Nuremberg , which was lost 3-2 in the semifinals against eventual champions Freiburg FC , scoring his only goal in this competition with the connection goal in the 90th minute.

Selection / national team

Leopold Richter (left)
and teammates who won the Crown Prince Cup in 1909.

As a player in the selection team of the Association of Central German Ball Game Clubs , he took part in the competition for the Crown Prince's Cup. After victories in the quarter and semi-finals , he won the final of a German soccer cup competition, which was held in Berlin for the first time on April 18, 1909, against the selection team of the Berliner Ballspielvereine with 3-1.

He played his only international match for the senior national team on April 4, 1909 in Budapest in a 3-3 draw against the national team of Hungary . A serious knee injury suffered no further international matches, so he had to end his active football career.

successes

Web links

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 .