Manfred Seissler
Manfred Seissler , partly also written Manfred Seißler , (born August 8, 1939 ) is a former American football player of German origin .
Career
Seissler made his adult debut in the early 1960s for what was then the second division club KSV Hessen Kassel . At the end of the season 1961/62 he rose with the team as champions of the II. Division South in the Oberliga Süd . There the new league was tenth in the table, which means that the team qualified for the second-rate regional league after the introduction of the Bundesliga . Since he had only come to four games in the course of the season, he moved on to league rivals 1. FC Pforzheim . After two seasons in the table cellar of the Regionalliga Süd, he moved to Eintracht Trier in the Regionalliga Südwest in the summer of 1965 , where he narrowly escaped relegation to the third division with last year's third.
In 1967, American football lured Seissler to North America with the newly founded National Professional Soccer League , where he joined the Pittsburgh Phantoms . After the championship in the North American Soccer League had risen and the franchise dissolved, he then played in the new series for three years for the Kansas City Spurs and two and a half years for the Rochester Lancers , with whom he also took part in the indoor soccer championship. In the summer of 1973 he moved to Montreal Olympique , but at the end of the season this franchise also dissolved. He then played for the Syracuse Suns in the American Soccer League , before running up again briefly for the Rochester Lancers.
In 1973 Seissler played an international match for the US national team , in the 4-0 defeat against Poland he was replaced in the 58th minute of the game by Siegfried Stritzl, who was also of German descent .
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Seissler, Manfred |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Seißler, Manfred |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German-born American soccer player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 8, 1939 |