Max Seeburg

Max Seeburg
Personnel
Surname	Max Paul Seeburg
birthday	September 19, 1884
place of birth	Leipzig ,  German Empire
date of death	January 24, 1972
Place of death	Thatcham ,  England
position	Storm
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
	park
	Cheshunt
	Chelsea FC	0 (0)
1907-1908	Tottenham Hotspur	16 (5)
1908-1910	Leyton FC
1910-1911	Burnley FC	17 (0)
1911-1912	Grimsby Town	20 (0)
1912-1913	Reading FC	8 (0)
1914	Reading FC	0 (0)
1 Only league games are given.

Max Paul Seeburg (born September 19, 1884 in Leipzig , † January 24, 1972 in Thatcham ) was a German football player . Seeburg was the first continental European in the Football League when he played for Tottenham Hotspur in 1908 .

Life

Seeburg was born in Leipzig in 1884 as the son of furrier Franck Seeburg, who moved to London in the late 1880s to work in a fur trade near Tower Bridge . Seeburg grew up in North London and played there for various amateur clubs, including Park and Cheshunt , before he began his professional career at Chelsea , where he did not make it to appearances for the first team. In May 1907 he joined Tottenham Hotspur, which at that time was still playing in the Southern League . After he came to his first appearances for the professional team of the club during two friendlies in Belgium in May 1907, he played either as a center or half-forward 15 times in the Southern League in the 1907/08 season. When Tottenham was accepted into the Football League Second Division for the 1908/09 season , he was one of the few players who were taken over into the new league. With his use on September 26, 1908 against Hull City , Seeburg became the first continental European in the Football League. This was also his penultimate appearance for Tottenham, after a game in the London FA Charity Cup , he moved back to the Southern League for North London club Leyton in October 1908 .

In 1910 he moved on and played one season each in the Second Division for Burnley FC and Grimsby Town before moving to the Southern League for Reading FC in 1912 , where he settled down and ran a pub after his retirement in 1913 . After a brief comeback in February 1914, a few weeks after the outbreak of World War I , he was not naturalized because of his German origins, he was briefly arrested and taken to an internment camp in Newbury . Because of his fame and good relationships with the local authorities, he was released after about a week, but had in the meantime lost his job as a pub operator. Seeburg later gained a foothold in the catering trade and operated a number of pubs. Until his death in 1972 he regularly attended Reading FC games, sometimes accompanied by his daughter Margaret, who was born in 1923.

literature

• Bob Goodwin: The Spurs Alphabet - A Complete Who's Who of Tottenham Hotspur FC ACL & Polar Publishing Ltd., Leicester 1992, ISBN 0-9514862-8-4 , pp. 326 .
• Nick Harris: England, Their England - The definitive story of foreign footballers in the English game since 1888 . Pitch Publishing, Hove 2003, ISBN 0-9542460-1-2 , pp. 36 f .