Otto silver

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Otto silver
Personnel
birthday March 17, 1893
place of birth Kehtna ,  Estonia Governorate
date of death December 23, 1940
Place of death Saue ,  Estonian SSR , Soviet Union
position Defender
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
Meteor Tallinn
SK Tallinna Sport
1920-1925 Tallinna JK
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1920-1926 Estonia 20 (0)
1 Only league games are given.

Otto Silver (born March 5 . Jul / 17th March  1893 greg. In Kehtna , Governorate of Estonia ; † 23. December 1940 in Saue , Estonian SSR , Soviet Union ) was an Estonian footballer . In 1938 he established his family name in Sillapere .

With the Estonian national team , Silver played in the very first international match of the Republic of Estonia against a selection from Finland in 1920 . He took part in the Summer Olympics four years later .

Career

Otto Silber was born the third of four children to Mart Silber (1860–1932) and his wife Liiso (née Treimann). Silber took part in the First World War and the Estonian War of Independence against Soviet Russia . Throughout his life he remained associated with the Estonian Home Guard Association Kaitseliit . He was awarded the Order of the Eagle Cross for his services to the defense of the Republic of Estonia .

Silver found football early on. He took part in the first official football match of the Tallinn top clubs JS Meteor and Merkur on June 6, 1909. In 1914 he played in the Tallinn selection at the first international football tournament in which Estonia took part. It took place in the Livonian capital Riga .

His football career then took him from JS Meteor to SK Tallinna Sport . From 1920 to 1925 the stopper played for Tallinna JK , which Silber had co-founded. In 1920 he took part in the unofficial Estonian championship final, a year later in the first official championship final .

In October 1920, Silber took part with the Estonian national team as captain in the first international match in the history of the young nation against Finland .

The last completed a total of 20 internationals silver in July 1926 at the Stadium Agrykola of Warsaw against Poland .

The high point of his career should be the use at the Summer Olympics in Paris in the soccer competition , where they were eliminated in the preliminary round against the USA .

After the end of his active sports career, silver became a functionary of his club Tallinna JK and the Estonian Football Association . He also acted as a football referee. In 1932 he was co-author of a standard Estonian work on refereeing. In 1924, Silber represented Estonia at the FIFA Congress in Paris.

death

With the Soviet occupation of Estonia, which was characterized by terror and mass deportations against the Estonian population, Silber was arrested and executed in December 1940 .

Otto Silber was the older brother of the Estonian footballer, sports official and first Estonian FIFA referee August Silber (1895-1942). Like his brother, August was also executed by the Soviet occupation authorities.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Football international match: Finland 6-0 Estonia. eu-football.info, October 17, 1920, accessed on August 18, 2013 (English).
  2. ↑ Football international match: Poland 2-0 Estonia. eu-football.info, July 4, 1926, accessed on August 18, 2013 .
  3. ↑ VIII. Olympic Games Final Tournament 1924. eu-football.info, May 25, 1924, accessed on August 18, 2013 (English).
  4. ↑ https://www.raamatukoi.ee/cgi-bin/raamat?41350
  5. ↑ http://fclevadia.ee/news/3809
personal data
SURNAME Silver, Otto
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sillapere, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Estonian national soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH March 17, 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH Kehtna , Estonia Governorate
DATE OF DEATH December 23, 1940
Place of death Saue (city) , Soviet Union