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Paul Forell (born January 14, 1892 - August 2, 1959 ) was a German football player .

Career

societies

Emerging from the youth of Victoria Pforzheim , Forell was signed by 1. FC Pforzheim for the 1909/10 season . Apart from six months, which he played as a wartime guest player for Phoenix Mannheim , he remained loyal to the Pforzheim team until the end of the 1925/26 season . In the South German association football clubs , from July 1914 to the South German Football Association conducted championships he played as a left winger in Südkreis his point games. The southern district championship in 1913 only went to the first place after the 2-0 playoff against FC Stuttgarter Cickers , with which he and his team had ended the season tied. This constellation was repeated at the end of the following season - with the difference that the decider for first place was lost this time with 0: 4.

In the 1919/20 season he played his point games in the Baden district league , from the 1920/21 season in the Südwest district league , which he completed with his team in the two-year time under the former national player Max Breunig as a master. As a result, he took part with her in the final round of the southern German championship, finished first in the group phase from the southern group, but failed in the knockout round in the semi-final on April 24, 1921 with 0: 1 FC Phoenix Ludwigshafen .

He completed the 1922/23 season in the Baden district league , which ended his team as champions, after a round trip against FC Stuttgarter Cickers with an overall result of 4-1, he also won the district championship and the final round of the South German championship as fourth out of five Participants completed. He played his last three seasons in the more competitive Württemberg / Baden district league .

Selection / national team

As a player in the team of the South German Football Association , he came to several missions, including in 1920 in the “Brötzinger Tal” stadium in Pforzheim in the 1-0 defeat against central Hungary in front of “15,000 to 20,000 spectators”, a record attendance for this venue to this day. In 1921 he belonged to the southern selection in Vienna against Austria.

He played his only international match for the senior national team on October 24, 1920 in Berlin - the DFB's first after the end of the First World War - in a 1-0 victory over the Hungarian national team .

successes

• Württemberg-Baden Master 1923
• Badischer Meister 1923
• Southwest Champion 1921

Others

• After the end of his football career, he was responsible for the "propaganda games" of the private team of 1. FC Pforzheim.
• Furthermore, he was a member of the club's game committee and was a supervisor for the reserve team.
• As a longtime honorary member of the club, he was awarded the golden badge of honor by the Badischer Fußball-Verband in 1952 .

• In 1906 he began an apprenticeship in a Pforzheim insurance company, became a commercial employee and was general agent of the company until his retirement in 1956; three years later he died in Pforzheim at the age of 67.

Web links

• Paul Forell in the database of weltfussball.de
• Paul Forell on dfb .de

literature

• Archive Pforzheimer Zeitung , January 13, 1952, July 3, 1952, August 4, 1959
• Jürgen Bitter : Germany's national soccer player: the lexicon . SVB Sportverlag, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-328-00749-0 .
• Lorenz Knieriem, Hardy Grüne : Player Lexicon 1890 - 1963 . In: Encyclopedia of German League Football . tape 8 . AGON, Kassel 2006, ISBN 3-89784-148-7 .