DFC Prag

The German football club Prague was an Austrian, later Czechoslovakian football club from the then Czech and Czech capital Prague today and counted the beginning of the 20th century to the best football teams in Europe. In the German football history of the DFC was an especially through his participation in the final of the first German Soccer Championship against VfB Leipzig on 31 May 1903. He thus became the first " runner " in German football.

  • 3.1 National Players
  • 3.2 Other notable players

History

A German football club in Prague

The DFC Prague was founded on 25 May 1896 by German nationalist Jews who had come out of the recently founded football department of the German ice and rowing clubs regatta Prague.

The DFC Prague took, although resident in Austria - Hungary, the German Soccer Cup finals, which was held as a trophy of the regional champions. The DFB had then tried to get more members, which is why he allowed the German, Austrian and Bohemian clubs to join the Association and participate in cup matches. However, the club was allowed to place any players in the German national team, as this was bound to the nationality.

The DFC was one of the founding clubs of the DFB.

German Championship 1903

The first German Championship came on 31 May 1903 in Altona (today Hamburg) to the final between VfB Leipzig and the DFC Prague, which won the Saxons with 7:2 and thus the first German football champions were - although the Prague as clear favorites went into the race.

Prior to this championship final however, there was a scandal: the DFC Prague should on May 17, the semi-finals in Leipzig contest against Karlsruher FV, but the team waited in vain for the arrival of the opposing team. " DFB laid championship game, " Shortly before the departure, the Karlsruhe player had achieved a telegram from Prague with the following content. The team of Karlsruher FV remained due to the alleged cancellation at home, and the DFC Prague reached the finals without a fight. Who was the person in charge of the telegram, is still unclear. Even the for May 10 in Munich scheduled quarter-final, also against Karlsruhe, had to fail, since Prague, Karlsruhe and the DFB not on the match venue had some can and the DFB finally, as already attended only six teams in the championship, both teams had left the semi-finals, where they will not re- encountered one another.

In the following years

The DFC Prague remained until the 1920s, one of the leading teams of European football, touring repeatedly Friendship Games in Vienna and Budapest, to play against the strong Austrian and Hungarian clubs. At the beginning of the century belonged to the DTC, as well as the well-known Czech club Slavia and Sparta today Prague, the Austrian Football Association and also took part in the ( unofficial ) Austrian championships. Until the proclamation of the first Czechoslovak Republic, the players of the DFC Prague completed - as well as those of the city rivals Slavia and Sparta - their caps for the Austrian national team. Among the most famous players in the blue-white selection include the defender Paul Fischel, later publisher and editor of the Prague daily paper and the subsequent professional tennis champion Karel Koželuh. The first president of the DFB, Ferdinand Hueppe, was at the foundation of the German Association of the representatives of the DFC.

After the rise of Henlein the club and its officials and players, was suggested despite their mostly Jewish descent, the movement Henlein, the Sudeten German National Socialist Party, to join. As a player, as officials refused, the DTC immediately after the entry of German troops in Prague ( March 1939 ) was banned as a "Jewish club ".

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Known player

National players

  • Robert Cimera: 10 caps and 1 goal from 1908 to 1915 ( DFC Prague 9; Rapid Wien 1) for Austria; later coach at DFC
  • Friedrich Feller: 2 matches in 1918 for Austria
  • Paul Fischl: 3 internationals from 1908 to 1910 for Austria
  • Bernhard Graubart: 5 matches in 1912 for Austria
  • Karl Kanhäuser: 5 matches, 3 goals for Austria and 2 for Czechoslovakia
  • Karel Koželuh: 4 caps, 1 goal from 1917 to 1918 for Austria, 2 caps and 1 goal in 1923 for Czechoslovakia
  • Ladislaus Kurpiel: 8 matches from 1908 to 1912 for Austria
  • Robert Merz: 13 caps and 5 goals 1908-1914 for Austria
  • Otto Noll: 3 matches in 1912 for Austria
  • Samuel Schillinger: 4 internationals from 1926 to 1929 for Czechoslovakia
  • Johann Schwarz I: 1 international match in 1908 for Austria
  • Karel Steffl: 2 matches in 1926 for Czechoslovakia
  • Wilhelm control: 1 international match in 1918 for Austria
  • Ferenc Szedlacsek: 2 caps and 1 goal from 1925 to 1926 for Czechoslovakia
  • Ernst Thurm: 2 matches in 1908 for Austria
  • Karel Wilda: 3 caps and 2 goals from 1917 to 1918 for Austria

Other well-known players

  • Koloman Bobor
  • Karel Feller
  • Otto Höss
  • Otto Krompholz
  • Josef Kuchinka
  • Pavel " Aule " Mahrer
  • January Neugebauer
  • Jimmy Ottaway
  • Adolf Patek
  • Josef Příhoda
  • Emmerich Rath
  • Fritz Taussig
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