Max Morlock

Max Morlock with the Championship trophy in 1961 on a Flag at the club grounds of the 1st FC Nuremberg.

Maximilian " Max / Maxie " Morlock ( born May 11, 1925 in Nuremberg, † September 10, 1994 ) was a German football player. He was, among other world champion twice in 1954 and German champion.

Career

In the club

As a young Morlock played as an external rotor for Eintracht Nuremberg. In April 1940, this team won 4-2 against 1 FC Nuremberg, then moved Morlock 1 FC Nuremberg, since there had noticed his talent. This changed his role from an external rotor for striker. On 11 May 1941 he won together with the B - youth of the club, the city championship and the district championship. At age 16, Max was already in the first team in the match against Wacker Munich because it was very difficult during the war years and thereafter for coach Hans Schmidt to put together his team. 1942/43, earned itself the club with 40:0 points and 125:17 gates of the championship in the Gauliga northern Bavaria. Of the 125 goals scored Morlock 54 On 25 August 1943 he was called up for military service. The first game after the war, the club had only again on November 4, 1945 against FC Bayern Munich in the newly established Oberliga Süd. Coach was now Alv Riemke because Hans Schmidt had been removed from the coaching license because of his party membership in the NSDAP. Other teams could Max Morlock made ​​lucrative offers, but they refused Morlock from.

From 1940 to 1964 Morlock played for the 1st FC Nuremberg. Morlock scored in 900 games for the Red - Black 700 goals. With the club he was in 1948 and 1961 German Masters. As a 38 -year-old he scored in the founding of the Bundesliga season 1963/64, another eight goals in 21 games. His last goal he scored on May 9, 1964 the final day of the season in the 2-2 draw against Hamburger SV and thus held for 23 years, the record for the oldest Bundesliga scorers.

In the National Team

1950 Sepp Herberger tested at ten Sichtungslehrgängen 250 German youth players, including Max Morlock. Since Fritz Walter turned out due to injury, Morlock had on 22 November 1950 in Stuttgart his first game for the national team against Switzerland.

In 1951, Morlock played three times for the national team: against Austria, Ireland and against Turkey in Istanbul.

At the FIFA World Cup 1954 Morlock participated. In the two games against Turkey ( 17 and 23 June) he met a total of four times. In the 6-1 victory against Austria in the semi-finals he met once. In the final against Hungary in Bern, he scored in the 10th minute the 1:2 goal back for the German team. Morlock is still the only German player ever played during his membership of the 1st FC Nuremberg at a World Cup for Germany. At the World Championship 1958 in Sweden Morlock no longer part of the German squad. Morlock was 1950-1958 26 times the jersey of the German national team and scored 21 hits. His last game in the National Dress Morlock completed in December 1958 in the 1-2 defeat against Egypt, the first international match Germany outside Europe.

Honors

Private

• Max Morlock was married and had two daughters.
• He died on 10 September 1994 the consequences of a cancer suffering.
• At the St. Leonhard Cemetery in Nuremberg Max Morlock was buried

In the arts

In the movie The Miracle of Bern from 2003 is represented Max Morlock by Tobias Hartmann ..

Miscellaneous

Max Morlock is one of the players who have played in her career for one club, see List of one- club men (English).