Richard Kress
Richard Kress ( born March 6, 1925 in Niesig; † 30 March 1996 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German football player.
Career
Club level
1935-1953
Kress began his career at Fulda traditional club FV 1910 Horas, a neighboring his then 160 inhabitants birth community Niesig. In Horas he played from 1935 to 1953 as a winger and was known there by the nickname "Flash of Horas ". His home club remained Locksmiths son - who was considered for the whole Fulda football community as a great model, a lifelong.
1953-1960
In the season 1953/54 Kress moved to Eintracht Frankfurt. The Main townspeople played at that time in the Oberliga Süd, which had up to 1962/ 63 to the German top flight in the DFB region. When Eintracht Kress was used as a typical " right-winger ".
At club level Kress celebrated his greatest successes from the end of the 1950s. 1959 Kress was German soccer champion at age 34. The discharged at Berlin's Olympic Stadium final was won by the harmony in a derby against the Offenbacher Kickers 5:3 nV
A year later, Kress was in a memorable final of the European Champion Clubs' Cup, the UEFA Champions League today. The discharged on May 18, 1960 Finals went down in European football history due to the incredible goal and number of audience. The final at Hampden Park in Glasgow saw 127,500 spectators. Opponents of concord was Real Madrid, the then world's best team that had already won the played out since 1955/56, Cup four times in a row and that was the only title holder. Kress scored the surprising 1-0 ahead in the 18th minute. At half time the score was 3-1 for Real. In the end, Madrid sat However, by clearly and eventually won 7-3 in the premier club title in Europe for the fifth time in succession. At Real Ferenc Puskás and Alfredo Di Stéfano four - met three times. After the flight home more than 60,000 people of concord cheered on their way to receive the Römer in Frankfurt.
1961-1964
Because of the Twelve annual ranking, the Oberliga Eintracht Frankfurt for the newly introduced for season 1963/64 Bundesliga could qualify. Kress was part of the starting line in the first Bundesliga game of concord, which in the forest stadium 1:1 ended on August 24, 1963 against 1 FC Kaiserslautern. At the same time he was the oldest active player in the First Division at 38 years old.
In June 1964, Frankfurt lost the final of the DFB - Pokal selecting the TSV 1860 Munich ( Full 0:2 ). In this final Kress was not used.
1964 ended Kress after a Erstligasaison, the Frankfurt graduated third in his football career. For the harmony he completed 573 point games.
For Eintracht Frankfurt Kress scored between 1953-1964 at least 99 Goals in official matches, which accounted for
- European Champions Cup ( 2)
- Bundesliga ( 2)
- Championship finals ( 8)
- Oberliga (68 )
- Oberliga comparison round in 1955 and 1956 ( 6)
- National and regional Cup value Competitions (10 )
- German Floodlight Cup (3).
- In addition, with the city of Frankfurt am Main in the selection -Cities Fairs Cup (0).
National
For the German national team striker completed 1954-1961 nine caps, scoring two goals. It passed after its debut, in which he was already 29 years old, six years, until he came in for his second deployment.
Although he participated in several qualifying matches for the World Cup in Chile in 1962 and this together played with the likes of Uwe Seeler, Willi Schulz, Karl -Heinz Schnellinger or Hans Tilkowski, it was Kress not permitted to participate in a World Cup.
As early as 1953 Kress had participated in an international match of the amateur national team. From 1954 to 1958, he took beyond three games in the B team.
Besides football
Richard Kress was a qualified chemist. After his move to Frankfurt, he was there first employed by the gasoline plants. Later Kress operation, together with his wife, a drugstore in Oeder way to Frankfurt. You could him regularly for training encounter in his travels in the line 18 on the concord place in Riederwald.