Breslau Eleven
As Breslau Elf those German national football team is known that struck in a friendly match on May 16, 1937 at the Silesian Breslau Denmark 8-0.
The national squad of the " coach duo" Sepp Herberger and Otto Mink sat still in the core of players together who had surprisingly reached the third place in the World Cup in Italy in 1934, three years earlier. It was supplemented by junior players as the Schweinfurt bishop pair Kitzinger / copper, Schalke Gellesch and Urban and Elbern of Beuel 06
The German team, which ran aground on May 16 in Wroclaw in front of 40,000 spectators, played with the following schedule:
- Hans Jakob (SSV Jahn Regensburg )
- Paul Janes (Fortuna Dusseldorf )
- Reinhold Miinzenberg ( Alemannia Aachen )
- Andreas Kupfer ( 1 FC Schweinfurt 05)
- Ludwig Goldbrunner (Bayern Munich )
- Albin Kitzinger ( 1 FC Schweinfurt 05)
- Ernst Lehner (TSV Schwaben Augsburg ) ( 1 goal)
- Rudolf Gellesch (FC Schalke 04)
- Otto Siffling (SV Waldhof Mannheim ) (5 goals)
- Fritz Szepan (FC Schalke 04) ( 1 goal)
- Adolf Urban ( FC Schalke 04) ( 1 goal)
The 8:0 was the highest to date defeat of the Danish national team. The team despite varying occupation so-called in reference to this game in other international matches won in the calendar year 1937 ten of the eleven meetings, including the Olympic rematch against Norway.
In the Football World Cup 1938 in France, the team could not compete in the Breslauer installation, since due to the annexation of Austria to the German Reich to political pressure the team had to be mixed from players from Germany and Austria. Result was an unexpected early failure of the German team, and the end of the successful series in Germany.