Kurt Langenbein
Kurt Long Leg ( * November 4, 1910; † 22 October 1978) was a German national football team.
Career
Association
The right-winger or center-forward of VfR Mannheim was in the thirties of the most important players at his position in Southern Germany. Three times he was top scorer in the Gauliga Baden. In the round of 1927/28, the turf players in the Rhine district league integrated the offensive talent Oskar tube and Kurt Long leg in the Ligaelf the Blue-White - Red. Already on 15 June 1929, he played in the city range from Mannheim. In the second year of Gauliga Baden, 1934/35, he won the first time with the VfR the championship and went with it into the final round of the German Cup. There he was indeed a good personal record with six games and four goals, cutting off his team, however, was disappointing with five defeats and just one win. After re Gaumeisterschaft 1938, the turf players showed but in the final at their best and delivered a balanced fight with FC Schalke 04 for the first rank in the group stage. The 1-1 draw on the final day of group matches, 8 May, at SV Dessau 05, brought the VfR compared with the same number of points Schalke 04 due to goal difference to win the group and thus a place in the semifinals.
Long leg was considered intelligence footballer who two decades of Ligaelf VfR belonged, over 1200 games played for the club and it is said to have brought on more than 1,400 doors. He was also once the VfR team that after the end of World War II, on 9 September 1945 in the first football match in Mannheim against SV Waldhof on the side of the players Oskar tube and Karl Striebinger in a 3-1 victory for the forest Höfer active had. In the first season of the Football Oberliga Süd, 1945/46, the VfR started with a 2-1 home victory on November 4, 1945, at the Offenbacher Kickers in the round, the ex -National player graduated from six matches and scored five goals.
After the Second World War, he worked as managing director of the Mannheim transport. From VfR Mannheim, he was appointed " honorary captain ".
Selection Games
On 10 January 1932, the VfR attacker was 1931/32 situated in the semi-final of the German Cup in Saarbrücken between southern Germany and Brandenburg as a right-winger in the Südauswahl. When significant 8:1 success he played alongside goalkeeper Willibald Kress, Franz Schütz, Hans Stubb, Rudolf Gramlich and Edmund Conen. The final he lost with southern Germany, on 5 June 1932 in Leipzig with 1:2 goals against Northern Germany. On March 6, 1932, he first stood for the DFB team on the court, as the Switzerland selection 2-0 was defeated. It was also at the same time the national debut of his former VfR - goal Oskar tube, which is now played at Bayern Munich. While he was in the 38- player provisional squad for the World Cup 1934, took place in the final squad, but no place. In his second and final match against Latvia in Königsberg on 13 October 1935, the 3-0 final results he achieved a international goal. Nevertheless, it remained the long-term success denied in the national team.
He also came up with 16 appearances in the Süddeutsche selection, after 1932 he was drafted in 1933 with southern Germany and in 1935 and 1938 with the Gauauswahl Baden (58 games for bathing or the Mannheim city selection) in the semifinals at the Imperial Federation Cup.
Source
- Kicker Edition: 100 years of German internationals, 2008