Leonhard Seiderer

Leonhard " Loni " Seiderer ( born 1 November 1895 in Nuremberg, † July 3, 1940 ) was a German football player and coach. He won the German championship with SpVgg Fürth in 1926 and was appointed 1920-1924 eight times in the German national soccer team.

Career

The attack player started his career at the 1 FC Nuremberg and had his major successes after the First World War as a player SpVgg Fürth after some fallen in the war regulars had to be replaced. Seiderer was nicknamed "little Gazelle" ", which he earned by his Spieleleganz. Moreover, he was regarded as a goal threat.

In the final round of the German Championship in 1920 he reached the final of Fürth, but lost there with 0:2 against 1.FC Nuremberg. Six years later, in the final 1926 Hertha BSC could be beaten in Frankfurt 4-1. Seiderers use in this game was because of an injury long questionable - but despite his Peeling awareness he scored a goal and gave as his injury was worse, and he could almost play only state football on the left wing, the edge for the last goal by Willy Ascherl. In the last championship of Fürth 1929 he was no longer in the team.

In 1920 he was first appointed to the national team, in 1924 he played the last of his eight matches in which he scored four goals and 1922 stepped in for an injured goalkeeper.

As a coach he worked 1929/30 and 1931/32 in Germania Nuremberg, 1930/31 ASV Nuremberg, 1932/33, at FC Wacker München, 1933/34, at the 1 FC Schweinfurt 05, April 1934 to March 1936 for SpVgg Fürth and from April 1936 to March 1939 at VfB Stuttgart.

Mid- thirties, he contracted tuberculosis, from which he never recovered and died in 1940.