Otto Siffling

Otto "Wood" Siffling ( born August 3, 1912 in Mannheim -Waldhof, † October 20, 1939 ) was a German football player. He played for SV Waldhof Mannheim and the German national team, with whom he won the bronze medal at the 1934 World Cup. In 1937, he scored five goals in an international match and hence is on the third place in the national team with the most goals in a game.

Life

Siffling home club was a SV Waldhof Mannheim. He took him in as a student and was appointed at the age of 18 years in the first team. With Waldhof he was from 1931 to 1934 as well as 1936 and 1937 first in the Rhine district or the Gauliga Baden, at that time the highest league in German football, and thereby qualified to fight for the German championship. The greatest success came in the season 1933/34, when the team advanced all the way to the semifinals, where 04 was eliminated by eventual Bundesliga champions FC Schalke. In the cup the SV Waldhof could reach with Siffling even twice the semifinals. 1935 and 1937, the club failed because of the later cup winners 1.FC Nürnberg and FC Schalke 04 each

He was one of the first players of the club, who have been called to the national team ( previously there were already national handball players from the club ). Siffling denied 1934-1938 31 games for the German national football team, scoring 17 goals. His biggest success was the third place at the World Championships in Italy. The former national team coach, Otto mink, put it in the opening match of the DFB team against Belgium on 27 May 1934. The German team won the game 5-2. Siffling met once and was used in all still following World Cup matches against Sweden, Czechoslovakia and Austria. At the Olympic Games in 1936 Siffling was spared in the first game and then used in the quarterfinals, where Germany, however, was eliminated against Norway.

With his ten goals he scored in internationals of 1937, he was among the players who had the largest share in the glory of the Breslau Elf that won in Wroclaw against Denmark 8-0. Siffling achieved within 32 minutes five goals, he is so on the third place in the national team with the most goals in a game. A significant tactical variant was the position and role of Otto Siffling in the middle. He did not play as outworked " wedge striker " in the middle attack, but hung back so attracted the opposing stopper from the central defense and distributed the balls on the wings fast. The torn cover the Danes enabled him then even further to come to the conclusion herself.

Otto Siffling died at the age of 27 years from 1939 to pleurisy. His last international game he played on April 24, 1938 in Frankfurt am Main with a 1-1 draw against Portugal. Siffling is still the player of SV Waldhof Mannheim with most vocations for the national team.

His hometown of Mannheim in 1977 named a street in the Waldhof district after him. To his hundredth birthday, the East grandstand were named in the Carl -Benz stadium after Siffling and at his native home in the Huben road a plaque.