Andreas Kupfer
Personal information | |||
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Full name | Andreas Kupfer | ||
Date of birth | 7 May 1914 | ||
Place of birth | Schweinfurt (Germany) | ||
Date of death | 30 April 2001 | (aged 86)||
Place of death | Marktbreit (Germany) | ||
Position(s) | Midfielder | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
1932–1933 | VfR 07 Schweinfurt | ||
1933–1954 | 1. FC Schweinfurt 05 | 512 | (72) |
International career | |||
1937–1950 | Germany | 44 | (1) |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
Andreas Kupfer (7 May 1914, in
Career
Kupfer played for VfR 07 Schweinfurt until 1933 and then joined 1. FC Schweinfurt 05 for the rest of his career. On the national level he played for Germany national team (44 matches/1 goal), and was a participant at the 1938 FIFA World Cup.
Kupfer was one of two
Kupfer was a player that fascinated the crowds with his elegant ways of playing. He was a master of kicking the ball with just moving his ankle joint. In 1938 he was called up to play for the
In his 1978 book Fussball, Helmut Schön characterised Kupfer as follows:
As an outside half he was a player who certainly would be a regular in our midfield today. I would have been glad if we could have had a player like him in our ranks in Argentina. When he played behind me, with his hardness, deftness and pace, I felt absolutely safe upfront. Kupfer's left foot was stronger than his right; when he moved with the ball from the right side to the center, he played diagonal passes with his left foot towards the right wing, which tore apart the defense. An exceptionally gifted player.
Kupfer was the last member of the Breslau Elf to die, in 2001.
Honours
Club
- Gauliga Bayern
- Tschammerpokal
- Semi-finalist: 1936
- Semi-finalist:
Individual
- Europe XI: 1938
Trivia
Alongside with Sepp Herberger and Fritz Walter, in 1942 Kupfer acted in the Robert A. Stemmle sports film The Big Game, starring René Deltgen, Gustav Knuth, and Heinz Engelmann.
References
- "Weltfussball" (in German). Archived from the original on 2007-09-29. Retrieved 2007-07-23.
- Notes