Ernst Lehner

Ernst Lehner

Personal information
Full name	Ernst Lehner
Date of birth	(1912-11-07)7 November 1912[1]
Place of birth	Augsburg, Germany
Date of death	10 January 1986(1986-01-10) (aged 73)
Place of death	Aschaffenburg, West Germany
Position(s)	Striker
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1929-1940	Schwaben Augsburg
1940-1943	BW 1890 Berlin	1	(0)
1943-1947	Schwaben Augsburg
1947-1951	Viktoria Aschaffenburg	40	(4)
International career
1933-1942	Germany	65	(31)
Managerial career
1945-1947	player-manager )
1950-1953	Viktoria Aschaffenburg
1959-1961	Viktoria Aschaffenburg
1961-1966	Darmstadt 98
Medal record Men's football Representing  Germany FIFA World Cup 1934 Italy
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Ernst Lehner (7 November 1912 – 10 January 1986) was a German

He played for the Germany national football team in the 1934 FIFA World Cup and the 1938 FIFA World Cup. In total, he made 65 appearances and scored 31 goals for the national team. Lehner was a member of the Breslau Eleven that beat Denmark 8–0 in Breslau in 1937 and went on to win 10 out of 11 games played during that year. His position was that of an outside right. He was also part of Germany's squad at the 1936 Summer Olympics.^[2]

Career

Ernst Lehner was one of the paciest and most skilled

In his 1978 book "Fussball", Helmut Schön, manager of the West Germany national team (1964–1978), characterised Lehner as follows:

"His way of playing as an outside forward was the way I always wanted outside forwards to play: always ready to take up the ball, to stretch the game from outline to outline, a great dribbler and two-footed shooter."

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