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Saturday, 26 May 1956
End of Season Tour Match


West Germany 1 England
 3 [0-1]
Match Summary
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England Party

Team Records
 
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The Nationalmannschaft Party the match against England  May 1956
Player Birthdate Age Pos Club App G
Erhardt, Herbert 6 July 1930 25 HB Spielvereinigung Greuther Fürth 6 1
Herkenrath, Friedrich 9 September 1928 27 G Rot-Weiss Essen 9 17ᵍᵃ
Juskowiak, Erich 7 September 1926 29 LB Düsseldorfer TSv Fortuna 1895 6 2
Kubsch, Heinz 20 July 1930 25 G Fk 03 Pirmasens 2 4ᵍᵃ
Liebrich, Werner 18 January 1927 29 CHB 1.FC Kaiserslautern 15 0
Mai, Karl 27 July 1928 27 LHB Spielvereinigung Greuther Fürth 13 1
Morlock, Maximilian 11 May 1925 31 IR 1. FC Nürnberg VfL 17 14
Pfaff, Alfred 16 July 1926 29 OL Eintracht Frankfurt 3 2
Rahn, Helmut 16 August 1929 26 OR Rot-Weiss Essen 17 7
Retter, Erich 17 February 1925 31 RB VfB Stuttgart 1893 13 0
Schäfer, Hans 19 October 1927 28 OL 1. FC Köln 01/07 17 10
Schlienz, Robert 3 February 1924 32 RHB VfB Stuttgart 1893 2 0
Schmidt, Karl 5 March 1932 24 FB 1. FC Köln 01/07 4 0
Schröder, Willi 27 December 1928 27 F SV Werder Bremen von 1899 4 0
Waldner, Erwin 24 January 1933 23 OR VfB Stuttgart 1893 6 1
Walter, Friedrich 31 October 1920 35 IL 1. FC Kaiserslautern 45 29
Walter, Ottmar 6 March 1924 32 CF 1. FC Kaiserslautern 15 6
Wewers, Heinz 27 July 1927 28 CHB Rot-Weiss Essen 1 0
Party details correct up to and including West Germany's match against Netherlands on 14 March 1956.

Sunday, 20 May 1956 - All five forwards of West Germany's victorious 1954 World Cup Final are among the eighteen players chosen to prepare for Saturday's match.They are Friedrich and Ottmar Walter, Hans Schäfer, Max Morlock and Helmut Rahn. Other forwards are Erwin Waldner, Pfaeff and Schroeder. None of these eight forwards played in the last time these countries met in December 1954. Werner Liebrich, stalwart centre-half of the Final team, who was also at Wembley, is among five half-backs chosen. They include Robert Chlienz, the one-armed player from Stuttgart. Friedrich Herkenrath, who played in that 1954 match, is one of two goalkeepers chosen. Heinz Wewers gets another chance, after last playing for the West German side in 1951. The Germans are all part-timers on a fixed rate of £25 per month. They will get neither fee nor bonus for playing against England.

Thursday, 24 May 1956 - It was ladies' day at the German camp this afternoon. The players had a party under the trees in the grounds of their training centre by Lake Wannsee.
World Cup winning captain, Friedrich Walter, will lead the German side out against England at Berlin's Olympic Stadium on Saturday. Goalkeeper Friedrich Herkenrath is the only member of this team that played England in December 1954. Surprise omissions from the team are centre half Werner Liebrich, who played such a storming game against Wembley eighteen months ago, and the fast, tricky, wingers, Helmut Rahn and Hans Schäfer. Schäfer is apparently unavailable for selection, whereas Liebrich (thigh) and Rahn have doubts over their fitness, having been injured.

West Germany Form: last six games
W L L W L L  f 9:a 11  success: 33% 
229 28 May 1955 -
West Germany 2 Republic of Ireland 1
[1-0]
Volksparkstadion, Hamburg
Waldner, Mai
Fallon
Fr HW
230 21 August 1955 - USSR 3 West Germany 2 [1-1]
Lenin Stadium, Moskva
Parschin, Maslenkin, Iljin
F.Walter, Schäfer
AL
231 25 September 1955 -
Yugoslavia 3 West Germany 1
[2-0]
Stadion
JNA, Beograd
MilutinoVic, Rajkov, VeselinoVic
Morlock
AL
232 16 November 1955 -
West Germany 2 Norway 0
[2-0]
Mittwoch, Karlsruhe
F.Walter, Röhrig HW
233 18 December 1955 - Italy 2 West Germany 1 [1-0]
Stadio Olimpico, Roma
Mai OG, Boniperti
Röhrig
AL
234 14 March 1956 -
West Germany 1 Netherlands 2
[0-0]
Rheinstadion, Düsseldorf
van der Hart OG
Lenstra (2)
HL
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