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Deutsche Demokratische Republik
 

 
369 vs. Czechoslovakia
 370
 371 vs. Switzerland

Sunday, 2 June 1963
End of Season European tour match

GDR (East Germany) 1 England 2 [1-1]
 

 

Match Summary
GDR Squad
England Squad

ZentralStadion, Mitte, Leipzig, Saxony
Attendance: 85,000; Kick-off: 3.30 Uhr & BST

GDR - Peter Ducke (23)
England - Roger Hunt (44), Bobby Charlton (70)
Results 1960-1965

? kicked-off. ? minutes (? & ?).
 

Match Summary

Officials from Yugoslavia

GDR

Type

England
Referee (-) - Konstantin Zecević
x (-).

Linesmen - Alija and Vlada

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  Possession  

GDR Team
 

Rank:

 No official ranking system established;
ELO rating 44th to 46th		 Colours: Blue jerseys, white shorts, white socks.
Capt: Werner Heine Manager: Karoly Soos
GDR Lineup
  Fritzsche, Harald     G     GA
2 Urbanczyk, Klaus     RB      
3 Heinz, Hans-Dieter     LB      
4 Krampe or Heine, Werner     RHB      
5 Kaiser, Manfred     CHB      
6 Liebrecht, Kurt     LHB      
7 Frenzel, Henning     OR      
8 Nachtigall, Rainer     IR      
9 Ducke, Peter     CF      
10 Nöldner, Jürgen     IL      
11 Rucke, Roland     OL      

unused substitutes:

 -
 
- -

Averages:

 Age - Appearances/Goals - -

 

England Team
 

Rank:

 No official ranking system established;
ELO rating 10th		 Colours: The 1959 Bukta home uniform - White v-necked short-sleeved continental jerseys, blue shorts, white socks with red/white/blue tops.
Capt: Jimmy Armfield, eighth captaincy Manager: Alfred Ernest Ramsey, 43 (22 January 1920), appointed 25 October 1962, effective part-time 31 December, full from May 1963.
fifth match, W 2 - D 1 - L 2 - F 10 - A 11.
England Lineup
  Banks, Gordon     G Leicester City FC 4 6ᵍᵃ
2 Armfield, James     RB Blackpool FC 36 0
3 Wilson, Ramon 28 17 December 1934 LB Huddersfield Town AFC 20 0
4 Milne, Gordon 26 29 March 1937 RHB Liverpool FC 3 0
5 Norman, Maurice 29 8 May 1934 CHB Tottenham Hotspur FC 10 0
6 Moore, Robert F.C. 22 12 April 1941 LHB West Ham United FC 13 0
7 Paine, Terence L. 24 23 March 1939 OR Southampton FC 2 0
8 Hunt, Roger     IR Liverpool FC 2 2
9 Smith, Robert A. 30 22 February 1933 CF Tottenham Hotspur FC 12 10
10 Eastham, George     IL Arsenal FC 3 0
11 Charlton, Robert     OL Manchester United FC 44 27

unused substitutes:

 -
 
- -

Averages:

 Age - Appearances/Goals - -

 
    Match Report by Mike Payne

 
    Match Report by Norman Giller

Roger Hunt, playing in place of tonsillitis-vićtim Greaves, scored a spectacular equalizer from thirty yards after Banks had conceded a soft goal midway through the first-half. Bobby Charlton netted the second-half winner after a series of goalmouth misses against an outpowered East German team. An England victory in Germany would have had most managers singing their own praises, but Alf Ramsey proved he was a perfectionist expecting the highest standards when he said: 'Our passing was erratic and careless and lacking in imagination. We can, and will, do much much better.' But he stored in the back of his mind that England could function - and win - without Jimmy Greaves.

Source Notes

TheFA.com
Original newspaper reports
Rothman's Yearbooks
 Mike Payne's England: The Complete Post-War Record (Breedon Books Publishing Company, Derby, U.K., 1993)
Norman Giller, Football Author
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