ĭuring the eighties and nineties, there was another successful Bundesliga striker called " Fritz Walter", who mainly played for VfB Stuttgart. In November 2003, to celebrate UEFA's 50th anniversary, the German Football Association selected him as its Golden Player of the past 50 years (from 1954 to 2003). 20 km east of Kaiserslautern (first exit from Kaiserslautern on Bundesautobahn 6 direction Mannheim). Today people may visit the "Fritz Walter Haus" in the town of Enkenbach-Alsenborn approx. But on the fourth anniversary of his death on 17 June 2006, the United States played Italy in Kaiserslautern and a minute of silence was observed in his memory. It was his dream to see the World Cup 2006 in "his" town Kaiserslautern as the town had not been selected in the smaller tournament of 1974, but it was denied with his death. Walter died in Enkenbach-Alsenborn on 17 June 2002, aged 81. The other four are Uwe Seeler, Franz Beckenbauer, Lothar Matthäus and Bettina Wiegmann. The home stadium of FC Kaiserslautern was renamed the Fritz-Walter-Stadion in 1985.įritz Walter was named an honorary captain of the German football squad in 1958. From left to right: Werner Liebrich, Walter, Werner Kohlmeyer, Horst Eckel and Ottmar Walter. FC Kaiserslautern players in the 1954 FIFA World Cup Final. Walter received his last cap during the semi-final against Sweden in the 1958 World Cup, suffering an injury which ended his international career, and he retired from football in 1959. In 1956, after the crackdown by the Soviets of the Hungarian Uprising, the Hungarian football team were caught away from home, and for two years, Fritz managed their games and provided the financial backing and in small measure, paid them back for having saved him from deportation to the Soviet Union. He and his brother, Ottmar Walter, became the first brothers to play in a World Cup winning team. He was captain of the West German team that won their first World Cup in 1954, beating Hungary. Sepp Herberger recalled Walter to the national team in 1951, and he was named captain. Walter coached VfR Kaiserslautern during the 1948-1949 season and helped them win the 1948-1949 Westpfälzischen Amateurliga. Upon his return in 1945, Walter, who by now suffered from malaria, again played for Kaiserslautern, leading them to German championships in 19. Walter would later call the match in question as the most important of his life as it spared him and his brother from a gulag sentence. One of the Hungarian prison guards had seen Walter playing for Germany, and told them that Fritz was not German but from the Saar Protectorate. When the Soviets arrived they generally took all German prisoners back to Gulags in the Soviet Union. Walter was drafted into the armed forces in 1942, however, the end of the war found 24-year-old Walter in a Prisoner of War camp in Maramures in which he played with Hungarian and Slovakian guards. Walter debuted with the Germany national team in 1940 under Sepp Herberger, and scored a hat-trick against Romania.
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International pro teams had repeatedly offered him hefty sums, but with support from his wife always declined in order to stay at home, to play for his home town, the national team and "Chef" (German for "boss") Herberger.
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By 1928 he had joined the Kaiserslautern youth academy, and he made his first team debut at 17, continuing an association with the club that would be his only professional club. Walter was exposed to football early with his parents working at the 1. In his time with the Germany and West Germany national teams, he appeared in 61 games and scored 33 goals, and was the captain of the team that won the 1954 FIFA World Cup. He usually played as an attacking midfielder or inside forward.
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