Full name Richard Kress Name Richard Kress Date of birth 6 March 1925 Role Footballer | Playing position Position Forward Years Team | |
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Place of birth Niesig (today part of Fulda), Germany Date of death 30 March 1996(1996-03-30) (aged 71) Died March 30, 1996, Frankfurt, Germany | ||
Richard Kress (alternative writing Richard Kreß) (6 March 1925 – 30 March 1996) was a German footballer.
He played for Eintracht Frankfurt from 1953 until 1964 as a typical right winger and won the German championship in 1959 and played the European Cup final in 1960 which was lost to Real Madrid 3–7 on 18 May at Hampden Park in Glasgow in front of 135,000 spectators, Kress scored the first goal of the match.
Kress also worked in a chemist's shop with his wife in Frankfurt. He could be regularly met on his way to the Eintracht training facility in Riederwald on line 18.
He was capped nine times for Germany between 1954 and 1961 contributing two goals.
Kress still is the oldest player to give his debut in the Bundesliga.
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