Alfred Pfaff (16 July 1926 – 27 December 2008) was a German football player and

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winner with

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in 1954.

Life

Pfaff was capped seven times between 1953 and 1956 for the West Germany national team, scoring two goals as an

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. The highlight of his career was winning the 1954 World Cup in Switzerland. Pfaff had an appearance in the preliminary round against Hungary (3–8) and scored a goal in the 26th minute. His club was

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with whom he won the 1959 German Championship, and in 1960 reached the finals of Champion's Cup against Real Madrid. The left-footed ''Don Alfredo'' was the head of the team. Pfaff was a true playmaker with exceptionally good ball control and great skills at free kicks. Pfaff probably would have accumulated more than seven caps if

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had not played the same role for

as Pfaff played for

. In 1954, Atlético Madrid offered him 180,000 D-Mark but his wife Edith was against a move to

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.Bitter, Jürgen. ''Deutschlands Fußball Nationalspieler'', Sportverlag, 1997, p. 504. Possibly Pfaff's greatest game was the 6–1 against Rangers in the 1959–60 semifinal first leg of the European Cup, which was followed by a 6–3 win of

in Glasgow in the second leg. He ended his career in 1962 at the age of 36. Besides his sports career, Pfaff was an innkeeper and had a bar near the Hauptwache in Frankfurt. Since the 1960s, he lived as a barkeeper and hotel keeper in Zittenfelden in Morretal, Odenwald.

Honours

* German championship: 1958–59 * European Cup: runners-up 1959–60 *

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: 1952–53, 1958–59; runners-up 1953–54, 1960–61

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: 1954

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Pfaff, Alfred 1926 births 2008 deaths Footballers from Frankfurt German men's footballers Eintracht Frankfurt players 1954 FIFA World Cup players FIFA World Cup-winning players Germany men's international footballers Men's association football midfielders West German men's footballers