Georg "Schorsch" Knöpfle (15 May 1904 – 14 December 1987) was a German

football Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kick (football), kicking a football (ball), ball to score a goal (sports), goal. Unqualified, football (word), the word ''football'' generally means the form of football t ...

player and coach. As a player, he received 23 international caps and was part of the German squad at the

1928 Summer Olympics The 1928 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the IX Olympiad (), was an international multi-sport event that was celebrated from 28 July to 12 August 1928 in Amsterdam, Netherlands. The city of Amsterdam had previously bid for ...

Honours

1. FC Köln *

Bundesliga The Bundesliga (; ), sometimes referred to as the Fußball-Bundesliga () or 1. Bundesliga (), is a professional association football league in Germany and the highest level of the German football league system. The Bundesliga comprises 18 teams ...

: 1963–64; runner-up 1964–65 Werder Bremen *

DFB-Pokal The DFB-Pokal (), also known as the German Cup in English language, English, is a German knockout Association football, football cup competition held annually by the German Football Association (DFB). Sixty-four teams participate in the competiti ...

1961 Events January * January 1 – Monetary reform in the Soviet Union, 1961, Monetary reform in the Soviet Union. * January 3 ** United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower announces that the United States has severed diplomatic and cons ...

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* * 1904 births 1987 deaths People from Schramberg Footballers from Freiburg (region) German men's footballers Men's association football defenders Germany men's international footballers Olympic footballers for Germany Footballers at the 1928 Summer Olympics SpVgg Greuther Fürth players FSV Frankfurt players German football managers West German football managers Bundesliga managers Eintracht Braunschweig managers Hamburger SV managers FC Bayern Munich managers Alemannia Aachen managers SV Werder Bremen managers 1. FC Köln managers 20th-century German sportsmen {{Germany-footy-defender-1900s-stub