Hans Weilbächer (23 October 1933 – 1 August 2022) was a German
footballer
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who played as a
midfielder
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Midfielders may play an exclusively defensive role, breaking up attacks, and are in that case known as defensive midfielders. As central midfielders often go across boundarie ...
. He was capped once for the
West Germany national team in 1955 against
Republic of Ireland
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.
With his club side
Eintracht Frankfurt
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, he won the German championship in 1959 and reached the European Cup final in the following year against
Real Madrid
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Founded in 1902 as Madrid Football Club, the club has traditionally wor ...
which the ''Eagles'' lost.
Honours
Eintracht Frankfurt
*
European Cup/UEFA Champions League
** Runner-up:
1959–60
*
German Championship
** Winner:
1959
Events January
* January 1 - Cuba: Fulgencio Batista flees Havana when the forces of Fidel Castro advance.
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*
DFB-Pokal
** Runner-up:
1963–64
*
Oberliga Süd Oberliga ( en, Premier league) may refer to:
Association football
* Oberliga (football), currently the fifth tier of the German football league system, formerly the first
* DDR-Oberliga, the first tier of football in East Germany until 1990, re ...
** Winner:
1952–53,
1958–59
** Runner-up:
1953–54,
1960–61,
1961–62
References
External links
Hans Weilbächer at eintracht-archiv.de
1933 births
2022 deaths
German men's footballers
Men's association football midfielders
Germany men's international footballers
Eintracht Frankfurt players
People from Main-Taunus-Kreis
Footballers from Darmstadt (region)
West German men's footballers
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