Hermann Enderlin (* 24 September 1906; † 18 May 1973) was a Swiss-German
footballer
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who played for
FC Basel
Fussball Club Basel 1893, widely known as FC Basel, FCB, or just Basel, is a Swiss football club based in Basel, in the Canton of Basel-Stadt. Formed in 1893, the club has been Swiss national champions 20 times, Swiss Cup winners 13 times, a ...
. He played mainly in the position of
defender, but also as
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 known as Enderlin (II) because his brother
Alfred Enderlin (I) played for Basel during the same period, but as a
forward.
Club career
Between the years 1926 and 1935 Enderlin (II) played a total of 182 games for Basel scoring just one goal. 109 of these games were in the
Swiss Serie A, twenty in the
Swiss Cup and 53 were friendly games.
He scored his only goal during the test game in Norway, in
Porsgrunn
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, against
Urædd FK on 9 June 1930.
A well-documented curiosity was that at the end of
Basel's 1929–30 season, the team set off on a Scandinavian football tour, including a visit to Germany. Six games were played in Norway, but the first was played in
Leipzig
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. The team travelled with 15 players, their trainer
Kertész and two functionaries. The journey started with a train ride on 2 June 1930 at quarter past seven in the morning from Basel and they arrived in Leipzig at half passed eight that evening. The game against