Horst Borcherding (8 October 1930 – 9 February 2015) was a German

footballer A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of football are association football, American football, Canadian football, Australian rules football, Gaelic football, rugby ...

who played as a

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Career

Borcherding played club football for SV Saar 05 Saarbrücken and

VfL Osnabrück VfL Osnabrück is a German multi-sport club in Osnabrück, Lower Saxony. It currently fields teams in basketball, gymnastics, swimming, table tennis, and tennis but is by far best known for its football section. History Foundation to WW2 The c ...

, and played international football for

Saarland The Saarland (, ; french: Sarre ) is a state of Germany in the south west of the country. With an area of and population of 990,509 in 2018, it is the smallest German state in area apart from the city-states of Berlin, Bremen, and Hamburg, and ...

Later life and death

He died on 9 February 2015, at the age of 84.

References

1930 births 2015 deaths Men's footballers from the Saar Protectorate German men's footballers Saarland men's international footballers SV Saar 05 Saarbrücken players VfL Osnabrück players Men's association football goalkeepers Sportspeople from Osnabrück Footballers from Lower Saxony {{Germany-footy-goalkeeper-stub