The following squads were named for the 1936 Summer Olympics tournament.
Head coach: James Hogan
Head coach: Ngan Shing Kwan
1This English club name is from The Little Red Book of Chinese Football, written by Dave Twydell. The correct name of the club at that time should be "You-you" ().
Head coach: Booth
Head coach:
Ferdinand Fabra
Ferdinand Fabra (8 October 1906 – 22 December 2007) was a German Association football, football manager.
He coached the Finland national football team, Finland national team from 1936 to 1937 and was the team's manager at the Football at t ...
Sixteen players competed at the Olympics. The formal application also included five other players who did not travel to Berlin:
Veli Leskinen (HT Helsinki),
Eino Virtanen
Eino Mauno Virtanen (19 August 1908 in Uskela – 3 December 1980 in Helsinki) was a Finnish wrestler who took part in the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin and 1948 Games in London.
Virtanen won an Olympic bronze in wrestling at the 1936 Summer ...
(Helsingin PS),
Eino Kilpi
Johan Eino Kilpi (7 June 1889, Uusikaupunki – 7 June 1963; original surname ''Blomros'') was a Finnish journalist and politician. He served as Minister of Social Affairs from 17 April 1945 to 26 March 1946, Minister of Education from 26 March 1 ...
(Helsingin PS),
Yrjö Kylmälä (HT Helsinki), and
Arvo Hyyrynen (Sudet Viipuri).
Head coach:
Otto Nerz
Otto Nerz (21 October 1892 – 18 April 1949) was a German footballer player and manager and the first head coach of the Germany national team between 1923 and 1936.
Nerz was born in Hechingen, Province of Hohenzollern, son of a rope shopkeep ...
Head coach: William Voisey
Head coach:
Zoltán Opata
Zoltán Opata (also known as Zoltán Patai or Ormos Patai; 24 September 1900 – 19 May 1982) was a Hungarian football player and manager. As a player, he won six Hungarian league championships with Budapest-based side MTK in the 1920s and r ...
Head coach:
Vittorio Pozzo
Vittorio Pozzo (; 2 March 1886 – 21 December 1968) was an Italian football player, manager and journalist.
The creator of the ''Metodo'' tactical formation, Pozzo is regarded as one of the greatest managers of all time, and is the only manag ...
Head coach:
Shigeyoshi Suzuki
was a Japanese football player who played for and later managed the Japan national team.
Club career
Suzuki was born in Fukushima Prefecture on October 13, 1902. He was a founding member of the football team at Waseda University High School in ...
Head coach: Paul Feierstein
Head coach:
Asbjørn Halvorsen
Asbjørn Halvorsen (3 December 1898 – 16 January 1955), nicknamed Assi, was a Norwegian footballer, who played as a centre-half for Sarpsborg FK and Hamburger SV. He was capped 19 times playing for Norway, and was a part of the Norwegian team ...
Seventeen players went to the Olympics. The formal application originally included five other players who did not travel to Berlin:
Sverre Kvammen (Viking FK),
Rolf Johannessen (Fredrikstad FK),
Kjeld Kjos (SFK Brann),
Birger Pedersen
Birger Lindberg Pedersen, known as Birger Pedersen, (born 29 June 1950) is a Danish former association footballer in the midfielder position, who played 183 games and scored 41 goals for Danish club Hvidovre IF. He played 14 matches for the Denma ...
(SK Hardy), and
Petter Svennungsen (Odd Grenland).
Head coach:
Alberto Denegri
Alberto Luis Denegri Aspauza''(7 August 1906 – 18 May 1973) was a Peruvian association football, football midfielder who played for Peru national football team, Peru in the 1930 FIFA World Cup.Józef Kałuża
Józef Ignacy Kałuża (11 February 1896 – 11 October 1944) was a Polish footballer and later coach, was one of the legends of Polish sports.
Club career
Kałuża was one of the most experienced forward players of 1920s Poland. His whole ca ...
Sweden
Head coach:
John Pettersson
Head coach: James Elliot Donnelly
Head coach:
Elmer Schroeder
Elmer is a name of Germanic British origin. The given name originated as a surname, a medieval variant of the given name Aylmer, derived from Old English ''æþel'' (noble) and ''mær'' (famous). It was adopted as a given name in the United State ...
Footnotes
References
FIFAGreat Britain team at British Olympic Association
List of Luxembourgian olympic footballers at ALO*
ttp://www.sok.se/ Swedish Olympic Committee
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Olympics
The modern Olympic Games or Olympics (french: link=no, Jeux olympiques) are the leading international sporting events featuring summer and winter sports competitions in which thousands of athletes from around the world participate in a var ...
1936 Summer Olympics
The 1936 Summer Olympics (German: ''Olympische Sommerspiele 1936''), officially known as the Games of the XI Olympiad (German: ''Spiele der XI. Olympiade'') and commonly known as Berlin 1936 or the Nazi Olympics, were an international multi-sp ...