Richard Kress (alternative writing Richard Kreß) (6 March 1925 – 30 March 1996) 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 le ...

. He played for

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from 1953 until 1964 as a typical right winger. He won the German championship in 1959 and played in the

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final in

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which was lost to Real Madrid 3–7 on 18 May at

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in Glasgow in front of 135,000 spectators. Kress scored the first goal of the match. Kress also worked in a chemist's shop with his wife in Frankfurt. He could be regularly met on his way to the Eintracht training facility in Riederwald on line 18. He was capped nine times for Germany between 1954 and 1961 contributing two goals. Kress still is the oldest player to give his debut in the Bundesliga.

Honours

* German championship: 1958–59 *

: runners-up 1959–60 *

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: 1958–59; runners-up 1953–54, 1960–61, 1961–62 * DFB-Pokal: runners-up 1963–64

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Richard Kress
at eintracht-archiv.de 1925 births 1996 deaths Germany international footballers German footballers Bundesliga players Eintracht Frankfurt players Association football forwards People from Fulda Sportspeople from Kassel (region) Footballers from Hesse {{germany-footy-forward-1920s-stub