Peter-Jürgen Sanmann (5 August 1935 – 15 March 2016) was a German professional

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who played in the 1950s and 1960s. He played as

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or winger.

Career

Club

Sanmann played youth football with

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. Playing for the amateur league team, he was nominated by national coach

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for the debut game of the newly launched junior national team (U–23) for the international match against Yugoslavia in Frankfurt on 25 June 1955. In the 3–3 draw, he played on the left wing and scored a goal. Sanmann signed his first professional contract with

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's club chairman

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. He joined their first team for their 1955–56 season under trainer

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. After playing in two test matches, Sanmann played his domestic league debut for his new club in the away game on 28 August 1955 as Basel were defeated 2–0 by

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. He scored his first goal for his new team on 11 September in the away game as Basel drew 2–2 with

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. Toward the end of that season, on 10 June 1956 in the home game at the

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, Sanmann scored a hat-trick as the team beat

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. His attacking partner

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scored four goals and the team went on to win by nine goals to one. Fribourg suffered relegation at the end of the season and Sanmann extended his contract with FCB for another year. Between the years 1955 and 1957 Sanmann played a total of 67 games for Basel scoring a total of 18 goals. 45 of these games were in the Nationalliga A, six in the

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and 16 were friendly games. He scored 14 goals in the domestic league, three in the cup and the other was scored during the test games. After his two seasons with FC Basel, Sanmann returned to his club of origin, who at this time had just been promoted to the

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, the top tier of Germann football at this time. Sanmann then played for

until the end of his active playing career. He played his last league game on 21 April 1962 in a 3–2 home defeat against

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. In this game he played on the left wing and scored a goal.

International

The 19-year-old attacking winger of the Hanseatic amateur league team SC Concordia, was nominated by national coach

for the debut game of the newly formed junior national team U-23, for the international match on 25 June 1955 in Frankfurt against Yugoslavia. In the 3-3 draw, Sanmann played on the left wing and scored a goal. On 7 August he played for the Northern Germany association team, which won the representative game against Southern Germany with 4-3 goals in front of 45,000 spectators in Hamburg. The talent from the amateur league, together with

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and Erich Haase, formed the attack for the NFV selection.

Private life

After his football career, Sanmann worked as a sales manager. He lived in his home town Hamburg until he died on 15 March 2016.

References

Sources

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Verein "Basler Fussballarchiv" Homepage
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