| Personal information | |||||||||||||||||
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| Date of birth | (1914-11-10)10 November 1914 | ||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Ürzig, Germany | ||||||||||||||||
| Date of death | 5 March 1990(1990-03-05) (aged 75) | ||||||||||||||||
| Place of death | Leverkusen, West Germany | ||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)[1] | ||||||||||||||||
| Position | Striker | ||||||||||||||||
| Youth career | |||||||||||||||||
| 1924–1928 | SV Ürzig | ||||||||||||||||
| 1928–1932 | FV 03 Saarbrücken | ||||||||||||||||
| Senior career* | |||||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||||
| 1932–1935 | FV 03 Saarbrücken | ||||||||||||||||
| 1938–1944 | Stuttgarter Kickers | ||||||||||||||||
| 1943–1944 | →Mulhouse (guest player) | ||||||||||||||||
| 1943–1944 | →HSV Groß Born (guest player) | ||||||||||||||||
| 1945–1950 | Stuttgarter Kickers | 129 | (57) | ||||||||||||||
| 1950–1952 | Young Fellows Zürich | ||||||||||||||||
| International career | |||||||||||||||||
| 1934–1942 | Germany | 28 | (27) | ||||||||||||||
| Managerial career | |||||||||||||||||
| 1950–1952 | Young Fellows Zürich (player manager) | ||||||||||||||||
| 1952–1956 | Eintracht Braunschweig | ||||||||||||||||
| 1956–1957 | Wuppertaler SV | ||||||||||||||||
| 1957–1959 | Bayer Leverkusen | ||||||||||||||||
| SV Schlebusch | |||||||||||||||||
| 1970–1973 | BV Opladen | ||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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| * Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||||||||||||||||
Edmund Conen (10 November 1914 – 5 March 1990[2]) was a Germanfootballer who played as astriker.
Conen was born inÜrzig, Germany. He played withFV 03 Saarbrücken,Stuttgarter Kickers,[3]Mülhausen 93, HSV Groß Born (Pommern) and a couple of smaller clubs. In 1934, he was approached byWerder Bremen but, instead of joining them, told theDFB that Werder were dishing out financial offers to players. At that time football was still strictly amateur in Germany (officially) and payments to players were not permitted. The affair ended in the club and some of their officials, players and the team manager being fined and suspended.
With four goals in the1934 FIFA World Cup in Italy, Conen was the joint second top scorer withAngelo Schiavio ofItaly, behindOldřich Nejedlý ofCzechoslovakia who had five goals.[4]
He played from 1934 to 1942 in 28 international matches forGermany and scored 27 goals.
Just 19 year old, Germany youngster Conen made quite an impact at the secondFIFA World Cup with his three goals in his first match of the tournament againstBelgium on 27 May. The game was tied at 2–2 before the powerful forward netted three times in the final 17 minutes to hand the Germans a 5–2 win inFlorence, Italy. This achievement could only be equalized byGerd Müller in1970 againstPeru. He managed to hit the winner when the Germans took the bronze medal with a 3–2 win in the play-off for third place againstAustria.
Two years later as a 21-year-old, Conen's career was halted due to illness. This kept him away from football for three and a half years. Conen was courageous and battled through to return to the national team on 25 June 1939. On this date inCopenhagen againstDenmark Conen made the perfect comeback, with a goal in the 2–0 victory. DuringWorld War II in 1942, he played his last international match. The Germany national team won this final match 5–3Budapest againstHungary. Conen andFritz Walter performed well forSepp Herberger's team.
After end of war Conen worked as a coach, in the middle of the 1950s, withEintracht Braunschweig in the North andWuppertaler SV in the West. He later coachedBayer Leverkusen[5] and later other teams from the city of Leverkusen likeSV Schlebusch andBV Opladen. Conen died in the spring of 1990 inLeverkusen,[6] only months before West Germany were to win their third World Cup championship.
| Club | Season | League | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Division | Apps | Goals | ||
| Stuttgarter Kickers | 1945–46 | Oberliga | 16 | 8 |
| 1946–47 | 29 | 20 | ||
| 1947–48 | 35 | 18 | ||
| 1948–49 | 21 | 7 | ||
| 1949–50 | 24 | 4 | ||
| Total | 125 | 57 | ||
| National team | Year | Apps | Goals |
|---|---|---|---|
| Germany | 1934 | 5 | 5 |
| 1935 | 9 | 9 | |
| 1936 | 0 | 0 | |
| 1937 | 0 | 0 | |
| 1938 | 0 | 0 | |
| 1939 | 4 | 3 | |
| 1940 | 5 | 8 | |
| 1941 | 2 | 2 | |
| 1942 | 3 | 0 | |
| Total | 28 | 27 | |
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