| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Date of birth | 6 March 1925 | ||
| Place of birth | Niesig (today part ofFulda),Weimar Republic | ||
| Date of death | 30 March 1996(1996-03-30) (aged 71) | ||
| Place of death | Frankfurt, Germany | ||
| Position | Striker | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1935–1953 | FV 1910 Horas | ||
| 1953–1964 | Eintracht Frankfurt | 291 | (70) |
| International career | |||
| 1954–1961 | West Germany | 9 | (2) |
| * Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
Richard Kress (alternative writingRichard Kreß) (6 March 1925 – 30 March 1996) was a Germanfootballer.[1]
Kress played forEintracht Frankfurt from 1953 until 1964 as a typicalright winger. He won the1959 German football championship, and played in the1960 European Cup final which was lost toReal Madrid 7–3 on 18 May atHampden Park in Glasgow in front of 135,000 spectators, in which he scored the first goal of the match.[2]
Kress was the oldest player to make his debut in the newly formedBundesliga againstKaiserslautern on 24 August 1963, aged 38 years and 171 days.[3][4]
Kress was capped nine times forGermany between 1954 and 1961 contributing two goals. When he scored his first goal – against Northern Ireland in World Cup qualifying on May 10, 1961 – he was 36 years and 65 days old, making him the oldest debut goalscorer of the national team to this day (as of 2024)[5]
Eintracht Frankfurt
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