Alois Eisenträger
Personal information | |||
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Full name | Alois Bernhard Eisenträger | ||
Date of birth | 16 July 1927 | ||
Place of birth | Hamburg, Germany | ||
Position(s) | Inside forward | ||
Youth career | |||
Hamburger SV | |||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
1948 | Herne Bay | ||
1948–1949 | Trowbridge Town | ||
1949–1958 | Bristol City | 228 | (47) |
1958–19?? | Merthyr Tydfil | ||
*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
Alois Bernhard "Alec" Eisenträger (born 16 July 1927 in Hamburg) is a former German footballer who played as an inside forward.[1]
Eisenträger moved on to Trowbridge Town and then, in 1949, to Bristol City. Thus, he was part of a professional British football team even before the famous Bert Trautmann moved to Manchester City. He gained promotion with the Robins to the Second Division in 1955. Until he left for Merthyr Tydfil in 1958 he had appeared in 246 games for Bristol City, netting 57 times.[2]
He married a girl from Wales in the early 1950s and had four children.[3]
References
- ^ Football League career stats at Neil Brown – Bristol City players
- ^ Bristol City career summary
- ^ Streppelhoff, R. (2009). Zwei Deutsche in England: Die Fußballkarrieren von Bernd Trautmann und Alois Eisenträger. SportZeiten. Sport in Geschichte, Kultur und Gesellschaft, p. 44.
Further reading
- Harris, N. (2006). The Foreign Revolution. How Overseas Footballers Changed the English Game. London: Aurum Press Ltd.
- Ramsden, J. (2006). Don't Mention the War. The British and the Germans since 1890. London: Little, Brown Book Group.
Categories:
- Use dmy dates from July 2013
- 1927 births
- Living people
- German footballers
- Association football inside forwards
- English Football League players
- Bristol City F.C. players
- Merthyr Tydfil F.C. players
- German prisoners of war in World War II held by the United Kingdom
- German expatriates in the United Kingdom
- Herne Bay F.C. players
- Sportspeople from Hamburg
- People from Hamburg