Richard Kress
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Richard Kress (March 6, 1925 – March 30, 1996) was a German
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

 footballer
Football (soccer)
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball...

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He played for Eintracht Frankfurt
Eintracht Frankfurt
Eintracht Frankfurt is a German sports club, based in Frankfurt, Hesse that is best known for its association football club.- Club origins :...

 from 1953 until 1964 as a typical right winger and won the German championship in 1959 and played the European Cup
UEFA Champions League
The UEFA Champions League, known simply the Champions League and originally known as the European Champion Clubs' Cup or European Cup, is an annual international club football competition organised by the Union of European Football Associations since 1955 for the top football clubs in Europe. It...

 final in 1960
European Cup 1959-60
The 1959–60 European Cup was the fifth season of the European Cup, Europe's premier club football tournament. The competition was won by Real Madrid, who beat Eintracht Frankfurt 7–3 in the final, a record score for the European Cup final...

 which was lost to Real Madrid 3-7 on May 18 at Hampden Park
Hampden Park
Hampden Park is a football stadium in the Mount Florida area of Glasgow, Scotland. The 52,063 capacity venue serves as the national stadium of football in Scotland...

 in Glasgow in front of 135,000 spectators. Kress scored 1-0 lead for Frankfurt.

Richard 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
Riederwald (Frankfurt am Main)
Riederwald is a district or Stadtteil of Frankfurt am Main, Germany. It is part of the Ortsbezirk Ost. It is one of the smallest Frankfurt districts...

 on line 18.

He was capped 9 times for Germany
Germany national football team
The Germany national football team is the football team that has represented Germany in international competition since 1908. It is governed by the German Football Association , which was founded in 1900....

 between 1954 and 1961 contributing 2 goals.

Kress still is the oldest player to give his debut in the Bundesliga
Fußball-Bundesliga
The Fußball-Bundesliga is a professional association football league in Germany. At the top of Germany's football league system, it is the country's primary football competition. It is contested by 18 teams and operates on a system of promotion and relegation with the 2. Bundesliga...

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