Max Morlock

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Max Morlock
Personal information
Full name	Maximilian Morlock
Date of birth	11 May 1925
Place of birth	Nuremberg, Germany
Date of death	10 September 1994
Place of death	Nuremberg, Germany
Nickname	Maxl
Position	Forward
Youth clubs
? –40	Eintracht Nürnberg
Professional clubs*
Years	Club	Apps (goals)
1940–1964	1. FC Nürnberg → Oberliga Süd → Bundesliga	472 (294) 451 (286) 21 (8)
National team
1950– 1958	West Germany	26 (21)
* Professional club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.

Maximilian "Maxl" Morlock (born May 11, 1925 in Nuremberg, died September 10, 1994 in Nuremberg) was one of the most popular German football players in the 1950s and early 1960s. In his time with the German and West German national team, he earned 26 caps and scored 21 goals.

In his youth he learned to play soccer at the Eintracht Nürnberg. In 1940 he became member of the then famous 1. FC Nürnberg. Until 1964 he appeared more than 900 Times in the first team of the so called Club and scored about 700 goals. In 1948 and 1961 he led the team to German championships, in 1962 to the German Cup. 38 years old he even appeared 21times in the founding season of the German Bundesliga.

His first cap for the national team was in 1950. He was member of the West German team that won their first World Cup in 1954. In the final match against Hungary Morlock scored the 1-2. He received his last cap in a friendly game against Egypt in December 1958.

In 1961 he was elected as German Footballer of the Year. He died in 1994 aged 69.

	West Germany squad - 1954 World Cup Champions (1st Title)
1 Turek | 2 Laband | 3 Kohlmeyer | 4 Bauer | 5 Erhardt | 6 Eckel | 7 Posipal | 8 Mai | 9 Mebus | 10 Liebrich | 11 Metzner | 12 Rahn | 13 Morlock | 14 Klodt | 15 O. Walter | 16 F. Walter | 17 Herrmann | 18 Biesinger | 19 Pfaff | 20 Schäfer | 21 Kubsch | 22 Kwiatkowski | Coach: Herberger