Alfred Pfaff

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Alfred Pfaff
Personal information
Full name Alfred Pfaff
Date of birth July 16, 1926 (1926-07-16) (age 81)
Place of birth    Frankfurt, Germany
Playing position Midfielder
Youth clubs
1936-? Eintracht Frankfurt
Senior clubs1
Years Club App (Gls)*
1947-1949
1949-1961
FC Rödelheim 02
Eintracht Frankfurt

301 (103)   
National team
1953-1956 West Germany 007 00(2)

1 Senior club appearances and goals
counted for the domestic league only.
* Appearances (Goals)

Alfred Pfaff (born 16 July 1926 in Frankfurt am Main) is a former German football player and World Cup winner with West Germany in 1954.

[edit] Life

Pfaff was capped seven times between 1953 and 1956 for the West German national team, scoring two goals.

The highlight of his career was winning the World cup in 1954 in Switzerland. Pfaff had an appearance in the preliminary round against Hungary (3:8) and scored in the 26th minute a goal.

His club was Eintracht Frankfurt with whom he won the 1959 German Championship, and in 1960 reached the finals of Champion's Cup against Real Madrid. Don Alfredo was the head of the team.

Besides his sports career, Pfaff was an innkeeper and had a bar near the Hauptwache in Frankfurt. Since the 1960s, he lives as a barkeeper and hotel keeper in Zittenfelden in Morretal, Odenwald.

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