Josef Gauchel

From the 9th to the 24th In May, the man from Moselle and Rhine was used in four hard games against Everton in Hamburg, Duisburg, Frankfurt and Nuremberg and was able to convince not only with two goals.

Nerz then invited him to the final three-week course in July and nominated the still 19-year-old without international experience for the Olympic football tournament in August 1936 in Berlin.

March 1938 in Austria, the game was far more important than just that of a usual international match, especially since the Football World Cup was already held in France three months later in June 1938.

May 1938 in Berlin against England, coach Herberger competed almost completely with the "Breslau-Elf", only Gauchel for Siffling and Pesser for Urban he took new to the team.

In the 6:3 success of the English, the German defense simply did not get a grip on the attack of the "teacher" - Matthews, Robinson, Broome, Goulden, Bastin.

September 1938 in Chemnitz against Poland, the man from Neuendorf indicated with his three goals in the German 4-1 success how valuable he could be for the national team.

The duels with midrunner Michele Andreolo and the defender couple Alfredo Foni and Pietro Rava showed the Neuendorf storm leader how the real world class worked.

With the attacking formation Herbert Burdenski, Karl Decker, Fritz Walter, Gauchel and Willi Arlt, the game was won with 3:0 goals.

After that, due to the circumstances of the advanced Second World War, it was no longer possible for Reich coach Herberger to get his national players released for courses.

In addition to the appointments to the national football team, "Jupp" Gauchel played twelve games in the Gau selection of the Middle Rhine in the Reichsbundpokal from 1935 to 1939 and scored seven goals.

[2] The blue-blacks from Neuendorf moved into the final rounds for the German football championship in 1948 and 1950 and won the vice-championship in the Fußball-Oberliga Südwest in 1952 and 1953.

FC Köln the DFB Cup 1953/54 Rudi Gutendorf[3] remembers the player and coach "Jupp" Gauchel in Werner Skrentny's book about the Südwest Oberliga with the following words: The then Reich coach Professor Nerz and his assistant Sepp Herberger called my role model, the Neuendorf Jupp Gauchel, to the national team in 1936.

[...] When Jupp Gauchel was nominated for the national team, I was ten years old, and his vocation had a great influence on my life path.

I can't say in words what excitement gripped me when I entered the stadium with national player Gauchel, who played next to me in the half-right position, where there were almost 15,000 spectators.

[...] It was particularly valuable to me, and this should be for every active person in his first games, that I could play next to an understanding comrade like Jupp Gauchel, who eliminates the mistakes that you inevitably make as a beginner through his experience and skills and "serve" a ball that he could have booked just as well as his success.

I was firmly convinced that it was the best training, took notes and scribbled sketches into a blue dime school booklet, which I still keep today like a relic.

[4] For many years, Jupp Gauchel worked as an employee in a wine company before he later had his livelihood in the long-distance competition Rhine of the Sporttoto Rhineland-Palatinate.