He won the 1959 German football championship, and played in the 1960 European Cup final which was lost to Real Madrid 7–3 on 18 May at Hampden Park in Glasgow in front of 135,000 spectators, in which he scored the first goal of the match.
[2] Kress was the oldest player to make his debut in the newly formed Bundesliga against Kaiserslautern on 24 August 1963, aged 38 years and 171 days.
[3][4] Kress was capped nine times for Germany between 1954 and 1961 contributing two goals.
When he scored his first goal – against Northern Ireland in World Cup qualifying on May 10, 1961 – he was 36 years and 65 days old, making him the oldest debut goalscorer of the national team to this day (as of 2024)[5] Eintracht Frankfurt
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