Erwin Stein

As a ten-year-old boy, Stein started to play football at SG Bornheim. Later he moved to Olympia 07 and then, from 1954, played at SpVgg Griesheim 02. At 24 years old, he was capped by Bundestrainer Sepp Herberger and his assistant Georg Gawliczek for the German amateur national team against the Netherlands on 15 April 1959 in Enschede. The pacy attacker played well and netted twice in the 2–0 win. Due to the final round of the German championship starting on 16 May, national team manager Herberger, picked the Hessian amateur player for the friendly match against Poland in Hamburg. Coming on in the 63rd minute, Stein scored the equaliser in the 81st minute, the final result. On 27 May, he was capped for the second time for the amateur national team. He netted both goals in a 2–0 victory against England. When Luxembourg celebrated its 50th anniversary a match was scheduled between a Belgian and a German XI. Belgium won 3–1 but Stein scored the only goal for the DFB squad. In the final of the German championship, Eintracht Frankfurt played on 28 June 1959 against Kickers Offenbach. Eintracht won in overtime 5–3 with Eckehard Feigenspan scoring three times for Frankfurt. With Feigenspan moving to TSV 1860 Munich, the Eintracht board negotiated intensely with the Griesheim 02 striker. Stein signed for the Riederwald club for the 1959–60 season and was therefore not eligible for the German amateur national team. Since the qualification matches for the 1960 Summer Olympics took…