Josef Wendl

Association, 1916 to 1945

The pupil Josef Wendl, who joined went through the youth section of the Munich "Löwen" youth section completely through the youth age groups of the white and blue sixties and was used for the first time at the age of 17 in the league team playing at that time in the district league Bavaria. In the 1926/27 season, the defensive hope had its first successes in 1860. In Bavaria, he won the runner-up championship with his club, with third place in the games for the southern German championship, the “Löwen” moved into the final round of the German Football Championship. There, the young player sat alongside his teammates Alois Pledl, Eugen Kling and Josef Hornauer against FC Schalke 04 and VfB Leipzig and only failed in the semifinals with 1: 4 goals to the future German champion 1. FC Nürnberg. Wendl had been the left-wing outrunner in all finals. In the season 1930/31 Wendl qualified for the second time with the SV 1860 Munich for the final matches for the German championship, The Elf from Giesing also skipped the hurdle in the semi-finals, knocking out the Holstein Kiel with a 2–0 win and moving into the final of the German football championship for the first time in club history. The final was lost in front of 50,000 spectators on June 14, 1931, at the Müngersdorfer Stadion in Cologne with 2: 3 goals after a 2: 1 halftime lead against Hertha BSC. Wendl formed with Max Schäfer in front of goalkeeper Alfred Riemke the pair of defenders and…