Max Seeburg

Max Seeburg
Personal information
Full name Max Paul Seeburg
Date of birth (1884-09-19)19 September 1884
Place of birth Leipzig, Germany
Date of death

1972 (aged 87–88)

Place of death Reading, England
Playing position Right half
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1906–1908 Chelsea 0 (0)
1908–1909 Tottenham Hotspur 1 (0)
1909–1910 Leyton ? (?)
1910–1911 Burnley 17 (0)
1911 Grimsby Town 20 (0)
1911–1912 Reading ? (?)

* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.


Max Seeburg (19 September 1884 – 1972) was a German footballer who played in England for Chelsea, Tottenham Hotspur,[1] Burnley, Grimsby Town and Reading between 1907 and 1914.[2] Seeburg became the first European-born foreigner to play in England.[3]

Biography

Born in Leipzig, Seeburg moved to London in 1886, at the age of two. His first professional club was Chelsea, who he joined in 1906. He did not play a competitive match for the West London side, and two years later moved across the city to join Tottenham Hotspur. Seeburg's first and only league match for Tottenham was on 26 September 1908, in a 1-0 away defeat to Hull City in the Second Division. He moved to Leyton in the following month.[4]

After a season at amateurs Leyton, Seeburg left London and spent the 1910-11 season back in the Second Division with Burnley. After a spell at Grimsby Town later that year, he joined Reading, where he retired in 1912.

Seeburg died in Reading in 1972.[5][6]

References

  1. ↑ A-Z of Tottenham Hotspur players Retrieved 28 March 2009
  2. ↑ Hunter Davies (2006-09-18). "Argie invaders". New Statesman. Retrieved 2008-11-05.
  3. ↑ Glenn Moore (2005-02-16). "Graham fears multi-national squads will undermine England". The Independent. Retrieved 2008-11-05.
  4. ↑ http://www.11v11.com/matches/hull-city-v-tottenham-hotspur-26-september-1908-203791/
  5. ↑ Sean Ingle (2002-04-18). "The great armchair audience debate". The Guardian. Retrieved 2008-11-05.
  6. ↑ Joyce, Michael (2004). Football League Players' Records. soccerdata. p. 234. ISBN 1-899468-63-3.


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