| Personal information | ||||||||||||||
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| Full name | Friedrich Laband | |||||||||||||
| Date of birth | 1 November 1925 | |||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Hindenburg, Germany | |||||||||||||
| Date of death | 3 January 1982 (aged 56) | |||||||||||||
| Place of death | Hamburg, West Germany | |||||||||||||
| Position(s) | Defender | |||||||||||||
| Youth career | ||||||||||||||
| 1936–1937 | Reichsbahn SV Hindenburg | |||||||||||||
| 1938–1943 | Hindenburg 09 | |||||||||||||
| 1943–1945 | Preußen Hindenburg | |||||||||||||
| Senior career* | ||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | |||||||||||
| 1945–1950 | ZSG Anker Wismar | |||||||||||||
| 1950–1956 | Hamburger SV | 122 | (0) | |||||||||||
| 1956–1957 | Werder Bremen | 10 | (0) | |||||||||||
| International career | ||||||||||||||
| 1954 | West Germany | 4 | (0) | |||||||||||
Medal record
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| *Club domestic league appearances and goals | ||||||||||||||
Fritz Laband (1 November 1925 – 3 January 1982) was a German footballer who played as a defender.
He was part of the West Germany national team that won the 1954 FIFA World Cup. In total he earned four caps for West Germany.[1] During his club career he played for FC Anker Wismar, Hamburger SV and Werder Bremen.[2]
His standard position being that of a right full back, Laband was a thorough-going and powerful player with good long range passing ability.[3] With his international debut coming less than two months before the 1954 FIFA World Cup, he managed to play in three of Germany's six games at that tournament. For the semi-final and the final, coach Sepp Herberger however decided to move his Hamburg club teammate Josef Posipal to the right back position.
