Alois Eisenträger

Alois Eisenträger

Personal information
Full name	Alois Bernhard Eisenträger
Date of birth	16 July 1927
Place of birth	Hamburg, Germany
Playing position	Inside forward
Youth career
	Hamburger SV
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps^†	(Gls)^†
1948	Herne Bay
1948–1949	Trowbridge Town
1949–1958	Bristol City	228	(47)
1958–19??	Merthyr Tydfil
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. † Appearances (goals)

Alois Bernhard "Alec" Eisenträger (born 16 July 1927 in Hamburg) is a former German footballer who played as an inside forward.^[1]

Eisenträger moved on to Trowbridge Town and then, in 1949, to Bristol City. Thus, he was part of a professional British football team even before the famous Bert Trautmann moved to Manchester City. He gained promotion with the Robins to the Second Division in 1955. Until he left for Merthyr Tydfil in 1958 he had appeared in 246 games for Bristol City, netting 57 times.^[2]

He married a girl from Wales in the early 1950s and had four children.^[3]

References

1. Football League career stats at Neil Brown – Bristol City players
2. Bristol City career summary
3. Streppelhoff, R. (2009). Zwei Deutsche in England: Die Fußballkarrieren von Bernd Trautmann und Alois Eisenträger. SportZeiten. Sport in Geschichte, Kultur und Gesellschaft, p. 44.

Further reading

• Harris, N. (2006). The Foreign Revolution. How Overseas Footballers Changed the English Game. London: Aurum Press Ltd.
• Ramsden, J. (2006). Don't Mention the War. The British and the Germans since 1890. London: Little, Brown Book Group.