Good start to Teutonic tour
- Dag Jenkins
- Jun 17, 2023
- 2 min read
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Saturday, June 17, 1939
Stadion an der Telegraphenkaserne, Karlsruhe
Karlsruhe-Lazio 0-2
Despite arriving at last minute after a long train journey, Lazio dominate with two first half goals
In the summer of 1939 Lazio went on a tour of Germany to play four games. They went with the new manager for the 1939-40 season, Hungarian Géza Kertesz. Today was the first game against Karlsruhe.
Karlsruhe is a town of about 300,000 inhabitants in Baden-Wurttemberg, in south-west Germany. The name of the town is literally "Karl's rest" in English. The other big town in the area is Stuttgart who are obviously their sporting rivals.
Karlsruher SC were at the time known as Karlsruhe FC Phönix and were in the Gauliga Baden, the German top flight. In 1908-09 they had won the German league title.
The match
It was a 6 pm kick-off in front of a crowd of about 6,000 in the Fächerstadt (Fan town, due to its fan-like shape).
Lazio only arrived a few hours before the game by train and were without Silvio Piola who needed to rest, injured Luciano Ramella and Giuseppe Baldo who was busy with university graduation exams. Baldo would join the squad by plane in a few days’ time.
Lazio however had some of their new players available such as attacking midfielder Enrique Flamini plus forwards Evaristo Barrera and Silvestro Pisa I (all three from Argentina).
Being a summer friendly and almost a hundred years ago there is not a lot of information available about the actual game.
The newspapers of the period reported a clear Lazio superiority over their German rivals.
Lazio played fast and dynamic football forcing the KSC on the defensive for most of the 90 minutes.
The Biancocelesti stamped their authority on the game in the first half scoring two goals. In the 18th minute Umberto Busani got the first and in the 34th Silvestro Pisa doubled the score.
Lazio could then have scored more with Evaristo Barrera and Bruno Camolese but 2-0 was a satisfying result.
The Romans were applauded off the field by the local crowd and started their German tour on a positive note.
The next game was in three days in Ludwigshafen am Rhein, about a hundred kilometres away, at the Adolf Hitler Stadion…that was the period.
Who played for Karlsruhe
line-up not available
Who played for Lazio
Manager: Kertesz
Referee: Mossinger (Ger)
Goals: 18' Busani, 34' Pisa
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