Otto Decker

Otto Decker
Personal information
Date of birth	19 September 1930 (age 94)
Place of birth	Germany
Position(s)	Forward
Youth career
	Royal Grammar School, High Wycombe
Senior career*
Years	Team
1948–1950	Wycombe Wanderers
1952–1954	Brooklyn Hakoah
International career
1953	United States
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Otto Decker (born 19 September 1930) is a German-American former soccer player who earned one cap, scoring two goals, with the U.S. national team in 1953.

Youth

Decker and his brother Rolf were born in Germany, but grew up in England. In March 1939, their parents, Ilse and Hans, sent the two boys to England as part of the kindertransport at the outset of World War Two.^[1]

Decker attended the Royal Grammar School, High Wycombe, England, from 1948 to 1950 after transferring from Wycombe Technical Institute in 1948. While at RGS, he played both soccer and cricket, as the wicket keeper.^[2]

National team

Decker earned his lone cap as a first-half substitute in the only U.S. game of 1953, a 6–3 loss to England. He came on after 30 minutes and scored in the 59th and 67th minutes.^{[citation needed]}

He represented the U.S. as a halfback in soccer at the 1965 Maccabiah Games in Israel.^[3]

References

^ Fathers and Sons, Part I of II: Kindertransport
^ "Letters to the Editor". www.rgshw.com. Archived from the original on 28 December 2004. Retrieved 16 September 2023.
^ "U.S. Soccer Squad Named For 7th Maccabiah Games". The New York Times.

External links

Otto Decker at National-Football-Teams.com
Otto Decker at WorldFootball.net

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[1] Fathers and Sons, Part I of II: Kindertransport

[2] "Letters to the Editor". www.rgshw.com. Archived from the original on 28 December 2004. Retrieved 16 September 2023.

[3] "U.S. Soccer Squad Named For 7th Maccabiah Games". The New York Times.

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