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Schalke 04 mourns championship legend Koslowski!
Great sadness at FC Schalke 04: Willi Koslowski, a true legend of the "Royal Blues", has died at the age of 87, a man who played an active part in Schalke's last ever title as German champions!
It seems almost unreal today when you think about the club's past years - and yet Schalke were the best team in Germany in 1958. Koslowski was an important part of the championship-winning team coached by Austrian Edi Frühwirth.
In the final against Hamburger SV, for example, the winger contributed two assists to the 3-0 victory.
511 games for the "Royal Blues"
Curiously, it is known that Koslowski played 511 games for the "Royal Blues" - but no statistics record how many goals he scored. The official figure is 65 goals - but it was probably significantly more ...
The Gelsenkirchen native also played for Germany's national team: after scoring on his debut against Uruguay in a test match on April 11, 1962 (3:0), Koslowski was taken to Chile for the 1962 World Cup, where he played the full game in a 2:1 win over Switzerland.
His national team career came to an end with another international match against Yugoslavia in September 1962 ...
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