Ivo Schricker
{{Short description|German footballer (1877–1962)}}
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{{Infobox officeholder
| name = Ivo Wolfgang Eduard Schricker
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| order = 3rd
| office = General Secretary of FIFA
| term_start = 1932
| term_end = 1951
| predecessor = Carl Anton Wilhelm Hirschman
| successor = Kurt Gassmann
| birth_name = Ivo Wolfgang Eduard Schricker
| birth_date = {{birth date|1877|3|18|df=yes}}
| birth_place = Strasbourg, German Empire
| death_date = {{death date and age|1962|1|10|1877|3|18|df=yes}}
| death_place = Zürich, Switzerland
| occupation = Footballer
| nationality = German
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| position = Defender
| youthyears1 = 1892–1893
| youthclubs1 = Straßburger FV
| years1 = 1893–1894
| clubs1 = Straßburger FV
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| years2 = 1894–1895
| clubs2 = Karlsruher Kickers
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| years3 = 1895–1896
| clubs3 = FC Basel
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| clubs4 = Akademischer SC
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| clubs5 = Karlsruher FV
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Ivo Wolfgang Eduard Schricker (18 March 1877 – 10 January 1962) was a German footballer and the third General Secretary of the FIFA, serving from 1932 to 1951 upon his resignation.[https://web.archive.org/web/20121026044239/http://www.fifa.com/mm/document/fifafacts/organisation/ip-110_04a_gs_9503.pdf FIFA.com]
Biography
Ivo Schricker was son of a privy councilor in Strasbourg, which at that time belonged to the German Empire. He came from a middle-class background and played his youth football together with his younger brother Erwin with local team Straßburger FV. During the summer of 1894 both brothers moved as a high school students to Karlsruhe. Here they joined and played for Karlsruher FV, where they met Walter Bensemann, a pioneer of German and European football.[https://books.google.com/books?id=7N1B-sMuXJ4C&dq=Ivo+Schricker+FIFA&pg=PA175 Photo of 1895 Karlsruher Kickers, Ivo Schricker sitting on the left and next to him his brother Erwin], in Ernst Otto Bräunche: Sport in Karlsruhe: Von den Anfängen bis heute {{ISBN|3-88190-440-9}}
During Basel's 1895–96 season both brothers played two games for FC Basel. The first game they played was the home game on 1 December 1895 as Basel played a 2–2 draw with FC Excelsior Zürich. Joan Gamper was team mate in that game.{{cite web | last = Verein "Basler Fussballarchiv” | authorlink = | year = | url = https://www.fcb-archiv.ch/saison/spiele?command=detail&id=28521 | title = FC Basel - FC Excelsior Zürich 2:2 (2:0) | format = | publisher = Verein "Basler Fussballarchiv” | accessdate = 2020-11-16}} The second game they played with Basel was on 8 March 1896 as Basel were defeated 3–1 by Grasshoppers.{{cite web | first = | last = | authorlink = | year = | url = https://www.fcb-archiv.ch/saison/spiele?command=detail&id=28523 | title = Grasshopper Club - FC Basel 1:3 (1:0) | format = | publisher = Verein "Basler Fussballarchiv” | accessdate = 2020-11-16}} Both Schricker's played only these two games for Basel, without scoring a goal.{{refn|group=note Scorers|Scorers: many pre-First World War game sheets no longer exist or are incomplete and so, many line ups and most goal scorers in this period remain unknown.}}{{cite web | last = Verein "Basler Fussballarchiv” | authorlink = | year = | url = https://www.fcb-archiv.ch/spieler?command=detail&id=9307 | title = Erwin Schricker - FCB-Statistik | format = | publisher = Verein "Basler Fussballarchiv” | accessdate = 2020-11-16}}{{cite web | last = Verein "Basler Fussballarchiv” | authorlink = | year = | url = https://www.fcb-archiv.ch/spieler?command=detail&id=9308 | title = Ivo Schricker - FCB-Statistik | format = | publisher = Verein "Basler Fussballarchiv” | accessdate = 2020-11-16}}
Following their time with Basel both returned to their club of origin Straßburger FV and later both again moved to Karlsruher Kickers. Erwin Schricker (22 August 1878 – 20 October 1914) was killed in action during World War One.[https://books.google.com/books?id=7N1B-sMuXJ4C&dq=Ivo+Schricker+FIFA&pg=PA175 Photo of 1895 Karlsruher Kickers, Ivo Schricker sitting on the left next to his brother Erwin], in Ernst Otto Bräunche: Sport in Karlsruhe: Von den Anfängen bis heute {{ISBN|3-88190-440-9}}
While studying in Berlin Ivo Schricker played for Akademischer SC 1893 Berlin. With Karlsruher FV he became South German champion several times. In 1899William J. Murray, Bill Murray: Football: A History of the World Game, Scolar Press, 1994 {{ISBN|1-85928-091-9}} [https://books.google.com/books?id=gaUqAAAAYAAJ&q=Ivo+Schricker+FIFA] he was among the best players in the first, still unofficial, game against a team from England, and in September 1901, he also played in London.[https://books.google.com/books?id=nmvjma629FYC&dq=Ivo+Schricker+FIFA&pg=PA53 Peter J. Beck: Scoring for Britain]
Schricker's home town, Strasbourg in Alsace, was after World War I annexed to France again.
After retirement as player, Schricker served from 1923 to 1925 as president of the South German association (Süddeutscher Fußball-Verband).
He moved to Zürich in Switzerland, a central and conveniently located place that fitted FIFA needs well when a permanent office was set up. Ivo Schricker became the organisation's first employee, and was appointed Permanent Secretary in 1931, working in a 30 square metre apartment at Bahnhofstrasse 77 that remained the home of football's governing body until 1954.[https://web.archive.org/web/20080101010706/http://www.fifa.com/aboutfifa/federation/news/newsid=104134.html FIFA.com] From 1948 onwards, he was supported by secretary Marta Kurmann.[https://web.archive.org/web/20080101010525/http://www.fifa.com/aboutfifa/federation/insidefifa/news/newsid=99244.html FIFA.com]
Notes
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= References =
- Henry Wahlig: Dr. Ivo Schricker. Ein Deutscher in Diensten des Weltfußballs, in: Lorenz Peiffer / Dietrich Schulze-Marmeling (Hg.): Hakenkreuz und rundes Leder. Fußball im Nationalsozialismus, S. 197 – 206, Göttingen 2008 [https://archive.today/20121218003106/http://henry.wahlig.phil.uni-hannover.de/publikationen/]
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=Sources=
- Rotblau: Jahrbuch Saison 2017/2018. Publisher: FC Basel Marketing AG. {{ISBN|978-3-7245-2189-1}}
- Die ersten 125 Jahre. Publisher: Josef Zindel im Friedrich Reinhardt Verlag, Basel. {{ISBN|978-3-7245-2305-5}}
- [https://www.fcb-archiv.ch/home Verein "Basler Fussballarchiv" Homepage]
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