The second funeral of Ernst Kuzorra: a pure farce. Surely only possible on Schalke. On New Year’s Day 1990, royal blue mourned one of its greatest players.
Ernst Kuzorra had died at the age of 84. His burial took place on the Rosenhügel cemetery. Over 1,000 people said goodbye – or thought they did. Schalke president Günter Eichberg, having interrupted his Bahamas holiday, arrived three hours late and made only the wake.
Team attendant Charly Neumann therefore had the wreath-laying at Kuzorra’s grave repeated in a smaller circle. Bild’s headline the next day: “This only happens at Königsblau – Kuzorra buried twice!”