Rolf Decker

Rolf Decker is a former U.S.-English soccer player who spent his professional career with the New York Hakoah of the American Soccer League.

Decker and his brother Otto where born in Germany, but grew up in England. They moved to the United States after World War II to rejoin their mother who lived there. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Decker] When Rolf arrived in the U.S., he signed with New York Hakoah and played from at least 1954 through 1963 with the team.

Decker earned four caps with the U.S. national team in between 1953 and 1956. His first game with the national team came on June 8, 1953 in a 6-3 loss to England. He played two games in 1954, both 1954 FIFA World Cup qualification victories over Haiti. Despite these two wins, the U.S. had already failed to qualify for the finals after losing twice to Mexico earlier in the year. Decker’s last cap came in the only U.S. game of 1955, a 3-2 loss to Iceland on August 25, 1955.

Decker was selected for the U.S. soccer team at the 1956 Summer Olympics. The U.S. lost its first match in this single elimination tournament and did not make the second round.

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