Rudolf Bürger was a Romania

Romania

Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeastern Europe, on the Lower Danube, within and outside the Carpathian arch, bordering on the Black Sea...

n international footballer of German

Germans of Romania

The Germans of Romania or Rumäniendeutsche were 760,000 strong in 1930. They are not a single group; thus, to understand their language, culture, and history, one must view them as independent groups:...

 ethnicity in the 1920s and 1930s who is one of a few men who participated in each of the three pre-War FIFA World Cup

FIFA World Cup

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Bürger played football for Ripensia Timişoara

Ripensia Timisoara

Ripensia Timişoara was a football team from the Romanian city of Timişoara. It was founded in 1928 by Dr. Cornel Lazăr and it lasted only twenty years before folding due to lack of funds in 1948....

, the first professional team in Romania which came to prominence after 1932 under the direction of Rudolf Wetzer

Rudolf Wetzer

Rudolf 'Rudy' Wetzer was the captain and team-coach alongside Octav Luchide, under the management of Costel Rădulescu of the first Romanian side to participate in a FIFA World Cup. He was a Jewish-Romanian footballer....

and was strong in the 1930s.

Wetzer was both captain and coach of the Romanian national team at the 1930 World Cup. Bürger did not play in the 2nd World Cup but made appearances in both the first and third editions of the competition.