GELSENKIRCHEN, Germany (AP) A storied player for FC Schalke who was killed in Eastern Front fighting in World War II is being reburied in a cemetery in Gelsenkirchen where he wowed fans in the 1930s and 1940s.
Adolf Urban's body is being reburied Wednesday in a cemetery overlooking the Schalke stadium opened last year for diehard fans.
Urban helped Schalke win five German championships and one German Cup title, and played 21 games for Germany's national team, scoring 11 goals.
As a 29-year-old German army sergeant, he died in fighting in 1943 in Russia. He was buried near where he fell, but the club had his body brought back last week to bury in the cemetery shaped like a football field and garnished with flowers in the club's blue and white colors.
