Career
He played one international match for Germany. Kördell was the son of a coal miner in Germany"s Ruhrgebiet. In 1956, he joined the Schalke team from SpVgg Röhlinghausen.
Foreign six years, he played at Schalke, before joining Schwarz-Weiß Essen in 1962.
In German Oberliga West (then the highest division in German football) he scored 19 goals in 103 matches. His only match in the black-and-white dress of Germany he played on December 28, 1958, in Cairo, where Germany faced Egypt.
"To us, at the time, "culture" meant having a toilet in your own flat.".