Anton Powolny

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Anton Powolny (born August 19, 1899 in Vienna , Austria-Hungary , † unknown) was an Austrian football player who won a championship title with the Wiener Sport-Club in the 1920s and was the Italian top scorer during his time at Inter Milan .

Club career

Powolny, a gendarme by profession, began his football career with the youngsters of the Wiener Amateur SV , where he made his first appearances in the top division during the First World War , as many regular staff were not available due to the war. He then worked for the second division club Ober-Sankt Veiter AC , before moving to the Vienna Sports Club in 1921 . The change had consequences under association law, as a private game agreed between the sports club and the releasing club was interpreted as a transfer game and thus as a violation of amateur regulations. The sports club became 20,000 crowns and the Ober-St. Veiter AC sentenced to 500 kroner. The player himself only narrowly escaped the imposition of a one-year “waiting period”, that is, a ban, which the releasing club demanded at the end.

Powolny was able to create his breakthrough in his first season at the sports club in the 1921/22 season and contributed with several goals to the first championship title in the club's history. Powolny was able to secure a regular place as a left connector and formed with Leopold Giebisch the left attacking side of the Dornbacher. The following year the championship went less well, but the sports club reached the final of the ÖFB Cup , where a 3-1 win against SC Wacker Vienna meant another title.

After that Powolny stayed at the sports club for half a season before moving to Wiener AF in early 1924 , where he played the season to the end. Karl Stürmer , the former Austrian international, was coach of the Italian first division club AC Reggiana at the time and brought Powolny to Emilia-Romagna . The commitment paid off, as the striker scored 15 goals in his first season and, together with his strike partner Felice Romano, made a significant contribution to staying up. The next season, however, should not go as well. Although the Austrian scored nine goals in the championship, due to a league reform, the ninth place in the table in Group B of the Northern League meant only participation in the relegation games, where the Reggiana despite two Powolny goals against AC Mantova 3: 7 after extra time had to give up.

After Powolny had played briefly in the second division, he accepted an offer from Inter Milan. There he played in the 1926/27 season under coach Árpád Weisz in a storm row with Luigi Cevenini , Leopoldo Conti and Fulvio Bernardini and had an optimal debut when he scored two goals against AC Napoli in his first game for the Nerazzurri . At the end of the season, Inter finished fifth in the final round and Powolny was the league's most successful goalscorer with 22 goals ahead of the two Torino strikers Julio Libonatti and Gino Rossetti .

At the end of this season only players of Italian descent could be used in the Italian football championship, which Powolny was forced to leave the country. He went to Hungary, where he signed with first division promoted Attila FC Miskolc . Although the Eastern Hungarians were able to surprisingly reach the cup final , where they were defeated by Ferencvárosi FC , they did not succeed in relegation in the championship. Powolny moved to Sabária FC from Szombathely , but also had to relegate there as bottom of the table in the second division.

In 1929 he therefore returned to Vienna, where he played again for the Vienna Sport Club in the autumn round, but then ended his professional career in Austria after a contract was terminated. In 1930 he took over the coaching position at the southern Italian third division club AS Taranto . From 1931 to 1935 he was still active in German-Bohemian football as a player- coach at RSK and RFK Reichenberg . In 1938 he became a trainer at TuS Duisburg 48/99 .

Stations

  • Viennese amateur SV
  • until 1921: Ober-Sankt Veiter AC
  • 1921 to 1923: Wiener Sport-Club
  • 1924: Wiener AF
  • 1924 to 1926: AC Reggiana
  • 1926 to 1927: Inter Milan
  • 1927 to 1928: Attila FC Miskolc
  • 1928 to 1929: Szombathelyi AK
  • 1930: Viennese sports club
  • 1930: Taranto Sport (coach)
  • 1931 to 1935: RSK Reichenberg (player-coach)
  • 1938: TuS Duisburg 48/99 (trainer)

successes

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Also a judiciary . Illustrierte Sportblatt, Vienna, October 22, 1921, p. 7 (via Austrian Newspapers Online )
  2. ^ Die Protestschrift , Illustrierter Sportblatt, Vienna, September 17, 1921, p. 6 (via Austrian Newspapers Online )
  3. ↑ Also a judiciary . Illustrierte Sportblatt, Vienna, October 22, 1921, p. 5 ff. (Via Austrian Newspapers Online )
  4. ↑ Powolny and no end , Illustrated Sportblatt, Vienna, November 5, 1921, p. 6
personal data
SURNAME Powolny, Anton
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH August 19, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH after 1938