Elek Schwartz

Elek Schwartz
Elek Schwartz in 1972
Personnel
Surname	Alexandru Schwartz
birthday	October 23, 1908
place of birth	Temesvar ,  Austria-Hungary
date of death	October 2, 2000
Place of death	Haguenau ,  France
size	178 cm
position	defender
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1926-1930	Kadima Timișoara	? (?)
1930-1932	CA Timișoara	? (?)
1932-1934	FC Hyères	47 (1)
1934-1936	AS Cannes	53 (0)
1936-1938	Racing Strasbourg	57 (0)
1938-1939	Red Star Paris	? (?)
1939-1940	EDS Montluçon	? (?)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1931-1932	Romania B	2 (0)
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
1948-1949	AS Cannes
1950-1952	AS Monaco
1952-1953	Le Havre AC
1953-1955	Hamborn 07
1956-1957	Red and white food
1957-1964	Netherlands
1964-1965	Benfica Lisbon
1965-1968	Eintracht Frankfurt
1969-1970	FC Porto
1970-1971	FC Dordrecht
1971-1972	Sparta Rotterdam
1972-1973	TSV 1860 Munich
1976-1977	Racing Strasbourg
1978-1979	FCSR Haguenau
1 Only league games are given.

Alexandru "Elek" Schwartz (born October 23, 1908 in Temesvar , Austria-Hungary , now Romania ; † October 2, 2000 in Haguenau , France ) was a soccer player in Romania and France and then worked as a coach . Among other things, he was from 1957 to 1964 Bondscoach the Dutch national team and coached later the Bundesliga team of Eintracht Frankfurt .

Players in Romania and France

Elek Schwartz (first from left) as a player at Racing Strasbourg in the Coupe de France final (1937)

As an active footballer, Schwartz first played in Timișoara, Romania. He then worked in France's professional league at FC Hyères (1932 to 1934), AS Cannes (1934 to 1936), Racing Strasbourg (1936 to 1938) and Red Star Olympique (1938/39).

Coaching career

Beginning in Monaco

He also completed his first coaching positions in France (AS Cannes 1948/49, AS Monaco 1950 to 1952 and Le Havre AC 1952 to 1953).

Senior league coach

In 1953 he was signed by Sportfreunde Hamborn 07 . After seventh place in the first year, Elek Schwartz led the club from the Duisburg district in its second season , as runner-up behind Wuppertaler SV , for promotion to the Oberliga West.

In 1955 he became a trainer at Rot-Weiss Essen , shortly after winning the German championship title. In the next two seasons, he led the team to a fourth and an eighth place in the league table.

National coach of the Netherlands

From left to right: Piet van der Kuil , Faas Wilkes , Tonny van der Linden , trainers Elek Schwartz, Kees Rijvers and Coen Moulijn during training with the national team (1959)

He then moved to the Dutch football association KNVB and took over the national team , which completed 49 international matches under his leadership.

However, that was at a time when Dutch football was nowhere near as important as it has been since the 1970s. A very negative event in his career was a 7-0 defeat by Germany in Cologne in 1959 . He remained in the office of bond coach until 1964 , in which he was succeeded by Denis Neville .

In total, the Dutch national team achieved 19 wins, 12 draws and 18 defeats under his leadership.

European Cup final with Benfica

In the 1964/1965 season he trained SL Benfica in Lisbon and won the national championship of Portugal with the team led by the legendary Eusébio .

In the quarter-finals of the European Cup , Benfica defeated Real Madrid in the quarter-finals and reached the final. There, the Lisbon Eagles had to admit defeat to the masters of catenaccio , Inter Milan, trained by Helenio Herrera , with a 1-0 defeat.

Bundesliga coach at Eintracht Frankfurt

From 1 July 1965 to 30 June 1968 trained Schwartz to succeed Ivica Horvat the Eintracht Frankfurt . He introduced the 4-2-4 system there. With the Hessians he reached the placements seven, four and six in the Bundesliga . In the European Exhibition Cities Cup , he led the Frankfurters to the semi-finals in 1966/67, where they lost to Dinamo Zagreb .

Failure with the dragons in Porto

In the 1969/70 season he coached FC Porto . Not only that the Dragons were eliminated in the first round of the Portuguese Cup and also did not get beyond the second round in the trade fair cup : with ninth place in the final table of the league, the northern Portuguese had their worst placement so far achieved.

Career finale in Munich and Strasbourg

In the 1972/73 season Schwartz was coach at TSV 1860 Munich , but he could not meet the expectations of returning the club from the second division back to the Bundesliga. He achieved a better result in the 1976/77 season when he was promoted to the first French division during his last engagement in the professional racing division of Strasbourg .

Then he was in the 1978/79 season trainer at the amateur club SR Haguenau , the predecessor club of today's FCSR Haguenau in Alsace. He also spent his old age in Haguenau.

Web links

• Elek Schwartz in the weltfussball.de database
• Datasheet about Elek Schwartz (French)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ rsssf.com