Felix Latzke

Felix Latzke (born February 1, 1942 in Vienna ) is a former Austrian soccer player and soccer coach . As a player, he won the double with Admira , as a coach he coached the Austrian national team at the 1982 World Cup and reached the semi-finals of the UEFA Cup with FC Swarovski .

Player career

Felix Latzke's youth clubs were SC Wacker Wien and SC Südbahn , at the age of 18 he switched to SV Straßenbahn , from where SK Admira Wien , who had just been promoted back to the top division, hired him after just one year . He spent the next ten years at Admira and was one of the club's most successful goal scorers during this time. After he was able to play in the fighting team in 1964, he scored a total of 60 first division goals for the club.

Among the greatest successes of the black and whites during this period were the championship title in the 1965/66 season and the ÖFB Cup victory under coach Hans Pesser in the same year. After Günter Kaltenbrunner , Felix Latzke was the second best Admira shooter in the championship season with twelve goals and was also able to show three appearances in the Austrian national B team in 1965. After the merger of Admira with Latzke's parent club SC Wacker, however, he hardly got a chance and then ended his active career.

Coaching career

Latzke initially stayed with the Südstädtern, where he worked as an assistant coach and coach of the second team, which formed a syndicate with SC Brunn . In 1974 he took over the coaching position at Linz ASK , with which he occupied two midfield positions in the Bundesliga. This was followed by a job at ÖFB (interrupted by a season at SK VÖEST Linz 1977/78 with rank 5; from 1978/79 Ferdinand Milanovich took over the coaching office there). At the ÖFB, Latzke was then responsible for the B national team and the U21 selection from mid-September 1978. The first match he oversaw with team boss Karl Stotz was a friendly against the Hungarian team Rába ETO Győr on September 19 in the Lindenstadion in Eisenstadt , which was lost 1-0.

Around May 25, 1979, however, Latzke returned to Admira, who was threatened with relegation. He replaced Rudolf Illofsky , and with a 3-2 away win on May 26th in the 32nd round on the Hohe Warte against First Vienna FC , the turnaround could be initiated (there was no defeat after that, but a total of four Victories and a draw nine points; the Admirans moved up from penultimate place to seventh). He looked after Admira for four years and built future national players such as Josef Degeorgi , Gerald Messlender , Manfred Kern and Manfred Zsak into the team. During this time, two fourth places (1980/81 and 1981/82) were achieved and in 1982 participation in the UEFA Cup was secured, although in the first round against FC Bohemians Prague they scored a total of 1: 7 (away 0 : 5, at home 1: 2 on September 15 and 28, 1982) got under the wheels.

After qualifying for the Soccer World Cup in 1982 , there was a rift between the successful team boss Karl Stotz and the ÖFB President Karl Sekanina , which cost the former the post. The ÖFB decided to entrust the supervision of the national team during the World Cup to a duo on an interim basis, which consisted of Felix Latzke as coach and the ÖFB employee Georg Schmidt . With the national team Latzke reached the qualification for the second group stage and eighth place in Spain, but the participation was overshadowed by the non-aggression pact of Gijón .

After his time at Admira, Latzke initially looked after SC Eisenstadt , which he led to victory in the Mitropacup , before moving to Tyrol in 1985 and training at FC Wacker Innsbruck . With a third place they qualified for the UEFA Cup 1987 , where the team then advanced to the semi-finals after license transfer as FC Swarovski Tirol and failed there at the eventual winner IFK Göteborg . In 1987, Latzke accepted an offer from the German Bundesliga and looked after SV Waldhof Mannheim , where he was, however, on leave during the second season (November 16, 1988). At SV Waldhof, Latzke succeeded coach Klaus Schlappner in the summer of 1987 and should have suffered the sporting losses due to the changes from Jürgen Kohler (1. FC Cologne), Maurizio Gaudino , Fritz Walter (both VfB Stuttgart) and the end of the club's career for the club icon Günter Sebert , intercept it by rebuilding. In his first season, Waldhof held as table-16. through the relegation games against the third in the 2nd Bundesliga Darmstadt 98 (with ex-Waldhof trainer Klaus Schlappner on the bench) the class. After the 1: 5 defeat on the 14th match day of the 1988/89 season at Hamburger SV , Latzke was replaced by Günter Sebert on November 17, 1988.

After returning to Austria, he worked for a number of other Bundesliga teams until the mid-1990s, such as VfB Mödling (1989–1990), Vienna (1990–1991), SK Vorwärts Steyr (1991–1992) and FC Stahl Linz (1992–1993), but without achieving greater success. Most recently, he looked after several lower-class clubs such as ASK Stoob, the Wiener Sportclub , SC Ostbahn XI , SC Neudörfl , SC Eisenstadt and most recently SC Münchendorf in the 2nd class East / Middle.

successes

• 1 × Austrian champion : 1966 (as a player)
• 1 × ÖFB Cup : 1966 (as a player)
• 1 × ÖFB Cup finalist: 1987 (as coach)
• 1 × UEFA Cup semi-finals : 1987 (as coach)
• 1 × Mitropacup : 1984 (as trainer)
• 8 games for the Austrian national soccer team: 1982 (as coach)

ÖFB international matches under team bosses Georg Schmidt and Felix Latzke

Legend

• H = home game
• A = away game
• * = Play on a neutral place
• green background color = victory of Austria
• yellow background color = tie
• red background color = defeat

Games	Victories	draw	Defeats	Gates	TD
8th	5	1	2	11: 7	+4

No.	date	Result	opponent		venue	occasion	comment
453	March 24, 1982	3: 2	Hungary	A.	Budapest ( HUN )
454	04/28/1982	2: 1	Czechoslovakia	H	Vienna
455	05/19/1982	1-0	Denmark	H	Vienna
456	06/17/1982	1-0	Chile	*	Oviedo ( ESP )	1982 World Cup preliminary round	First international match against Chile
457	06/21/1982	2-0	Algeria	*	Oviedo ( ESP )	1982 World Cup preliminary round	First international match against Algeria
458	06/25/1982	0: 1	Germany	*	Gijón ( ESP )	1982 World Cup preliminary round	" Gijón Non-Aggression Pact "
459	06/28/1982	0: 1	France	*	Madrid ( ESP )	1982 World Cup intermediate round
460	07/01/1982	2: 2	Northern Ireland	*	Madrid ( ESP )	1982 World Cup intermediate round	First international match against Northern Ireland / Austria eliminated as second in the group

Individual evidence

1. ^ "With Prohaska and Schachner"; last paragraph . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna September 20, 1978, p. 13 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
2. ↑ "Turn around with Latzke?" In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna May 26, 1979, p. 9 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
3. ↑ Internet site «FOOTBALL IN AUSTRIA», 1978/79
4. ↑ Internet site «FOOTBALL IN AUSTRIA», 1982/83