Heinrich Schönfeld (soccer player)

Heinrich "Beppo" Schönfeld (born August 3, 1900 in Cluj-Napoca , Austria-Hungary , † after 1954) was an Austrian football player . The center forward became the first Austrian to become the Italian top scorer in 1924 .

Career

Heinrich Schönfeld began his career at SpC Rudolfshügel, for whom he made his debut as a goalkeeper in the first class in the 1916/17 season . Soon, however, he switched to the Sturm, in which he played from the 1920/21 season and scored a goal in his first championship game against SC Hakoah Vienna . After his time in Favoriten, Heinrich Schönfeld moved to the Meran sports club , where he became one of the most popular football players in South Tyrol. So he was finally brought for the 1923/24 season by the former Austrian international Karl Stürmer to FC Turin , where he was soon known as "Enrico Schönfeld". In Turin, Heinrich Schönfeld was the Italian top scorer with 22 goals , but missed the finals of the Italian championship with his club by one point behind FC Bologna . After another year in Turin and Inter Milan , where he scored 9 goals in 14 league games, Heinrich Schönfeld decided to return to the Austrian league in 1926.

In the Austrian I. League he joined the SC Hakoah Vienna , where he fitted well into the attacking game of the Krieauer. However, after he played big on an American tour with his club in the spring of 1926 - Heinrich Schönfeld shot a hat-trick in the 6: 4 over the Brooklyn Wanderers alone - he was recruited from Brooklyn together with his teammates Leopold Drucker , Alexander Neufeld and József Eisenhoffer . After a year in the ASL, however, he returned to Vienna for SC Hakoah, for which he played again in 1927/28 , and then returned to the United States, initially for Brooklyn Hakoah and, after their merger, for New York To play Hakoah . He played his last championship games in the USA in 1929/30.

After finishing his playing career, Heinrich Schönfeld worked as a coach. From 1930 to 1933 he was in charge of Juventus Trapani , who rose under his leadership from the fifth to the third division and then the second division club FC Catanzaro . After the end of the Second World War he trained Hakoah Hallein , a club that had been founded in 1950 by Jewish homeless people from the "Beth Israel" DP camp , until it was dissolved in 1954.

Web links

• Heinrich Schönfeld in the database of weltfussball.de
• Heinrich Schönfeld in the archive of the Inter website