Rudolf Strittich

Rudolf "Rudi" Strittich (born March 3, 1922 , † July 10, 2010 ) was an Austrian football player and coach .

Club career

Strittich began his career at SK Vorwärts Steyr , where he played in the first team at the age of 14. From the 1938/39 season he worked for the German-Bohemian DFC Graslitz , with whom he failed in the semifinals of the Sudeten German championship in 1939, before the championship of the Gau Sudetenland in 1940 under the name NSTG Graslitz could be won. In 1942 he moved to Vienna , where he won the championship in 1943. During the war years, Strittich was also briefly active at Hertha BSC .

After the end of the war he played in Steyr again, but returned to Vienna during the winter break. There the winger played on the right side of the storm next to Karl Decker and was able to reach the final in the ÖFB Cup in 1946 . In 1950, however, his career in the Austrian league was suddenly interrupted when he and Ernst Sabeditsch were convicted of smuggling raw opium after a Vienna tour of Egypt and were banned by the ÖFB for one year. After a short stint at US Triestina , Strittich moved to the Colombian professional league, where he played for the recently founded club Samarios de Santa Marta . After a brief coaching job in Switzerland, he returned to Vienna in 1952, where he now played in a storm series with Otto Walzhofer , but at the beginning of the second season he left the Döblinger for good to earn his money in the second French league at RCFC Besançon . After two seasons he ended his active career due to health problems.

National team

Strittich made his national team debut on the side of Karl Decker in December 1946 in a 2-0 draw in Budapest. Strittich's position on the right wing at that time in the national team was mostly occupied by Ernst Melchior , so it would take until autumn 1949 before he returned to Austria. Team boss Walter Nausch trusted the Viennaduo Strittich / Decker on the right side of the storm three times in a row, but after Strittich's suspension he was no longer considered.

Coaching career

In 1955 he began his coaching career at SK Sturm Graz , where he reached a tenth place in the championship. After the club fell behind with payments, Strittich left Graz and moved to France , where he took over the coaching position at his former club RC Besançon. In the spring of 1957 he was in charge of SV nitrogen Linz . His next foreign station was FC Basel in Switzerland, followed by Apollon Kalamarias in Greece. After a stint at his parent club Vorwärts Steyr, he moved to Denmark in early 1961, where he was to spend most of his coaching career. He took over Esbjerg fB , which he immediately led to the first two championship titles in the club's history. After a season in Steyr he returned to Denmark, first he coached the Viborg FF , before he took care of Esbjerg again from 1965 to 1967 and won his third championship title. After two years at Aalborg BK , Strittich was appointed coach of the Danish national football team in 1970 . Although he could not qualify for a final round of the World Cup or European Championship during his coaching activity, which lasted until 1975 , the Olympic team reached the intermediate round at the final tournament in 1972 , where they only narrowly missed a place among the last four. In the 1975/76 season he was in charge of the Spanish second division Real Murcia . From 1976 to 1979 he trained again in Esbjerg, where he won his fourth championship title. Strittich then returned to Austria and was briefly coach at Austria Salzburg in 1980 .

Stations

As a player

• 1936 to 1938: SK Vorwärts Steyr
• 1938 to 1942: NSTG Graslitz
• 1942 to 1943: First Vienna FC
• Hertha BSC
• 1945: SK Forward Steyr
• 1946 to 1950: First Vienna FC
• 1950: US Triestina
• 1951: Unión Magdalena
• 1952 to 1953: First Vienna FC
• 1953 to 1955: RCFC Besançon

As a trainer

• 1955: SK Sturm Graz
• 1956 to 1957: RCFC Besançon
• 1957: SV nitrogen Linz
• 1957 to 1958: FC Basel
• Apollon Kalamarias
• SK Forward Steyr
• 1961 to 1962: Esbjerg fB
• 1963: SK Forward Steyr
• 1964: Viborg FF
• 1965 to 1967: Esbjerg fB
• 1967 to 1970: Aalborg BK
• 1970 to 1975: Danish national team
• 1975 to 1976: Real Murcia
• 1976 to 1979: Esbjerg fB
• 1980: Austria Salzburg

successes

• 1 × Austrian champion : 1943 (as a player)
• 1 × Gaumeister Sudetenland: 1940 (as a player)
• 1 × Austrian Cup finalist : 1946 (as a player)
• 4 × Danish champions: 1961, 1962, 1965, 1979 (as trainer)
• 4 games for the Austrian national soccer team 1946–1949

literature

• Erich Hackl : Profile Rudi Strittich , in: ders .: More happiness in life. Speeches and writings, Diogenes, Zurich 2019, pp. 36–51.
• Robert Hummer: Packed with wanderlust , in: ballesterer April 27, 2007

Individual evidence

1. ^ Mourning for Rudi Strittich obituary on nachrichten.at . Retrieved November 4, 2011.
2. ↑ Martin Behr, Herbert Troger: We are storm! (P. 129)