Adolf Huber (soccer player)

Adolf "Dolfi" Huber (born March 5, 1923 , † February 1994 ) was an Austrian football player . The center forward won the Austrian championship three times with Wiener Austria and is the third best league shooter of the Violets with 151 goals.

Career

Dolfi Huber was particularly popular as a center forward thanks to his dribbling skills, ball distribution and running style. During his career, however , he had to struggle with injuries, especially on the meniscus , and had to pause for months after a total of four serious operations. He first played as the left side half in the Rapid youth team and came to Austria after a stop at the tram through Rudi Zöhrer . With his entry on January 23, 1939, the anniversary of Sindelar's death , and due to his similar game in the same position, he was soon traded as Sindelar's successor. His debut in the Austria combat team was successful on July 26, 1941 with seven goals in a friendly against Helfort .

After the Second World War, Ernst Stojaspal , Ernst Melchior , Lukas Aurednik , Fritz Kominek and Dolfi Huber formed a successful attack formation among the violets. The Austrian championship was won in 1949, 1950 and 1953, and the ÖFB Cup was won twice until the competition was closed in 1948 and 1949 . On the way to the first championship, Dolfi Huber entered the shooting list four times when, with two laps to go, championship leader Wacker was shot out of the stadium with ten goals. The greatest international success in addition to numerous tournament participation was reaching the semi-finals twice in the Copa Rio .

As far as possible, Dolfi Huber was also a fixed starter in the Austrian national team from 1949 to 1952 . He made his debut and goal on May 22, 1949 against Italy . He also scored in the following game against Czechoslovakia and in his third team appearance against Yugoslavia he entered the shooting list twice in Belgrade. With two more goals in the 8-1 victory in Brussels against Belgium , his team hat trick against Ireland at 6-0 and his goal in the narrow 2-3 defeat against England , he broke the 10-goal barrier after only nine appearances. Typical of his career, his last international match against Ireland ended after half an hour with an injury after a collision with Johnny Carey .

After Dolfi Huber had hardly been used due to injury in 1946/47 and 1948/49, his career seemed over again in 1954. Ultimately, he resigned from football in 1957, after being the third and, to date, last player for Austria for the violets, with 153 goals, almost surpassing the 150-goal mark in the league. Dolfi Huber then went to 1. Wiener Neustädter SC , where he won the B-League as a coach in 1958/59 and thus rose to the A-League for the first time with the club. In 1962 he took over FC Wien , which had been relegated to the third division , which he looked after for six years and also led it back to the then second-class Regionalliga Ost . Following this commitment, he returned to Austria, where he was still active in youth work for a long time.

successes

• 2 × Copa Rio semi-finals : 1951, 1952
• 3 × Austrian champion : 1949, 1950, 1953
• 2 × Austrian Cup winners : 1948, 1949
• 1 × Austrian second division champion: 1959 (coach)
• 13 games and 10 goals for the Austrian national soccer team from 1949 to 1953