Adolf Knoll (soccer player, 1938)

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Adolf Knoll (born March 17, 1938 ; † September 21, 2018 in Feldkirch ) was an Austrian football player .

Life

Adolf Knoll played especially at the beginning of his career as a striker, but later came increasingly to use in midfield. He made his first appearances in the highest Austrian league in the 1956/57 season for the Wiener Sport-Club . Together with Walter Horak , Erich Hof , Josef Hamerl and Karl Skerlan , he soon portrayed the famous attack of the Dornbachers as a connector, who won the championship in the following two years and remained a total of 41 games in a row over two seasons. But Knoll also celebrated great successes with the sports club in the European Champions Cup : he reached the quarter-finals twice, with the 7-0 victory over Italy's champions Juventus Turin becoming famous.

Adolf Knoll made his debut in the national team on October 13, 1957 in a 2-2 draw against Czechoslovakia . In his career up to 1966 he had a total of 21 team appointments and participation in the 1960 European Championship . After eleven seasons in the highest Austrian league at the sports club, Knoll first went to Wiener Austria , where he was again champion in 1968/69 , and then accepted an offer from WSV Donawitz from the second-class regional league . With the "Blast Furnace Ballet" he was promoted to the National League in 1971 and played there three more seasons.

Stations

successes

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ We mourn the loss of Helmut Köglberger, Adolf Knoll and Alois Weinrich. In: fk-austria.at. September 24, 2018. Retrieved September 24, 2018 .
  2. ↑ In 1970 the club was renamed WSV Alpine Donawitz , and in May 1971 it was renamed Donawitzer SV Alpine.
personal data
SURNAME Knoll, Adolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH March 17, 1938
DATE OF DEATH September 21, 2018
Place of death Feldkirch , Austria