Anton Bilek

Anton Bilek
Personnel
birthday	November 20, 1903
date of death	November 28, 1991
position	Middle runner
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
0000-1923	Floridsdorfer AC
1923	SK Admira Vienna
1923	Diana Katowice
1924-1930	Vienna AC
1930–	FC Solothurn
0000-1934	Montreux Sports
1934-1936	ASL Villeurbanne
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1927-1928	Austria	2 (0)
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
1930–	FC Solothurn (player-coach)
0000-1934	Montreux-Sports (player-coach)
1934-1936	ASL Villeurbanne (player-coach)
	WSV BU Neunkirchen
	SK Bata Borovo
at least 1938	CSC / Friesen Cottbus
	WAT XVI
1 Only league games are given.

Anton "Toni" Bilek (born November 20, 1903 , † November 28, 1991 ) was an Austrian football player who was part of the national team in the 1920s .

Club career

Bilek began his career at Floridsdorfer AC , where he hardly got any working hours, and therefore moved to local rivals SK Admira Vienna in 1923 . But also with the Admira the position of the middle runner with the national player Anton Koch was filled with top-class. Bilek therefore accepted an offer from Poland and switched to Diana Kattowitz in April 1923 , where his team colleague Johann Schierl would later follow him. After his return at the end of the year, the player was initially banned because he had moved abroad without clearance, and then went back to work for Admira.

But since there was still no place for him in the first team, Bilek moved in the spring of 1924 to the second division club Wiener AC , with whom he won the title and thus achieved promotion to the top division. At the WAC he was initially used mostly as a side runner, only through a serious injury to Erwin Puschner and the departure of the Czechoslovak national player Antonín Klicpera he was able to secure the regular post as a center runner. In the next five years Bilek played in a row of runners, which also included Georg Braun and at times Walter Nausch , but the WAC was mostly in the lower regions of the table, only in 1928/29 could it be noticed with a third place. In the ÖFB Cup , the Prater team reached the final in 1928, where Bilek's ex-club Admira was defeated 1: 2.

In 1930 Bilek left the WAC and after working as a tennis coach in Troppau, he switched to Switzerland as a player coach, where he initially worked for FC Solothurn and then for Montreux-Sports . In 1934 he moved to France, where he was the player-coach of the second division ASL Villeurbanne until the club dissolved in the spring of 1936. After a short stint at WSV BU Neunkirchen , Bilek took over the coaching position at SK Bata Borovo in Yugoslavia. In 1938 he became coach of the CSC / Friesen Cottbus .

In the post-war years he was a trainer at the Vienna AC and the lower class WAT XVI .

National team

In the second half of the 1920s, the position of middle runner in the national team was mostly occupied by Leopold Hofmann or Josef Smistik . Bilek was therefore mainly used in the Vienna city team, where he played six games. He made his national team debut in November 1927 in a 1-0 away win over Italy . His second and last assignment took place in October 1928 in a 5-1 win against Hungary .

successes

• 1 × ÖFB Cup finalist: 1928
• 1 × Austrian second division champion: 1924
• 2 games for the Austrian national soccer team: 1927–1928