August Starek

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August Starek
August Starek 2015-09-05.jpg
as a spectator of the European Championship qualifier
Austria vs. Montenegro (2015)
Personnel
birthday February 16, 1945
place of birth Vienna ,  Austria
size 177 cm
position midfield
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1963-1965 1. Simmeringer SC 15 0(1)
1965-1967 SK Rapid Vienna 24 (23)
1967-1968 1. FC Nuremberg 24 0(5)
1968-1970 FC Bayern Munich 38 0(5)
1970-1971 SK Rapid Vienna 18 0(0)
1971-1972 1. FC Nuremberg 31 (13)
1972-1973 Linz ASK 27 0(6)
1973-1977 SK Rapid Vienna 88 (26)
1977-1979 Viennese sports club 62 (15)
1979-1980 First Vienna FC 1894 16 0(0)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1968-1974 Austria 22 0(4)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
1980-1981 SV Austria Salzburg
1981-1982 Graz AK
1982-1985 FC Admira / Wacker
1985-1987 Austria A (assistant coach)
1985-1987 Austria U-21
1988 FK Austria Vienna
1989-1991 SK Sturm Graz
1992-1993 Rapid Vienna
1994-1996 VfB Leipzig
1996-1997 Graz AK
1998-1999 FC Austria / VSV Carinthia
1 Only league games are given.

August Starek (born February 16, 1945 in Vienna ), also called "Gustl", is a former Austrian football player and coach .

Career as a player

societies

Starek played for 1. Simmeringer SC from 1963 to 1965 and made his senior debut in the league (A) , the top division in Austria at the time. He completed his second season - due to the poor performance in the 1963/64 season - in the second-rate Regionalliga Ost introduced from the 1959/60 season , which he completed with the team as champions.

The following season he moved to SK Rapid Wien in the National League , renamed from 1965 , in which he not only made his debut on August 21, 1965 (1st matchday) in the 1: 3 defeat in the away game against 1. Wiener Neustädter SC , but also scored his first point goal with the goal to 1: 1 in the 45th minute. At the end of his second season he won the championship with the team , with the goal difference in front of the same points FC Wacker Innsbruck was decisive; he was also the top scorer with 21 goals .

For the 1967/68 season he moved to 1. FC Nürnberg , for which he made his debut in the 2-0 home win over Karlsruher SC on August 19, 1967 (1st matchday) - substitute for Heinz Müller in the 85th minute ; he scored his first goal in the Bundesliga on September 2, 1967 (2nd matchday) in a 4-0 win at home against Hamburger SV with the goal to make it 2-0 in the 35th minute. He also scored a goal in his only DFB Cup game for the club in the 2-0 away win on January 27, 1968 against Bayer 04 Leverkusen . At the end of the season he won the title of German champion with the FCN .

He won this again in 1969 after he switched to Bayern Munich , for which he played all 34 point games alongside his compatriot Peter Pumm and scored four goals. At the end of his first season for Bayern, he had played six games in the competition for the club cup to help win it too. In 1969/70 he was only used four times, most recently on September 12, 1969 (5th matchday) in a 3-0 win in the home game against Borussia Dortmund .

Starek summarized the different attitudes of Austrian and German players at that time as follows: “Training at Nuremberg, we run and run - I don't see a coach and I shout out: 'Hey, slower, it's no coach!' - and they say: 'We need this!'! They carried me away from the start! "

In the following three years he worked for three different clubs: 1970/71 he played again for SK Rapid Wien, 1971/72 again for 1. FC Nürnberg - now in the Regionalliga Süd , the second highest German division - and 1972 / 73 for the Linz ASK. From 1973 to 1980 he played for three Viennese clubs. With Rapid he won the Cup in 1976 with a 1-0 final victory over SSW Innsbruck and was runner-up the following year. With the Wiener Sport-Club he was runner-up again in 1979. He was relegated to First Vienna FC 1894 in 1980 and ended his playing career at the age of 35.

National team

For the senior national team , Starek played 22 times and scored four goals. His first international match was on May 1, 1968 in Linz in a 1-1 draw against Romania ; his last on September 28, 1974 in Vienna in a 1-0 victory over Hungary . He scored his first goal on November 6, 1968 in Glasgow in the 2-1 loss to Scotland ; it was the opening goal in the qualifier for the 1970 World Cup .

Career as a coach

After his playing career, he was almost exclusively the coach of Austrian teams: He held his first coaching position at SV Austria Salzburg for a year. He coached the Grazer AK for another year and FC Admira / Wacker for three years . From 1985 to 1987 he had a dual coaching role: on the one hand he was assistant coach of the Austrian national team and on the other hand he was chief coach of the Austrian U-21s.
His activity at FK Austria Wien lasted only four months , where he resigned on November 16, 1988. There had been controversies with Austria President Joschi Walter before , and when a new player ( Enrique Báez from Montevideo ) was introduced by the Presidium on November 14, 1988 without asking Starek's opinion, it was too much for him. This was followed by coaching positions at SK Sturm Graz (1989 to 1991) and SK Rapid Vienna (1991 to 1993).
From 1994 to 1996 he coached the second-class VfB Leipzig in Germany. With the subsequent coaching activity in Graz and Carinthia, almost two decades of coaching life ended in 1999, which remained crowned without title successes.

Others

On November 21, 1970, Starek was excluded from the match between FC Wacker and Rapid (5-0) at the Tivoli in Innsbruck by referee Paul Drabek and "lifted" his pants, probably due to the screams of the audience, for which he was banned for 10 matches and was fined 5,000 shillings by his club (in a later interview he said he “only showed a cheek”). Thereupon he received the nickname "black Gustl", by which he is still known today.

successes

player

Trainer

  • Second in the championship in 1988 (with Austria Wien)
  • Austrian Cup finalist 1993 (with SK Rapid Vienna)

Web links

Commons : August Starek  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Starek's goal debut on austriasoccer.at
  2. ^ Die Presse , 10./11. May 1969, quoted from Gerhard Urbanek : Austria's Germany Complex: Paradoxes in the Austro-German Football Mythology , LIT Verlag Münster, 2012. p. 363.
  3. ↑ "With Baez, but without Starek" . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna November 17, 1988, p. 21 ( arbeiter-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  4. ↑ "Starek: 5,000 S fine" . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna November 24, 1970, p. 15 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  5. ↑ "The hearing adjourned, Starek suspended" . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna November 25, 1970, p. 15 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  6. ↑ "Ten competitive games for Starek" . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna December 2, 1970, p. 13 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  7. ↑ Middle: "Rapid indicates Referee Drabek" . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna December 3, 1970, p. 13 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  8. ↑ Gustl Starek: Law of the Road, Peace with Your Butt. In: derStandard.at. July 6, 2015, accessed December 4, 2017 .
  9. ↑ https://abseits.at/fusball-in-osterreich/anekdote-zum-sonntag-18-der-hosen-gustl/
personal data
SURNAME Starek, August
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Starek, Gustl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian soccer player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH February 16, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna