Erich Probst

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Erich Probst
Personnel
birthday December 5, 1927
place of birth Vienna ,  Austria
date of death March 16, 1988
position striker
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1945-1949 SK Admira Vienna
1950 First Vienna FC 1894
1950-1956 SK Rapid Vienna
1956-1958 Wuppertal SV
1958/59 FC Zurich
1959/60 SV Austria Salzburg
1961 Salzburg AK 1914
1962-1963 First Vienna FC
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1951-1960 Austria 19 (17)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
1960 SV Austria Salzburg
1 Only league games are given.

Erich Probst (born December 5, 1927 in Vienna , † March 16, 1988 ) was an Austrian football player and participant in the 1954 World Cup finals .

Career

From the young star of Admira to the serial champion with Rapid

The trained striker began his career at Admira Vienna in Jedlesee , where he already had a regular place in the attack team's attacking team as a 17-year-old. For the club he played four full seasons until 1949, when he attacked Erich Habitzl among others , but he himself was looking for a connection to a top club. Over a one-year stopover in Vienna he came to the summer of 1950 SK Rapid Wien . With the Hütteldorfern he was four times Austrian champion and twice achieved third place.

In the first season of 1950/51 , the Viennese scored 28 goals in 23 games and, together with Robert Dienst, who was Austria's top scorer that season, played a major role in winning the championship. In the same season, Erich Probst celebrated his greatest success at club level with the Zentropa Cup victory and was able to contribute four goals to this triumph in two appearances. The following year was again very successful for Probst with the title defense and 28 goals in the championship with only 18 appearances, moreover he scored the 2,600 championship goal of the green-whites on August 9, 1951 in the 4-0 win of the Viennese over SK Sturm Graz since the championship was introduced in 1911.

In the game year 1952/53 , the team with the third place in the table suffered a small setback. Probst was also able to convince as a striker this season and scored 20 goals in 23 appearances. Despite his accuracy, the thoroughbred striker was never allowed to claim the title of Austrian top scorer as his own, as Austria player Ernst Stojaspal came before him in addition to his club colleague Robert Dienst . For his club he managed to score 2,800 championship goals for a Rapidler in the game against Austria Salzburg on August 30, 1953 . Although Erich Probst made a name for himself internationally through his games in the national team and especially through his appearances at the soccer world championship, he remained loyal to his Rapid until 1956. Only then did Probst accept an offer from Wuppertaler SV and move to Germany .

As a legionnaire in Germany and Switzerland

He played for the Wuppertal between 1956 and 1958 in the Oberliga West . The WSV had invested heavily in the team in order to be able to play at the top under coach Edmund Conen : Probst's new teammates were among others. a. Horst Szymaniak , "Coppi" Beck , with Erich Haase an ex- GDR national player and with Klaus Wilhelm and "Fifa" Augustat two talents that Sepp Herberger had entered in his legendary notebook. Probst played 49 point games and, above all, in 1957/58 (14 hits, 8th place in the list of goalscorers; only six times successful in the first year), the expectations attached to his commitment - but in 1956/57 it was only 9th place, and Probst's second Year the WSV even rose as the penultimate. Therefore, the striker moved to Switzerland for FC Zurich .

Back in Austria

In the winter of 1959, Erich Probst returned to Austria and was brought to the Salzach by Karl Sachs, the president of SV Austria Salzburg , for the club's record transfer sum of 90,000 Austrian schillings . Probst was hired as an emergency helper for the team that had started the season catastrophically and fulfilled the expectations placed in him with 15 goals, which contributed significantly to the relegation of Salzburg. At the end of his career he even managed to return to the Austrian national team at Salzburg and thus became the first Salzburg player to receive this honor. After the end of his playing career, the people of Mozart town even hired him as a coach for the 1960/61 season . After a very bad autumn season, however, he was replaced by Karl Vetter, so he decided to try again as a striker. After a year at the SAK, he returned to one of his previous posts: Vienna. In Döbling he played for the Austrian championship until 1962 and also scored the last of his 150 first division goals.

Career in the national team

Erich Probst played a total of 19 international matches for Austria from 1951 to 1960 , scoring 17 goals. He made his debut as a strike partner of his congenial club colleague Robert Dienst from Rapid Vienna on May 27, 1951 in the 4-0 victory of the Austrians over Scotland in Vienna. On September 27, 1953, Erich Probst wrote a piece of Austrian football history together with the national team. In the 9-1 victory in the World Cup qualification against Portugal , he contributed five goals in front of 60,000 enthusiastic spectators in Vienna alone and scored a flawless hat trick . The so far highest victory in a World Cup qualification not only made Probst a superstar, but also brought Austria to the top of the European football nations. The remaining goals on that day were scored by Ernst Happel , Theodor Wagner , Ernst Ocffekt and Robert Dienst .

The glamorous high point of his career was the participation and the achievement of third place at the soccer world championship 1954 under coach Walter Nausch in Switzerland. One of his greatest personal successes was the winning goal for the 1-0 victory over Scotland in the first group game of the Austrian who paved the way for the team to win the group. The winning goal fell in the 33rd minute after a remarkable combination of Ocffekt - Probst-Körner II - Probst, after the latter lured the Scottish goalkeeper Martin out of the gate and shot dry. In the second group game against Czechoslovakia , Probst scored the 2-0, 3-0 and 4-0 goals within a quarter of an hour. The goal to make it 2-0 was especially worth seeing, when Probst took a cross from Stojaspal volley and put it into the case of the Czech goalkeeper Stacho and his goal to make it 4-0, which he scored with a bomb shot in the Kreuzeck. Ernst Stojaspal set the end of the series of hits with his second goal to make it 5-0 in the 64th minute.

In the quarter-finals against Switzerland , the Austrians were able to convert a 3-0 deficit into a historic victory, with Erich Probst ending with his goal to make it 7-5. Probst scored his sixth and last goal with the connection goal to make it 2-1 in the semi-final against Germany , which was ultimately surprisingly and clearly lost 6-1. In the course of the tournament, Probst was used in five of seven games and was second on the list of goalscorers with his six goals behind the Hungarian Sándor Kocsis and ex aequo with the German Maximilian Morlock and the Swiss Josef Hügi .

After the World Cup , Erich Probst only made a few team assignments until 1955. During his engagements with Wuppertaler SV and FC Zurich, he was not considered for the Austrian national team once and his career in the dress of the Austrians seemed to have ended prematurely. After his return to Austria, Erich Probst celebrated a comeback for a game in the national team as a player for SV Austria Salzburg in 1960 under team boss Karl Decker . In the international match against France , which is part of the European Cup of Nations , he scored the goal to make it 2-4 final on March 27, 1960 and thus his 17th goal for the national team.

Stations as a player

successes

Stations as a trainer

  • 1960 SV Austria Salzburg

See also

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personal data
SURNAME Probst, Erich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH December 5, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna , Austria
DATE OF DEATH March 16, 1988