Ernö black

Ernö black
Personnel
birthday	October 27, 1904
place of birth	Budapest ,  Austria-Hungary
date of death	July 19, 1974
Place of death	New York ,  United States
position	striker
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
0000-1922	Ferencvárosi Torna Club
1922-1923	Makkabi Brno
1923-1926	SC Hakoah Vienna	49 (20)
1926-1928	New York Giants	71 (18)
1927	→  SC Hakoah Vienna  (loan)	3 0(?)
1928	Glasgow Rangers	0 0(0)
1928-1931	New York Hakoah
1931-1945	New York Americans
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1922	Hungary
1935	United States	1 (0)
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
1953-1955	United States
1 Only league games are given.

Ernö Schwarz , Hungarian Ernő Schwarcz , (born October 27, 1904 in Budapest , Austria-Hungary , † July 19, 1974 in New York , United States ) was a Hungarian - American football player and later football coach and manager.

His greatest successes as a player were an Austrian and an American championship title, Black played internationally in the national teams of Hungary and the United States. After his active career, among other things, he looked after the USA national team and worked as a manager of American clubs and leagues.

Career

Playing career in Europe

Ernö Schwarz began his career in Hungary as a striker for the Ferencvárosi Torna Club , with which he won the Hungarian Cup in 1922. In the same year he was called up for the first time in the Hungarian national team . He made his debut in July 1922 against Germany , only a few days later he scored two goals in a 5-1 win over Finland in Helsinki. However, since Black subsequently moved abroad, these will be his only two games for the Hungarian national team.

Schwarz took on an engagement in Czechoslovakia with the Jewish association Makkabi Brno , which at that time recruited its team almost exclusively from Hungary and was therefore accordingly controversial as a legionnaire's team. Here he played with the Hungarian internationals Ferenc Hirzer , Gábor Obitz and Gyula Feldmann , among others . In November 1923, Makkabi made a guest appearance in Austria for the first time. In the convincing 4-1 win against SK Rapid Wien , Schwarz was the best man on the pitch with two goals and thus caught the attention of the Jewish club SC Hakoah Wien . Shortly thereafter, he moved to Vienna and in December 1923, Schwarz played his first championship game for the Hakoah. Since at that time the professional playing was not yet allowed in Austria, he officially got a job in the company of the Vice President of Hakoah.

Black had a hugely successful debut, scoring nine goals in twelve games in his first half season. At the beginning of the 1924/25 season , professionalism was introduced in Austria and the Hakoah became the first professional champion. In the following season, however, it was only enough for seventh place. In the spring of 1926 the Hakoah undertook an American tour, which was a great success with the public and resulted in a number of Hakoah players - including Schwarz - being offered contracts by US clubs. Black returned with the team to Vienna and played the championship to the end, but then informed the club of his intended change and traveled to New York to play for the New York Giants in the future . Black played a total of 49 championship games for the Hakoah and scored 20 goals.

Player career in the USA

His former club colleagues Béla Guttmann , Moses Häusler , Max Grünwald and Egon Pollak also switched to the Giants . When the Hakoah made their second American tour in the following year, Black and the other players who had migrated to the Giants were given permission to play for the Hakoah again during this tour. Then black returned to Vienna and signed again with the Hakoah, where he played some preparatory games and the first three championship games of the 1927/28 season , before he decided again for the Giants. Black played a total of two seasons for the Giants in the ASL and scored 18 goals in 71 league games. After an American tour of the Glasgow Rangers in 1928, the latter offered black a contract, which he also signed, but he was not given a work permit for Great Britain and thus remained in New York. As part of the Soccer War, some clubs split from the ASL in the same year and founded the competitive league ESL. In order to increase the popularity of the new league, the New York Hakoah (also called Hakoah All-Stars) was founded, with Ernö Schwarz playing a key role in this establishment. In this club, the former players of the Vienna Hakaoh who had previously worked for various US clubs came together again.

In 1929 Black won the US Open Cup with the New York Hakoah , where he scored a goal in the final second leg against St. Louis Madison Kennels , and stayed with the club until 1931 after the merger of ESL and ASL. After that, Ernö Schwarz was the driving force behind the founding of a new ASL club, the New York Americans , where he subsequently worked as a player coach and also took on management tasks. In 1933, the Americans reached the cup final, which was lost to St. Louis Stix, Baer & Fuller .

In the same year the ASL fell victim to the economic recession and under the leadership of Schwarz a new league, which was called ASL, was created, which, however, was active on a far lower professional level than its predecessor.

In 1935, Schwarz represented his new home for the only time in an international match, in New York the Americans lost 5-1 to Scotland .

In the 1935/36 season the Americans managed to conquer the league title under the leadership of Schwarz, in 1937 the US Open Cup was won against the St. Louis Shamrocks . In the finals, Black was no longer involved as a player, as he suffered a broken leg in February 1937, which essentially ended his active career. In some cases, however, Black continued to play as a player until 1945.

Career as a trainer and manager in the USA

Ernö Schwarz now took over the management of the Americans and subsequently also became business manager for the entire league. After he had already been in discussion as coach of the national team for the 1950 World Cup and in 1952 became chairman of the national team's game committee, in 1953 he took over the role of national team coach. By 1955, the US team played six games under his leadership, of which two were won (both against Haiti ) and four were lost, and qualification for the 1954 World Cup was missed.

Despite all efforts, however, Schwarz could not prevent the slow decline of the ASL. The games were mainly attended by spectators from the ethnic minorities who supported their respective clubs such as Newark Portuguese, Brooklyn Italians or Ukrainian Nationals. Schwarz organized the games, sold tickets and also ran the hot dog stand during the half-time break. George Brown, a player in the ASL in the 50s, remembered Ernö Schwarz in 2004 with the following words:

“He did everything to save the game from ruin. We're talking about a guy in a little corrugated iron hut who made french fries for half time and kept the whole show going on his own. Ernö was one of the great characters you can read about in the history books of that time. He was a hustler - what we would call a businessman today. He kept coming up with new promotions and little gimmicks to get the old ethnic fans to the games - lotteries, raffles, I'm not even sure everything was legal. If anyone had found a way to make money from football these days, it would have been Ernö. But I never saw any sign that he was in danger of getting rich. Basically, he ran the league from the trunk of his car. He kept it going until the wheels fell off. "

In addition to his managerial role in the ASL, Schwarz left no stone unturned to popularize football in the USA. He organized tours of top European clubs such as Manchester United and Liverpool FC , held indoor tournaments in Madison Square Garden and, from 1960, was Vice-President and General Manager of the International Soccer League , an annual invitation tournament for international club teams.

Black experienced the first seasons of the newly founded North American Soccer League , which soon overtook his ASL. After his death, the ASL held out for another ten years before it ceased operations in 1983.

Ernö Schwarz was elected to the US National Soccer Hall of Fame for his services to American football .

successes

• 1 × Austrian champion: 1925
• 1 × American Soccer League champions: 1936
• 1 × Hungarian Cup winner: 1922
• 2 × US Open Cup winners : 1929, 1937

credentials

1. ↑ Translated from "Soccer Head: An Accidental Journey Into the Heart of the American Game" by Jim Haner, 2006, ISBN 978-0865477339

Web links

• Ernö Schwarz at soccerhall.org