Ferdinand Swatosch

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Ferdinand Swatosch (born May 11, 1894 in Simmering ; † November 29, 1974 ) was an Austrian national football player from Simmering . He was able to become champions several times in his career with Rapid and Austria and was considered one of the best strikers of the early 1920s in Austria.

Career

1911–1924: Simmering, Rapid, amateurs and national team

Ferdl Swatosch began his football career in 1911 at 1. Simmeringer SC , where his older brother, national player Jakob Swatosch (* 1891; also known as Swatosch I) played. His breakthrough came in the 1913/14 season, in which he was already the third best scorer in the championship with 18 goals and made the jump from a club that was not very successful in the league into the national team. In this context, the last championship game of the season with Simmering against Rapid became famous. Rapid only needed a draw for their third championship win in a row, but surprisingly lost 2-1 due to two Swatosch goals and thus the championship to Wiener AF . Ferdl Swatosch was immediately made a generous transfer offer by the Green-Whites, which he accepted. The outbreak of World War I, however, severely hampered his further career, but the striker celebrated three championships in 1916, 1917 and 1919 and won the first ÖFB Cup in 1919.

He then returned to his home club in Simmering, where he immediately became an undisputed public favorite. The striker, who scored an impressive 18 goals in only 23 international matches for Austria, became a club legend , particularly through the international match against Germany on September 16, 1920 . In the 3-2 victory over the Germans, Ferdl Swatosch scored all three Austrian goals in front of a “home crowd” - the international match took place in front of 30,000 spectators at the Simmeringer Had . However, this and other performances in the national dress meant that the Simmeringer had to give up their top striker again. This time Swatosch went to Austria, then still Viennese amateur SV, with whom he lost 2-1 in the Austrian Cup final in 1922 to Wiener AF. In Ober St. Veit he was again champion in 1924, as well as cup winners in 1921 and 1924 and also top scorer in 1923.

1924–1930: SpVgg Sülz and professionalism

Before the start of the first professional season of Austrian football, Swatosch, who lost his job in Vienna and was plagued by livelihood and housing problems with his recently married wife, moved to Cologne to join SpVgg Sülz 07 , one of the predecessor clubs of today's club 1. FC Cologne. It was reported that the financial offer of the amateurs, for whom he was still playing in a game against MTK Budapest on the day of his departure on September 7, 1924 , was far too low. With him, Franz Podpiera von Rapid, who previously played with Swatosch at Simmering for some time, moved to Sülzer SpVgg.

In Cologne he took over a tobacco shop in the Sülzer club on Berrenrather Straße , probably a morning gift from the club. At first he could only work there as a coach, as he was denied a license to play for a long time. It was probably about the proof of his amateur status, which was confirmed to him early on by both the Austrian federation and its pre-clubs. But he came to the game in four international matches for Austria between April and July 1925 in which he contributed as many goals. His first use in a game in his new sphere of activity did not take place until the beginning of September 1925 in a city game between Cologne and Düsseldorf. Soon after, he made an impression on the Sülzer on the pitch.

The sporting rise of SpVgg Sülz 07 in the second half of the 1920s is associated with Swatosch. In 1927/28 he won the club's greatest success as a player-coach with the West German championship. In the final round of the German championship , the Sülzers made it to the quarter-finals with a 3-1 home win over Eintracht Frankfurt , where they were eliminated after a 2: 5 at Bayern . In the following season, however, a certain sloppiness set in with the Cologne team, although Swatosch's injury problems were not helpful either. As a result, there were disagreements between the Austrian and the club management and increasingly also with the players, which in 1929 almost led to his departure from the club.

The 1929/30 season in West German football was overshadowed by the scandal surrounding the payment of footballers at FC Schalke 04 . There were also efforts to make football more professional. This led to the founding of the German Professional Football Association in October 1931 . Swatosch appeared here as part of 1. FC Köln , which consisted primarily of players from Sülz. That was also the first time that this club name appeared. Schalke, F. Sp. V. Cologne, FC Munich Gladbach Rheydt and 1. FC Wuppertal were also involved in this venture. There was also interest in clubs from Düsseldorf and Krefeld. The efforts were unsuccessful. Rather, Sülz 07 separated from Swatosch, probably also to wash away the professionalism again and to be politely amateurist. Thereupon there were legal disputes between Sülz 07 and Swatosch over outstanding payments. In the case that Swatosch won, it turned out that he received a monthly salary of 750 marks, which was about five times the wage of a mechanic. Sülz 07 was excluded from gaming operations from May to the end of August 1931.

Swatosch then wanted to join the SC Sonnborn from the eponymous mayor's office near Wuppertal as an amateur , but did not get the required game permit, rather he was banned for one year in June 1931 for violating the amateur regulations.

1932–1953: Further career

From May to November 1932 he was the player-coach at FC Mulhouse in France for the first edition of the professional division 1 , where the club was immediately relegated under his successor Ferenc Plattkó . His judgment on the club was devastating. "A terrible company, of course, from a football perspective," he said. "The players are inaccessible to instruction and it is impossible to encourage them to train regularly."

Swatosch later trained in Germany for VfR Cologne , Rheydter SV , Lützenkirchen (1933-1935), Rot-Weiß Oberhausen (1935-1936), Borussia Dortmund (1936-1938) and Sportfreunde Siegen . From 1938 he was a Gausport teacher in Brandenburg. After the war he was in charge of Arminia Bielefeld (1946–1948), Schalke 04 (1948/49), Borussia Neunkirchen (1951/52) and Fortuna Köln (1952/53).

Ferdinand Swatosch was married to a woman from Cologne.

societies

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ferdl Swatosch wants to leave Cologne , freedom! , September 20, 1929, p. 6
  2. ^ Football: Founding of a German professional players' association , Prager Tagblatt , October 22, 1930, p. 5
  3. ^ Football game, a profitable profession , Salzburger Chronik , December 16, 1930, p. 6
  4. ^ A just punishment , Neues Wiener Journal , May 9, 1931, p. 12
personal data
SURNAME Swatosch, Ferdinand
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian national soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH May 11, 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH Simmering
DATE OF DEATH November 29, 1974