Ferdinand Wesely

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Ferdinand Wesely, drawn by Max Leuthe

Ferdinand "Ferdl" Wesely (born May 30, 1897 - March 19, 1949 ) was an Austrian football player . The left winger won the Mitropa Cup as captain with Rapid 1930 and played for almost a decade in the attack of the Austrian national team .

Career

Ferdl Wesely is described as a small, fast player who was also known for his powerful free kicks. The left winger began his career at Rennweger SV and in 1920 moved to the then leading Austrian football club Rapid . Ferdl Wesely soon developed into one of the pillars of the green-white attack, was already champion in 1921 and 1923 and from 1922 played regularly under Hugo Meisl in the national team . In the team he shone especially in games against arch-rivals Hungary , against whom he scored a total of 8 of his 17 international goals.

After the 3-0 final win in the ÖFB Cup against Vienna Austria , Ferdl Wesely took part with Rapid for the first time in the 1927 Mitropapokal . The club reached the final, but failed 2: 6 and 2: 1 at Sparta Prague . Also in the Mitropapokal 1928 Ferdinand Wesely, who scored two final goals, failed with Rapid only in the final 1: 7 and 5: 3 at Ferencváros . The left winger took over the captain's loop from Leopold Nitsch that year and led his club to two more championship titles and in the Mitropa Cup in 1930 again in the final, in which Rapid again faced Sparta Prague. The revenge succeeded, Rapid won 2: 0 and 2: 3 and thus achieved the greatest international success in the club's history.

After this triumph Ferdl Wesely moved to Switzerland, first to FC St. Gallen and then to FC Basel, where he met two former players from Vienna with coach Karl Kurz and strike partner Otto Haftl . In 1933 he won the Swiss Cup final 4-3 against Grasshopper Club Zurich with the Basel team , the decisive goal was scored by Haftl. After two years with the smaller city club FC Nordstern Basel , Ferdl Wesely also went to Belgium for some time, where he worked as a coach at Beerschot Antwerp , among other things . In 1944 he appeared in the same position in northern Germany at VfL Buxtehude . After the end of the Second World War, Ferdl Wesely returned to Vienna and first joined his parent club Rennweg and then the SC Red Star Vienna , before he died of a heart attack on March 19, 1949 .

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  1. ↑ Kicker / Fußball from February 8, 1944, page 2
personal data
SURNAME Wesely, Ferdinand
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wesely, Ferdl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH May 30, 1897
DATE OF DEATH March 19, 1949