Franz Hofer (soccer player)

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Franz Hofer (born September 4, 1918 - December 16, 1990 ) was an Austrian football player .

Career

societies

Hofer belonged to SK Rapid Vienna and was used in the 1937/38 season in the National League , the top division in Austrian football. At the end of the season - despite the annexation by the German Reich on March 12, 1938, the season was played to the end - he won the championship with his club.

From 1938 bis 1941 than stormed it in the Gauliga Ostmark , from 1941 bis 1945 in Gauliga Danube Alpine country as one of initially 16 and later spiked to 23, Gauligen the era of National Socialism as a uniform top flight in the German Reich. During this time he won the Gaume Championship twice with SK Rapid Vienna, which was later equated as the Austrian Championship; as a result, he also took part with him in the final round of the German championship, from which the team emerged as German champions in 1941. He also won the Tschammer Cup in 1938 with SK Rapid Wien and played a total of seven games in this national club cup competition.

After the end of the Second World War , at the end of his active football career, he played the 1945/46 season in the league of the Vienna Football Association , which ended with the championship.

National team

His only international match for the senior national team of the Greater German Reich , he played on August 27, 1939 in Bratislava in the 2-0 defeat against the national team of Slovakia .

successes

Others

After the end of his football career, Hofer worked for some time as a coach, from 1960 as a consultant to the ÖFB and lived in Schönbrunn in the 13th district of Hietzing until his death in 1990 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Franz Hofer ( memento from September 9, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) on archive.is