Gernot Fraydl

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Gernot Fraydl (born December 10, 1939 in Graz ) is a former Austrian national soccer player and later soccer coach. Between 1961 and 1970, the goalkeeper played 27 international matches for Austria and was involved in two wins against England. With Austria Wien he won the championship and cup double twice in 1962 and 1963. In the mid-1960s he was part of the dawn of a new era of professionalism in American football. In 1970 he was third in the German championship with Hertha BSC . In the mid-1980s, Fraydl coached both Graz clubs in the national league.

Career

Goalkeeper Gernot Fraydl began his career in his home town of Deutschlandsberg with the local SC. He played his first A-League games for the GAK in the 1957/58 season . He was quickly able to draw attention to his goalkeeping qualities and thus made his team debut in the Decker era in the 3-1 win over England in front of 92,000 spectators in the Vienna Prater Stadium on May 27, 1961, and a move to Wiener Austria . With the violets he immediately won title after title, because both in 1961/62 and 1962/63 he won the championship and cup double .

In 1964/65, however, the Turkish national goalkeeper Arkoc Özcan snatched his regular place away, so Gernot Fraydl decided to move to Wacker Innsbruck . In the 1965/66 season he finished eighth with the Tyroleans.

Even if Gernot Fraydl could not prevail at Austria, he remained in the national team and witnessed the 3-2 away win against England on October 20, 1965, for example.

In 1966 he had a preliminary contract with London's Arsenal FC , but was not given a work permit. Therefore, he moved to the second division club SC Schwarz-Weiß Bregenz , with whom he rose.

In 1967 he played in the United States in the not affiliated with the FIFA National Professional Soccer League (NPSL), with the Philadelphia Spartans with whom he narrowly missed the final as runner-up in the Eastern Division.

The Spartans then stopped playing for a year and the NPSL merged with the United Soccer League to form the North American Soccer League, which was to attract global attention well into the 1980s. There he played until mid-1968 for the St. Louis Stars , who were looked after by the self-proclaimed German "bird of paradise among the coaches" Rudi Gutendorf . There he only made nine games at the beginning of the season. Former Yugoslav national goalkeeper Blagoje Vidinić , who later joined the team, stood between the posts in the other 23 games of the stars . The success of the St. Louis Stars that season was mediocre: they finished third in one of the four groups of four for the final qualification.

For the 1968/69 season he was signed by Hertha BSC , who were promoted to the Bundesliga , because their goalkeeper, the eight years younger German Volkmar Groß , had injured himself. For the next two years, the two goalkeepers, who were considered equal, competed for the place in goal. Coach Helmut "Fiffi" ​​Kronsbein regularly castled between the two. While Fraydl had the upper hand in the first season with 18 league appearances, he was clearly behind in the second with only 13 games. Hertha were 14th and third in the league in those seasons. The penalty saved against Gerd Müller in the Grünwalder Stadium in Munich when the score was 1: 1 at Bayern, then reigning German champions, was worth remembering , which helped to a 2: 1 victory.

He then played one more season with Bundesliga relegated TSV 1860 Munich in the Regionalliga Süd , where the goal of the Bundesliga promotion round was missed with fourth place. His last stop was Vienna in 1971/72, which finished ninth of 15 clubs in the Austrian National League.

He had his last two international appearances in 1969 against Germany and in September 1969, as a second division player, against Yugoslavia. Both games were lost 0-1.

Since there was no new club for Fraydl in the professional area after his commitment at Vienna, he played for some time at his home club, Deutschlandsberger SC . From 1977 to 1980 and 1984 he also served the club as a coach.

In the 1982/83 season he began a coaching engagement with SK Sturm Graz , which he led to fourth place in the Bundesliga. In the following season, Fraydl was replaced by Robert Pflug after a series of poor results in early April after the 20th match day . At the time, Sturm was in fourth place and finished the season in fifth. For the 1985/86 season he trained another Bundesliga club with local rivals Grazer AK . He led the GAK to fourth place in the final table. In the following season he was replaced by Adolf Blutsch after only seven match days at the end of August , as the Graz team had only two wins and five defeats. But that didn't change anything about the relegation at the end of the season. At the end of March 1989 he was still interim coach for three games at the then second-class Wolfsberger AC , which was relegated at the end of the season.

As early as 1973 he took over the Heilmoorbad Schwanberg in western Styria from his father, a tax advisor, which was located in a former Capuchin monastery . Since then, among other things, the monastery cells have been converted into guest rooms. His son now runs the day-to-day business.

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  1. ↑ The fact that Vidinić was mainly between the posts at the St Louis Stars could have something to do with an injury of Fraydl; that should be examined more closely.
personal data
SURNAME Fraydl, Gernot
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian soccer goalie and coach
DATE OF BIRTH December 10, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Graz