Friedrich Donenfeld

Friedrich Donenfeld
Friedrich Donenfeld (center) in 1966
Personnel
birthday	January 17, 1912
place of birth	Vienna ,  Austria
date of death	March 20, 1976
Place of death	Utrecht ,  Netherlands
position	striker
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1927-1930	Thalia Vienna
1930-1936	Hakoah Vienna
1936-1937	Maccabi Tel Aviv
1937-1938	Olympique Marseille
1939-1941	Olympique Marseille
1944-1946	Red Star Paris
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1934	Austria	1 (0)
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
1949	Deportivo Barranquilla
1949	Colombia
1951-1953	Junior Barranquilla
1955	ADO The Hague
1955	Netherlands
1956-1957	Netherlands
	Fortuna '54
1965-1966	FC Twente Enschede
1974-1975	PEC Zwolle
1 Only league games are given.

Friedrich Donenfeld (born January 17, 1912 in Vienna , † March 20, 1976 in Utrecht , Netherlands ) was an Austrian football player and coach . The striker was the last national player in the history of Hakoah Vienna and later worked as a coach with the Colombian and Dutch national football teams, among others .

Player career

society

Friedrich Donenfeld began his football career at Thalia Vienna and in 1930 moved to the professional club Hakoah in the second division. With the Krieauern , the striker achieved immediate promotion to the highest Austrian league, where he was able to establish himself with the team in the following years. In 1934, Hugo Meisl also called him into the Austrian national football team , where he was used as legal link alongside Matthias Sindelar in the classic against Hungary on October 7, 1934 . Before that, he had played three games in the national B team and four games in the Vienna team.

After Friedrich Donenfeld put in a one-year interlude at Maccabi Tel Aviv in 1937 and won the championship with the Israelis, he went to France for several years. During the Second World War he played as Frédéric Donnenfeld for Olympique Marseille and Red Star Paris . The Viennese striker reached the French cup final with Marseille in 1940, but lost 2-1 to RC Paris in the Prinzenparkstadion . With Rudi Hiden , Gustl Jordan , Heinrich Hiltl and Edmund Weiskopf , four emigrated Austrians faced him in the final. As the Second World War continued, he became involved in the Resistance and worked as a British newsman in Normandy towards the end of the war.

National team

On October 7, 1934 Donenfeld came against Hungary for his only appearance in the dress of the Austrian national team .

Success as a player

• 1 × Austrian second division champion: 1931
• 1 × Championship of Palestine: 1937
• 1 × French cup finalist : 1940

Coaching career

After the war he first played for Maccabi Paris. Later, the Viennese moved to Colombia , where he played an important role in local football. Federico Donnenfeld , as he now called himself, helped to set up the professional soccer league, which started playing in 1948. In 1949 he coached the Colombian national soccer team at the South American Championship , but only finished eighth and last at the tournament in Brazil . In Barranquilla he sat in the coaching bench of Deportivo in 1949 and Atlético Junior from 1951 to 1953 .

In addition to Colombia, Friedrich Donnenfeld also made an outstanding contribution to football in the Netherlands . He took over the supervision of the Dutch national soccer team as bond coach twice for short periods , and later found three Austrian successors in Max Merkel , Heinrich "Wudi" Müller and Ernst Happel . As a club coach, he appeared for Fortuna '54 , where he was runner-up and cup winner in 1957, MVV Maastricht , FC Twente Enschede , DHC Delft and ADO Den Haag .

Record as national coach of the Netherlands

	Term of office	S.	G - U - V
	March 13, 1955	1	0 - 1 - 0
	September 15, 1956 - November 4, 1956	3	2 - 1 - 0
	All times	4th	2 - 2 - 0

Source: rsssf.com

Individual evidence

1. ↑ State General (NL)
2. ↑ Maxim Olenev: Dutch National Team Coaches ( English ) RSSSF. July 15, 1999. Retrieved April 13, 2019.