Fritz Drazan

Fritz Drazan
Personnel
Surname	Friedrich Drazan
birthday	January 13, 1957
place of birth	Mödling ,  Austria
date of death	29th July 2019
size	180 cm
position	midfield player
Juniors
Years	station
0000-1973	FC Austria Brunn
1973-1975	FK Austria Vienna
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1975-1988	FK Austria Vienna	86 (17)
1978-1979	FC Admira / Wacker	12 0(1)
1979-1981	SK VOEST Linz	41 0(6)
1981-1983	SC Eisenstadt	28 0(4)
1983-1985	FK Austria Vienna	34 0(3)
1986	SC Eisenstadt	16 0(4)
1986-1987	First Vienna FC	16 0(0)
1987-1988	VfB Mödling	1 0(1)
1988-1992	ASV Vösendorf
1992-1993	SK Pama
1993	SC Apetlon
1993-1994	SC Seven Shepherds
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
1988-1992	ASV Vösendorf ( player-coach )
1992-1993	SK Pama (player-coach)
	FC Laxenburg
2001	Landstraßer AC
2002-2003	IC favorites
2003-2004	SV Wienerberg
2005	IC favorites
2006	VfB Admira Wacker Mödling II
2006-2007	First Vienna FC
2010-2011	Viennese sports club
1 Only league games are given.

Friedrich "Fritz" Drazan (born January 13, 1957 in Mödling ; † July 29, 2019 ) was an Austrian football player and coach . He was the father of the Austrian national player Christopher Drazan .

Player career

Start of career and first successes with Austria

Fritz Drazan was born on January 13, 1957 in Mödling and grew up in Vösendorf . In his youth he appeared for FC Austria Brunn from the neighboring community of Brunn am Gebirge and in 1973 made the leap to the Austrian Bundesliga club FK Austria Wien , who paid a transfer fee of 70,000 Schilling for the then 16-year-old . Initially used in the club's youth team, the midfielder made his professional debut in the club's men's team towards the end of the 1974/75 season . After he had already played in two friendly matches in the men's team in early May and early June 1975, coach Josef "Pepi" Argauer put him in the last championship game on June 20, 1975 against SK Sturm Graz from the 74th minute for the Austrian National player Felix Gasselich a. The game, which was played in front of only 750 spectators in the Horr Stadium , ended in a 2: 4 home defeat for the Viennese , who at that time were still in a syndicate with the Vienna AC . In the final classification he finished fourth with the team, which meant a starting place in the Mitropapokal 1975/76 .

In the following season 1975/76 Drazan started under Karl Stotz , after he had not been used in the first five championship rounds, from September 1975 as a regular in the championship. In his third league appearance this season, he scored his first competitive goal for the Violets in a 4-0 home win over the Grazer AK and played his first international competitive game on September 30, 1975 when he lost 2-1 to AC Perugia was used in the Mitropapokal. In the Mitropapokal Drazan was used in all four games of his team and reached second place in Group B behind FK Velež Mostar from SFR Yugoslavia and in front of AC Perugia from Italy . In the final, SSW Innsbruck , which had won Group A, clearly prevailed against the club from Herzegovina with an overall result of 6: 2. In the league, the 18- and 19-year-old midfielder made 26 of 36 possible appearances, contributing four goals and taking first place in the final standings with seven points ahead of the reigning champions and cup winners. In the 1975/76 ÖFB Cup , the team ended in the second round after a 3: 4 defeat against SC Tulln .

Further successes and member of the 78 team

After he was noticed in the pre-season extremely dangerous, Drazan started with the participation in the Intertoto Cup 1976 in the season 1976/77. Meanwhile as a clear regular player in midfield of the Viennese, he played at least four of the six group games of his team, which in the end only brought it to fourth and thus last place in group 5 and left teams like Zbrojovka Brno , MSV Duisburg or FC Zurich in front of them . As a regular under Karl Stotz, he started the Austrian football championship in 1976/77 at the beginning of August and subsequently developed into one of the most popular squad players in Vienna Austria. As champions of the previous season, the club had also qualified for the 1976/77 European Cup and started the first round in September 1976.

After a 1-0 win over Borussia Mönchengladbach in the first leg, the team suffered a clear 3-0 defeat against the eventual finalists in the second leg, which meant an early exit from the tournament. Drazan was in action in both games against the Germans . In the league, the native Mödlinger appeared regularly as a goalscorer and assistant, often for Julio Morales . In the end, he had made 35 of 36 league appearances that had been possible and scored eleven goals. In the final table, however, he and the team ranked eight points behind SSW Innsbruck, which was mostly outstanding at this time, and with two points behind city rivals SK Rapid Wien in third place in the table. Unlike the previous season, Drazan celebrated successes in the ÖFB Cup with SpG Austria / WAC. After he was also a regular player here, he and his team won the two finals with the local rivals Wiener Sport-Club in the Weststadion with 3-0 and 1-0 and thus won the Austrian Cup for the 1977/78 European Cup Winners' Cup to qualify.

For the 1977/78 season, the association not only received a new main sponsor, Austria Tabakwerke , but also a new head coach, Hermann Stessl from Graz . Under Stessl, Drazan, who was extremely dangerous in the preparation for the season, first had to fight for a regular place and was often only used as a substitute player or did not even belong to the extended squad. Drazan found it relatively difficult to assert himself against midfield players of the same age in the squad; so players like Herbert Prohaska , Felix Gasselich, Karl Daxbacher or Ernst Baumeister could complete significantly more missions than Drazan. Nevertheless, the 20- or 21-year-old was able to act as a template for the so-called centenary storm around Hans Pirkner , Thomas Parits and Julio Morales, although he himself only scored two goals in 24 league games. The 1.80 m tall right-footed player made regular, albeit often short, appearances in the European Cup Winners' Cup in 1977/78. After a narrow progress against Cardiff City in the first round, Austria also made it into the subsequent quarter-finals due to the away goals rule after games against Lokomotíva Košice in round 2. In this, the team met Hajduk Split ; After a 1-1 draw in the first leg, in which Drazan did not appear for the first time during these international games, the team won the away encounter on penalties after a 1-1 draw in extra time and made it to the semi-finals.

A 1: 2 away defeat against Dynamo Moscow was followed by a 2-0 lead by Austria in the second leg in front of a crowd of over 72,000 spectators in the Prater Stadium , which in the end, after a goal by Andrei Jakubik , resulted in a 2-1 Final score at the end of regular time and thus resulted in another penalty shoot-out. Fritz Drazan was in action from the start and for over 85 minutes before he was replaced by Günther Pospischil . As in the quarter-finals, Hubert Baumgartner , the Viennese goalkeeper, was one of the most outstanding personalities who brought the team to the European Cup final in Paris . In front of a little over 48,000 spectators, Austria clearly lost the final held on May 3, 1978 in the Parc des Princes with 0: 4; Drazan came on as a substitute for Uruguayan Julio Morales in the 74th minute of the game . Three days after the final, he and the team also finished the Austrian football championship 1977/78 , after having won the championship with Austria six rounds before the end; in the end they were 14 points ahead of their closest rival, SK Rapid Wien. In the 1977/78 ÖFB Cup , Drazan played in at least three games and was eliminated with his team in the semifinals against SSW Innsbruck.

Change to Admira / Wacker and VOEST Linz

Following this successful season, Drazan bowed to pressure from within his own ranks and switched to FC Admira / Wacker , who had just managed to stay in the 1st division in the previous season due to a slightly better goal difference. While his ex-club continued to achieve triumphs, Drazan only stayed in the middle of the table with Admira / Wacker. The former Hungarian national player Rudolf Illovszky used him as a regular player from the start, but it was an injury that the midfielder suffered in November 1978 that made him miss for the rest of the season. So he brought it to only twelve missions in the 1st division 1978/79 and ranked with the club in the end on the seventh place in the table. Much more successful was the ÖFB Cup 1978/79 , in which Drazan was only used until the round of 16 and then had to pause due to his injury. Admira made it to the final, which was ultimately lost with an overall result of 1: 2 from the first and second leg against SSW Innsbruck.

After only one season in the Südstadt , Drazan changed clubs again and joined league rivals SK VOEST Linz , who were also in the middle of the table in the previous season. With a somewhat subdued start to the 1979/80 season , he began under Ferdinand Milanovich with regular appearances in the starting line-up, but soon had to make room for other players in midfield. Over a period of around two months, the then 22-year-old hardly played any minutes between September and November 1979 and only returned to regular appearances a few weeks after the departure of Milanovich as head coach under the new coach Günter Praschak . However, this changed again in the spring of 1980, when the newcomer of winter, the Dane Ove Flindt-Bjerg , took his traditional position and Drazan was only used as a substitute and often only for a few minutes. By the end of the championship he had made 26 of 36 possible appearances and five goals, but was only on the pitch in four of the 26 games over the full 90 minutes. In the final standings, the VÖEST works sports club was seven points behind FK Austria Wien in second place in the table - tied with city rivals LASK, who had just risen to the top. In the Austrian Football Cup 1979/80 , in which Drazan also played, the team made it to the quarter-finals and lost 1: 3 to Vienna Austria.

Also in the following 1980/81 the right foot remained with the Stahlstädter, but in the end the team was only able to move away from the middle of the table and also failed in the 1980/81 ÖFB Cup in the round of 16 against Rapid Vienna. Drazan was able to play other competitive appearances this season in the 1980/81 UEFA Cup , when he was eliminated with the Linzers in round 1 against Zbrojovka Brno, and in the 1980 Intertoto Cup . In Group 6 of the Intertoto Cup, VOEST Linz took third place behind Internacionál Bratislava and group winner Halmstads BK , as well as in front of the BSC Young Boys . Initially treated by Praschak as a regular player, his stakes became significantly less again after a few rounds of play. By October 1980 at the latest, he had fallen back as a substitute player and had to give way to players like Ove Flindt-Bjerg, Manfred Mertel or younger players like Helmut Wartinger , Manfred Schill , Jürgen Werner or Georg Zellhofer . In just 15 league appearances, the 24-year-old midfielder only scored one goal - in a 4-1 win over city rivals LASK in the third round of the championship.

Via Eisenstadt back to Austria

After two seasons in the Upper Austrian capital, Drazan moved to SC Eisenstadt , who had just been relegated to the 2nd division after spending only one season in the country's top soccer league. He is said to have been a regular player for Burgenland and made it to second place in the table behind SK Austria Klagenfurt at the end of the 1981/82 season . In the second game of the season, a 5-1 home win over Kapfenberger SV , the right-footed player appeared for the first time as a goal scorer for the Eisenstadt team . In the ÖFB Cup , he failed with the team in the quarterfinals against SSW Innsbruck. Due to a league reform there was an increase in the 1st division from ten to 16 teams, which came into force at the end of the 1981/82 season. Thus it was possible for the first six teams of the 2nd division of the 1981/82 season to advance to the next higher division; There was no relegation from the 1st division in 1981/82.

After advancing to the 1st division, Drazan continued to act as a regular player under his coach Josef Schneider and only missed two of 30 possible league games. Otherwise he was mostly active for the full length of the game in midfield of the Burgenland and contributed four league goals over the entire season. After spending a large part of the season with the team in the middle of the table and making it up to fourth, the team around the now 26-year-old could not win any of the last ten games of the season and ended the season in ninth place in the table. Nevertheless, SC Eisenstadt was chosen to take part in the Intertoto Cup 1983 and the Mitropapokal 1983/84 in the following season . For the Eisenstadters, the last-mentioned tournament should end with a victory and thus the greatest success in the club's history; Drazan was no longer involved because he had returned to FK Austria Wien during the summer break.

With the Austrians, who were being trained by Václav Halama at the time, he came from the beginning of the 1983/84 season as a regular at the side of Herbert Prohaska, who had just returned from his time as a legionnaire in Italy , the long-time Austria- Player Ernst Baumeister and the newcomer Džemal Mustedanagić from Zagreb . Karl Daxbacher and István Magyar also played in midfield for the Viennese during this time. Together with city rivals SK Rapid Wien, who was the reigning champion and cup winner at that time, Austria dominated the league and, after being in first place in the table for a large part of the season, was able to hold onto it and hold the 16th Austrian championship title in the Get club history. Drazan had been in all championship games until the winter break and had played a large part of them over the full 90 minutes, but was only used in two league games in the following spring, mostly due to injury, and was canceled for the rest of the season. He also played for Austria all international matches in the 1983/84 UEFA Cup , in which the team entered in the first round against FC Aris Bonneweg and, after victories over these, Stade Laval in round 2 and Inter Milan in the third round only eliminated in the quarterfinals against Tottenham Hotspur . In the ÖFB Cup 1983/84 Austria also made it to the finals, but was subject to SK Rapid Vienna in this. After a 3-1 win in the first leg, the Violets lost the second leg 2-0, which is why Rapid won the cup due to the away goals rule.

Substitute player at Austria and return to Eisenstadt

From the 1984/85 season , Drazan appeared under his former team-mate Thomas Parits, who had replaced Halama as Austria coach during the summer break, but he hardly made any appearances here either. Drazan missed the entire autumn round, including the not unsuccessful participation of Austria in the European Cup in 1984/85 , when the team only narrowly defeated FC Liverpool in the quarter-finals in March 1985 . In the league, he only completed his first game on March 16, 1985, the second game in the spring, in a 1-0 away win over SC Eisenstadt, but only in the 89th minute of the game for the just 21 years old Toni Polster came out onto the lawn. Although he was used in the following championship game on the side of Baumeister, Prohaska and Dihanich over the entire game, there was an exception here. By the end of the season, when FK Austria Wien became outstanding Austrian champions after just one defeat this season, Drazan had only made five more appearances. The 28-year-old right-footed player was also able to contribute a goal in the 4-0 away win over the favorite AC in the 27th round. As in the previous season, he and his team made it to the ÖFB Cup final again; in the 1984/85 season he was only eliminated on penalties against city rivals Rapid; Drazan himself was able to convert his penalty shot.

Even after another coaching change in the summer of 1985 - successful coach Hermann Stessl returned to Austria - Drazan was hardly considered. In the first ten championship games he only made two championship appearances and only came to regular league appearances after a brief appearance in the first round of the 1985/86 European Cup against BFC Dynamo in early October 1985. By the winter break, he had made a total of nine league appearances, of which, however, he was only on the field from the start and for the full 90 minutes. Subsequently, he left the club in winter and soon came to SC Eisenstadt. It can be assumed that he only joined the Eisenstadt team in the summer of 1986, in any case he was not used for either team in the 1985/86 play-offs . While Austria was again Austrian champions, SC Eisenstadt took fourth place in the middle play-offs in the 1985/86 season. In the first game of the season of the following season 1986/87 Drazan was used by trainer Ernst Weber as a regular player in the midfield of the Burgenlanders and contributed the only goal of his team in the 1: 3 defeat against SK VOEST Linz. Weber also used him as a regular afterwards; mostly alongside István Magyar and Johann Schöll , but also midfielders like Josef Heiling and Michael Fleischhacker .

When Weber was dismissed after the 19th round after six games without a win, Drazan also left the club and joined First Vienna FC . For this he made his debut a week later, of all things, in a 2-0 defeat against SC Eisenstadt. By the winter break he played three league games for Vienna; Nothing is known about appearances in the subsequent middle play-offs. His coach from Bratislava coming Arnošt Hložek called Ernst Hložek had it concerned him even with longer missions. Under his successor, the Viennese Ernst Dokupil , Drazan was considered in the 1987/88 season , but was only rarely considered with longer stakes and mostly used as a substitute player. After he had been in action on November 23, 1987 in a 4-0 away win over the GAK until the 86th minute of the game, he moved to VfB Mödling in the same week . For this he completed his first and only game on November 29, 1987 under coach Josef Schneider in a 1: 6 home defeat against VOEST Linz, in which he also scored the only goal of his team. Thereafter, Drazan's no more competitive appearances for the Mödling first division club at the time. He left VfB Mödling by the end of the season at the latest.

Career conclusion in lower-class football

Immediately afterwards, the now 31-year-old midfielder came to his home club ASV Vösendorf and was active for them until 1992. During this time he appeared as a player- coach and was involved in the relegation battle with the team in 1991; a 2-1 victory over SK Austria Klagenfurt only ensured relegation for a short time; a narrow 1: 2 defeat against SR Donaufeld in the last game meant relegation to the regional league. In 1992, now 35 years old, Drazan switched to SK Pama with games in 1st class North and was also there as a player-coach until he left a year later. In the spring of 1993 he played for SC Apetlon further south in the 2nd division north and switched from amateur football in Burgenland back to amateur football in Vienna when he joined SC Siebenhirten in the 1993/94 season. For the club from the Viennese district Siebenhirten in the 23rd district of Liesing , he was used in the 2nd class East-Central and was runner-up in this league with the team this season. Further game stations after that are not known.

Coaching career

After he had been a player-coach at the amateur level at the above-mentioned clubs from the late 1980s, he later coached FC Laxenburg, among others . From the beginning of the 2001/02 season until the winter break, he was the coach of Landstraßer AC and in the following season 2002/03 coach of IC Favoriten . Both clubs merged a few years later to form Landstraßer AC-IC before further mergers took place. One of Drazan's supervised players at the time was Peter Paluch , who was in his mid-40s . The following 2003/04 season was successful for Drazan. In this he was with SV Wienerberg master of the league and was also indoor winner and winner of the Vienna Football Cup . The final of the Vienna Football Cup was won by SV Wienerberg 2: 1 over Liesinger ASK .

In 2005 Drazan was again briefly coach of the IC favorites (from about March to December 2005). In the winter break of 2005/06 he joined VfB Admira Wacker Mödling and was the coach of the club's second team. With the team that played in the third-class Regionalliga Ost , he finished fifth. During the summer break he went to First Vienna FC within the league, who had finished third in the previous season, three points behind champions SC-ESV Parndorf in 1919 . At the end of the 2006/07 season , the Vienna ranked third place in the table again, but ended up being twelve points behind the champions ASK Schwadorf . After playing eleven championship games in 2007/08 , Drazan left the Döblinger team after losing two games in a row with his team .

In 2010 he briefly appeared as head coach of the Vienna Sports Club for a period of three months (June to September) .

death

On July 29, 2019, Drazan died of heart failure at the age of 62. On August 8, 2019, Drazan was buried at Mödling cemetery.

Sporting successes

As a player

with that of SpG Austria / WAC and FK Austria Wien

• 4 × Austrian champions : 1975/76 , 1977/78 , 1983/84 and 1984/85
• 1 × Austrian cup winner : 1976/77
• 2 × Austrian Cup finalists : 1983/84 and 1984/85
• 1 × finalist in the European Cup Winners' Cup : 1977/78
• 1 × Austrian indoor champion : 1984/85

with FC Admira / Wacker

• 1 × Austrian Cup finalist : 1978/79

with the SK VOEST Linz

• 1 × Austrian runner-up : 1979/80

with SC Eisenstadt

• 1 × runner-up in the 2nd division and promotion to the 1st division : 1981/82

with the ASV Vösendorf

• 1 × champion of the Regionalliga Ost : 1988/89
• 1 × master of the 2nd class east / middle : 1991/92

with the SC Siebenhirten

• 1 × master of the 2nd class east / middle : 1993/94

As a trainer

with the ASV Vösendorf

• 1 × champion of the Regionalliga Ost : 1988/89

with SV Wienerberg

• 1 × Champion of the Oberliga A: 2003/04
• 1 × indoor champion: 2003/04
• 1 × Vienna football cup winner : 2003/04

Web links

• Fritz Drazan in the database of weltfussball.de
• Fritz Drazan (player profile) in the database of transfermarkt.de
• Fritz Drazan (trainer profile) in the database of transfermarkt.de
• Fritz Drazan in the archive of FK Austria Vienna

Footnotes & individual references

1. ↑ The club merged with the ASV Vösendorf in 1976 and merged with them .
2. ↑ Mission data without the 1981/82 season
3. ↑ ^{a b} Austria / WAC Wien - Sturm Graz (2: 4) , accessed on July 29, 2019
4. ↑ Austria / WAC Wien - GAK (4: 0) , accessed on July 29, 2019
5. ↑ Austria / WAC Wien - AC Perugia (1: 2) , accessed on July 29, 2019
6. ↑ SC EISENSTADT - KAPFENBERGER SV (5: 1) , accessed on July 30, 2019
7. ↑ Fritz Drazan with ASV Vösendorf in the relegation battle against Austria Klagenfurt , accessed on August 3, 2019
8. ↑ SK Pama - The history of our association , accessed on August 2, 2019
9. ^ History of SC Apetlon on fussballoesterreich.at , accessed on August 2, 2019
10. ↑ 1993/94 season on the official website of the Lower Austrian Football Association , accessed on August 2, 2019
11. ↑ Vienna trainer Fritz Drazan: "There is no secret of success" , accessed on August 2, 2019
12. ↑ Fritz Drazan is the name of the new sports club coach , accessed on August 2, 2019
13. ^ Sports club separates from Drazan , accessed August 2, 2019
14. ↑ THE AUSTRIA FAMILY MATURES FOR FRITZ DRAZAN , accessed on July 29, 2019
15. ^ Austrian football mourns Fritz Drazan , accessed on July 29, 2019