Johann Urbanek

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Johann "Hans" Urbanek (born October 10, 1910 , † July 7, 2000 ) was an Austrian football player . The runner celebrated his greatest successes at club level in the 1930s with Admira Vienna . He became famous, however, in particular through the World Cup in Italy in 1934 , where he made his international debut and was used in all Austrian games.

Career

Hans Urbanek began his football career in Meidling at SC Wacker Vienna . After the runner was able to play in the starting XI of the black and whites, however, he moved to district neighbor SC Nicholson Vienna for one season in 1930 . Ultimately, Urbanek left the south of Vienna in 1931 and went to Admira Vienna in Jedlesee , which at the time was one of the strongest Austrian clubs. At his new club, Hans Urbanek was one of the regular games in the runner series from the start, in which Karl Szoldatics was among others . In the first season in Jedlesse he won the championship and the cup. In the championship they secured first place ahead of Vienna , in the cup final the Vienna AC was outclassed 6: 1. The year 1934 finally developed to the high point of his football career. Hans Urbanek and Admira won the championship for the second time and also won the cup with an 8-0 win over Rapid Vienna . In the Mitropacup , the forerunner of the European Cup, the runner was also in the final, which was lost to AGC Bologna . In addition to these successes with his club, Hans Urbanek was allowed to make his team debut at the World Cup in Italy as a center runner, as Walter Nausch , who was reserved for this position, was seriously injured in the last qualifying game against Bulgaria . In today's international match statistics, the name Hans Urbanek appears in a game from 1931 against Switzerland (2-0), which also falls into the era of the wonder team , but this game was not officially recognized until 1971.

Hans Urbanek played all four of the Austrians' games and reached the semi-finals with the team, in which the elimination against the hosts came with the help of a dubious referee performance. Due to his strong World Cup performance, the runner nevertheless recommended himself for further team assignments and strengthened the national team until 1936, including the first Austrian victory over England on May 6, 1936 with 2-1. Urbanek remained very successful with the Admira, adding three further championship wins to his collection of titles in 1936, 1937 and 1939. The latter was already successful after the annexation of Austria by the German Reich on March 12, 1938 in what is now the "Gauliga Ostmark". During the Second World War , the runner stayed with his club and also played once for the German national team. In the 5-1 victory over Croatia in Vienna on June 15, 1941, however, the team was mostly supported by Austrian teammates. After the end of the war, Urbanek landed at Schwaben Augsburg, mediated by Ernst Lehner, and made nine appearances in the first round of the Oberliga Süd football league, before starting his football career at Rapid Oberlaa (1947-49) and SC Red Star Vienna (1949) –53) faded away.

Urbanek, a clockmaker by trade, was buried in Vienna's Südwestfriedhof (group 58, row 5, number 7) after his death .

Stations

successes

literature

  • Fritz Tauber: German national football team: Player statistics from A to Z . 3. Edition. AGNON, Kassel 2012, ISBN 978-3-89784-397-4 , p. 129 (176 pages).
  • Jürgen Bitter : Germany's national soccer player: the lexicon . SVB Sportverlag, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-328-00749-0 , p. 509 .
  • Lorenz Knieriem, Hardy Grüne : Player Lexicon 1890 - 1963 . In: Encyclopedia of German League Football . tape 8 . AGON, Kassel 2006, ISBN 3-89784-148-7 , p. 399 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Jürgen Bitter: Germany's national soccer player. P. 509
personal data
SURNAME Urbanek, Johann
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Urbanek, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH October 10, 1910
DATE OF DEATH July 7, 2000