Heinrich Hiltl

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Heinrich Hiltl (born October 8, 1910 in Vienna ; † November 25, 1982 ), from 1939 Henri Hiltl , was an Austrian and French football player and coach .

Career in Austria

Heinrich Hiltl came to Brigittenauer AC at the age of 15 and won the 2nd class championship with the then second division team. In the first year in the first class of the Austrian (Viennese) championship 1926/27 , the Brigittenauer AC sensationally took second place, with Hiltl playing a championship game this season. In the years that followed, Hiltl played an important role in the Brigittenau family, making itself interesting for the top clubs in the first division. In 1929 Heinrich Hiltl moved to the Vienna AC at the age of 19 and immediately became an integral part of the team. Hiltl celebrated its first major successes with the Vienna AC. In 1931 he won the Austrian Cup with the black and red and sensationally reached the final of the Mitropa Cup . Hiltl was used in all seven Mitropacup games and was the top scorer of the competition with seven goals. However, both finals were just lost to First Vienna FC 1894 2: 3 and 1: 2. Through these successes, Hugo Meisl became aware of the Viennese and called him up for the international match on April 12, 1931 against the ČSR in the Austrian national team . Hiltl was on the starting line-up, but could not convince in this match and was subsequently not considered for the national team by Hugo Meisl.

Career in France

In 1934 Hiltl left the Vienna AC and Austria and took on a foreign engagement with the French club Excelsior AC Roubaix . Here, too, he immediately became an indispensable part of the team and stayed in Roubaix until 1939 . With his new club Heinrich Hiltl occupied 9, 8, 6 and 13 in the first French division from 1936 to 1939. In the French cup competition he reached the quarter-finals with Roubaix in 1936 and the second round in the following years. In 1939 Heinrich Hiltl moved to the Racing Club de Paris and won the French cup competition with the capital city team in the 1939/40 season . In the championship, Hiltl and RC Paris took 9th place in the 1st Division North. Hiltl had long since severed all ties to Austria, which had meanwhile become part of the German Reich, and after receiving the offer to play in the French national team, he accepted French citizenship in 1939 . At RC Paris, Hiltl met two other French people with Austrian roots, his former club colleague at Vienna AC Rudolf Hiden and the born Linzer Gusti Jordan .

His first game in the French team denied Henri , as he now called himself, together with Hiden and Jordan on 28 January 1940 at Paris Parc des Princes against Portugal . After that, Hiltl was still used on December 24, 1944 in the home game against Belgium . Both games were won by France (Portugal 3-2, Belgium 3-1), which means that Henri Hiltl's short team career in the French national team has a flawless record.

After Hiltl won the cup with RC Paris in 1940, he left the club. The years from 1941 to 1945 represent a gap in Hiltl's biography. It is not known where and how he spent these years or whether he was involved in football or had to do military service. In 1945 Henri Hiltl signed a contract with CO Roubaix-Tourcoing and played again in the first French division. With CORT he finished third in the championship in 1945/46 and celebrated the greatest success of his playing career in 1947. With 23 goals in 36 missions, he helped the big club from Roubaix to its first and only French championship title . In 1948, Henri Hiltl, who had long since achieved star and cult status in France, ended his career as a player, in which he, who was 1.78 m tall at his best weighed 78 kg, in the French 1st division over 130 Scored goals. He switched to the coaching office (one after the other in Tourcoing , Mouscron / Belgium and Merlebach / Lorraine), which he was only moderately successful. However, he has set up a systematic promotion of talent at SO Merlebach, a real "colliery club" . Then Henri Hiltl ran the Café Le Penalty ("The Penalty Kick") in Roubaix ; he died on November 25, 1982 at the age of 70.

Stations as a player

Success as a player

Stations as a trainer