Heinrich Müller (soccer player, 1909)

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Heinrich Müller (1956)

Heinrich "Wudi" Müller (born May 13, 1909 ; † April 5, 2000 ) was an Austrian football player and coach.

The player

The trained shoemaker Wudi Müller came to the Vienna AC in the Prater in 1921 , where he was regularly used as a connector in the combat team from 1927. In 1928 he reached the cup final with the Prater Club for the first time , which still went 1: 2 to Admira , was finally able to win this competition for the first time in 1931 before Austria and thus qualify for the Mitropa Cup. 1931 was also the birth of the miracle team in which Wudi Müller's club colleagues Rudi Hiden , Schurl Braun and Karl Sesta participated.

Thanks to this strong team, the WAC even reached the final of the Mitropapokal in 1931 , in which the black-reds met Vienna in a purely Austrian duel. In the first leg in Zurich, the Prater people soon led 2-0, Wudi Müller had scored the second goal after a good pass from Karl Huber , but ultimately the athletes had to bow 2: 3 and 1: 2 in Vienna to Vienna.

Despite strong competitors in the connector position with Fritz Gschweidl and Toni Schall , he made it into the wonder team three times , with which he won the European Cup in 1932 . In total, Wudi Müller scored 4 international goals in just 5 games for Austria.

The great successes of the WAC were followed by severe financial problems. This was one reason for Wudi Müller to move to the Hungarian capital after an offer from Hungária FC MTK Budapest . At the side of players like Gusztáv Sebes and Ferenc Sas , he celebrated two Hungarian championships in 1936 and 1937. In 1940, after the dissolution of the Hungária by the Horthy regime , Wudi Müller returned to Vienna and initially joined Austria as a player. From 1940 to 1944 he played for the Violets, interrupted by an activity as a player-coach for the BSG Ternitz in the 1941/42 season. In the fall of 1946 he played two more championship games as Austria coach.

Player stations

The trainer

As a trainer, his name is primarily associated with Wiener Austria . He coached the club over three terms of office over a total of around twelve years - he sat on the bank of Austria in the 1940s, 50s, 60s and 70s. He is the longest serving coach of Austria. The most successful was his first term of office, which stretched from 1945 to 1954. In addition to the three championship titles in 1949 , 1950 and 1953 , he also won the ÖFB Cup with Austria in 1948 and 1949 . In the first three years he played occasionally - after the bad start to the championship in 1946/47, Müller even played twice - and was thus practically a player-coach.

In 1951 Austria embarked on a legendary trip to South America. There the team around Ernst Ocffekt , Ernst Stojaspal and Lukas "Harry" Aurednik defeated Club Nacional from Montevideo, which had six world champions from the previous year, 4-0 in the large Maracanã stadium in Rio de Janeiro . In April 1953, the foreign ban applicable in Austria was lifted for players over 30 years of age. Especially after the 1954 World Cup , this led to severe bloodletting, from which Austria was hit hard by the departure of Stojaspal, Melchior, Kominek and Aurednik to France. The great Austria of that time disintegrated, and Wudi Müller also took his leave.

In the following years he moved to the Netherlands. In 1956 he sat for a game on the Dutch coaching bench, which the Oranje Elftal won 3-2 in Switzerland. Between 1958 and 1961 he spent two years with the Dutch first division club Willem II in Tilburg .

After having trained AEK Athens in the meantime, Müller returned to Austria in December 1964. He replaced “Tscharry” Vogel there, who filled the gap that had left after Edi Frühwirth left at the end of the preseason. Robert Sara , who was to remain loyal to the club for over 21 years, Thomas Parits , Alfons Dirnberger and Hans "Buffy" Ettmayer were promising young talents in this team. But already in the spring the thread broke completely with the team. A seventh place was the worst place in a long time. In the summer of 1965 the association was reorganized again. Wudi Müller remained a coach, but Ernst Ocffekt was put at his side as head of sport. With this team, a tough wave was initiated at Austria: dismantling of the underperforming legionnaires, professional-like training, observance of all the principles of modern football, fast game without long holding the ball, consistent covering.

Before the end of the year, Müller had to completely vacate his place for Ocffekt, but Austria remained as an assistant coach and thus had a share in the championships of 1969 and 1970 as well as the cup victories in 1967 and 1970. His last comeback as head of the dugout the Austria was a little more successful. The 1971/72 season he finished with the runner-up behind the dominant SSW Innsbruck at the time .

Heinrich "Wudi" Müller died on April 5, 2000 shortly before his 91st birthday and was buried in the Vienna Central Cemetery .

Coaching stations

successes

Record as national coach of the Netherlands

Term of office S. G - U - V
15-09-1956 1 1 - 0 - 0
Austria Bundesadler.svg Heinrich "Wudi" Müller - international matches for Austria
date Type place game Result Gates
March 20, 1932 E. Vienna Austria - Italy 2: 1
October 2, 1932 F. Budapest Hungary - Austria 2: 3 1
October 23, 1932 E. Vienna Austria Switzerland 3: 1 1
September 17, 1933 F. Prague Czechoslovakia - Austria 3: 3 1
October 1, 1933 F. Vienna Austria - Hungary 2: 2 1
  • F = friendly match
  • E = European Cup

Source: austriasoccer.at

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ team player M-R . austriasoccer.at. Retrieved May 8, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Müller, Heinrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wudi (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian soccer player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH May 13, 1909
DATE OF DEATH April 5, 2000