Ignace Tax

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Ignace Tax , born as Ignaz Tax (born April 9, 1909 in Vienna , † January 7 or 8, 1977 in Perpignan ) was an Austrian- French football player and coach who worked in France for much of his career , including the French Has acquired citizenship. Contrary to what some sources claim, he has never played internationally for Austria , certainly not in the “ wonder team ” and not in the Viennese selection.

Stations as a player

In Austria and Switzerland

Ignace Tax, about whose life, in particular his childhood and youth as well as the years from 1950 onwards, little is known, began with the Meidlinger Sportfreunde with the football sport , which at the end of the season 1926/27 rose to the Austrian II. League. From 1927 to the end of 1930 he was under contract with SC Wacker Wien , with whom he performed in the first division as follows: 1927/28 in fourth place (six tax hits), 1928/29 tenth (three goals) and 1929/30 in 8th place with five goals of his own. In the 1930/31 season he only played during the first half of the season for Wacker, then moved to First Vienna . Since the beginning of 1931 he does not seem to have played in the championship - the club was Austrian champion in the summer of that year  - nor in the Mitropafinale won in 1931 , but only in the state cup competition (March to May 1931), where he played four times two goals are detectable.

In 1931 he followed his former Wackeraner teammate Karl Rappan to Switzerland , where the latter worked as a player- coach at Servette Geneva . In the following season Tax became Swiss champions with Servette; in the Bern final on July 2, 1933, he scored a goal in a 3-2 win over Grasshoppers Zurich . The club was able to repeat this success in 1933/34; this time the championship was played in a league, the national league . In the Swiss Cup final in 1934, however, Servette lost 2-0 against the Grasshoppers. Tax, who was still a regular player, was also part of the Geneva squad the following season, although the club had significant financial problems and the salary payments were irregular.

In France

On July 4, 1935, Ignaz Tax appeared - only with a visitor's visa - at the second division AS Saint-Étienne , where he would then earn his money for the next 15 years. Before the start of the season, Saint-Etienne's English traimer Thomas "Teddy" Duckworth , Olympic silver medalist with Switzerland in 1924 and Rappan's predecessor at Servette, found Tax to be one of the best center forwards in Europe. He even spoke of one of the 10 best players on the continent and equated him with Max Abegglen . He shouldn't disappoint and by the end of the 1935/36 season he scored 20 goals alongside the naturalized Yugoslav Yvan Beck. A year later he had 17 more goals. The 1937/38 season ended the club as runner-up behind Le Havre AC and rose to the first division .

The newcomer beat himself in 1938/39 - the last season before the outbreak of World War II  - very respectably and finished the season in fourth place; Tax scored 16 hits at this level too, placing him fifth on the top scorer list. The Verts supporters particularly cheered his goal of the day in the 1-0 victory over the "great OM" . Almost a year later, Tax, who had long been known as Ignace, was followed by a bitter phase of life: probably on the occasion of the German invasion of France (1940) he was captured - whether as a soldier or as a "Reichsdeutscher" is unknown - and until the turn of the year 1941 / 42 imprisoned in Belgium. He then returned to Saint-Étienne , played football again with ASSE and scored eleven goals in the second half of the 1941/42 season; In 1942/43 he even managed one league goal more. In 1943, Saint-Étienne's president, Pierre Guichard Ignace Tax, who also trained his teammates in the meantime, declared Jean Snella and two other players to be employees of his company Casino in order to circumvent the ban on professionalism and foreigners adopted by the Vichy regime and put these players in the coupe de France to use. The four players were then banned for life by the French football association FFF , but pardoned after the liberation of France in 1945. In the last war season, Tax scored four league goals and then only worked as a coach.

The trainer Tax

As coach of the Verts , Ignace Tax almost won the championship title in the 1945/46 season , but "on the home straight" his kickers conceded a defeat on May 1, 1946 at their immediate table neighbors Lille Olympique , which was also particularly severe with 8-0 failed, and were only runner-up. In the following four years, Tax made a virtue out of necessity that the club was notoriously clumsy financially and built a number of young players into the league team around a few veterans like Kader Firoud , of whom Antoine Cuissard and René Alpsteg also became national players. In the league, however, it was only enough for places 11, 4, 8 and again 11.

In July 1950, ex-President and major sponsor Pierre Guichard returned to office and dismissed Ignace Tax; in his place came his former teammate Jean Snella, who had coached the amateur team since 1948, and who had refused to sideline the Austrian, whom he valued. It was not until much later that his work was recognized in Saint-Étienne : today, near the Stade Geoffroy-Guichard, a street, the allée Ignace Tax , is named after him. So far, it has only been possible to determine where Tax was drawn from the summer of 1950 onwards; From the first half of the 1951/52 season at the latest, he was a coach at ASA Vauzelles , a small club in a small community in the Nièvre department in the geographical center of France (→ Varennes-Vauzelles ). He stayed there at least until the end of 1952, but maybe much longer. In 1954/55 he worked for the Jeune Garde Athlétique Nivernaise , an amateur club in the same department. In addition, the date of his death is only known again.

Stations

As a player

  • 1927 to 1930: SC Wacker Vienna
  • 1931: First Vienna
  • 1931 to 1935: Servette Geneva
  • 1935 to 1943: AS Saint-Étienne

As a trainer

  • 1945 to 1950: AS Saint-Étienne
  • 1954/55: Jeune Garde Athlétique Nivernaise

Web links

literature

  • Christophe Barge and Laurent Tranier: Vert passion. Les plus belles histoires de l'AS Saint-Étienne. Timée, Boulogne 2004, ISBN 2-915586-04-7
  • Hubert Beaudet: Le Championnat et ses champions. 70 ans de Football en France. Alan Sutton, Saint-Cyr-sur-Loire 2002, ISBN 2-84253-762-9
  • Frédéric Parmentier: AS Saint-Étienne, histoire d'une légende. Cahiers intempestifs, Saint-Étienne 2004, ISBN 2-911698-31-2

Remarks

  1. ↑ a b Information according to this website ( Memento from March 13, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ on archive link ( Memento from September 28, 2007 in the Internet Archive ), under the first subheading; in a clear formulation also Parmentier, p. 20
  3. ↑ Article  in:  Reichspost , March 20, 1931, p. 11 (online at ANNO ).Template: ANNO / Maintenance / rpt
  4. ↑ Article  in:  Das Kleine Blatt , May 29, 1931, p. 14 (online at ANNO ).Template: ANNO / Maintenance / dkb
  5. ↑ http://www.super-servette.ch/Doku/SERVETTE_Kader_1931-32.pdf
  6. ↑ http://www.super-servette.ch/ there click on "history", then on "a prestigious tournament" (PDF)
  7. ↑ http://www.super-servette.ch/ there on "Geschichte", then click on "Place à la Nouvelle Formule" (PDF)
  8. ↑ http://www.super-servette.ch/Doku/SERVETTE_Kader_1934-35.pdf
  9. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of September 28, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) and Parmentier, p. 20
  10. ↑ The following information on 1935 to 1950 according to Parmentier
  11. ↑ Archive link ( Memento from September 28, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
  12. ↑ Parmentier, pp. 274/275
  13. ↑ Parmentier, p. 39
  14. ↑ Parmentier, p. 276
  15. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of June 10, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
  16. ↑ Beaudet, pp. 30/31
  17. ↑ Barge / Tranier, p. 19
  18. ^ Sports week / Eduard Verbik (ed.): Sports yearbook. A reference work on all sporting events at home and abroad. , Verbik, Vienna 1955, p. 36
personal data
SURNAME Tax, Ignace
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Tax, Ignaz (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austro-French soccer player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH April 9, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH January 7, 1977 or January 8, 1977
Place of death Perpignan