Izidor furrier

Izidor furrier
From: A Noite, March 24, 1937
Personnel
birthday	June 29, 1885
place of birth	Budapest ,  Austria-Hungary
date of death	December 8, 1941
Place of death	Rio de Janeiro ,  Brazil
position	Defense
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1903-1913	MTK Budapest
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1907-1911	Hungary	5 (0)
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
1918-1919	MTK Budapest
1919-1920	Stuttgart Kickers
1921	1. FC Nuremberg
1921	FC Bayern Munich
1921-1922	Eintracht Frankfurt
1922	1. FC Nuremberg
1923	FC Zurich
1923-1924	FC Nordstern Basel
1924	Switzerland
1924-1925	Black and white food
1925-1934	Grasshopper Club Zurich
1934-1935	BSC Young Boys
1937-1939	CR Flamengo
1939-1940	Botafogo FR
1 Only league games are given.

Izidor "Dori" Kürschner (in Brazil often Kru (e) schner ; born June 29, 1885 in Budapest , † December 8, 1941 in Rio de Janeiro , Brazil ) was a Hungarian football player and coach .

As a player he had success with MTK Budapest and played for the national team . As a coach he was successful in Germany with 1. FC Nürnberg . However, he had his greatest successes in Switzerland with the Grasshopper Club Zurich , with which he won seven titles.

The coaching activity of Kürschner in Rio de Janeiro brought an innovation boost to the football there, which made a decisive contribution to establishing Brazil as a world power in this sport.

Player career

At the age of 18, Kürschner already belonged to the MTK Budapest, with which he won the championship in 1904 and 1908 and the club cup in 1910, 1911 and 1912 .

He was a defensive player who acted on the left side, partly in the middle, who impressed less with his physique and technique than with his skillful positional play and his headball strength. His game was characterized by simplicity and determination. During his club membership, he played five international matches for the national team .

Coaching career

From Hungary to Germany

After completing his active time as a player, he took over the coaching activity at MTK Budapest in 1918 .

But the following year he went to the Stuttgarter Kickers , with whom he immediately won the 1921 district championship in Württemberg . In the southern group of the final round of the southern German championship, however, it was only enough for third and thus last place behind 1. FC Pforzheim and FC Wacker Munich . In the following season, the Kickers were only runner-up from Württemberg behind their local rivals from SC 1900 Stuttgart .

Kürschner was free, and for the championship finals in 1921 , 1. FC Nürnberg applied for his services. The 5-0 win against Vorwärts 90 Berlin , one of the predecessor clubs of Blau-Weiß 90 Berlin , was the second championship in club history.

After this short-term engagement, he was hired for the coming season by FC Bayern Munich as the successor to the great Englishman - and former master coach of SpVgg Fürth - William Townley . But it was only enough for second place behind local rivals FC Wacker in the South Bavarian League.

In 1921/22, Kürschner was the first full-time trainer at Eintracht Frankfurt . With only one defeat Eintracht superior was master of the county League North Main, Division I . In the final games of the district championship against the champions of Division II, Germania 94 Frankfurt proved to be too strong an opponent for the team from Riederwald . Afterwards, Kürschner looked after Eintracht on an Easter trip to Hamburg and Hanover and at a tournament in Berlin at the beginning of May. He then moved to 1. FC Nürnberg, with whom he played the finals for the German championship. When 1. FC Nürnberg played for the third time in a row, there was no decision in the famous "eternity finals" of 1922 against Hamburger SV .

Great success in Switzerland

In the 1923/24 season he coached the first division club FC Nordstern Basel , whose first full-time coach in the club's history he was. In the championship he finished second behind FC Zurich .

Olympic silver with the national team

In 1924, Kürschner was one of the coaches alongside Teddy Duckworth and Jimmy Hogan who prepared the Swiss national team for the Olympic football tournament in Paris in regional groups . Under the direction of Duckworth, the Confederates lost 3-0 at the Olympic Games in Paris only in the final against the giants of that era, the national team from Uruguay, in a completely overcrowded stadium. To date, this is the greatest success in Swiss football history.

After the Olympic Games, Izidor Kürschner became the first full-time trainer for Schwarz-Weiß Essen at short notice that same year . At that time, Black and White defeated Kürschner's home club MTK Budapest 2-1 in a private game.

Decade of triumphs with the Grasshoppers

From 1925 to 1934 he coached the Grasshopper Club Zurich and during this time won the championship in 1927 , 1928 and 1931 as well as four cup victories ; This makes him the second most successful coach in the history of the traditional club to this day. He was succeeded by Karl Rappan , the founding fathers of the European club competitions, and continued the success until 1948.

Working in Rio de Janeiro

In March 1937 he took over as the successor to Flávio Costa , who worked as a player- coach from September 1934 to January 1937 , the coaching position at CR Flamengo where the legendary striker Leônidas da Silva , known as The Rubber Man , played in those days .

Costa became Kürschner's assistant coach and was ultimately to follow him as head coach. Costa should then not only amass a considerable collection of titles with Flamengo, but also achieve great success with local rivals CR Vasco da Gama . In addition, he led the Brazilian national team to their third success in the Copa America and ultimately also to the runner-up in the 1950 World Cup. In Brazil, Flávio Costa is still one of the greatest coaches of the first half of the last century.

Izidor Kürschner promoted a more defensive style in Brazil and introduced things like training without a ball. Most important, however, is that he spread the World Cup system that has been in use in England since the 1920s . In addition, in the course of Brazil's preparations for the 1938 World Cup - where the national team was supposed to achieve a place in the top four for the first time - Kürschner familiarized the association coaches with European football and training methods.

Dori Kürschner's time at Flamengo came to an end when the game against Vasco da Gama, which also served for the inauguration of Flamengo's new stadium, the Estádio da Gávea , was lost 2-0 on the first match day of the Rio State Cup in September 1939 . This triggered a crisis and Kürschner was immediately dismissed.

Botafogo

From 1939 to 1940, furrier was with Botafogo FR , a traditional club that was still based near the Flamengo district in those years. Then he was still in conversation with Canto do Rio FC from Niterói , on the other side of Guanabara Bay , after the club became more professional and was preparing to play in the championship of the federal district. Izidor Kürschner died of heart failure in Rio de Janeiro on December 8, 1941, at the age of only 56. He found his final resting place in the São João Batista cemetery in Botafago.

Movie poster for
"Alma e Corpo de uma Raça"
with Flamengo flag (1938)

Others

Izidor Kürschner can be seen in the Brazilian film Alma e Corpo de uma Raça ("Soul and Body of a Race") made in 1938 by Milton Rodrigues (1905–1972). In a scene describing real life, he appears as part of a derby between Flamengo and Fluminense .

literature

• Beat Jung: Izidor "Dori" Kürschner , in: ders. (Ed.): The Nati: The History of the Swiss National Football Team . Göttingen 2006. p. 376.
• Christian Koller : Pioneers, defenders, persecuted: Jews and anti-Semitism in metropolitan Swiss sport in the first half of the 20th century , in: Aschkenas 27/1 (2017). Pp. 127-145.
• Christian Koller: Switzerland and the Calcio Danubiano - a forgotten history of intertwining between the wars , in: Krause, Stephan et al. (Ed.): The East is a sphere: Football in the culture and history of Eastern Europe . Göttingen: Werkstatt-Verlag 2018. pp. 411–425.

Web links

• Izidor Kürschner in the database of weltfussball.de
• flaestatistica.com - O mueso virtual do CR Flamengo
• rsssf.com
• Eintracht archive

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Entry on IMDB