József Eisenhoffer

József Eisenhoffer
Personnel
birthday	November 8, 1900
place of birth	Budapest ,  Austria-Hungary
date of death	February 13, 1945
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
0000-1920	Kispesti AC
1920-1923	Ferencvárosi Torna Club
1923-1924	Makkabi Brno
1924	Ferencvárosi Torna Club
1924-1926	SC Hakoah Vienna
1926-1928	Brooklyn Wanderers
1928-1929	New York Hakoah
1929	Brooklyn Hakoah
1929-1931	Brooklyn Wanderers
1931-1932	SC Hakoah Vienna
1932-1936	Olympique Marseille	58 (19)
1939-1941	Olympique Marseille	8 0(2)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1920-1924	Hungary	8 (7)
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
1935-1938	Olympique Marseille
1938-1939	RC Lens
1939 - at least 1941	Olympique Marseille
1 Only league games are given.

József Eisenhoffer , Hungarian also József Aczél , (born November 8, 1900 in Budapest , Austria-Hungary , † February 13, 1945 ) was a Hungarian national football player and coach .

Career

József Eisenhoffer played in the first Hungarian league for the Kispesti AC and from 1920 for the Ferencvárosi Torna Club . Around the turn of the year 1923/24 he was briefly at Makkabi Brno , but moved back to Ferencváros after a few weeks. He was a player in the Hungarian national team from 1920 to 1924 . In just eight games he scored seven goals. Eisenhoffer was also on the Hungarian Olympic team at the 1924 Summer Games and scored a goal. However, when he moved to Austria, to the Jewish club SC Hakoah Vienna , his commitment to the Hungarian association ended in the summer of 1924.

Eisenhoffer was not a native Jew, so that after his engagement the rumor arose in the Viennese newspapers that he had converted to Judaism only to be able to play with the Hakoah. In fact, he had already converted in Hungary in order to be able to marry his bride, who came from a Jewish Orthodox family. His wife was also the reason why he switched to the Hakoah. Actually, he had already reached an agreement with Hamburger SV and stopped in Vienna on the way to Hamburg, where he was persuaded by his wife to play for a club that is closer to Budapest. Eisenhoffer then offered his services to the Hakoah and was also hired.

With the Hakoah, József Eisenhoffer was instant champion in 1925 , but in the following season it was only enough for seventh place. During this time there were also two appearances in the Viennese city selection, with Eisenhoffer scoring a goal against Pressburg. In the spring of 1926 the Hakoah undertook an American tour, which was a great success with the public and led to a number of Hakoah players - including Eisenhoffer - being offered contracts by US clubs. Eisenhoffer returned with the team to Vienna and played the championship to the end, but then informed the club of his intended change and traveled to New York to play for the Brooklyn Wanderers in the future .

His former club colleagues Leopold Drucker , Alexander Neufeld and Heinrich Schönfeld as well as the former amateur player Kálmán Konrád also switched to the Wanderers . Eisenhoffer played two seasons for the Wanderers in the ASL before two competing leagues emerged as part of the Soccer War in 1928 . He moved to the newly founded New York Hakoah (also known as Hakoah All-Stars) in the ESL, where the former players of the Vienna Hakaoh who had previously worked for various US clubs came together again. In his only season with New York Hakoah, he won the US Open Cup in 1929 and also appeared as a final scorer. After this season he moved back to the ASL for Brooklyn Hakoah , but soon after the two leagues were reunited and the two Hakoah teams merged. Disagreements broke out over whether he would have signed a legal contract with the Brooklyn Wanderers or with the merged Hakoah. Eisenhoffer returned to the Wanderers and played there two more seasons. He played a total of 161 league games in the ASL for the Wanderers and the Hakoah and scored 51 goals.

After his time in the USA, József Eisenhoffer returned to the Wiener Hakoah in 1931, for which he played again in the championship until the end of 1932. In a total of three and a half seasons he played 67 championship games for the Hakoah and scored 29 goals.

He then moved to the French professional league at Olympique Marseille , for which he played his first league game on Christmas Day 1932. Up to and including the 1935/36 season he made 58 games in Division 1 , in which he scored 19 goals. A championship title was denied to him, but he won the national cup with a 3-0 final over Stade Rennais UC in 1935 , after losing 2-1 at FC Sète in the final with Olympique a year earlier . As early as 1935, Eisenhoffer also worked as a trainer in Marseille  - and very successfully: his team won the national championship in 1937 and the cup again in 1938. In November 1938 he moved to RC Lens as a coach , but returned to Marseille at the end of that season. During the Second World War he occasionally helped out as a player and between 1939 and 1941 he set up himself in eight league and seven cup encounters; in the league games he scored two more goals, in the cup even five goals - and as an almost 40-year-old he was even in the final of the Coupe de France (1940 1: 2 against Racing Paris ). In 1941 he led his men to the unofficial championship title in the southern group of Division 1 . During the years at OM he met two former Hakoahn players again, Friedrich Donnenfeld and Edmund Weiskopf .

József Eisenhoffer died of blood poisoning caused by an untreated shrapnel wound in a bombing of Budapest during the Second World War in early 1945.

successes

• 1 × Austrian champion : 1925
• 1 × US Open Cup winner : 1929
• 1 × French champion : 1937 (as trainer)
• 2 × Coupe de France : 1935 (as a player), 1938 (as a coach); also finalist 1934 (as a player), 1940 (as a player and coach)