Jenő Konrád

Jenő Konrád
Personnel
birthday	August 13, 1894
place of birth	Palánka ,  Austria-Hungary
date of death	July 15, 1978
Place of death	New York ,  United States
position	Middle runner
Juniors
Years	station
	Budapesti AK
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1911 / 12-1915	MTK Budapest
1918/19	MTK Budapest
1919-1924	Viennese amateur SV
1924-1925	First Vienna FC 1894
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1915	Hungary	1 (0)
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
1925-1926	Viennese amateur SV
1926	SC Wacker Vienna
1927	Chinezul Timișoara
1927-1929	Vienna AC
1929-1930	SC Hakoah Vienna
1930-1932	1. FC Nuremberg
1932-1933	Ripensia Timișoara
1933-1934	SK Židenice
1935-1936	FK Austria Vienna
1936-1938	US Triestina
1938-1939	Olympique Lillois
1939-1940	Sporting Lisbon
1 Only league games are given.

Jenő Konrád , also known as Konrád 1 '(born August 13, 1894 in Palánka , Austria-Hungary , † July 15, 1978 in New York , United States ) was a Hungarian football player and football coach .

Player career

Konrád played on the position of the middle runner and was considered an excellent technician and game designer, but he was sometimes accused of a lack of running enthusiasm.

He started playing organized football at the age of 14 when he joined the Budapesti AK , at 17 he moved to MTK Budapest , where he made his debut on the combat team in the 1911/12 season. After two runner-up titles behind the Ferencvárosi Torna Club , the championship title was won in 1914. In the same year, Konrád's younger brother Kálmán ( Konrád 2 ) also joined the club.

With the beginning of the First World War, Konrád I entered the military, where he made it up to the officer. However, this did not prevent him from participating in the two unofficial championship competitions of 1915, of which the MTK was able to win the autumn championship. In May of the same year he also received his first call-up for the national team , where he was used in the 2-1 win against Austria , but this would remain his only game for Hungary. After about two years as a Russian prisoner of war, he returned in the 1918/19 season to the club, which was now under the sporting direction of Jimmy Hogan . The Englishman had put together a strong team that would dominate Hungarian football until the mid-1920s. The Konrád brothers played together in a team with György Orth , József Braun and Alfréd Schaffer and were able to achieve the championship title in 1919.

As a result of the political unrest that raged in Hungary after the end of the war, a number of Hungarian players took the opportunity to find accommodation with foreign clubs. The then sporting director of the Viennese amateur SV Hugo Meisl managed to get the Konrád brothers to Vienna, Jenő received an annual ticket for the Vienna Stock Exchange as an incentive to change clubs . The Konráds played in the autumn round for the Ober-Sankt Veiter, but the Hungarian federation had a heated argument with the Austrian one at that time, as most of the players from Budapest who were active in Vienna were active without approval from their respective home clubs. At the end of 1919, at the insistence of the Hungarians, these players had their license to play in Vienna withdrawn, including Ferenc Plattkó and Alexander Neufeld as well as the Konráds . It was not until the spring of 1920 that the players were finally released and allowed to play.

The two Hungarians were successful with the amateurs from the start and were also - together with the Schaffer who later joined the team - significantly involved in the development of the violet's playing style. The Austrian Cup was the first title to be won in 1921, followed by the first championship title in club history and another cup victory in 1924. After that, professional football was officially introduced in Austria and the Konrád brothers tried to get the most lucrative engagement possible. After several months of uncertainty, the two finally signed with Vienna , and the press reported a hand money of 90 million kroner. Jenő contracted a meniscus injury in 1925, which should end his active career.

Coaching career

After his brother returned to his former club after a season at Vienna, Jenő took over the training of the amateurs and led them to the second double in 1926. He then worked for half a year at SC Wacker Vienna , Romania's Chinezul Timișoara and two years at Vienna AC , and in 1929 took over the management of SC Hakoah Vienna . He then became the coach of 1. FC Nürnberg , which he led to the semi-finals of the German championship two years later, in which FC Bayern Munich was defeated. The National Socialist newspaper Der Stürmer led a smear campaign against the Jewish coach and managed to get Konrád to leave Nuremberg, to the regret of his club.

He returned to Romania, where he led Ripensia Timișoara to the championship in 1932/33 and then looked after the SK Židenice in Brno. For the winter break of 1934/35 he returned to Austria in Vienna and led the club from last place in the table via the ÖFB Cup victory in the Mitropacup. In 1936 he moved to Italy, coached the US Triestina in Serie A and set the club's best result with a sixth place. Nevertheless, he had to leave the association and Italy in 1938 due to the Italian racial laws ( leggi razziali ) passed by the fascists . He took over the coaching post at Olympique Lillois and reached the final of the French Cup, which was lost to Racing Paris . Konrád's last stop in Europe was Sporting Lisbon , which he had looked after in the 1939/40 season before he emigrated with his family to the USA. There he was no longer active in football.

memory

• On November 17, 2012 the fans of 1. FC Nürnberg remembered their former coach Jenő Konrád with a choreography before the game against Bayern Munich .
• On January 22, 2013, manager Martin Bader awarded Jenő Konrád posthumously honorary membership, accepted his daughter Evelyn's application for membership and symbolically canceled all club exclusions according to the Nazi “ Aryan Paragraph ” issued in 1933 .

successes

• 2 × Hungarian champions: 1914, 1919 (as a player)
• 2 × Austrian champions: 1924 (as a player), 1926 (as a coach)
• 1 × Romanian champion: 1933 (as a coach)
• 4 × Austrian Cup winners: 1921, 1924 (as a player), 1926, 1935 (as a coach)
• 1 game for the Hungarian national football team

literature

• Werner Skrentny: From Serbia to New York, from Budapest to Stockholm: the odyssey of the “Konrad twins” . In: Dieter Schulze-Marmeling (Hrsg.): Star of David and leather ball . The workshop, Göttingen 2003, ISBN 3-89533-407-3 .

Web links

• Entry in the Austria archive

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Nuremberg Ultras are reminiscent of Jenö Konrad. 1. FC Nürnberg, November 19, 2012, accessed on November 21, 2012 . 
2. ↑ The Ultras of 1. FC Nürnberg have persistently initiated the process of coming to terms with the Nazi past of their club