Jimmy Hogan

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Jimmy Hogan (1908)

James "Jimmy" Hogan (born October 16, 1882 in Nelson , Lancashire , † January 31, 1974 in Burnley ) was an English football player and coach and a pioneer of modern football on mainland Europe after the First World War.

life and career

Career as a player

Jimmy Hogan was born to an Irish Catholic family who moved to Burnley in 1896. During his school days in Manchester he was the captain of the football school team. At the age of 16 he finished his school education and took a job as an accountant. At the same time he began his career as a footballer with the local Burnley Belvedere club . In 1900 he moved to the semi-professional club in his hometown Nelson and a year later to Rochdale .

In 1902 followed the next station of the second division Burnley FC , where he was used as a right inside striker. In 1905 Hogan moved to London for Fulham FC , with whom he was promoted to the second division in the 1906/07 season. The following year, the Londoners were able to assert themselves in the top field of the second division and reached the semi-finals of the FA Cup , where they were defeated 6-0 against Newcastle United . During his time at Fulham, Hogan sustained a knee injury that would affect his future career as a player.

After a brief interlude at Swindon Town , he accepted an offer from the then second division side Bolton Wanderers , with which he achieved promotion to the top division in 1909. That year the Wanderers went on a continental tour that took them to Dordrecht in the Netherlands . In the following first division season Hogan played in all 38 games, but could not prevent the immediate relegation.

First stations as a trainer

When Hogan found out in 1910 that the Dordtsche Football Club was looking for an English coach, he applied for the position and was hired, although he had no relevant experience. Even at his first coaching position, it became clear that he placed particular emphasis on ball control and accuracy in the passing game, i.e. on qualities that were not typical of the English game at the time. During his time in Dordrecht, he was asked to coach the Dutch national team in a game against Germany and led the team to a 2-1 win. Hogan returned to Bolton at short notice and achieved promotion to League Division 1 with the Trotters .

In 1912 the Austrian national team played against Hungary . Hugo Meisl , who was responsible for preparing for the 1912 Summer Olympics, was not satisfied with the performance of his team and asked the English referee Howcroft for advice. He recommended Hogan, who was friends with him, and Meisl hired the Englishman for six weeks to prepare the Olympic team and hold training sessions at various Viennese clubs. At the Olympic tournament, the Austrians under Hogan's leadership managed a 5-1 opening win against Germany, but in the second round they lost to the Dutch. Austria reached the final of the consolation round with two wins, but lost to the Hungarians there. The participation in the Olympics could not be regarded as successful, but the first encounter between Hogan and Meisl turned out to be fateful for both men.

Hogan still played one last season in Bolton, but when the German Football Association placed an ad in 1913 looking for an English coach, he applied and had a good chance of being signed. However, the German association asked Hugo Meisl about his experience with the trainer, which prompted the Austrian to contact Hogan directly and guide him to Vienna.

In Vienna, his task was to prepare a team for the 1916 Summer Olympics and also to convey his ideas about football to the clubs. He took over training at Wiener Amateur SV and First Vienna FC . With his focus on ball skills and short passing, his work during this time can be seen as one of the roots of the later Viennese football school.

The world war and its consequences

Shortly after the outbreak of World War I, Hogan was arrested as a citizen of an enemy state. His family was allowed to leave the country, but he had to stay behind in Vienna. The work for the football association was terminated (allegedly due to financial difficulties) and Hogan was now working as a tutor for the children of a department store owner couple and had to report to the police regularly.

The vice-president of the Hungarian association MTK Budapest learned of Hogan's fate and used his connections to bring the Englishman to Budapest. At the end of 1916 it actually succeeded in reaching Hogan's departure to Hungary and a little later he trained the MTK. Since many of the established players were drafted into the army, he had to build a new team. His discoveries included two young players who were to become the strongest of their time, namely György Orth and József Braun . Around the two young players and the Hungarian record goalscorer Imre Schlosser as well as the up-and-coming young star Alfréd Schaffer , who joined the club in the two previous years, Hogan built a team according to his ideas that would dominate Hungarian football for years. On the way to the championship titles in 1917 and 1918, his team suffered a single defeat.

After the end of the war, Hogan received an exit permit and returned to England. He received three pairs of wool socks from the English Association as support.

Out and about on the continent

After turning away from the football business for several years and working as a dispatch manager for a company in Liverpool , he accepted the coaching position at Young Boys Bern in 1922 . In 1924, along with Teddy Duckworth and Izidor Kürschner , Hogan was one of the coaches who prepared the Swiss national team for the Olympic Games in Paris in regional groups . At the final tournament Duckworth looked after the national team and reached the final against Uruguay , which was lost 3-0. To date, this is the greatest success in Swiss football history.

In the same year, Hogan moved to FC Lausanne-Sport before he returned to Budapest in early 1925 and again took over the MTK, where he immediately became a champion and cup winner.

After two years in Budapest, where he also looked after the national team as an association coach, he accepted an offer from the Central German Football Association , for which he held courses throughout the association's territory. In 1928 he finally took over the coaching position at Dresdner SC , with whom he won the Central German Championship three times over the next four years and made it to the semi-finals of the German Championship in 1930. Hogan also brought Richard Hofmann to Dresden after the player had caught his eye while he was working for the association.

In 1932, Hogan left Dresden and, through the mediation of Hugo Meisl, became the coach of the Racing Club de Paris in the newly introduced French professional championship . In the meantime, Meisl had built up an Austrian national team that was widely referred to as the " miracle team " and whose most difficult test was imminent, namely an away game against England . Meisl asked Hogan through their mutual friend and Arsenal FC coach Herbert Chapman whether he would be available as a coach for the England game. Hogan agreed, took a leave of absence from RC Paris and looked after the Austrians in London. The game was lost 3: 4, but brought the Austrians high international recognition. Hogan returned to Paris and a little later signed the Austrian goalkeeper Rudolf Hiden , who would never play in the Austrian national team again.

In 1933, Hogan returned to FC Lausanne-Sport and, at Meisl's request, looked after the Austrian team in the away game against Scotland in November . The match in Glasgow ended 2-2 and the Austrians were the first team not to lose an international match on British soil.

England, Austria and again England

After the end of his activity in Lausanne, Hogan was given the first opportunity to look after an English team in 1934, namely his old club Fulham, which played in the second division and where his son Joe was also under contract. However, when Hogan was in the hospital in the spring of 1935 after an appendectomy, he was fired by the association in absentia.

Hugo Meisl was there again and signed the recovered Hogan for the Austrian Federation, where he was supposed to build an amateur team for the Olympic Games in 1936 and also take care of the national team. The highlights of this period, which was to last from late 1935 to mid-1936, were the 2-1 victory over England in Vienna and the silver medal at the Olympic tournament in Berlin .

Then Hogan ended his coaching activity on the continent and took over Aston Villa FC, who played in the second English division after the club's first relegation . After only a midfield position was achieved in the first season, succeeded in 1938 the championship title and thus promotion to the top division. In the FA Cup, the team reached the semi-finals, where they were eliminated against Preston North End .

After a twelfth place was achieved in the last championship before the Second World War, the resignation took place a few months after the start of the war. However, Hogan received a lifetime pension from Aston Villa.

He returned to Burnley FC where he worked in club administration. In 1947 he was during the season coach at Brentford FC , before he took over a position in the supervisory staff of Celtic Glasgow under Jimmy McGrory in 1948 and finally returned to Brentford.

He finished his career in English football as a junior coach at Aston Villa. In this role he attended the international match between England and Hungary with some of the club's young players in 1953, in which the Golden Elf inflicted their first home defeat on the English.

Meaning of Jimmy Hogan

Hogan is one of the most important pioneers in continental European football. His focus on the short passing game and the technical skills of the players - which was unusual for an English football coach of his time - contributed significantly to the development of football in several European countries.

The development of the Vienna School and thus the cornerstone for the Austrian successes of the 1930s are shaped by his work in the same way as the great successes of Hungarian football. The coach of the Golden Elf, Gusztáv Sebes , said of Hogan: "He taught us everything we know about football." The German national coach Helmut Schön , who knew Hogan from days together in Dresden, spoke of the Englishman with great respect .

Only in his homeland did Hogan go unheard for a long time. In his day in England it was often felt that professional football players didn't need coaches at all. In lectures and articles he repeatedly warned that continental European football would overtake England and finally saw his warnings confirmed in 1953 at Wembley .

References

literature

  • Norman Fox: Prophet or Traitor? The Jimmy Hogan Story , Parrs Wood Press, Manchester 2003 ISBN 1-903158-45-1
  • Andreas Hafer, Wolfgang Hafer: Hugo Meisl or The Invention of Modern Football , Verlag Die Werkstatt 2007 ISBN 978-3-89533-561-7
  • Helmut Schön: Football. Memories . Ullstein Verlag, Berlin 1978, ISBN 3-550-07676-2 . Pp. 66/67.

Web links

Commons : Jimmy Hogan  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ How total football inventor was lost to Hungary. The Guardian , November 22, 2003, accessed September 12, 2010 .
personal data
SURNAME Hogan, Jimmy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hogan, James
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English soccer player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH October 16, 1882
PLACE OF BIRTH Nelson , Lancashire
DATE OF DEATH January 31, 1974
Place of death Burnley