Johann Walzhofer

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Johann Walzhofer
Personnel
birthday March 23, 1906
date of death unknown
position striker
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1922-1926 Jedlersdorfer SC
1926-1927 Floridsdorfer AC
1927 SK Rapid Vienna
1928-1929 Vienna AC
1929-1944 SC Wacker Vienna
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1927-1934 Austria 5 (0)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
1937 SC Wacker Vienna (player-coach)
1947-1953 SK Admira Vienna
SC gasworks
1 Only league games are given.

Johann Walzhofer (born March 23, 1906 ; † unknown) was an Austrian football player .

Club career

In 1922 Johann Walzhofer started his football career at Jedlersdorfer SC and in 1926 moved to the larger district rivals Floridsdorfer AC , where he played his first game in the first division in the spring . At the end of the season he moved to SK Rapid , where he did not get a chance in the fighting team. Therefore, after six months, he joined the Vienna AC and was soon able to conquer a regular place in the storm row, where he was already the most successful goal scorer of his club in 1927/28 . In 1928, the WAC reached the final in the ÖFB Cup, where they lost 2-1 to SK Admira Vienna after Walzhofer had meanwhile equalized. In the next season he was able to occupy the second place in the scorer list with 14 goals and then moved to SC Wacker Vienna .

He was to spend the next 15 years of his career with the Meidlingers, where he was used either as a center forward or as a left link and during this time he was mostly in the line of attack with Karl Zischek . He was able to place himself in the top three of the goalscorer list two more times. Despite the hits from his two star strikers, the Wacker did not get beyond places in the middle of the table for a long time. In the late 1930s, however, the club caught up with the Austrian top and was able to achieve second place in the championship three times in a row. In the Tschammer Cup in 1939 , the team reached the semi-finals, where they were only eliminated by drawing lots after three draws against SV Waldhof Mannheim . Walzhofer was denied a title at club level during his career, but with a total of 178 championship goals he is still one of the 20 most successful goal scorers in the history of Austrian football.

National team

He made his debut for the national team in November 1927 in a 1-0 draw against Italy , but after two more games in 1928 there was a longer break, because he was not called up until the game against Czechoslovakia in April 1931, which was for the Nations Cup that the Austrians could decide for themselves. A few weeks later, the miracle team was born , whose storm row, where Walzhofer's positions were occupied by Matthias Sindelar and Anton Schall , were to play almost unchanged over the next two years and the Wackerspieler was therefore only regularly used in the Viennese city selection.

After the Austrian national team had qualified for the 1934 World Cup , Walzhofer was part of the squad sent to Italy, but was not used in the tournament in which the team finally failed in the semi-finals. The striker played his fifth and last game for Austria in November of the same year against Switzerland .

Coaching career

From January to September 1937, Walzhofer was not only a player but also a coach at SC Wacker. In 1947 he took over the coaching position at SK Admira Vienna , which he would hold for over five years. The Admira was regularly in the middle of the table in the top division at this time, only in the 1948/49 season achieved a top position with third place. The greatest success during Walzhofer's coaching era was reaching the final in the Vienna Cup in 1948, which was lost 1: 2 against FK Austria Wien . At the beginning of 1953 he resigned as admiralty trainer. Then he was still a coach at SC Gaswerk before he retired from football in 1957.

successes

personal data
SURNAME Walzhofer, Johann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH March 23, 1906
DATE OF DEATH 20th century or 21st century