Josef Brandstätter

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Josef Brandstätter, right, here with Karl Braunsteiner from the sports club at the 1912 Olympic Games

Josef "Seppl" Brandstätter (* November 7, 1891 - March 25, 1945 ) was an Austrian football player . The middle runner was an important pillar at SK Rapid Wien and in the national team from 1911 to 1925 , at times a record national player and the first Austrian with 40 international matches.

Career

Josef Brandstätter began his football career together with his younger brother Fritz at Rapid in 1908. He was one of the famous Rapid team that, under coach Dionys Schönecker, won the first Austrian football championship in 1911/12 and dominated the championship in the years that followed. The middle runner, who became known thanks to his tireless willingness to fight, was able to celebrate a total of eight title wins in Hütteldorf before a crisis at the club in 1924 drove him to local rivals Wiener AF . After the differences with the club's management were over, Seppl Brandstätter returned to the Green-Whites, where he served in the combat team for a year until 1925 and thus a total of 16 years.

Seppl Brandstätter was not only the playmaker of the green-whites, but also a regular for the national team in this position for twelve years . He had made his debut at the Olympic Games in Stockholm in 1912, where he reached 5th place with the team, his only two goals in the national dress scored the middle runner in the 2-0 victory over Italy on June 15, 1913. To his career end Seppl Brandstätter joined ASV Hertha Vienna , while Josef Smistik followed in his footsteps at Rapid . Soon he accepted a trainer offer Građanski , with whom he was 1926 Yugoslav champion . In 1927 he took over the coaching position at the Wiener Sport-Club before he was in charge of VfL Neckarau for two years from 1928 .

Seppl Brandstätter died in the last war days of the Second World War at a pneumonia .

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SURNAME Brandstätter, Josef
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Brandstätter, Seppl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH November 7, 1891
DATE OF DEATH March 25, 1945