Josef Molzer

This article is about the Austrian soccer player and soccer coach Josef Molzer. For the Lower Austrian member of the state parliament, see Josef Molzer (politician) .

Josef Molzer (born February 28, 1906 in Vienna ; † September 1987 ) was an Austrian soccer player and soccer coach . Molzer was coach of the Austrian national team in 1955 and from 1956 to 1958.

Club career

Molzer came from the Viennese district of Floridsdorf and began his football career at the district club SK Admira Vienna , where he played his first game in the top division in 1925. His regular position was that of the center forward, but he had strong competition at Admira with the Austrian international Johann Klima and the up-and-coming Karl Stoiber and decided in 1926 to leave the club. After half a year at SK Rapid Wien , where he also only made a few appearances, he accepted an offer from FK Austria Wien , where he was able to conquer a regular place for the first time, but not as a center forward (this position was occupied by Matthias Sindelar ) , but as a right connector.

At the end of this season he changed clubs again and now ran for Floridsdorfer AC , where he stormed alongside Karl Jiszda and finally found the position on the right wing that he should remain loyal to from now on. In 1929 he returned to Austria, where he would play for the next seven years. The Violet he could twice during this period Cup winners are and get an international title, in 1933 as Mitropacupfinale Ambrosiana Inter Milan could be defeated. One of his most outstanding performances brought Molzer in November 1934, when he was able to defeat Liverpool 2-0 on a tour of England with Austria and scored both goals. In 1936 he finally left the club and ended his career with Vienna after two years . If he was no longer first choice at Austria, he showed his skills again at the Blue-Yellows and scored both goals in the 2-0 cup win against the Sport-Club in 1937.

National team

At Molzer's strongest time in the early 1930s, the post of right winger in the national team was top-class occupied by Karl Zischek , so that Molzer had only few chances for missions. After eight games for the Viennese city selection, he was allowed to make his debut in a 4: 3 against Sweden in July 1932 , where he also scored a goal. In October of the same year he played his second and last international match against Hungary . Both of Molzer's missions thus fell into the time of the miracle team .

Coaching career

His first coaching station was SK Sturm Graz , which he took over in 1946 and where he won the Styrian regional league three times. The last of these three titles entitles the Grazers to participate in the top Austrian league for the first time. Molzer then moved to Germany, where he looked after Westfalia Herne from the spring of 1950 and TSV 1860 Munich in the 1951/52 season .

After his return to Austria, he was first an association trainer in Tyrol before he started working for the ÖFB and prepared the national team for the 1954 World Cup as one of several co-trainers . In 1955 he was only just one game in office as national coach under the newly appointed federal captain Hans Kaulich when Kaulich resigned from office for health reasons. Molzer was mainly responsible for the national team on an interim basis for three games before a new federal captain was appointed with Karl Geyer and Molzer worked as a coach again under him. Molzer had been offered the post of federal captain, but he refused. His reasoning was that a federal captain could only do productive work if, in addition to the necessary powers, he was given time to implement his plans, but he had not been given this time.
When Geyer resigned after eight months after a 2: 3 home defeat against Brazil, the ÖFB transferred responsibility to a team of supervisors consisting of Molzer and Josef Argauer .

Under their leadership, the national team, third in the 1954 World Cup, qualified for the 1958 tournament in Sweden, where the team joined a group with the Soviet Union , which was announced as playing according to new scientific principles, old champions England and the up-and-coming Brazil was drawn. In the opening game against Brazil, the Austrian strikers did not manage to hit a single goal in 10-1 corners, despite several minute-long storms, and the South Americans won 3-0. In the following 0: 2 against the USSR, the young Hans Buzek failed when the score was 0: 1 with a penalty from goalkeeper legend Lev Yashin . In the third game there was a pleasant 2-2 win against England. The coaching duo was mainly criticized for not having taken the world-class Italian professional Ernst Ocffekt to the tournament and for having carelessly forego Ernst Happel in the game against the USSR . Helmut Senekowitsch also played for the Austrian team , with whom there was a little more to celebrate as coach at the next World Cup participation 20 years later.

Subsequently, Molzer was still part of a four-man makeshift, which was responsible for two more games for the national team.

In 1960 he was briefly coach of the Vienna, but was replaced by Leopold Gernhardt in September and continued to work in the club as section head.

Josef Molzer died in September 1987 at the age of 81. The funeral took place on September 9, 1987 at the Jedleseer Friedhof in Vienna.

successes

• 1 × Mitropacup : 1933
• 3 × ÖFB Cup : 1933, 1935, 1937
• 3 × Styrian national champion: 1947, 1948, 1949 (as trainer)
• 3 × Styrian Cup winners: 1947, 1948, 1949 (as trainer)
• 2 games and one goal for the Austrian national soccer team: 1932 (as a player)
• 29 games for the Austrian national soccer team: 1955–1958 (as coach)

First term of office of team boss Josef Molzer

Legend

• H = home game
• A = away game
• * = Play on a neutral place
• - = no official international match
• n / a = after extension
• WM = World Championship
• EM = European Championship
• green background color = victory of Austria
• yellow background color = tie
• red background color = defeat

Games	Victories	draw	Defeats	Gates	TD
3	1	1	1	6: 8	−2

No.	date	Result	opponent		venue	occasion	comment
259	04/24/1955	2: 2	Hungary	H	Vienna	European Cup 1955-1960
260	05/01/1955	3: 2	Switzerland	A.	Bern ( SUI )	European Cup 1955-1960
261	05/19/1955	1: 4	Scotland	H	Vienna

Second term of office of Josef Molzer, together with Josef Argauer

Games	Victories	draw	Defeats	Gates	TD
18th	7th	6th	5	37:27	+10

No.	date	Result	opponent		venue	occasion	comment
267	05/02/1956	1: 1	Scotland	A.	Glasgow ( SCO )
268	06/17/1956	1: 1	Yugoslavia	A.	Zagreb ( YUG )	European Cup 1955-1960
269	09/30/1956	7-0	Luxembourg	H	Vienna	World Cup 1958 qualification	First international match against Luxembourg
270	10/14/1956	0: 2	Hungary	H	Vienna
271	December 09, 1956	1: 2	Italy	A.	Genoa ( ITA )	European Cup 1955-1960
-	02/24/1957	3: 2	Malta	A.	Gżira ( MLT )		First international against Malta, not an official international
272	03/10/1957	2: 3	Germany	H	Vienna
273	04/14/1957	4-0	Switzerland	H	Vienna	European Cup 1955-1960
274	05/05/1957	1-0	Sweden	H	Vienna
275	05/26/1957	3: 2	Netherlands	H	Vienna	World Cup 1958 qualification
276	09/15/1957	3: 3	Yugoslavia	A.	Belgrade ( YUG )
277	09/25/1957	1: 1	Netherlands	A.	Amsterdam ( NED )	World Cup 1958 qualification
278	09/29/1957	3-0	Luxembourg	A.	Luxembourg ( LUX )	World Cup 1958 qualification	Austria qualifies for the fourth time for a World Cup finals
279	10/13/1957	2: 2	Czechoslovakia	H	Vienna	European Cup 1955-1960
280	03/23/1958	3: 2	Italy	H	Vienna	European Cup 1955-1960	Austria finished the 6th European Cup 1955-1960 in 3rd place
281	05/14/1958	3: 1	Ireland	H	Vienna
282	06/08/1958	0: 3	Brazil	*	Uddevalla ( SWE )	1958 World Cup preliminary round
283	06/11/1958	0: 2	Soviet Union	*	Borås ( SWE )	1958 World Cup preliminary round	First international match against the Soviet Union
284	06/15/1958	2: 2	England	*	Borås ( SWE )	1958 World Cup preliminary round	Austria finished the World Cup in 4th place in the preliminary round

Third term of office of Josef Molzer, together with Alfred Frey, Franz Putzendopler and Egon Selzer

Games	Victories	draw	Defeats	Gates	TD
2	0	0	2	4: 6	−2

No.	date	Result	opponent		venue	occasion	comment
285	09/14/1958	3: 4	Yugoslavia	H	Vienna		First international match under Frey, Putzendopler, Selzer and Molzer
286	05.10.1958	1: 2	France	H	Vienna		Last game under Frey, Putzendopler, Selzer and Molzer

Individual evidence

1. ↑ «Molzer does not accept» . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna June 7, 1955, p. 8 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).