Josef Stroh

Josef "Pepi" Stroh (born March 5, 1913 ; † January 7, 1991 in Vienna ) was an Austrian football player and coach.

Career

Pepi Stroh began his football career in Floridsdorf and from 1930 he regularly played for the FAC in the highest Austrian league . With the Floridsdorfern Stroh was used as a center forward - a position he had to give up in 1933 after his move to Wiener Austria , there in various lineups as "Stroh I", in favor of Matthias Sindelar as a legal link. Stroh with the violets won his first title in his debut year by winning the ÖFB Cup . He undoubtedly celebrated his greatest successes with Austria in the Mitropapokal , which was won in two dramatic series of finals in 1933 against Inter Milan and in 1936 against Sparta Prague .

From 1935 on, Pepi Stroh fought regularly with Admiral Willy Hahnemann for the body in the national team as a legal link ; he scored against Hungary and Italy in the 1938 European Cup . During the time of National Socialism , Pepi Stroh came as a player of what is now the "Sportclub Ostmark" to four missions in the Reich German national team with which he also took part in the 1938 World Cup in France. After the end of the war, the connector made seven more appearances for Austria, and he ended his career as a player by winning the championship in 1948/49 .

After a coaching career, which also took him to Sweden and Norway in the 1950s and 1960s, he returned to Vienna and then also worked in the youth division of Austria.

Josef Stroh had a younger brother, Kommerzialrat Leopold Stroh (born January 20, 1917 in Vienna-Floridsdorf; † August 27, 1985 in Vienna), who was also a footballer but not as successful as he was. Leopold Stroh was best known for founding the Stroh petrol stations in Vienna and Lower Austria , whose logo was a yellow leather soccer ball with stripes. He made great merits as a sponsor and patron of football youth, as well as for the FAC and the FK Austria Wien. The FAC-Platz was named after its brother as Leopold-Stroh-Stadion .

He died in January 1991 in Vienna and was buried on the 23rd of the month at the Jedleseer Friedhof .

Stations

As a player

1927 to 1930: Floridsdorfer SC
1930 to 1933: Floridsdorfer AC
1933 to 1949: FK Austria Wien
1940: SV Arminia Hannover ( guest )

As a trainer

1951–1954: Jönköpings Södra IF
1955-1959: Malmö FF
1959–1960: IFK Göteborg
1960–1963: Wiener Sport-Club
1964: Brann Bergen
1965: Jönköpings Södra IF
1966: Sandvikens IF

successes

2 × Mitropa Cup winners : 1933, 1936

1 × Austrian champion : 1949
3 × Austrian Cup winners : 1933, 1935, 1936

17 games and 4 goals for the Austrian national soccer team from 1935 to 1948
4 international matches and 1 goal for the Reich German national soccer team from 1938 to 1939

Individual evidence

↑ The kicker. January 2, 1940, p. 10.

personal data
SURNAME	Straw, Josef
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Straw, pepi (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Austrian soccer player, soccer coach
DATE OF BIRTH	March 5, 1913
DATE OF DEATH	January 7, 1991
Place of death	Vienna

[1] The kicker. January 2, 1940, p. 10.