Josef Uridil

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Josef "Pepi, the tank" Uridil (born December 24, 1895 in Vienna ; † May 20, 1962 there ) was an Austrian football player and trainer . The striker is considered one of the first "stars" of football in Austria.

Career

Beginnings in Ottakring and Hütteldorf

Pepi Uridil was born as "Christkindl" on December 24, 1895 as the third son of the master tailor Kajetan Uridil in the Ottakringer Grundsteingasse. At the early age of eight, he played football on Ottakringer streets together with his brother Franz Uridil , for the "Hasnerstraßler" against the "Koppstraßler", as he later wrote in his biography. As a teenager, Pepi Uridil soon stormed for many small clubs in the west of Vienna and came to the Austrian record champions SK Rapid Wien in Hütteldorf via sports clubs Orion, Tasmania, Rekord and Blue Star .

During the First World War , Pepi Uridil could only rarely be used for his Rapid because he had to work at the front. In the beginning, he usually only played a few matches for the green-whites per year. Shortly after the end of the war, however, Pepi Uridil was able to prove his scoring qualities and won the title of top scorer for three seasons in a row . During this time, the striker was nicknamed "Tank" and created the "rapid spirit", which means fighting together with the team for victory until the last second of the game.

The championship game in 1921 against Vienna's AC is considered the parade game for Uridil's class as a football player . The team of Dionys Schönecker were already 1: 5 behind at the break, at the beginning of the last 15 minutes still 3: 5 and thanks to a fighting performance of the "Tank", who scored all seven Rapid goals that afternoon, they were still able to score 7: 5 win.

Rise to the "star"

Pepi Uridil was able to win one title after the other with the Hütteldorfer. In 1919 he triumphed with his team in the championship and won the cup 3-0 in the final against the Wiener Sport-Club , where his two goals had brought Rapid 2-0 in front. Victory in the championship and cup could be repeated just one year later. Thanks to these great successes, Rapid had a very large number of fans after the end of the war, which among other things led to a large expansion of the Rapid Stadium. The green and white fans mostly gathered around their idol Pepi Uridil, who was a hype that had never been seen before.

Uridli's name soon appeared on numerous products, for example there was a Uridil beer (double malt beer brand "Uridil") and Uridil-Zuckerln ("Kracheln"). Hermann Leopoldi , the well-known writer of Viennese songs , created a musical monument for him with the foxtrot " Today the Uridil plays " (1922). Pepi Uridil also played the leading role in the film Duty and Honor, which opened on February 1, 1924. At that time, the football player appeared on numerous evenings in the Leopoldstadt Rolandsbühne and played trillions in the revue Seid umschlappen . The Uridil biography, written by Felix Schmal, soon became a best seller.

In addition to all of these "sideline jobs", Pepi Uridil remained a full-time striker who celebrated great success on the pitch. A total of eight times he was called up to the national team, for which he scored as many goals. With this seemingly small number of internationals, one must bear in mind that shortly after the end of the First World War, one of the "main culprits" was only able to play a few internationals. Uridil's highlight in the national dress was a game against Switzerland, in which he scored three times. Towards the end of the season he could still be poached by Vienna in 1925 before Pepi Uridil moved to the coaching bench.

Pepi Uridil as a trainer

Pepi Uridil initially only went as a manager to the Czechoslovakian city of Bratislava (Preßburg), but in 1929 put another season as a player in Italy at AS Bari . Pepi Uridil finally came to Romania via the Netherlands, where, in addition to Ripensia Timișoara, he also looked after the Romanian national football team at the 1934 World Cup in Italy . However, he was a little unlucky in the round of 16 with 1: 2 against the later finalists Czechoslovakia with the team after they had already made it 1-0 at the break. After Romania the globetrotter - after a short stopover at home at SC Helfort  - went to Yugoslavia (from 1935 at Beogradski SK ), to Switzerland (he worked at FC Biel from 1936 to 1937, then at FC Luzern until 1938) and to Germany (1938–1941 Schwarz-Weiß Essen , 1941–1943 VfL Altenbögge ). With Altenbögge, Uridil was twice runner-up in the Gauliga Westphalia. Afterwards he had to serve for the German armed forces during the Second World War . Uridil had already become a member of the NSDAP on May 1, 1938 and was classified as a " minor offender " after the Second World War in 1945 . A subsequent pardon by the Austrian Federal President lifted this classification.

After the Second World War, Josef Uridil initially looked after the Klagenfurt AC , then stopped again at Schwarz-Weiß Essen and finally returned to Hütteldorf in 1953 to his Rapid, with which he promptly became champion. During his brief tenure with the Hütteldorfern team, the legendary game against the then English champions Arsenal London , which Rapid sensationally won 6-1, also fell. Before the game on May 25, 1953, he made the well-known saying: "They are eleven, we are eleven, rinse your game and if you have won, there is a champagne." After Hütteldorf followed Regensburg, where he became the coach of his ex -Rapidler Franz Binder took over. After minor successes at SSV Jahn Regensburg , he finally retired in 1957. Josef Uridil died on May 20, 1962 and was buried five days later at the Ottakringer Friedhof . His grave (6/24 / 31z) was abandoned and has since been given to other users.

Honors

In 1991 the Josef-Uridil-Gasse in Vienna- Penzing (14th district) was named after him.

In 1999, Pepi Uridil was named Rapid Team of the Century .

Stations

successes

literature

  • Josef Uridil: What I am and how I became. The life story of the famous football player, told by himself. R. Löwit, Vienna 1924.
  • Kurt Schauppmeier : Uridil is playing today. Schauppmeier, Regensburg 1956.
  • Jakob Rosenberg et al. (Ed.): Green and white under the swastika. The Rapid Sports Club under National Socialism (1938–1945). Vienna 2011.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Vienna's street names since 1860 as “Political Places of Remembrance”. (PDF; 4.4 MB), p. 209, final research project report, Vienna, July 2013.
  2. ^ Vienna cemeteries - search for the dead
  3. ^ Josef-Uridil-Gasse in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna
  4. Jump up ↑ Rapid Team of the Century. At: RapidArchiv.at.
personal data
SURNAME Uridil, Josef
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pepi the tank (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian soccer player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH December 24, 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH May 20, 1962
Place of death Vienna