Karl Bortoli

Karl Bortoli (born October 4, 1912 - November 19, 2010 ) was an Austrian national soccer player . As a defender at Vienna , he was three times Austrian champion from 1942 to 1944 .

Career

The wine Vierteler Karl Bortoli came over the small club Wiener Prater Stern in 1933 to the then third-class whites Eleven , where he 1935 by Favoritner club FC Vienna in the I. League was brought. With the Red-Whites he mostly played as a winger, already in his debut season 1935/36 he scored eleven goals. Karl Bortoli stayed in Favoriten until the club was relegated in 1938 and after a season with SK Amateure Steyr finally came to Vienna in Döbling. At the beginning of the blue-yellow team, Karl Bortoli played in the storm, but was increasingly used as the successor to Willibald Schmaus in defense, where he soon formed one of the strongest defensive duos in Austria with Otto Kaller .

Despite the adverse conditions of World War II , Vienna was able to become Austrian champions from 1942 to 1944 and remain just as successful in the “Greater German competitions”: in 1942 they became German runners-up , in 1943 they won the German Cup against LSV Hamburg . After the end of the Second World War, Karl Bortoli was able to play internationally for Austria, his now advanced football age of 33 years did not stand in the way. By the beginning of 1947 he was used as a back a total of seven times, including in 1945 at the first home game after an eight-year break, the 4-1 against France . At Vienna he remained in service until the end of 1947 and in 1946 was still in the ÖFB Cup final .

successes

• 3 × Austrian champion : 1942, 1943, 1944
• 1 × Austrian Cup finalist : 1946
• 1 × German runner-up : 1942
• 1 × German cup winner : 1943

• 7 international matches for the Austrian national soccer team from 1945 to 1947