Karl Durspekt

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Karl Franz Durspekt (born November 23, 1913 in Vienna , † February 14, 1978 ) was an Austrian football player .

Player career

As the son of a train driver, Karl Durspekt first worked as a typesetter, then became a professional football player. In 1940 he married Anna Svatos in Vienna .

From the youth of SC Nord-Wien , whose combat team played for the VAFÖ championship, he was initially deployed in reserve at SK Admira Wien from the beginning of 1932 . The tall center forward was not seen as particularly fast, but his understanding of the game, his header game and, above all, his determined shot made the young Durspekt soon start in the fighting team alongside players like Adolf Vogl and Schall . When Admira won the Cup in 1932, he came to the round of sixteen to use and also scored a goal. When he won the championship in 1931/32, the still 18-year-old did not come to the game. At the championship in 1934 he was regularly on the ball, but was not used in the cup competition that was also won. With Admira he also took part in the Mitropa Cup in 1934 , in which he scored four goals in ten games. Durspekt reached the final with Admira, but had to admit defeat to FC Bologna after a 3-2 win in the first game with 1: 5.

Durspekt played two international matches for Austria in April and May 1935 . In the European Cup against Czechoslovakia 0-0 in Prague , he scored a goal in a 6-3 defeat in a friendly against Hungary in Budapest.

From the 1935/36 season he was under contract with FC Rouen , where he belonged to the legendary French "bomb storm" (French: attaque mitrailleuse ) around Jean Nicolas , Roger Rio and Marceau Lhermine , who scored 119 goals in 34 second division games - a dozen of them, scored in 20 missions, went to Durspekt's account - and promoted to Division 1 . The “Red Devils” also held their own at the higher level and finished the following two years in fourth place in the table. In 1938 he left the club.

After his return to Vienna, which had lost its independence since March 1938 due to the annexation of Austria to the German Reich , he played again in the 1938/39 season with Admira, with which he won the Austrian championship, which had been demoted to the Gaume Championship. In the final round of the German championship, Admira made it into the final , in which the Viennese lost 9-0 to FC Schalke 04 in the Berlin Olympic Stadium .

He then played for Floridsdorfer AC until 1942 . In the further course of the Second World War he finally played for the air force team LSV Markersdorf an der Pielach . At that time, the Markersdorf military airfield served as a "reception camp" for football players who had moved there from their home clubs, including well-known Austrian and German football professionals such as Karl Sesta and Max Merkel . The LSV Markersdorf succeeded in these years to become champions of the 1st class Niederdonau and to move up to the Gaulliga Donau-Alpenland, the highest East Markets level at the time.

After the war Durspekt played from 1945 to 1948 for three more seasons with Floridsdorfer AC, where he played together with the young Ernst Ocffekt , who had made Durspekt his idol in the mid-1930s. Then he played for his youth club, the lower class SC Nord-Wien in 1912 .

Coaching career

His subsequent coaching career took him to Egypt , Greece , Sweden , Norway and Switzerland .

After Durspekt had already taken over as a trainer at the FAC, he began his full-time activity as a trainer at Hellenic Alexandria at the end of 1948 . In 1950 he worked for the Lower Austrian SV Wimpassing . In Sweden, Calle , as he was called there, became the first full-time coach at Lunds BK that same year . He stayed there until 1952. In Switzerland he was tenth in the second division with FC Locarno in 1953/54 . 1956/57 he was with the Swedish second division team Åtvidabergs FF . From November 12, 1960 to January 29, 1961, he followed Georg Bayerer as a coach at the Oberliga Süd-climber SSV Jahn Regensburg , who had previously suffered seven defeats in a row. Durspekt started with two draws, but then suffered seven defeats in a row. Georg Mayer, who had already sat on the bench for two games as an interim coach before his arrival, followed Durspekt and this time stayed until the end of the season, which Jahn finished as a knocked-down table.

From 1961 to 1963, Durspekt was in charge of the Greek first division team PAOK in Thessaloniki , with whom he was only sixth and fourth in the following season. After Rudolf Gassner , who worked there in 1931/32, Wilhelm "Willi" Sefzik from 1951 to 1952, Niko Polti in 1956/57 and Walter Pfeiffer in 1957, he was the fifth Austrian coach with the Greeks. In later decades, Walter Skocik and Rolf Fringer would follow.

In 1964/65 he trained for the first time in the Austrian state league, in which he replaced Milan Zekovic from the tenth match day at Grazer AK and ended up tenth. In 1970/71 he replaced Vlado Simunic at the GAK from the fourth round and led the club to eleventh place. In between he coached SV Rapid Lienz in the Carinthian regional league in 1966/67 and in the first half of 1970 the first division club IK Start in Kristiansand, Norway . In 1975 he won the southern squadron of the Swedish 4th Division with the Bodens BK .

Statistical career overview

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Notes and evidence

  1. For Durspekt's time and number of stakes / hits at Rouen, see the information in Almanach du football éd. 1935/36. , Paris 1936, p. 75; Almanach du football éd. 1936/37. , Paris 1937, p. 46; Marc Barreaud: Dictionnaire des footballeurs étrangers du championnat professionnel français (1932–1997). , L'Harmattan, Paris 1998, ISBN 2-7384-6608-7 , p. 25; the fact as such is also confirmed by David Forster, Bernhard Hachleitner, Robert Hummer and Robert Franta: “The Legionaries”. Austrian footballers all over the world. , Lit, Berlin / Münster / Vienna / Zurich / London 2011, ISBN 978-3-643-50205-6 , p. 258.