Karl Geyer

This article is about the soccer player and coach Karl Geyer. For other people see Carl Geyer .

Karl Geyer
Personnel
birthday	March 24, 1899
place of birth	Vienna ,  Austria-Hungary
date of death	February 21, 1998
position	Outrunner
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1914-1919	SC Donaustadt
1919-1920	Vienna AC
1920-1928	Viennese amateur SV
	Vienna AC
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1921-1928	Austria	17 (?)
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
0000-1934	Vienna AC
1934	SV Donau Vienna
1934-1935	SC Wacker Vienna
1935-1937	SC Diana
1938-1939	Brann Bergen
1939 - at least 1945	FK Austria Vienna
1955-1956	Austria
1 Only league games are given.

Karl "Vogerl" Geyer (born March 24, 1899 in Vienna , Austria-Hungary , † February 21, 1998 ) was an Austrian football player and football coach . He coached the Austrian national team from 1955 to 1956.

Club career

Geyer's home club was SC Donaustadt , for which he played from 1914. The Donaustädter from Brigittenau were at that time one of the leading clubs in the second class, but promotion and relegation was suspended during the war years, so that the two championship titles in 1917 and 1918 did not entitle them to promotion to the top division. In 1918 you could also reach the Cup semi-finals , where you lost to Floridsdorfer AC with 1: 2. During the war years, Geyer was also used as a soldier on the Isonzo Front.

In 1919, the outside runner moved to the first-class Vienna AC , where he only stayed for one season and then joined the Vienna Amateur SV . The transfer regulations at that time provided for a waiting period of six months in the event of a change, but the amateurs wanted to use the player for a game in Switzerland and registered him as "Vogerl", alluding to his last name, which gave Geyer his nickname, who should continue to accompany him.

In the Ober Sankt Veitern he quickly became a regular player and mostly used in the right or left runner position. He was known for his stamina as well as his technique. In 1921, the first title in the club's history was won with the cup, which was followed by two championship titles and three more cup victories in the next few years. Geyer stayed with the now renamed FK Austria Wien club until 1928 , before he sustained a knee injury in a game against Vienna in a collision with Friedrich Gschweidl , which should almost end his active career.

National team

Geyer's qualities soon caught the eye of the Austrian association's captain Hugo Meisl , who first used the player in the runner-up in the international match against Sweden in March 1921 . On the outside positions, however, he had strong competition in the national team from Leopold Nitsch and Karl Kurz and therefore only made 17 missions. The last time he was called up in May 1928 in a 5-5 draw against Hungary .

Coaching career

Due to his early retirement, Geyer soon embarked on a coaching career and took over his former club WAC, where he occasionally even set up himself after his recovery. With the Prater team succeeded in 1931 victory in the ÖFB Cup, which was held in this season as the so-called Winter Cup in championship mode. As a result, the WAC also qualified for the Mitropacup , where it sensationally reached the final against Vienna with victories over Hungária FC MTK Budapest and Sparta Prague , which was lost 2: 3 and 1: 2.

In the spring of 1934 Geyer briefly took over the care of the first division newcomers SV Donau Wien , but could not prevent the immediate relegation. He then worked at SC Wacker Vienna until March 1935 , before taking over the Vienna amateur club SC Diana and in 1937 led it to the top amateur league. In the same year he took over the presidency of the players' union from Rudolf Seidl , a representation of the interests of professional players. After the Anschluss in 1938, Geyer, who was married to a Jew, first went to Norway, where he looked after Brann Bergen , but returned to Vienna after a year and took over training at Austria, which he supervised unofficially during the war years.

Geyer was also the first official trainer of the Violets after the war, but soon gave up the post to Wudi Müller . He then looked after the Vienna AC and became a youth officer at the ÖFB, where he led the Austrian junior soccer teams to victories at the international junior tournaments in 1950 and 1957. He was also chairman of the Toto committee from 1948. In September 1955, Geyer was entrusted by the ÖFB with the post of federal captain and was responsible for the national team together with the national coach Josef Molzer . Geyer held this office until his resignation in April 1956, during this period five games were played, with two wins and three losses.

successes

• 1 × Mitropacup final : 1931 (as coach)
• 2 × Austrian champions : 1924, 1926 (as a player)
• 5 × ÖFB Cup : 1921, 1924, 1925, 1926 (as a player), 1931 (as a coach)
• 17 games for the Austrian national soccer team: 1921–1928 (as a player)
• 5 games for the Austrian national soccer team: 1955–1956 (as federal captain)

ÖFB international matches under team boss Karl Geyer

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
5	2	0	3	8:14	−6

No.	date	Result	opponent		venue	occasion	comment
262	10/16/1955	1: 6	Hungary	A.	Budapest ( HUN )	European Cup 1955-1960	First international game under Karl Geyer 100th international game against Hungary Austria receives the 500th goal by Zoltán Czibor
263	10/30/1955	2: 1	Yugoslavia	H	Vienna	European Cup 1955-1960
264	11/23/1955	2: 1	Wales	A.	Wrexham ( WAL )
265	03/25/1956	1: 3	France	A.	Paris ( FRA )
266	04/15/1956	2: 3	Brazil	H	Vienna		First international game against Brazil, last game under Karl Geyer