Karl Jiszda

Karl Jiszda , (* July 21, 1899 , † November 1963 ) was an Austrian football player and football coach and was considered the "club icon" of Floridsdorfer AC .

Club career

Karl Jiszda mostly played in the position of the center forward or the right liaison and was known to be dangerous and powerful.

He started with Floridsdorfer Sparta in 1912 , but soon switched to the FAC youth team, where he played with Viktor Hierländer and Karl Kurz . Since many proven forces were not available due to the First World War , some younger players soon moved into the fighting team of Floridsdorf, which at that time was one of the strongest teams in the league. Jiszda scored his first goals in the championship in the spring of 1918 and became Austrian champions with the FAC that season for the first (and so far only) time in the club's history.

After Hierländer left the club in 1919, Jiszda became the most important goal scorer of his team, where he complemented himself with Rudolf Seidl in the storm row . In 1922 and 1923 he came under the top five in the scorers list, but could not prevent the Floridsdorfer relegation last year. Jiszda went to the second class with the club, where the planned immediate promotion just failed. The striker then left the club and moved to Vienna , where his club colleague Seidl had already gone. With the Döblingern he played only half a season and in the spring of 1925 he was back at his parent club, with which he was able to return to the top division.

After two seasons, in which first relegation and then a good fifth place was achieved, Jiszda left the FAC for the second time at the end of 1927 and took on an engagement in the American Soccer League , where he worked with József Eisenhoffer and Leopold Drucker at Brooklyn Wanderers played, but in the summer of 1928 returned prematurely to Floridsdorf, where a broken tibia ended his active career in March 1930.

National team

For his first appearance in the national team Jiszda came in July 1921 against Finland . He scored his first goal the following year in a 1-1 draw against Hungary in Budapest . In 1924 and 1927 in particular, he was part of the team's regular line-up before his move abroad ended his career in the national team. He played a total of eleven internationals and scored seven goals. He also had nine appearances in the Viennese city selection.

Coaching career

After the end of his active career, he hit the coaching career and went to Poland, where he won the championship title in 1931 with Garbarnia Krakau . He then took over the coaching post at FAC, where he built a new team with which he managed to stay in the top division three times before he fell victim to internal power struggles in October 1934. He then coached FC Zurich and FC Oerlikon in Switzerland before he was still in charge of the Lithuanian national team.

In 1945 he was elected President of the FAC. As a functionary, he was also chairman of the league , the independent representation of interests of the highest Austrian soccer league of the same name . When the league passed into the care of the State League Association in 1949 and was split into an A-League and a B-League, he became a board member.

successes

• 1 × Austrian champion: 1918
• 1 × Austrian second division champion: 1925
• 1 × Polish champion: 1931 (as a trainer)
• 11 games and 7 goals for the Austrian national soccer team