Karl Kurz (soccer player)

Karl Kurz
Personnel
birthday	November 21, 1898
date of death	November 26, 1933
Place of death	Basel ,  Switzerland
position	Outrunner
Juniors
Years	station
	First Vienna FC 1894
	Floridsdorfer AC
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1915-1921	Viennese amateurs
1921-1922	First Vienna FC 1894
1922-1923	Viennese amateurs
1923-1924	First Vienna FC 1894
1925-1927	1. Simmeringer SC
1927-1928	FK Austria Vienna
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1919-1928	Austria	32 (?)
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
1927	Latvia
1929–	FK Austria Wien (assistant coach)
	FK Austria Vienna
1931	FC Grenchen
1932-1933	FC Basel
1 Only league games are given.

Karl Kurz (born November 21, 1898 , † November 26, 1933 in Basel , Switzerland ) was an Austrian football player and coach .

Club career

Karl Kurz mostly played in the position of the outside runner, but towards the end of his career increasingly as a middle runner. Slender in stature, his advantages were in the ball control, the game overview and the positional play.

He began playing football as a high school student on the parade ground in Klosterneuburg before playing for a club in the Vienna student team for the first time. After temporarily breaking up with football, he joined the FAC , where he played in the youth team with Viktor Hierländer and Karl Jiszda . In 1915 he finally switched to the amateurs , where he was accepted into the fighting team after just three games. He was soon one of the pillars of Ober Sankt Veiter before he had to join the military in May 1916. In 1917 he returned from the First World War wounded and after his recovery he played again with the amateurs. The greatest success during this time was the runner-up title in 1920, when the chance for the championship title was only given away on the last day of the game.

In 1921 he returned to Vienna, but where he did not get beyond places in the lower middle of the table and came back to the amateurs in 1922. After another runner-up title, he returned to Vienna again, where he worked until the end of 1924 and was runner-up for the third time. He then moved to 1. Simmeringer SC , which he left in March 1927 to work as a coach in Latvia, where he looked after LSB Riga and the national team.

In October of this year he returned to Vienna and, after an agreement on outstanding claims, received clearance to play for Austria, as the amateurs were now called. In the winter break of the 1928/29 season, however, he had to end his active career because of an illness that would later turn out to be leukemia .

National team

Kurz made his first appearance in the national team in November 1919 against Hungary . In the years 1921 to 1926 he was part of the Austrian team as a right wing runner. His last mission was against Italy in November 1928 . In total, he came to 32 international matches and 15 other appearances in the Viennese city selection.

Coaching career

Shortly after the end of his playing activity he stayed with the Violettes and was initially under Robert Lang and later mainly responsible for the team's coach. In 1931 he moved to Switzerland, where he initially looked after FC Grenchen and then took over training at FC Basel in 1932 . With the Basler he won the Swiss Cup in 1933, with Ferdinand Wesely , Josef Chloupek and Otto Haftl having three compatriots in the team. In November of this year, Kurz died of his illness.

successes

• 3 × Austrian runner-up: 1920, 1923, 1924
• 1 × Swiss Cup winner: 1933 (as a trainer)
• 1 × Austrian Cup finalist: 1920
• 32 games for the Austrian national soccer team

Web links

Entry in the Austria archive