Kurt Schmied

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Kurt Schmied
Personnel
birthday June 14, 1926
place of birth Vienna ,  Austria
position goalie
Juniors
Years station
1940-1947 SC Helfort Vienna
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1947-1952 Viennese sports club 100 (0)
1952-1965 First Vienna FC 1894 220 (0)
1965-1966 FK Austria Vienna 8 (0)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1954-1960 Austria 38 (0)
1 Only league games are given.

Kurt Schmied (born June 14, 1926 in Vienna ; † December 9, 2007 there ) was an Austrian football player . With the Vienna the goalkeeper was Austrian champion in 1955 and took part with the national team in two world championships and one European championship . His greatest success was third place at the 1954 World Cup , in which he played a major role.

Career

Change to Döbling and the heat battle of Lausanne

Kurt Schmied still enjoys the reputation of being one of the strongest goalkeepers in Austrian football history, whereby he was primarily characterized by his commitment, reflexes and parades. He began his career at SC Helfort Wien , which he joined when he was 14. In August 1947 he was released to the first division club Wiener Sport-Club , where he immediately established himself as a regular goalie. Internationally, Kurt Schmied worked his way up to the B national team in his Dornbach time, but could not prevent his club's relegation from the A league in 1952. Kurt Schmied aroused the interest of other clubs all the more, and so he was finally signed by Vienna . Due to an injury of Walter Zemans, in good time before the soccer world championship in 1954 , he also got the chance to present himself in the senior national team. In his two debut games against Wales (2-0) and Norway (5-0) in May 1954, Kurt Schmied held himself harmless, so that just a month later he was the first goalkeeper at the World Cup in Switzerland .

Austria was able to move into the quarter-finals without conceding a goal. In this game against Switzerland, the heated battle of Lausanne , Kurt Schmied suffered a sunstroke in the first half and wandered around the field in a trance-like state, during the break he collapsed unconscious in the dressing room. The Austrian masseur Josef Ulrich had to throw him sponges and stand behind the gate, from where he was conducting Kurt Schmied. The Swiss took a 3-0 lead so quickly - but Austria was still able to win 7-5. Schmied couldn't remember anything afterwards: “Later on, everyone else always raved to me about what a great match it was. And I always said: 'You can tell me anything anyway, I don't know anything anymore' ”. Substitutions were not planned at that time. The semi-finals - without Kurt Schmied, but with Walter Zeman injured in the knee - were lost 6-1 to Germany, but in the 3-1 victory over the reigning world champions Uruguay in the game for third place, the Viennese were back in goal.

Champion with Vienna and early exit at the 1958 World Cup

Kurt Schmied celebrated his greatest national success just under a year after the World Cup. With Vienna he was in first place in the table at the end of the 1954/55 championship, tied with his former club Wiener Sport-Club - the low number of goals conceded spoke for the Vienna. Undoubtedly the highlight of the championship was the 5-0 victory over last year's winner Rapid . Nevertheless, Kurt Schmied did not have a fixed body at Vienna in the period that followed, because another international goalkeeper, Bruno Engelmeier , was under contract with the Blue-Yellows, who made a name for himself with the national team as the "hero of Wrexham". Inspired by the competition, he and the team set off for the World Cup in Sweden in 1958 .

However, the Austrian team was not up to its extraordinarily difficult group with Brazil , England and the then strong Soviet Union . Kurt Schmied, who took turns at the National Gate with WSC player Rudolf Szanwald , could not prevent the Austrians from leaving early. At the following European Championship , the quarter-finals were another small success. After Austria's elimination against host France , Kurt Schmied's national team career was coming to an end. His last major appearances were in the Decker era , when Austria defeated the Soviet Union 3-1 and Spain 3-0 in front of a record crowd in the Prater Stadium . He said goodbye in December 1960 in a 2-1 victory over Italy in Naples . At Vienna he stayed in the action, even after a serious meniscus injury in 1962. After his supposed retirement in 1965, the almost 40-year-old goalie was committed to Vienna Austria for another year , where he was second goalie behind Arkoc Özcan .

successes

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personal data
SURNAME Smith, Kurt
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Smith, Kurt Rudolf Alois
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH June 14, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna , Austria
DATE OF DEATH December 9, 2007
Place of death Vienna , Austria