Leopold Facco

Leopold Facco
Personnel
birthday	November 10, 1907
date of death	October 1993
position	striker
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1927-1930	Brigittenauer AC
1930-1934	SK Admira Vienna
1934-1935	FC Rouen
1935-1937	Viennese sports club
1937	Graz AK
1937-1938	Baden AC
1938	Saurerwerke
	SV Ice Vienna
0000-1947	SCR Hochstädt Vienna
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1930-1931	Austria	2 (0)
1 Only league games are given.

Leopold Facco (born November 10, 1907 ; † October 1993 ) was an Austrian soccer player who won two championship titles with the SK Admira Vienna in the 1930s and was part of the national team .

Club career

Facco made his debut in the top division as a player of the Brigittenauer AC in the spring of 1927. The striker was initially used as a right link in a series of strikes with Anton Brosenbauer and Josef Hofbauer , but soon demonstrated his versatility when he was in the course of the next two Played in every storm position for years. Although the Brigittenauer could not repeat their sensational second place from the previous season in 1928, but in the end it was at least enough to stay in the league. The following season, which ended with relegation to the II. League, went less well. In early 1930 Facco left the club and accepted an offer from Admira.

With the Jedleseern he was not only used as a striker, but also found space in the outside runner positions. In his first two years at the club, he just failed to achieve the championship title and had to be satisfied with second place. Admira finished the ÖFB-Cup , which was held in 1931 according to the point system, in third place, but Facco was the most successful goalscorer of the competition with 14 goals. In 1932 the black and whites were finally able to win the championship title, with Facco usually alternating with Johann Klima as the right runner or connector . Two years later, the title win was repeated, but Facco was increasingly pushed back by Johann Urbanek and Leopold Vogl in the regular team.

After a few rounds of the championship 1934/35, he therefore left the Admira and moved to France, where he played for the second division club FC Rouen and took third place in the championship. After about a year he returned to Vienna and joined the Vienna Sports Club . There he played in a storm series with Rudolf Geiter , but also jumped in as a middle runner for Josef Chloupek . In 1937 he moved briefly to Grazer AK before he joined the Baden AC and in 1938 strengthened the company association of Saurerwerke .

During the war years Facco was active for the second division club SV Eis Wien , before he joined the SCR Hochstädt Wien after the war . With the Brigittenauer succeeded in 1946 promotion to the top division and Facco played his last first division season, which ended, however, with the immediate relegation. Then he ran on for several lower-class Viennese clubs.

National team

Facco made his debut in the national team in November 1930 in a friendly against Sweden , where he was used as a right wing runner and scored an own goal in the 4-1 win. In February of the following year he was set up as a legal link in a series of storms with his club colleagues Ignaz Sigl and Anton Schall in a game against Italy . The game, which was part of the European Cup for the national teams from 1931 to 1932, ended in a 2-1 defeat and Facco's performance was described as disappointing. After that, there were no further calls to the national team, only three games for the Vienna city team followed.

successes

• Winner of the European National Team Cup 1931–1932
• 2 × Austrian champions: 1932, 1934
• 1 × ÖFB Cup winner: 1932
• 1 × Austrian second division champion: 1946
• 2 games for the Austrian national soccer team: 1930–1931