Leopold Nitsch

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Leopold Nitsch
Personnel
birthday August 14, 1897
date of death January 18, 1977
position Outrunner
Juniors
Years station
1911-1915 Rapid Vienna
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1915-1927 Rapid Vienna
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1915-19 ?? Austria
Stations as a trainer
Years station
1924 Bulgaria
1928-1936 Rapid Vienna (youth)
1936–19 ?? Rapid Vienna
1 Only league games are given.

Leopold Nitsch (born August 14, 1897 - January 18, 1977 ) was an Austrian national soccer player and later soccer coach. In his active career, Leopold Nitsch was Austrian champion six times as the left half with the Wiener Rapid , was in the final of the Mitropa Cup and was a regular in the Austrian national team for almost a decade . As a coach, he won the Austrian and once the German championship three times and the German Cup with Rapid and accompanied the Bulgarian national team to the 1924 Olympic Games .

Career

Leopold Nitsch was described as "excellent in positional play and acceptance, inconspicuous but effective". In 1911 he joined the junior team of the Vienna Rapid and four years later moved up to the fighting team of the Schönecker era . Leopold Nitsch won his first Austrian championship title in the following season 1915/16 and made his debut on October 3, 1915 in a 4-2 win in the classic against Hungary in the Austrian national team. The side half soon dominated the championship with his team, won five more titles in 1917, 1919, 1920, 1921 and 1923 and also won the first two official cup competitions of the ÖFB in 1919 and 1920 against the sports club and the amateurs in the final.

After the somewhat outdated Rapid team was in upheaval in 1924, Nitsch also switched to coaching. With the Bulgarian national team he took part in the 1924 Olympic Games in Paris, where he was eliminated 1-0 against Ireland . He himself soon returned to the active squad and played as a defender at Rapid towards the end of his career. With the 3-0 victory in the ÖFB Cup final against Austria on the Hohe Warte , he finally qualified for the first Mitropa Cup in 1927 . Rapid reached the final, losing to Sparta Prague 2: 6 and 2: 1. Leopold Nitsch was used in both games and finally ended his active career after this season.

In the following years he worked as a junior coach at Rapid from 1928 to 1936 and then replaced Edi Bauer as the coach of the combat team. Leopold Nitsch accompanied the team through the time of the Second World War, when Austrian football was integrated into German football. With Rapid he won the DFB-Pokal with a 3: 1 in the final against FSV Frankfurt in 1938 and in 1941 the German championship with a 4: 3 against FC Schalke 04 in front of 100,000 spectators in the Berlin Olympic Stadium . Finally, he and his team were able to become Austrian champions three more times, then called "Ostmarkmeister".

On January 31, 1977 Leopold Nitsch was buried at the Baumgartner Friedhof (group 13, number 25).

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SURNAME Nitsch, Leopold
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian soccer player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH August 14, 1897
DATE OF DEATH January 18, 1977