Lukas Aurednik

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Lukas "Harry" Aurednik (born February 20, 1918 in Vienna ; † June 2, 1997 ) was an Austrian football player . Aurednik, also a striker in the national team, won several championships and one cup each with Austria and Rapid. In France he was runner-up with RC Lens. He later continued his coaching career, mainly in Greece.

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Lukas Aurednik began his football career as a goalkeeper at the small club “Sportclub Staatsfabrik” and was soon used on the field due to his playing skills. On the position of the right full-back he walked up to the successful center forward and received in 1935 his first professional contract with the Austrian champions Rapid Vienna . With the Hütteldorfern he was able to become the last soccer champion in Austria in 1938 before the annexation to the German Reich . From 1938 he played for two years in Koblenz and briefly made a guest appearance at Spandauer SV before he was transferred to the Military SV Brno in Brno (now Brno) in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia . With the Brno, however, he played in the Gauliga Sudetenland , which he won with his club in 1943 and thus could have played in the final round of the German championship. However, after a brief return to Rapid Vienna (3 games), Aurednik was transferred to the Markersdorf Air Force Sports Club in Markersdorf an der Pielach in the same year and achieved with the "Auffangverein für evicted football professionals", as the Wehrmachtsverein was also called and already a player how Karl Durspekt , Karl Sesta , Max Merkel , Walter Dzur and Paul Zielinski were allotted sixth place in the East Markets Gauliga in the 1943/44 season .

In 1944 Harry Aurednik was able to return to Rapid, where he stayed until 1946. With the Green-Whites he also became the first Austrian football champion and cup winner in post-war Austria in the 1945/46 season . As a left winger, he contributed 28 goals in 20 championship games and 7 goals in 3 cup games. In 1946 he went abroad to the Club Olympique Roubaix-Tourcoing in France , where he was only able to play in the reserve team due to the lack of approval from the ÖFB, but was also involved in youth training. He came back to Austria in 1948 and, after being pardoned, played for FK Austria Wien six months later . There he formed the best striker in the league as a left winger in combination with his elegant liaison striker Ernst Stojaspal and was quickly able to build on his old scoring qualities. With the violets he won the Austrian championship title three times in 1949, 1950 and 1953 and also the cup competition in 1949.

Aurednik, who was also nicknamed " the magician " by the fans , became known primarily for his scissor jumps, with which he downright confused his opponents, and with the famous "railroad man's humiliation" (pushing the ball back and forth with the sole of the foot). In terms of stature, he was lightweight, but technically gifted and extremely strong at sprinting. His speed also gave him his name "Harry", which got stuck on him after a game against an English team. Due to his initial strength, the British fans celebrated him with “ hurry, hurry ” shouts, which then became - loosely translated into Viennese - the “Harry”.

As a player for Austria, Aurednik made it to the Austrian national team in 1948 at the age of 30. The late-calling Viennese made his debut for Austria in the game against Czechoslovakia on October 31, 1948 in Pressburg . In total, he completed 14 international matches for the national team in three years and was also instrumental in the victories against Sweden , Turkey , Czechoslovakia, twice Yugoslavia , Italy , Hungary , Denmark and the away win over Scotland . After the game against the Scottish team in 1950, however, he dropped out of the squad and was no longer called up.

After he became player-coach at the lower-class SC Austria Lustenau in 1953 , the striker ventured again to France in 1954, where he initially played for two years in Lens and scored six goals in 29 appearances in French Division 1 in his first season . In the game year 1955/56 he reached the runner- up with his team together with Erich Habitzl , where he was used 15 times in the 34 rounds. From 1956 to 1958 he was still active in Division 2 at Le Havre AC and scored 12 goals in 60 championship games.

Trainer

After he finally stopped playing in 1958, he went to Greece, where between July 1959 and December 1960 he was the head coach and until the end of the 1960/61 season as a tactical advisor in the coaching team, the first division club AEK in Athens, which was probably the most prominent of his coaching stations was. With AEK Athens he reached the runner-up in 1960, after the team finished the season tied with Panathinaikos at the top of the table and just lost the title in a play-off game with 1-2 after an early lead.

With the exception of the time with Anorthosis Famagusta in Cyprus, he stayed in Greece until 1967. It is worth mentioning from this time that he won the Cypriot National Cup in 1964 and the Super Cup of the same year with anorthosis. Furthermore, Aurednik is one of only four coaches in the first Greek league who were allowed to use their own son and he was the goal scorer when his then 18-year-old son Jürgen Aurednik striker three league games and one goal at Ethnikos Piraeus in the 1962/63 season recorded.

He then returned to Austria and looked after the 1. Wiener Neustädter SC , who had recently been relegated to the second division, for two years .

For the 1970/71 season he was committed by Sporting Charleroi as the successor to the Czech Jiří "George" Sobotka , under whom the Belgians were runner-up in 1969, which is the best placement in the club's history. At Aurednik's initiative, midfielder Gerhard “Bobby” Böhmer was hired by the Vienna Admira, who was supposed to acquire legendary status at Charleroi. At the end of the season, the club was relegated penultimate. But Aurednik was replaced by Tony Antonneau on January 17, 1971 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ AEK Athens for the 1960-61 season with a brief review of the previous season , on www.kitrinomavro.gr (Greek)
  2. ↑ Ιστορικό χρονολόγιο κυπριακού ποδοσφαίρου 1934-2019 ("Historical Chronology of Cypriot Football 1934-2019"), Χαραυγή ("Haravgi"), Nicosia (CY), August 15, 2019, p
  3. ↑ Article about "the rare statistics" (sic!) Of the goal scorers, whose fathers were team coaches , on www.kerkida.net (Greek)
  4. ^ "Single Year Expats in Greek Football, Incredible Football Stories" (Engl.), Alexandros Vasilas, 2014, book ISBN 978-960-93-9721-6 ; Greek edition freely available on docplayer (Jürgen Aurednik on p. 6)
  5. ^ "A story in" blue and white "", 100 years of 1. Wiener Neustädter SC, Die Chronik 1908 to 2008 , Herbert Geissler & Rainer Spenger, self-published by 1. Wiener Neustädter SC, p. 34
  6. ^ "A story in" blue and white "", 100 years of 1. Wiener Neustädter SC, Die Chronik 1908 to 2008 , Herbert Geissler & Rainer Spenger, self-published by 1. Wiener Neustädter SC, p. 80
personal data
SURNAME Aurednik, Lukas
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Aurednik, Harry (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH February 20, 1918
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH June 2, 1997