Otto Kaller

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Otto Kaller
Personnel
birthday June 28, 1907
date of death April 1985
position Outrunner
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1925-1948 First Vienna FC
1948– Landstraßer AC
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1926-1945 Austria 8 (0)
1 Only league games are given.

Otto Kaller (born June 28, 1907 ; † April 1985 ) was an Austrian football player who won five Austrian championship titles with Vienna .

Career

societies

Kaller played with the lower class Erdbergers until 1925, before he was signed by Vienna. He was able to win a regular place as a right runner straight away, where he played alongside Leopold Hofmann , who had also recently joined the club and was to play alongside Kaller in the runner row for more than ten years. The runner-up title was won in the first season with the Blue-Yellows and in the following years, the team mostly finished in the upper table. In 1929 he won his first title with a victory over Rapid in the ÖFB Cup final , which was repeated in 1930 against Austria .

In the 1930/31 season , the Döblinger finally won the championship, which also entitles them to participate in the Mitropacup . With wins over Bocskai FC Debrecen and AS Roma , the final could be reached, where they met the Vienna AC . Kaller, who was still one of the strongest players in his team in the semi-finals, was out for several weeks and could not see Vienna's victory on the pitch. In the 1932/33 season the championship could be won again, in 1937 another cup victory followed.

When Karl Rainer, the long-time defender of Vienna, ended his career in 1938, Kaller took over his post, initially alongside Willibald Schmaus and later that of Karl Bortoli . During the war years, Vienna was a dominant force in Austrian football and won three championship titles in a row from 1942 to 1944. In 1942 they also became German runners-up after a 2-0 defeat in the final against FC Schalke 04 , and in 1943 they won the German Cup with a 3-2 draw against LSV Hamburg .

Even in the first post-war championship, Kaller was still on the pitch for his team and reached a cup final again in 1946, before playing his last first division game in 1948. Then he let his career at Landstrasser AC end.

National team

His first game for the national team made Kaller in May 1926 against the Hungarians in a 3-0 in Budapest. In the next few years, convictions followed irregularly, but his regular post as right runner was mostly given to Johann Richter and Karl Schneider . It was not until 1930 that he was able to play several games in one year, but soon fell behind again against the aspiring Johann Mock and Georg Braun . So he came to his only appearance during the time of the wonder team in the game in which this era came to an end, namely in the 1: 2 against Czechoslovakia in April 1933. This was to be his last appearance for Austria for over twelve years, in August 1945, however, he was allowed to wear the national dress again against Hungary.

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personal data
SURNAME Kaller, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH June 28, 1907
DATE OF DEATH April 1985