Roman Schramseis

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Roman Schramseis (born March 29, 1906 , † December 10, 1988 ) was an Austrian football player . The defender was a member of the legendary wonder team and winner of the Mitropa Cup in 1930 with Rapid Vienna .

Career

Roman Schramseis began his career as a football player in favorites at ASV Hertha Vienna in 1922. With the blue-whites, he experienced a narrow relegation in 1924 and an immediate promotion to the first division in 1925. In the same year, the defender moved to the then master Rapid Vienna in Hütteldorf . With the green-whites he now regularly played for the Austrian championship title. In 1927 third place was up for grabs, but FK Austria Wien was defeated 3-0 in the final of the cup . Schramseis and his team were thus promptly entitled to participate in the Mitropacup , the forerunner of today's European Cup . The Hütteldorfer reached the final with their star defender at the first staging of the competition; were only subject to Sparta Prague . Also in the championship it was “only” enough to take second place.

In 1928 Rapid came back to the final of the Mitropa Cup and lost again. This time, the Ferencvárosi Torna Club proved to be too difficult a task for Schramseis and his teammates . In the championship, however, the defender was able to triumph for the first time. This title win could be repeated in 1929; In the Mitropacup, however, the end came this time in the semifinals against the eventual winner Újpest Budapest . In 1930 the time had come. Roman Schramseis was in the Mitropacup final with Rapid for the third time, but this time the team was able to triumph. The defender played with Rapid against Sparta Prague - an opponent who still had painful memories from the Mitropacup final in 1927. The 2-0 away win was the cornerstone of the triumph, the match in Vienna ended 2: 3.

Roman Schramseis had meanwhile become a fixture in the Austrian national team. The Rapidler made his debut for Austria in 1928 in the classic against Hungary . During the era of the “indomitable” wonder team, he became an indispensable part of the defense, playing among other things in the 5-0 win against Scotland , 6-0 against Germany and the 8-2 win over Hungary. When he moved to France in 1933 for FC Rouen in Normandy , Schramsei's involvement in the national team ended after a total of 18 missions (13 wins, 2 defeats). Roman Schramseis returned to Vienna as early as 1934 and played a championship game at SC Wacker Vienna in Meidling before he was reamateurised and joined the Mariahilf trade union and the SK Semperit company association .

family

His son, Roman Schramseis jun. (* May 16, 1928 in Vienna) was also a professional footballer, but faded in the shadow of his famous father. Schramseis jun. began his career at the Wiener Sport-Club and played in Villach after the war (1946/47) . In 1947 he moved to the second Italian division to Udinese Udine where he scored five goals in 16 appearances in the first year. In the second season 1948/49 he played 30 times for Udine and scored four goals. He spent the game years 1949/50 and 1950/51 at Treviso in the third division. In the summer of 1951 Schramseis jun. returned to Austria and played for FK Austria Wien . With the Violets, however, he only made three appearances in the autumn in the games against Wacker (3: 3), FC Vienna (0: 0) and Admira (3: 4). In 1957 he moved to FC Wacker Innsbruck in the Tyrolean regional league and celebrated promotion to the Arlbergliga (1958) and qualification for the second-rate Regionalliga West (1960) with the club. In 1962 Roman Schramseis jun. with the Innsbruckers due to the worse goal difference compared to the SAK 1914 promotion to the state league A. After that, he should have ended his career.

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