Rudy Getzinger

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Rudy Getzinger (born April 9, 1943 in Sremska Mitrovica ) is a former American football player of Danube Swabian origin .

Career

Getzinger began playing football in Austria at the age of six, and in 1958 he emigrated to Chicago with his family as a teenager . There he joined the Swabian AC , with which he competed in the regional championship series National Soccer League and won the title in 1963 and 1967 respectively. In 1964, he and the team also won the nationwide National Amateur Cup , the highest title in US football at the time. After the regional championships gradually lost importance with the creation of the North American Soccer League in 1968, he moved to Chicago Sting in the NASL in 1975 . There he ran two seasons and scored one goal in 19 games.

Getzinger joined the US selection in the qualifying tournaments for the Summer Olympics in 1968 and 1972 . In the second attempt he managed to qualify, but in the summer of 1972 he was not part of the squad for the games in Munich, where the team was eliminated early in the group without scoring. A week before the start of the tournament, he made his debut for the senior national team on August 20 , when he scored his only international goal in the 3-2 defeat against Canada . Until his last national team appearance in the 1-0 defeat against Haiti in November of the following year, he played a total of eight A-selection games.

In 1991 Getzinger was inducted into the National Soccer Hall of Fame in the "Player" category.

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personal data
SURNAME Getzinger, Rudy
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH April 9, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Sremska Mitrovica