Alexander Neufeld

Alexander Neufeld
Personnel
birthday	September 25, 1899
place of birth	Budapest ,  Austria-Hungary
date of death	October 27, 1977
position	striker
Juniors
Years	station
0000-1916	ILK
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1916-1919	Ferencvárosi Torna Club
1919-1920	SC Hakoah Vienna
1920	Ferencvárosi Torna Club
1920	FC Basel
1920	First Hungarian professional team
1920-1921	Makkabi Brno
1921-1926	SC Hakoah Vienna
1926-1927	Brooklyn Wanderers
1927-1928	SC Hakoah Vienna
1928-1931	New York Hakoah
	New York Soccer Club
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1918-1919	Hungary	3 (0)
1925	Austria	2 (0)
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
1932-1935	Beogradski SK
1935-1936	Hapoel Hazair
0000-1938	Beogradski SK
1938–	SK Bata Borovo
	Hapoel Tel Aviv
1 Only league games are given.

Alexander Neufeld , Hungarian Sándor Nemes , (born September 25, 1899 in Budapest , Austria-Hungary , † October 27, 1977 ) was an Austro - Hungarian soccer player and later soccer coach who worked for the national teams of both soccer associations.

Career

Career start in Hungary

Alexander Neufeld's first club in Budapest was the ILK , an independent youth team that played within the association of youth clubs. The club belonged to a number of later national players when it broke up in 1916, Neufeld moved to the Ferencvárosi Torna Club , where he first played in the youth team, but moved up to the combat team in the same year. There he was initially used as a center forward, but soon moved to the right wing. Neufeld quickly established himself with the green-whites, where he played in a storm series with Mihály Pataki and Isidor Gansl . In both 1918 and 1919 they finished second in the championship, behind the then dominant MTK Budapest .

In May 1918 he made his debut in the Hungarian national team in a 2-1 win over Switzerland . A few weeks later he was back next to Alfréd Schaffer and Imre Schlosser in the national selection, this time in a 2-0 win against Austria .

It would take more than a year until his next call-up, in October 1919 he lost with the Hungarians in Vienna with 0-2. As a number of Hungarian players had already emigrated to Viennese clubs at that time - not least because of the political situation in Hungary after the First World War - the Hungarian association had each player assured in writing in advance that he would return to Budapest after the game . Neufeld also made the trip home, but only stayed a few days before traveling back to Vienna and signing with the second-class SC Hakoah Vienna . Since at that time he was not yet allowed to play professionally, he accepted a position at a Viennese bank.

1919–1921 Six stations in two years

He made his first game for the Hakoah, which was fighting for promotion to the top division during this time, in November 1919 and shortly afterwards he was already the best man in the game against the toughest promotion competitor Germania Schwechat . At that time, the Hungarian federation had a violent dispute with the Austrian, as most of the players from Budapest who were active in Vienna were active without approval from their respective home clubs. At the end of 1919, at the urging of the Hungarians, these players had their license to play in Vienna withdrawn, including Neufeld, Ferenc Plattkó and the brothers Jenő and Kálmán Konrád . It was to take until March 1920 before Neufeld finally received clearance and eligibility to play.

From then on he was available to the Hakoah in the promotion battle and in June also reached the semi-finals in the cup against the amateurs . In this game Neufeld was excluded and then suspended, making him unavailable for the Hakoah in the decisive games in the - ultimately successful - season finale.

Thereupon Neufeld joined his former club Ferencváros, who had just set off on a tour to Switzerland, and took part in these games. After this tour he stayed in Switzerland and worked briefly at FC Basel , where he played again with Alfréd Schaffer. After only a few weeks he received a letter from a football manager who, on behalf of the German entrepreneur Otto Eidinger, put together a Hungarian professional team that was to compete against a German professional team and go on a one-year tour of Germany and Europe. Neufeld joined this company, along with some other national players such as Plattkó, Pataki, József Ging , Gyula Feldmann and József Viola . The tour had to be canceled after a few weeks for lack of success, the players sued for their outstanding salaries and returned to Hungary or Austria, where they had to answer to the respective associations. Neufeld received a ban until April 1921.

Instead of serving this suspension, the player went abroad again without clearance, this time he was hired in Czechoslovakia at Makkabi Brno , where they began to sign Hungarian top players at that time. Since a number of other players from Viennese clubs were also playing illegally in the Czech Republic at that time, the two associations concluded a cartel agreement that regulated the transfer modalities and, among other things, included an amnesty for all players if they returned by August 1921. Since his ban had already expired, Neufeld took advantage of this regulation in June 1921 and returned to the meanwhile first-class Hakoah after about a year.

Between Vienna and New York

In its first full season 1921/22 with the Krieauern, the team was able to take an excellent second place and only had to admit defeat to the Wiener Sport-Club by two points, with Neufeld being one of the pillars of the blue-whites. The next season ended with only a midfield position, but brought Neufeld third place in the scorers list with 16 goals. In September 1923, the Hakoah was the first continental European club to win an away win against an English club, and Neufeld scored three goals in a 5-0 win against West Ham United . In 1924, professional football was introduced in Austria and Neufeld was part of a series of strikers with József Eisenhoffer , Ernö Schwarz , Moses Häusler and Max Grünwald, and played a key role in the Hakoah's first championship title in the top division.

After Neufeld had already been used four times in the Viennese city selection, he was called up twice in 1925 by Hugo Meisl to the Austrian national team and played against Sweden and Switzerland.

In the spring of 1926 the Hakoah undertook an American tour, which was a great success with the public and resulted in a number of Hakoah players - including Neufeld - receiving contract offers from US clubs. Neufeld returned with the team to Vienna and played the championship to the end, but then informed the club of his intended change and traveled to New York to play in the future for the Brooklyn Wanderers in the American Soccer League .

His former club colleagues Eisenhoffer, Leopold Drucker and Heinrich Schönfeld also switched to the Wanderers . After a season in New York, he returned to Vienna for the Hakoah, but could not prevent the team from relegating to the second division. He stayed with the Krieauern and achieved immediate promotion with them, with the team winning all games of the season and having a goal difference of 104: 13.

Then he moved to New York again in 1928, where he worked for the New York Hakoah , which had been founded in the meantime, and then briefly ran for the New York Soccer Club . After his return to Vienna in 1931, he briefly looked after the lower class Hasmonea .

Career as a coach

There is a version of his further career that reports on a move to Alexandria in 1932 and a subsequent long-term activity at Maccabi Tel Aviv , where Neufeld is also said to have completed two international matches for Palestine . However, this Perry Neufeld is most likely not the same player, but a different Hungarian footballer named Ferenc Neufeld .

Based on contemporary newspaper articles, however, Alexander Neufeld took over the coaching position at Beogradski SK in 1932 and led the team to Yugoslav championship titles in 1933 and 1935. In mid-1935 he returned to Vienna and then signed a contract as the coach of Hapoel Hazair . Viennese daily newspapers reported on Neufeld's departure for Palestine at the end of 1935, from where he returned to Vienna in September 1936. In any case, by 1937 at the latest, he was back in Belgrade at BSK before moving to the Croatian club SK Bata Borovo in 1938 . After the Second World War he worked for its successor club NK Borovo . He then briefly oversaw Galatasaray Istanbul and in the 1950s Hapoel Tel Aviv .

successes

• 1 × Austrian champion : 1925
• 2 × Yugoslav champions : 1933, 1935 (as trainer)
• 1 × Austrian second division champion: 1928
• 3 games for the Hungarian national football team
• 2 games for the Austrian national soccer team

Remarks

1. ↑ This letter was printed by the Wiener Illustrierte Sportblatt on August 28, 1920 .
2. ↑ See in detail in Werner Skrentny in "Star of David and Leather Ball", p. 457
3. ^ Sport-Telegraph of September 8, 1935
4. ^ Sport-Telegraph of January 5, 1936
5. ^ Sport-Tagblatt from September 19, 1936
6. ^ ^{A b} Dénes Tamás / Peterdi Pál / Rochy Zoltán / Selmeci József: Kalandozó magyar labdarúgók . Budapest 1999, p. 229
7. ↑ www.rsssf.com