Siegfried Wortmann

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Siegfried Wortmann
Personnel
birthday February 18, 1907
place of birth Vienna, Austria
date of death December 21, 1951
Place of death New York, USA
Juniors
Years station
SC Hakoah Vienna
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1924-1927 SC Hakoah Vienna
1927-1928 New York Nationals
1929-1931 New York Hakoah
1932-1933 First Vienna FC 1894
1933-1936 Brookhattan
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1926 Austria 1 (1)
1 Only league games are given.

Siegfried Wortmann (born February 18, 1907 , Vienna ; died December 21, 1951 , New York ) was an Austrian national soccer player .

Career

Siegfried Wortmann began his career in the youth team of SC Hakoah Vienna , where he was used for the first time in the combat team at the age of sixteen in 1923/24 , although as a connector he was mostly a replacement for the time being, even when the Austrian championship was won in 1924/25 . However , Siegfried Wortmann soon became a regular player in the I. League in 1925/26 . He even drew Hugo Meisl's attention to himself through strong performances . His debut in the Austrian national team was successful, in the 2-1 win against Czechoslovakia in Prague, Siegfried Wortmann scored the winning goal after Matthias Sindelar scored the first goal.

After a tour of the United States with his club in the summer of 1927, Siegfried Wortmann signed with the New York Nationals , where he stayed for a season and a half before moving to New York Hakoah in early 1929 , where he met numerous former teammates from Vienna . The greatest successes for the connector in American football were the two wins of the US Open Cup in 1928 with the Nationals and in 1929 with the Hakoah. In the finals in 1928 against the Chicago Bricklayers and in 1929 against the St. Louis Madison Kennels , he himself also appeared as a goalscorer. Siegfried Wortmann stayed in New York until the end of 1931, before returning to the Austrian league. In Vienna, the connector joined the Vienna . He was even able to become Austrian champion in 1932/33 and also put himself in the limelight in the Mitropacup with a goal to a 1-0 win against Inter Milan .

Wortmann later emigrated to the United States and ran a fashion store in New York .

successes

swell

  • Colin Jose: The American Soccer League 1921-1931,, Scarecrow Press, Lanham, MD, USA; 2013; ISBN 0-8108-3429-4
personal data
SURNAME Wortmann, Siegfried
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH February 18, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH December 21, 1951
Place of death New York City