Walter Skocik

Walter Skocik
Personnel
birthday	September 6, 1940
place of birth	Schwechat or Wienerherberg ,  German Empire
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1959-1969	Rapid Vienna	222 (40)
1969-1971	SV Wattens	60 0(5)
1971-1973	SSW Innsbruck	55 0(3)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1960-1967	Austria	14 (0)
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
1973-1974	FC Friborg (player-coach)
1974-1979	SW Bregenz (player coach)
1979-1982	Rapid Vienna
1982-1983	UD Las Palmas
1983-1984	AE Larissa
1984-1986	PAOK
1986	Ethnikos Piraeus
1986-1987	Viennese sports club
1987-1989	Al-Ittihad
1990	Olympiacos Volos
1990-1991	Apollon Athens
1992	FC Wacker Innsbruck
1993	LASK Linz
1993-1995	Omonia Nicosia
1996-1997	FK Austria Vienna
1997	Diagoras Rhodes
1998	VSE St. Pölten
1999-2001	First Vienna FC
2002-2003	SC Mannswörth
2005-2006	Diagoras Rhodes
1 Only league games are given.

Walter "Schani" Skocik (born September 6, 1940 in Schwechat or Wienerherberg ) is a former Austrian football player and coach . His learned profession is a machine fitter .

Player career

Skocik began his career as a midfielder with Rapid Vienna , where he also celebrated his greatest successes. For this club he played 222 competitive games in 11 years and scored 40 goals. With Rapid he was four times Austrian champion (1960, 1964, 1967 and 1968) and three times Austrian cup winner (1961, 1968, 1969). Skocik played for Rapid 28 times in the European Cup and scored two goals. He reached the semi-finals of the championship cup with Rapid 1961 . In 1969 he moved to SV Wattens and then to SSW Innsbruck . In 1973 Skocik went to Switzerland for FC Friborg and in 1974 joined FC Vorarlberg .

Coaching career

1974 Skocik took over the SW Bregenz as a player- coach before he switched to Rapid in 1979, where he was replaced by Rudi Nuske in the 1981/82 season after the 26th round (0: 3 on March 27 in Innsbruck). In the 1982/83 season he was in charge of UD Las Palmas . In the 1984/85 season he was Greek champion with PAOK .

Web links

Commons : Walter Skocik  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Walter Skocik in the database of weltfussball.de
• Walter Skocik in the database of National-Football-Teams.com (English)
• Profile - Rapid Archive
• Profile - Austria Archive

Individual evidence

1. ↑ «Crisis wasn't ours» and «Did Weber trainer Skocik come home?» In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna April 2, 1982, p. 11 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).