Wilhelm Holec

Wilhelm Holec (born July 7, 1914 ; missing since August 23, 1944 in Broasca , Romania ) was an Austrian football player who won two championship titles with SK Rapid Vienna and played a game in the national team in 1935 .

Club career

The striker came to SK Donaufeld at the age of 16 , where he soon played in the first team, was then briefly with Viktoria XXI , before moving to the reserve team of First Vienna FC , which was supervised by Josef Blum . The following year he made his debut in the top division, but was initially rarely used. Only after Gustav Tögel left , Holec was able to assert himself as a regular from the spring of 1935. At the beginning of this year, the newspapers reported about the player when he was washed into the sea while fishing with his teammate Ladislaus Necina on a game-free day as part of a Vienna tour of North Africa . While Necina drowned, Holec was saved. In the 1935/36 season , Holec, who was mostly used as a left link or left winger, was the club's most successful shooter with 13 goals and contributed significantly to the runner-up title of Vienna. He was also in the final of the ÖFB Cup this year, but the Döblinger team lost 0: 3 to FK Austria Wien .

During the winter break of the following season, Holec received an offer from SK Rapid and moved to Hütteldorf. There he stood in a row of attacks with Franz Binder , Johann Pesser and Lukas Aurednik and was able to celebrate his first championship title in the 1937/38 season. The following year he reached the final of the Tschammerpokal with the green-whites , where FSV Frankfurt was defeated 3-1. 1940/41 achieved another championship title with Rapid, but Holec was now only a supplementary player. At the end of the season, the team reached the final of the German championship , with Holec playing in three group games and in the semifinals against Dresdner SC , but in the final, which Rapid won 4-3 against FC Schalke 04 , played instead of him Georg Schors .

National team

In October 1935 Wilhelm Holec made his debut in the national team, which historically was actually a game of the B-team against Poland , which was later declared an official international game by the ÖFB . However, this was Holec's only assignment, after the connection he still played in the Viennese city selection.

successes

• 2 × Austrian champions: 1938, 1941
• 1 × German champion: 1941
• 1 × German cup winner: 1938
• 1 game for the Austrian national soccer team: 1935