Wilhelm Kment

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Kment (with ball) in 1965
Wilhelm Kment as a pin (1965–1966)

Wilhelm "Willy" Kment (born October 15, 1914 , † December 22, 2002 ) was an Austrian football player and later football coach.

Career

Willy Kment began his career with the Landstraßer Amateurs , where he joined the combat team at the age of 18, after which he moved to DSV Brno for a year before returning to his home club. From 1937 to 1947 he played for the Vienna Sports Club in the highest Austrian league . The middle runner's greatest success during this time was reaching the ÖFB Cup final in 1938 and the runner-up in the 1937/38 season . Willy Kment started as a trainer in the Netherlands, where he joined VVV Venlo in 1956 . Willy Kment led the small club from Venlo to the greatest success in the club's history by beating ADO Den Haag 4-1 in the 1959 KNVB Cup final .

In 1960 he was hired as the Norwegian national coach and thus followed in the footsteps of the Austrian Willibald Hahn . The qualification for the 1962 World Cup was missed against the Soviet Union and Turkey , victories against the Scandinavian competitors from Sweden and Finland as well as against the Netherlands made up for this. In 1962, Willy Kment finally returned to the Netherlands, where he initially looked after DOS Utrecht for two years before he was hired by Feyenoord Rotterdam . Willy Kment seamlessly joined the ranks of the Austrian master trainers from Feyenoord with Richard Kohn , Franz Fuchs and Ernst Happel , he even managed the feat in 1965 to get the first double in the club's history.

After two runners-up in 1966 and 1967, he returned to the Norwegian national team. Despite a surprise victory against France , it should not work this time with the qualification for the 1970 World Cup . So Willy Kment came back to Austria in 1970, where he looked after LASK in the National League for two years .

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SURNAME Kment, Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kment, Willy
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian soccer player and soccer coach
DATE OF BIRTH October 15, 1914
DATE OF DEATH December 22, 2002