Wilhelm Cross
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.jpg) Kreuz as trainer of ASK Bad Vöslau (2010)
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| Personnel | ||
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| birthday | May 29, 1949 | |
| place of birth | Vienna , Austria | |
| size | 180 cm | |
| position | Playmaker , striker | |
| Men's | ||
| Years | station | Games (goals) 1 |
| 1966-1972 | Admira Energie Vienna | 147 (69) |
| 1972-1974 | Sparta Rotterdam | 65 (22) |
| 1974-1988 | Feyenoord Rotterdam | 132 (57) |
| 1978-1982 | VÖEST Linz | 115 (37) |
| 1982-1983 | SC Eisenstadt | 3 (0) |
| National team | ||
| Years | selection | Games (goals) |
| 1969-1981 | Austria | 56 (10) |
| Stations as a trainer | ||
| Years | station | |
| 1988 | FC Admira Wacker | |
| 1988-1990 | FC Linz | |
| 1990-1992 | SV Stockerau | |
| 1995 | VSE St. Pölten | |
| 1996-1999 | SV Gablitz | |
| 1999-2001 | SV Stockerau | |
| 2006 | SV Donau Vienna | |
| 2009-2014 | ASK Bad Vöslau | |
| 2015 | ASK Klingenbach | |
| 1 Only league games are given. | ||
Wilhelm "Willy" Kreuz (born May 29, 1949 in Vienna ) is a former Austrian football player . The striker was Austria's top scorer in 1971 and was part of the national team that defeated reigning world champions Germany in the Miracle of Córdoba at the 1978 World Cup .
Career
Willy Kreuz played his first games in the championship for the reigning champion Admira Energie in 1966 and soon became one of the club's most accurate strikers. For the national team he made his debut on April 19, 1969 against Cyprus in Nicosia. With one goal each in his first three international matches, Willy Kreuz soon had a regular place in the team. After crowning his performance in the Südstadt with the title of Austrian top scorer with 26 goals in 1971, the striker moved to the Netherlands for Sparta Rotterdam . After two seasons at Sparta, he finally made the leap to big city rivals Feyenoord , with whom he was Dutch runner-up behind PSV Eindhoven in the first two seasons .
With the national team, Willy Kreuz narrowly missed qualifying for the 1974 World Cup due to a 2-1 defeat in the play-off against Sweden in snow-covered Gelsenkirchen. At the 1978 World Cup, however, the striker celebrated great successes with the team, finishing in 7th place. In the summer of 1978 Willy Kreuz returned to Austria after the World Cup, where he went to VÖEST Linz . An injury (torn ligament in the left ankle) in the penultimate round of the 1978/79 season in the 1: 2 defeat on June 15 in the match at his ex-club Admira in the federal stadium in Südstadt messed up his plans, but he was his club at the start of the season on August 17 (1: 3 defeat at local rivals Linzer ASK ) and also available to the national team at 4: 0 in Vienna in the European Championship qualification against Norway on August 29 (even scored the goal with a header for 3 : 0).
In this 1979/80 season he was Austrian runner-up and he let his career end in 1982/83 in Eisenstadt . In his last game for the national team, in which he was substituted on for Herbert Prohaska from the 80th minute , there was a 5-1 win against Finland in a match of the World Cup qualification in Linz on June 17, 1981.
Willy Kreuz later worked as a trainer for several clubs. At the end of September 1988 he, at that time assistant coach at Admira, took over SK VÖEST Linz (later known as Stahl Linz or FC Linz), which was then playing in the 2nd division, where he replaced the unsuccessful Johann Kondert (known as Janos Kondert ) replaced. In 1991 he sensationally won the Austrian Cup with the “little” SV Stockerau . At the beginning of the 2015 season he took over the coaching position of the Burgenland regional league club ASK Klingenbach, but after ten games without a win he left the club.
successes
- 1 × Austrian top scorer : 1971
- 1 × Austrian runner-up : 1980
- 2 × Dutch runner-up: 1975, 1976
- Participation in the Football World Cup 1978 : 7th place
- 56 international matches and 10 goals for the Austrian national soccer team from 1969 to 1981
See also
Web links
supporting documents
- ↑ Willy Kreuz. Club games. At: weltfussball.at. Retrieved August 1, 2016.
- ^ "Willy Kreuz is in the hospital" . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna June 17, 1979, p. 11 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
- ↑ «Almost 60 minutes perfect» . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna August 31, 1979, p. 12 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
- ^ SC Eisenstadt. Squad 1982/1983. At: weltfussball.at. Retrieved August 1, 2016.
- ↑ bottom right: "Cross at VÖEST" . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna September 26, 1988, p. 23 ( Arbeiter-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
- ↑ Into the new season with Willy Kreuz! At: askoe-klingenbach.at. July 25, 2015, accessed August 1, 2016.
- ↑ Change of coach: Schiffer for cross! At: askoe-klingenbach.at. October 6, 2015, accessed August 1, 2016.
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Cross, Wilhelm |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Cross, Willy |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian soccer player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 29, 1949 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna , Occupied Post-War Austria |