Adolf Patek
Adolf Patek ( born April 4, 1900 in Vienna, † 9 September 1982) was an Austrian football player and later a football coach. Home club of foreign striker was the Wiener Sport - Club, his greatest successes as a player, he celebrated at the Prague Sparta with whom he won the Mitropa Cup in 1927. As a coach, he made mainly in Germany, Austria and Switzerland, a name that led the KSC to victory in the DFB Cup and the final of the German Cup and qualified with the small 1 SC Wiener Neustadt for the European Cup.
Career
Adi Patek played regularly from 1916 in the highest Austrian league for the Wiener Sport - Club. Greatest success with the mandrel Bachern was reaching the first Austrian Cupfinales 1919, in which Adi Patek had but bow to his team Rapid 3-0. Together with club colleague Karl Jordan joined Adi Patek soon to DFC Usti and after a short time to DFC Prague. Adolf Patek could make quickly aware of his player qualities as a striker in Prague and was lured away from the city rivals Sparta. He played there with Pepi Horejs, a former co-stars from Vienna by storm the Prague and won in 1926 and 1927, the Czechoslovak championship. In the first time played Mitropa Cup 1927 Sparta reached the final against Rapid, which went to a 6-2 home win, in which Adi Patek met twice, and a 1:2 away defeat to Sparta. Also in the Mitropa Cup in 1930 Patek came with Sparta Prague to the finals, but that was just to Rapid this time.
After the Second World War Adi Patek began his coaching career and was initially Association Captain Eduard Farmers' Association Coach of the OFB. In 1947 he took on the Swiss top division clubs FC Bern, which he has edited until 1949. From September 1949 to May 1953 he was Luxembourgish coach. His greatest success as a coach celebrated Adi Patek at Karlsruher SC, where he got in finally. He led the team in 1955 to the final of the DFB Cup, the Karlsruhe 04 3-2 win against FC Schalke and thus secured the trophy. In the following season, 1955/56, Adi Patek was the first title in the KSC Oberliga Süd and thus qualified for the finals of the German Championship. After the group victory in the final group with FC Schalke 04, 1 FC Kaiserslautern and Hannover 96 Karlsruhe reached the final, which, however, in the Berlin Olympic Stadium 4-2 went to Borussia Dortmund.
Then went Adi Patek 1956, Eintracht Frankfurt, which he supervised for two years and in 1957 winning the inaugural played German Floodlight Cup in the final against FC Schalke reached 04. After two years Frankfurt Adi Patek worked for three years until 1961 with Bayern Munich as a coach. From 1961 to 1963 made the former winger from the Swiss Young Fellows Zurich station, before he again returned as a coach in the highest Austrian league and the first SC Wiener Neustadt accepted. With the Neustädtern Adi Patek came to the OFB Cup final, which went 0-1 and 1-1 in master LASK scarce. Neustadt was qualified for the European Cup, but failed to StiinTa Cluj.
Achievements
Player
- 3 x Czechoslovakian champion: 1926, 1927, 1932
- 1 x Finalist OFB Cup: 1919