Árpád Weisz

Arpad Weisz in Italy Árpád Veisz (* April 16, 1896 in Solt, Austria - Hungary, † 31 January 1944 in Auschwitz, German Reich ), was a Hungarian footballer and later coach. With three league titles, he is one of the most successful coaches in the history of Serie A.

Playing career

Arpad Weisz, the son of Jewish parents, worked as a player in Budapest in Törekvés SC. In the railwaymen winger formed in the early 1920s, together with Ferenc Hirzer the storm left side. Team reached at this time regularly Endplätze in the top half of the table of the Hungarian league, but could the arrivierten associations, especially the dominant at this time, MTK Budapest, not be dangerous. Just as his strike partner Weisz was used in the national team, where he gave his debut in 1922 and it took a total of six missions. He was also in the squad of Hungary at the Olympic Summer Games in 1924, but did not play.

In 1923 he left his home and played until 1925 with many of his compatriots, including Hirzer in Czechoslovakia at the Jewish club Maccabi Brno. Then he again followed the train of the time and was one of many Hungarians who changed mid-1920s to Italy. His first stop was Calcio Padova, where he played a few games in the Northern League, before joining for the 1925/26 season to Inter Milan, where he scored three goals in eleven games around with the team but not for the final round the Italian Championship qualifying.

Coaching career

Then he ended his active career, but remained in Italy, we would just be active as a coach. First, he was briefly assistant coach Augusto Rangone Alessandria in the U.S., but soon returned to Inter and took over as coach in the Milanese. After it had passed in the first two seasons only one to midfield squares, he left the club temporarily and went on an extended study trip to South America, where he studied the football in Argentina and Uruguay. During this time he was in Milan replaced by his countryman and former teammate at Törekvés József Viola. On his return he took over in 1929 again the now renamed to AS Ambrosiana club and led the team around the Giuseppe Meazza and Luigi Allemandi the title in the inaugural in the form of a single pan- Italian League Serie A. With 34 years Weisz still the youngest coach who has ever brought an Italian title. At this time, Weisz also released a football textbook entitled Il Giuoco del Calcio.

In the Mitropa Cup in 1930, the Milan failed in the semifinals at Sparta Prague, in the championship, it was enough only for fifth place and Weisz was replaced by the Hungarian István Tóth - Potya. He took over the newly promoted Bari and, with the southerners in the league in relegation playoff. After Inter in his absence haplessly acted, Weisz was brought back after only a year and led Milan to two second place in the championship, one behind Juventus, as well as the final of the Mitropapokals 1933, where the Italians after a 2-1 home victory in the return match FK Austria Wien documents with 1:3. In 1934, the paths of Weisz and Inter split up for good, and the third time he was replaced by a fellow countryman, this time by Gyula Feldmann.

After a brief period of activity at second division Novara Calcio Ungar took over in January 1935 as coach at the AGC Bologna. In the first season, a place in midfield yet been reached, then go with the team around Angelo Schiavio and Miguel Andreolo in 1935/36 and 1936/37, two league titles in a row. In Mitropa Bologna failed, however, twice already in the first round, each against Austria Vienna, but in 1937 succeeded in winning the occasion of the World Exhibition in Paris discharged tournament with a 4-1 win over Chelsea.

Due to the introduced by the Italian fascists racial laws of the Jew Weisz lost his job in October 1938 in Bologna. His successor Hermann Felsner led the team to the next championship, while Weisz had to leave Italy with his family in January 1939. After a short stay in Paris, he took over in the spring of 1939 to FC Dordrecht in the Netherlands. First he made with the Abstiegskanditaten the league, in the following two seasons fifth places were respectively obtained.

With the occupation of the Netherlands by German troops Weisz ' living and working conditions hampered increasingly, in September 1941, he was banned from working. In August 1942 he and his family were arrested, taken to the Westerbork transit camp and later deported a few weeks in the Auschwitz concentration camp. His wife and his two children were murdered on October 5, 1942 in Birkenau, Weisz himself died in January 1944 in Auschwitz.

Achievements

• 3 x Italian Champion: 1929/30, 1935/36, 1936/37,
• 6 games for the Hungarian national football team