Auguste Jordan

Auguste " Gusti " Jordan, Jordan actually August, sometimes Gustav Jordan ( born February 21, 1909 in Linz, † 17 May 1990 in Château- Thierry ) was an Austrian and French football player and coach.

3.1 As a player
3.2 As a coach

4.1 As a player
4.2 As a coach

Career as a player

From youth player for Amateur National Champion

August Jordan started his playing career as many young football players of the Upper Austrian capital in the 1920s in Linz parade ground. From there, he joined the youth team of Linzer ASK and has already been used on the basis of his talent with 15 years as a link striker in the first team. His specialty was to head the ball, he was trained, shot with both legs proved overview, gave precise templates and was a very good technician. With the residents of Linz, he won several times the Upper Austrian Championship and in the 1930/31 season after a 1-1 away with a 2-1 win against Grazer AK in Linz, the Austrian State Amateur Championship, which he has not used in the return match. The following season he played in two finals at the Amateur Championship, but lost his team the Grazer AK in both matches ( 0:2 and 2:4 ).

Successful Intermezzo in Vienna

1932 Jordan moved during the current season to Vienna at the time Erstligisten Floridsdorfer AC in the Austrian top professional league. In the remaining games of the season 1931/32 he scored 16 goals for this Floridsdorf and could in the scoresheet surprising place in fourth place behind Anton Schall, Franz Weselik and Matthias Kaburek. This achievement was all the more remarkable because the Floridsdorfer get both in this and in the following season, in which Gusti Jordan before his move to Paris or 9 goals, always played against relegation from the first division.

Moving to France

After 1933, he received an offer from Paris, the 1,79 m tall and 77 kg heavy runners and center forward went together with Rudolf Hiden to France and played from 1933 to 1945 the Racing Club de Paris. With this club he won the French championship in 1936 Division 1 and celebrated by winning the Coupe de France and the Double. With the Cup victories in 1939, 1940 and 1945, the native of Linz three other major titles profits celebrated in his career. It is noteworthy that with Rudi Hiden (1933-1940) and Henri Hiltl (1939-1940) two other football greats with Austrian roots played in this time in Brussels residents. Jordan matured in France to an international class center forward and played an incredible 13 years for the Racing Club de Paris in the former French Division 1

With the Équipe Tricolore at the 1938 World Cup

From 1937 he was regarded as a naturalized Frenchman, 1938, Jordan then finally a French citizen and received in the same year his first enlistment in the French national team. At the World Championship 1938, which was held in France, Auguste Jordan came in two games used, but on the rotor position. The French failed after a 3-1 win over Belgium in the quarter- finals on eventual champions Italy with 1:3. Overall, it took Jordan between 1938 and 1945 to 16 games and a goal for the Équipe Tricolore and was at times their Team Captain. It is interesting that in the match against Portugal on January 28th, 1940 equal einliefen in Parc des Princes stadium with Jordan, Hiden and Hiltl three former Austrians for the French national team. On December 6, 1945 Gusti Jordan played in his last game selection for the French national team for the first and only time against his former compatriots. The Austrians won the match 4-1 in Vienna. To date, only five players of Racing Club de Paris could be seen for more matches than Gusti Jordan. In the Austrian national football team Jordan, however, was never convened, but this had the background that Legionaries working abroad at that time generally did not find any consideration for the national team.

Career as a coach

Having already at RC Paris incidentally tried during his active years as a coach in Epinal, he moved to his career as a player in final as coach and was responsible, among other things, the teams of Red Star Paris, Marseille and Paris Racing. With the 1 FC Saarbrücken in 1952 he reached the final of the German Cup. His greatest success as a supervisor, he celebrated with the team of Standard Liege which he led in 1963 to winning the Belgian Championship.