Egon Pollak
Egon Erwin " Gitschi " Pollak ( born November 12, 1898 in Vienna, Austria - Hungary, † 1984 in Germany ) was an Austrian football player.
Career
Gitschi Pollak joined in 1911 at the age of twelve in the youth team of SC Hakoah Vienna. About the reserve team he came during the war years - partly due to the absence of regular players - to inserts in the first team. At this time, Pollak was still playing in attack, where he formed a strong inner trio in the reserve with Moses Häusler and Max Grünwald. During the ascent season 1919/20, he came to three inserts in the first team. From the Erstantritt the Blue -Whites in the top division he belonged to the tribe formation, but now in the Halves series.
The team established itself in first class right away and after a fourth place in the debut season followed in the second year, a battle for the championship that was lost on the last match day against the Wiener Sport Club. Having been introduced in the 1924/25 season of professional football in Austria, finally succeeded Hakoah to win the title.
After Pollak had already convened in 1922 to Vienna's city selection, he announced in May 1924 his debut in the Austrian national team, where he played in the 4-1 win against Romania as a right outer rotor. However, this should be its only use in the national team at the same time. In addition, Pollak was also vice president of the players union, representing the interests of Viennese professional player.
In the spring of 1926, Hakoah undertook an American tour, which was a great success with the public and that caused a number of Hakoah players - including Pollak - were offered contracts of U.S. clubs. He returned with the team to Vienna and played the championship to end. After he was also accumulated in the first games of the new season for the Hakoah, he decided to accept the offer and received from his club release. He left for New York to play in the future for the New York Giants in the American Soccer League.
The Giants also changed his former team-mate Max Grünwald, Béla Guttmann, Erno Black Moses and cottagers. Pollak played only one season with the Giants, after which he returned to Vienna, where he ran aground again for his hometown club. Through the human disposals, Hakoah was, however, so weakened that, despite the return of Pollak and Alexander Neufeld relegation could not reach and relegation to the second class. The following season Pollak played a few games for the unterklassigen SK Hasmonea, with the promotion to the first amateur class. Thereafter he lived in Berlin, where he played for a team of foreign Austrians, who was the Berliner SV 92 affiliated.
In 1934 he emigrated to Palestine, where he took over the training of Maccabi Tel Aviv. In addition, he also oversaw the national team of Palestine at the second Maccabiah Games in 1935 and later as part of the qualification for the FIFA World Cup 1938, where they failed in two games in Greece. After a tour in Australia with Maccabi in 1939 he remained for a year as a youth coach in Sydney and then returned to Maccabi Tel Aviv.
In 1948 he took over again the Israeli national team, which fought out their first game after independence of the state, this was in New York with 1:3 against the United States lost. Then Pollak was active in youth work as well as a sports journalist, before he moved to Germany in the 1970s.
Achievements
- National football team ( Austria )
- Austrian
- Football coach ( Austria )
- Emigrant from the German Empire at the time of National Socialism
- Born in 1898
- Died in 1984
- Man