Josef Brandstätter
Josef " Seppl " Brandstätter ( born November 7, 1891 † March 25, 1945 ) was an Austrian football player. The center-half was from 1911 to 1925 an important support for SK Rapid Wien and in the national team, at times capped player and the first Austrian to 40 internationals.
Career
Josef Brandstätter began his football career together with his younger brother Fritz at Rapid in 1908. He was one of the famous Rapid team that could win under coach Dionys Schönecker the first Austrian football championship in 1911/12 and in the following years dominated the championship. A total of eight title wins was the center-half, who became famous thanks to his tireless willingness to fight, celebrate in Hütteldorf before a crisis in 1924 drove him at the club for rivals Wiener AF. After the differences with the club's management had endured, Seppl Brandstätter returned to the Green-Whites, where until 1925, and thus a total of 16 years, he served in the first team for another year.
Seppl Brandstätter was not only been playmaker Green-Whites, but also for twelve years starting players of the national team in that position. He had given at the Olympic Games in Stockholm in 1912 his debut, where he achieved with the team to 5th place, his only two goals scored in the National Dress of center half in the 2-0 victory over Italy on 15 June 1913. At end of his career Seppl Brandstätter stepped over to the ASV Hertha Vienna, in his footsteps at Rapid occurred while Josef Smistik. He soon took on a coach offer Građanskis, with whom he was Yugoslav champion in 1926. In 1927 he took over as coach at the Wiener Sport - Club.
Seppl Brandstätter died in the last days of the war the Second World War from pneumonia.
Achievements
- 8 x Austrian Champion: 1912, 1913, 1916, 1917, 1919, 1920, 1921, 1923
- 1 x Yugoslavian champion: 1926 ( Trainer)
- 2 x Austrian Cup Winner: 1919, 1920
- Participation in the Olympic Games 1912: Quarter-Finals
- 42 caps and 2 goals for the Austrian national football team from 1912 to 1924