Leopold Nitsch

Leopold Nitsch (* August 14, 1897, † in January 1977) was an Austrian football player and later a football coach. During his active career Leopold Nitsch was as left side half six times Austrian Champion with the Vienna Rapid, reached the final of the Mitropapokals and was almost a decade starting players in the Austrian national team. As a coach, he won three times Austrian and one times the German championship and once the German Cup with Rapid and accompanied the Bulgarian national team to the Olympics in 1924.

Career

Leopold Nitsch was described as "excellent position in the game and adoption, unobtrusive but effective ." He came in 1911 in the youth team of the Vienna Rapid and four years later moved on to the first team of Schönecker era. Leopold Nitsch has already won the following season 1915/16 his first Austrian league title and debuted on October 3, 1915 in a 4-2 victory in the classic against Hungary in the Austrian national team. The Half page soon dominated the championship with his team, took in 1917, 1919, 1920, 1921 and 1923 five more titles and also won the first two official Cupbewerben the OFB 1919 and 1920 against the sports club or the amateurs in the final.

After the somewhat outdated Rapid team in 1924 was in upheaval also moved into Nitsch Trainermetier. With the Bulgarian national team, he participated in the 1924 Olympic Games in Paris in part, left there from 0-1 against Ireland. He himself, however, soon returned under the assets back and played in Rapid towards the end of his career as a defender yet. With the 3-0 victory in the OFB Cup final against Austria on the Hohenwarte he finally qualified yet for the first Mitropa Cup 1927. Rapid reached the final, it lost to Sparta Prague 2:6 and 2:1. Leopold Nitsch came in two games for use and ended after this season finally his active career.

In the following years he worked from 1928 to 1936 as a youth coach at Rapid and then broke Edi Bauer as coach of the first team from. Leopold Nitsch accompanied the team by the time the Second World War, in which the Austrian football has been incorporated into the German Reich. With Rapid he won in this era the 1938 DFB-Pokal with a 3-1 in the finals against FSV Frankfurt and 1941, the German Cup with a 4-3 victory over FC Schalke 04 in front of 100,000 spectators at the Olympic Stadium in Berlin. Finally, he could be with his team three more times Austrian champion, then called " Ostmark master."

On January 31, 1977 Leopold Nitsch at Baumgartner Cemetery (Group 13, number 25) was buried.

Achievements

Player

  • 6 x Austrian Champion: 1916, 1917, 1919, 1920, 1921, 1923
  • 3 x Austrian Cup Winner: 1919, 1920, 1927
  • 35 caps for the Austrian national football team from 1915 to 1926

Coach

  • 3 x Austrian Champion: 1938, 1940, 1941
  • 1 x German Champion: 1941
  • 1 x German Cup winner: 1938
Wiener Sport-Club 1924 Summer Olympics Hohe Warte, Vienna 1927 Mitropa Cup
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