August Starek

August " Gustl " Starek ( born February 16, 1945 in Vienna ) is a retired Austrian football player and coach.

  • 3.1 Players
  • 3.2 Coaches

Career as a player

Clubs

His career began in his parent club Starek in Simmering, in which he made his debut in the League A (1st League ). He then moved to the National League from 1965 renamed to SK Rapid Wien for whom he scored 21 goals in the second season and thus scorer. At the end of this season was also winning the Austrian Championship, the goal difference was the deciding point in front of the same FC Wacker Innsbruck.

For the 1967/68 season, he joined the 1st FC Nuremberg, for which he on August 19, 1967 ( 1st Round ) - on as a substitute in the 85th minute for Heinz Müller - in a 2-0 home win over Karlsruher SC gave its debut; his first goal in the Bundesliga he scored (2nd Round ) as he prepares for the intermediate 2-0 on September 2, 1967 - saw - in a 4-0 home win over Hamburger SV. Even in single DFB Cup match for the " Club" - on January 27, 1968 in a 2-0 win at Bayer 04 Leverkusen - he scored a goal. At the end of the season he won the " Club" the title of German Champion.

This he repeated in 1969, after he had moved to Bayern Munich, where he played all 34 league games alongside his compatriot Peter Pumm, scoring four goals. At the end of his first season for Bayern, he also contributed with six Cup matches to winning the DFB Cup. 1969/70 he was only four times used, most recently on September 12, 1969 ( 5th Round ) 3-0 home win over Borussia Dortmund.

Different settings of Austrian and German players took Starek at that time as follows: "Training at Nuremberg, we run and run - I see no coach and screaming after before: , Hey, slow down, it is always kaa coach då ' - and who say: 'We need the '! They dragged me from the beginning! "

Over the next three years he made at three different clubs Station: 1970/71 he was playing for SK Rapid Wien, 1971/72 again for the 1st FC Nuremberg - now in the Regionalliga Süd, the second- highest German league - and 1972 / 73 for the Linzer ASK. From 1973 to 1980 he was still playing for three clubs in Vienna. With Rapid he won in 1976 with a 1-0 final victory over the SSW Innsbruck Cup and also was the year after runners-up. With the Wiener Sport - Club in 1979 he was again runner-up. With the First Vienna FC 1894 he dismounted in 1980 and finished it at the age of 35 years, his playing career.

National

For the senior team Starek played 22 times and scored four goals. His first international game, he completed on May 1, 1968 in Linz with a 1-1 draw against Romania; his last on September 28, 1974 in Vienna during the 1-0 victory over Hungary. His first goal he succeeded on November 6, 1968 in Glasgow in the 1-2 defeat against Scotland; it was the opening goal in the qualifying match for the World Cup 1970.

Career as a coach

After the player career, he was almost exclusively coach of Austrian teams: He had his first coach - hold office for one year in the SV Austria Salzburg. Another year he coached the Grazer AK and three years with FC Admira / Wacker. From 1985 to 1987, he had a coach double function: it was for a co- coach of the Austrian national team and the other head coach of the Austrian U- 21st From 1994 to 1996 he trained in Germany the second-rate VfB Leipzig. With the subsequent work as a trainer in Graz and Carinthia in 1999 ended nearly two decades of existence coach who remained crowned Untitled success.

Achievements

Player

  • Austrian Champion in 1967 with SK Rapid Wien
  • German champions in 1968 with the 1st FC Nuremberg, in 1969 with Bayern Munich
  • German Cup in 1969 with Bayern Munich
  • Austrian Cup winner in 1976 with Rapid Vienna
  • Austrian scorer: 1967 (Rapid)

Coach

  • Second in the championship in 1988 with Austria Wien
  • Austrian Cup Finalist 1993 Rapid Wien
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