Franz Erdl

Franz Erdl ( born May 4, 1911May 17, 1968 ) was an Austrian football player who four league titles and the Mitropacup won in the 1930s and 1940s with the Vienna and in the national team was used.

Club career

Erdl joined as a youth of Vienna, where he made ​​his debut in the first team in the fall of 1929. It first was used only sporadically, he was able to secure the trunk space than left wing, where he replaced Leopold Giebisch and played in a forward line with Friedrich Gschweidl, Josef Adelbrecht and Gustav Tögel in the spring of 1931. At the end of the season he was able to celebrate with the Döblingern their first league title in the club's history.

This also eligible to participate in the Mitropacup, where they reached the final with wins over the Bocskai SC Debrecen and AS Roma. There, the Blue - Yellow met at the only all- Austrian final in the history of this Bewerbes on the Wiener AC. After a 3-2 victory in the first game succeeded also in the home game on the Hohenwarte 2-1, with Erdl scored both goals of the winning team.

After a second place in the following season was 1933, another league title are obtained. In the coming years, Vienna was indeed always represented with Erdl in the upper regions of the table, but the only other title in this period was the victory in the OFB Cup 1937 2-0 in the final against the Wiener Sport - Club. In early 1938 Erdl left his hometown club and then played for second division side SV tram Vienna, where another well-known but despite reinforcements such as John McClelland, Joseph Hassman and Karl Jestrab the rise did not succeed in the top flight.

In 1942, he returned for the final round of the German Cup to Vienna, where he played in a forward line with Karl Bortoli and Karl Decker and the final against FC Schalke 04 reached, which was lost with 0:2. In the two following years, he took the Döblingern two more Gaumeistertitel, in between he was a guest player at Dresdner SC active, where as a result he reached the German championship final for the second time. This time Erdl could celebrate with his fellow players Richard Hofmann and Helmut Schön at the end of a 3-0 victory over the FV Saarbrücken.

After the war Erdl returned to the road railroaders and was active in the 1950s, yet at other unterklassigen clubs.

National

Erdls first game for the national team was in a 4-1 win over Belgium in June 1933 in Vienna, when he scored the first goal the home side after a pass from Matthias Sindelar. On the outside left was at that time but mostly Rudolf Viertl used, as well as at the World Cup 1934, so it was not until October 1935, before Erdl had his second outing in a 4-4 draw with Hungary, this time as a left half-. His third and last international match took only a few minutes for him, as he replaced the ailing Rudolf Geiter briefly in May 1936 against Italy.

Achievements

  • National football team ( Austria )
  • Austrian
  • Born in 1911
  • Died in 1968
  • Man
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