Franz Mandl

Franz Mandl (* August 4, 1916 in Vienna, † 4 February 1988) was an Austrian football player and the winner of the silver medal with Austrian amateur national team at the Olympic Games in 1936.

Life

Mandl was one of only four Viennese to the squad of the Austrian Olympic team in 1936, which was composed mainly of players from the provinces clubs. Although he came up with the Vienna of a professional club, Mandl was, who came from an old wine tavern dynasty in Dobling time in his career a real amateur and played football purely as a hobby. From coach Jimmy Hogan and Ludwig Hussak he was, although he had never completed a game selection, taken in the squad for the Olympic Games in Berlin. As a substitute, he only came in the semifinal match against Poland used, in which really did not contribute a gate to a 3-1 victory for the Austrians.

Despite this success, he devoted himself after the games again mainly to his work as Heurigenwirt, but remained still in passing his Vienna faithful. In the season 1937/38, he finally brought it as a substitute for Willibald Schmaus on some missions in the first team and finished with the Döblingern in the championship in fifth place. His biggest success at club level, celebrated the defender with the championship win in the game year 1943/44, in which he - still as a pure amateur - came up with a few appearances in the first team.

After his active career as a football player Franz Mandl care for some time as a section head to the sporting interests of Vienna. How he obtained this function, he said later: "For a board meeting Viennas I went jumping on the toilet when I came back, you had made me in absentia to section chief. ".

Stations

• First Vienna FC 1894

Achievements

Literature and sources

• Karlheinz Schwind: Stories from a football -century. Publisher Ueberreuter; Vienna 1994, ISBN 3-8000-3512- X
• Charles Kastler: football sports in Austria. Trauner Verlag, Linz 1972, ISBN 3-85320-111-3