József Viola
József Viola [ jo ː ʒɛf vi.olɒ ] ( born June 10, 1896 in Komárom, Austria - Hungary, now Komárno, Slovakia; † August 18, 1949 in Bologna, Italy) was a Hungarian football player and coach.
Career
Viola worked as a player at the Budapest railway club Törekvés SC in Hungary, brought it in the late 1910s and early 1920s with players like Arpad Weisz and Ferenc Hirzer to a considerable playing strength. In 1920 the club finished fourth in the Hungarian Championship and the center half Viola came in May in a 2-2 draw against Austria for his first game in the national team. This should be the only application remain in a senior international game, although he shortly thereafter completed three unofficial internationals against South Germany, Brandenburg and central Germany.
In the summer of 1920 presented a German businessman together a Hungarian professional team to play against a German professional team player and go on a one-year tour of Europe and Germany. Viola joined this company, together with several other internationals such as Gyula Feldmann, Ferenc Plattkó, Mihály Pataki, József Sándor Nemes and Ging. The tour had to be canceled due to lack of success after a few weeks, and the players had to sue for their outstanding salaries. Viola remained in Germany and went on for the Berlin SV 92, who played in the first class of the Brandenburg association.
After only a year he left Berlin and moved to Italy. After a short stint at Club Sportivo Firenze he signed for Spezia Calcio, where he played until 1924. At the beginning of the 1924/25 season he was brought by his Hungarian compatriot Jenő Károly for Juventus FC in Turin. In a third group space the team has been strengthened in the following season once again, among others, the former Törekvés player Ferenc Hirzer. Juventus took a superior win the group and qualified for the final of the Northern League against FC Bologna. In the away game Juventus fetched thanks to two goals Hirzer a 2-2 draw, the home game ended 0-0. However, the excitement that it brought was too large for the coach Károly, he suffered a heart attack, where he died a few days later. József Viola then took over the team and led them to a 2-1 win in the playoff against Bologna final against Alba Rome, which was won with a total score of 12:1.
The following season Viola continued to player-coach at Juventus, though it succeeded again the group victory in the final round but it was enough only for third place. From 1927 no foreign players were allowed to be used in the Italian championship more, Viola was therefore worked exclusively as a coach and again reached a third place. He then moved to SS Ambrosiana Inter, where he had succeeded his former team-mates Arpad Weisz. After just one season he returned to Juventus, but this time again as a player, as was Viola, Italian ancestors, between early Italian citizen had become. In the first unified pan- Italian Serie A, Turin occupied the third place.
He then joined as player-coach for Atalanta in Serie B, and ended after one season his active career final, but remained coach of the Northern Italians. The climb to the top flight stage failed and 1933 saved only the increase of the League relegation. Viola left Bergamo and took the coach position at AC Milan, but where there was only enough for a mid-table. After one season at third division AC Vicenza he took over for three years the supervisor post at Lazio, with whom he won the runner-up title in his second season in 1937 and then the final of the Mitropapokals 1937 reached that was lost against the Ferencvárosi FC. This was followed by a further season at AC Milan and two years at the U.S. Livorno, which ended in relegation to Serie B. Further stations after the end of World War II were the CFC Genoa, Bologna FC and finally Como Calcio.