Karl Kurz

Karl Kurz (* November 21, 1898, † November 26, 1933 in Basel, Switzerland ) was an Austrian football player and football coach.

Club career

Karl Kurz played mostly in the position of the outer rotor, but increased towards the end of his career as a center half. Slender stature, were its advantages in the control of the ball, the game overview and positional play.

He started with the game of football as a high school student on the Klosterneuburger parade ground before he first played in the youth team of Vienna in a club. After he had made temporarily with the football final, he joined the FAC, where he played in the youth team together with Viktor Hierländer and Karl Jiszda. In 1915 he finally moved to the amateurs, where he was adopted into the first team after three games. Soon he was one of the pillars of the Ober Sankt Veit, before he had to join the military in May 1916. In 1917 he returned wounded back from the First World War and played after his recovery back in the amateurs. Greatest success in this period was the runner-up title in 1920 when it only on the last day missed the chance for the championship title.

In 1921 he returned to Vienna, where he, however, about places in the lower middle of the table is not it past 1922 and came back to the amateurs. After another runner-up title the repeated return to Vienna, where he worked until the end of 1924 and for the third time runner-up was followed. He then moved to the first Simmering SC, which he left in March 1927 to work as a trainer in Latvia.

In October of that year he returned to Vienna and, after an agreement on outstanding claims the release to play for Austria, as the amateurs were called now. However, in the winter break of the 1928/29 season he had to end his career because of a disease that would later turn out to be leukemia.

National team

At his first appearance in the national team came short in November 1919 against Hungary. In the years 1921-1926, he was a right external rotor fixed to the trunk of the Austrian selection. He had his last mission in November 1928 against Italy. Overall, he came up with 32 matches and 15 more inserts in the Vienna city selection.

Coaching career

Remained Shortly after the end of his players joining the Purple, first under Robert Lang and later mainly responsible coach of the team. In 1931 he moved to Switzerland, where he initially managed the FC Grenchen and then in 1932 started training at FC Basel. With the Baslern him in 1933 succeeded in winning the Swiss Cup, where he had two compatriots in the team with Ferdinand Wesely and Otto Haftl. In November of this year, short succumbed to his illness.

Achievements

• 3 x Austrian Vice Champion: 1920, 1923, 1924
• 1 x Swiss Cup Winner: 1933 (as coach )
• 1 x Austrian Cupfinalist: 1920
• 32 games for the Austrian national team