Karl Rainer
Karl Rainer ( born July 1, 1901 in Vienna, † June 9, 1987 ) was an Austrian football player. He was the right back of the legendary miracle team and could with his original club Vienna next two championships win the Mitropa Cup in 1931.
Career
Karl Rainer began his football career at FC Striker 07 from favorites he was taken by Josef Blum to Dobling to first division club, First Vienna FC 1894, where the two next to Beer- devil soon crystallized the best Austrian Back- pair. Karl Rainer bribed by his positional play and was 1921-1938 regular players of the Blue - Yellow; after Abritt Blum 1933 together on the side of Willibald Schmaus. He ran in a total of 882 matches for Vienna, before he found a successor in Otto Kaller.
With his club Karl Rainer could be in 1931 and 1933 Austrian champion to his wedding in 1929 and 1930 bear the OFB Cup it and decide to crown the Mitropa Cup in 1931 for themselves. With the Austrian national team, he was known at that time as a miracle team and could make 1932 the European Cup victory perfectly. Alternating with the originating also from favorites Rapidler novel Schramseis he was used his time of Hugo Meisl as a right back.
Karl Rainer came among others to enjoy the 5-0 win over Germany at the opening of the Prater Stadium, the 8-1 away win against Switzerland, and the " Game of the Century " against England at Wembley and attend the subsequent 6:1 on the journey home against Belgium.
In the early 1940s, Rainer was coach of SC Wacker Wien, but jumped in 1942 due to player shortage again in the short term team of Vienna. After the war he worked as a coach at the Vienna AC, Vienna and at SC Justice. After ending his playing career Karl Rainer continued to work in his own business as a leather goods retailer. After the death of his wife and son, he spent the last years of his life in a mental hospital, where he died at the age of 86 years. His tomb is located on the Grinzinger cemetery in Vienna ( group 21, number 9, number 2).
Achievements
- 2 x Austrian Champion: 1931, 1933
- 3 x Austrian Cup Winner: 1929, 1930, 1937
Core group: Josef Blum | George Brown | Karl Gall | Friedrich Gschweidl | Rudolf Hiden | Leopold Hofmann | Johann Mock | Walter Nausch | Karl Rainer | Anton Sound | Roman Schramseis | Karl Sesta | Matthias Sindelar | Josef Smistik | Adolf Vogl | Karl Zischek
Other players: Karl Adamek | Josef Adelbrecht | Josef Bugala | Josef Chloupek | Leopold Czejka | Leopold Print | Karl Graf | Rudolf Hencl | Johann Horvath | Anton Janda | Otto Kaller | John McClelland | Josef Molzer | Heinrich Müller | Peter Platzer | Karl Stoiber | Gustav Thaler | Johann Urbanek | Georg Waitz | Franz Weselik | Rudolf Zöhrer
Association Captain: Hugo Meisl Coach: Jimmy Hogan
- National football team ( Austria )
- Football players ( First Vienna FC 1894)
- Austrian
- Born 1901
- Died in 1987
- Man