Karl Schlechta

Karl Schlechta (born 28 January 1922) is an Austrian football player and coach.

Career

To play football Schlechta started at Hakoah Vienna, after which he worked for Wacker Vienna, then at the Floridsdorfer AC. As early as 1952 he began to work as a coach, first with his hometown club Wacker Vienna, where he and later supervised junior teams and the first team. In 1957 he came to FK Austria Wien as young carers, from 1960 he was supervisor of the first team was. With Austria in 1960 he reached a Cup victory and the championship in 1961 and 1962.

More coach stations were LASK Linz, Wiener AC and Red Star. In the 1970/71 season he was with the SV Austria Salzburg runner-up. 1972-1977 he was the coach of SK Sturm Graz, with whom he reached the quarterfinals in the European Cup Winners' Cup. After two years at Rapid Vienna, he ended his coaching career at the Vienna Sports Club.

Karl Schlechta has always been a promoter of the offspring. So managed in his time as manager of Sturm Graz Heribert Weber, Gernot Jurtin, Andy Pichler and Manfred Steiner made ​​it into the national team.