Karl Stotz

Karl Stotz ( born March 27, 1927 in Vienna ) is a retired Austrian football player and football coach. From 1978 to 1982 he was team leader of the Austrian national football team.

Career

Stotz was taken as a young soldier in World War II at Stalingrad in captivity and was able to return in 1948, three years after the war ended to Vienna only. The defender was soon after his return regular players of FC Vienna in defense. After just over three years in the favorite leaders in the nation highest league he was recruited at the beginning of 1952 by the Vienna Austria. Up to end of his career Karl Stotz was with the violets in 1953, 1961, 1962 and 1963 a total of four times Austrian Champion and won the 1960, 1962 and 1963 the OFB Cup.

Stotz also achieved great success as a defender of the national team. He made his debut in March 1950 as a player of FC Vienna against Switzerland, but his highlights in the team, he experienced rather late in his career. Had he still been a substitute in the 1954 World Cup, he still came in 1958 in Sweden, the 0-2 against the Soviet Union finally to his World Cup debut. Together with Heribert Trubrig he made also the support of the national team at the time of Decker era. Overall, the defenders ran 42 times for the national team and even scored a goal. This results from a penalty kick in the 89th minute in a 3-2 victory over Holland was the key at the World Cup qualifiers for Sweden Austria.

After his playing days Karl Stotz worked at the Vienna office equipment company " Tonko ", before he returned in 1970 to Vienna Austria. From 1976 he had been chosen to head coach of the first team and immediately won the championship and a season later, the OFB Cup. Stotz 1978 Austrian national coach and led the team to the 1982 World Cup to Spain. Despite this success, and the impeccable record of 13 wins and only five losses he was ousted by the then OFB President Karl Sekanina and prohibited him along on the trip with the team to Spain. Sekanina had believed to Ernst Happel commit, which turned out to be a mistake. That's why the coach Felix Latzke and the OFB - employees Georg Schmidt had to step under whose auspices it came to the scandal-ridden non-aggression pact of Gijon in the game against Germany. At its end as OFB team boss said Stotz years later: " I was then that I promised myself to do with the football final so disappointed. "

Honors

In 2001, Stotz was elected to the Austria- Eleven of the century.

Achievements

Player

  • 4 × Austrian Champion: 1953, 1961, 1962, 1963
  • 3 × Austrian Cup Winner: 1960, 1962, 1963
  • Participation World Cup 1958: Group stage ( top 16)
  • Participation Championship 1960: quarter-finals
  • 42 caps and 1 goal for the Austrian national football team from 1950 to 1962

Coach

  • Qualification World Cup 1982
Die Presse Hugo Meisl Heinrich Retschury Branko Elsner Karl Geyer Josef Hickersberger Erich Hof Hans Krankl Josef Molzer Herbert Prohaska Helmut Senekowitsch Marcel Koller
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