Otto Haftl
Personal information | |||
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Full name | Otto Haftl | ||
Date of birth | 29 November 1902 | ||
Place of birth | Austria | ||
Date of death | 16 September 1995 | (aged 92)||
Position(s) | Striker | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
1923–1925 |
SC Wacker Wien | ||
1925–1926 | Wiener AC | ||
1926–1927 |
SC Wacker Wien | ||
1929–1930 | Teplitzer FK | ||
1929–1931 | AC Sparta Prague | ||
1931–1935 | FC Basel | 88 | (75) |
1935–1937 | Young Fellows Zürich | 29 | (8) |
International career | |||
1925–1929 | Austria | 3 | (2) |
Managerial career | |||
1931–1932 | FC Basel | ||
1938–1941 |
SC Wacker Wien | ||
*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
Otto Haftl (29 November 1902 – 16 September 1995)
Club career
Haftl started his football career in Austria for
He then moved to Switzerland, becoming Basel's first ever professional football player. Between the years 1931 and 1935 Haftl played a total of 144 games for Basel, scoring a total of 130 goals. 88 of these games were in the Swiss Serie A, 20 in the Swiss Cup and 36 were friendly games. He scored 75 goal in the domestic league, 21 in the Swiss Cup and the other 28 were scored during the test games. During his first season at the club he acted as player-manager after Gustav Putzendopler laid down the job as trainer.[2]
An episode that is noted in association with the
The following season (1932–33), with the fellow Austrian Karl Kurz as trainer, Basel won the Swiss Cup. The final was played in the Hardturm stadium against Grasshopper Club on Sunday 9 April 1933. Basel won 4–3 and it was the club's first ever national title.[6] Haftl scored two goals in the final and there were two other fellow Austrians in the team, Ferdinand Wesely and Josef Chloupek.
Haftl ended his football career playing two seasons for
International
Haftl played three times for his country. His first international appearance for Austria came in May 1925 against Hungary. In this home fixture in Wien, he scored his two international goals, the first in the 38th minute and the second in the 88th. Austria won 3–1. His second international game was an away game against the same opponents. His last game for Austria was against Italy on 7 April 1929.[7]
Honours
Basel
- Swiss Cup winner: 1933
References
- ^ "Otto Haftl". EU Football. Retrieved 27 November 2021.
- ^ Verein "Basler Fussballarchiv”. "Otto Haftl". Verein "Basler Fussballarchiv”. Retrieved 2018-11-16.
- ^ Josef Zindel. "Flucht per Boot misslungen" (PDF). Failed to escape by boat. Friedrich Reinhardt Verlag. Retrieved 2020-11-16.
- ^ Zindel, Josef (2018), "Die ersten 125 Jahre / Flucht per Schiff", Page 318 / Escape by ship, Friedrich Reinhardt Verlag, Basel
- ^ Mustedanagic, Amir (2015). "Grund 7". Reason number 7 out of 111 reasons to love FC Basel. TagesWoche. Retrieved 2020-11-16.
- ^ Fussball-Schweiz. "Schweizer Cup Finals 1926-1939". Fussball-Schweiz. Retrieved 2018-11-16.
- ^ Österreichischer Fußball-Bund. "Otto Haftl". Österreichischer Fußball-Bund. Retrieved 2018-11-16.
Sources
- Rotblau: Jahrbuch Saison 2017/2018. Publisher: FC Basel Marketing AG. ISBN 978-3-7245-2189-1
- Die ersten 125 Jahre. Publisher: Josef Zindel im Friedrich Reinhardt Verlag, Basel. ISBN 978-3-7245-2305-5
- Verein "Basler Fussballarchiv" Homepage