Walter Horak

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Walter Horak
Personal information
Full name Walter Horak
Date of birth (1931-06-01)1 June 1931
Place of birth Marchegg, Austria
Date of death 24 December 2019(2019-12-24) (aged 88)
Place of death Vienna, Austria
Height 1.79 m (5 ft 10 in)
Position(s)
Striker
Youth career
Marchegg
FC Stadlau
Leopoldsdorf
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1954–1959
Wiener Sport Club
121 (83)
1959–1960
SC Wacker Wien
9 (1)
1961 Grazer AK 12 (3)
1961–1962
Austria Wien
10 (2)
1962
FC Sochaux
19 (6)
1962–1966 1. Schwechater SC 71 (14)
1966–1967
Austria Klagenfurt
1 (0)
Total 243 (109)
International career
1954–1960 Austria 13 (3)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals
Austria national football team in 1958 with the following players – from left to right, standing; Walter Horak, Ernst Happel, Karl Koller, Alfred Körner, Paul Halla, Walter Schleger; crouched: Helmut Senekowitsch, Gerhard Hanappi, Rudolf Szanwald, Franz Swoboda and Johann Buzek.

Walter Horak (1 June 1931 – 24 December 2019)

football
player.

Club career

Horak played for several clubs, including

Wiener Sport Club
he won two league titles and he topped the final goalscorers chart once.

International career

He made his debut for Austria in November 1954 against Hungary and was a participant at the 1958 FIFA World Cup and the 1960 European Nations' Cup where he scored against France. He earned 13 caps, scoring 3 goals.

Honours

References

  1. ^ "Sportclub-Legende Walter Horak gestorben".
  2. ^ Österreichs Torschützenkönige Archived 2007-09-15 at the Wayback Machine - Oberliga.at

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