Walter Schleger
Appearance
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Personal information | ||||||||||||||
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Date of birth | 19 September 1929 | |||||||||||||
Place of birth | Prague, Czechoslovakia | |||||||||||||
Date of death | 3 December 1999 | (aged 70)|||||||||||||
Position(s) | Striker | |||||||||||||
Youth career | ||||||||||||||
AC Sparta Prague | ||||||||||||||
Senior career* | ||||||||||||||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | |||||||||||
1949–1951 | Wiener Sportclub | |||||||||||||
1951–1964 | Austria Wien | 334 | (107) | |||||||||||
International career | ||||||||||||||
1951–1962 | Austria | 22 | (1) | |||||||||||
Medal record
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*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
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Walter Schleger (19 September 1929 – 3 December 1999) was an Austrian football player.
Club career
[edit]A speedy and tricky attacker, Schleger played for several clubs: he began his career in Sparta Prague, where he played in their youth team, later went to Vienna and played for Wiener Sportclub (1949–1951) and Austria Wien (1951–1964).
A veterinarian, he later became head of the genetics institute at the University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna.
International career
[edit]He made his debut for Austria in a September 1951 friendly match against West Germany and was a participant at the 1954 FIFA World Cup and 1958 FIFA World Cup.[1] He earned 22 caps, scoring one goal.
Honours
[edit]- Austrian Football Bundesliga (4):
- 1953, 1961, 1962, 1963
- Austrian Cup (3):
- 1960, 1962, 1963
External links
[edit]- Austria Wien archive (in German)
- Walter Schleger at National-Football-Teams.com
References
[edit]- ^ Record at FIFA Tournaments - FIFA
Categories:
- 1929 births
- 1999 deaths
- Austria men's international footballers
- Austrian men's footballers
- 1954 FIFA World Cup players
- 1958 FIFA World Cup players
- AC Sparta Prague players
- FK Austria Wien players
- Austrian veterinarians
- Czech veterinarians
- German Bohemian people
- Austrian people of German Bohemian descent
- Footballers from Prague
- Footballers from Vienna
- 20th-century Austrian zoologists
- Men's association football forwards
- Austrian football forward stubs