Walter Schleger
Appearance
Personal information | |||
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Full name | Walter Schleger | ||
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) |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
Prof. Dr. Walter Schleger (19 September 1929 – 3 December 1999) was an Austrian football player.
Club career
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
He made his debut for Austria in a September 1951 frienldy 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
- Austrian Football Bundesliga (4):
- 1953, 1961, 1962, 1963
- Austrian Cup (3):
- 1960, 1962, 1963
External links
- Austria Wien archive Template:De icon
- Walter Schleger at National-Football-Teams.com
References
- ^ Record at FIFA Tournaments - FIFA
Categories:
- 1929 births
- 1999 deaths
- Austria international footballers
- Austrian 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
- Sportspeople from Prague
- Sportspeople from Vienna
- 20th-century zoologists
- Association football forwards
- Austrian football forward stubs