Walter Schleger
Prof. Dr. Walter Schleger (19 September 1929 – 3 December 1999) was an Austrian football player.
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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 | |||||||||||||
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| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||
| 1949–1951 | Wiener Sportclub | ||||||||||||
| 1951–1964 | Austria Wien | 334 | (107) | ||||||||||
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| 1951–1962 | Austria | 22 | (1) | ||||||||||
Honours
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| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only | |||||||||||||
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.
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 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
- Austrian Football Bundesliga (4):
- 1953, 1961, 1962, 1963
- Austrian Cup (3):
- 1960, 1962, 1963
External links
- Austria Wien archive (in German)
- Walter Schleger at National-Football-Teams.com
References
- Record at FIFA Tournaments - FIFA
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