Wilhelm Huberts

Wilhelm Huberts, also Willi or Willy Huberts (I) (born 22 February 1938 in Voitsberg, Styria) is a former Austrian football player.

Willi Huberts
Personal information
Full name Wilhelm Huberts
Date of birth (1938-02-22) 22 February 1938
Place of birth Voitsberg, Austria
Height 1.79 m (5 ft 10 1⁄2 in)
Position(s) Midfielder
Youth career
ASK Voitsberg
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1955–1960 Grazer AK 118 (28)
1961–1962 New York Hungarians
1962 AS Roma
1963–1970 Eintracht Frankfurt 213 (67)
1970–1971 Austria Wien 28 (0)
1971–1975 Grazer AK 60 (0)
National team
1959–1960 Austria 4 (1)
Teams managed
Kapfenberger SV
Alpine Donawitz
1976–1978 LASK
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only

Club career

Huberts began his career in his hometown with ASK Voitsberg. From there he was transferred to Grazer AK, who got him to the Stadion an der Körösistraße in 1955. Through his immense technical skills and his scoring qualities he became a supporter's favourite in Graz.

When GAK played a couple of friendlies in New York in 1959, two of them against Real Madrid, it had causes for Huberts. The midfielder could convince at this tour, and so finally New York Hungarians of the German American Soccer League signed him in 1960. With this club he won National Challenge Cup (today Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup) in 1962.

In 1963 he went to Frankfurt in Germany.[1] In this year the Bundesliga was founded and the Eagles from Hesse were a founding member. Huberts was one of only four foreign players in German pro football, and the only Austrian. In the 1960s team of Frankfurt he was a key player. With the jersey number 10 he scored 80 times for the boys from Main.

For the 1970–71 season he returned to Austria and joined Austria Wien and eventually his home club Grazer AK in 1971 and retired in 1975.

International career

He was capped four times between 1959 and 1960, scoring in his debut in a 2-0 win against Belgium.

With the club change to New York came travel limitations, he was no longer selected for Austria and even when he joined Eintracht Frankfurt he never played again for the national team due to the politics of the clubs not to release foreign players except for big tournaments.

Honours

References
  1. "Huberts, Wilhelm" (in German). kicker.de. Retrieved 29 December 2011.
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