Ladislav "Les" Scheinflug (born 1 October 1938) is a former

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player and coach.

Biography

Arriving in Australia in the early 1950s he lived as a youth at Villawood Migrant Hostel and played for the hostel soccer team (Villawood Tigers) He was picked to play in the Southern Districts representative soccer team during these years Between November 1965 and April 1968 Scheinflug played 6 full international matches for

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, scoring four goals. Before the

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he became assistant to head coach

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of the national side. He later served himself on several occasions as head coach of the ''Socceroos'' as well as the under 17 and 20 sides. In 1979 Les Scheinflug won the Australian Championship and in 1980 the Australian Cup, both with

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. In 1979, he was voted Coach of the Year by the Australian Soccer Press Association. In the

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he was awarded an AM (

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) for services to soccer as a national player and coach.

Honours

*Australian Hall of Fame Inaugural Inductee *Australian National Team Coach *Australian Youth Team Coach *1979 NSL Coach of the Year *New South Wales Representative Honours *1959 - Northern New South Wales *1965 - Torpedo Moscow, Chelsea *Representative Honours *1959 - NSWSF XI v The Rest *1965 - Sydney XI v Torpedo (c), Sydney XI v Hapoel Tel Aviv

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Scheinflug, Les 1938 births Living people People from Bückeburg German emigrants to Australia Australian soccer players Australia international soccer players Australian soccer coaches Australian expatriate soccer coaches Australia national soccer team managers Fiji national football team managers Sydney Olympic FC managers Sydney United 58 FC managers Association football forwards Association football midfielders Footballers from Lower Saxony Sydney FC Prague players Members of the Order of Australia