Alfred Teinitzer (29 July 1929 – 20 April 2021) was a

midfielder A midfielder is an outfield position in association football. Midfielders may play an exclusively defensive role, breaking up attacks, and are in that case known as defensive midfielders. As central midfielders often go across boundarie ...

who played for

Austria Austria, , bar, Östareich officially the Republic of Austria, is a country in the southern part of Central Europe, lying in the Eastern Alps. It is a federation of nine states, one of which is the capital, Vienna, the most populous ...

in the

1954 FIFA World Cup The 1954 FIFA World Cup was the fifth edition of the FIFA World Cup, the quadrennial international football tournament for senior men's national teams of the nations affiliated to FIFA. It was held in Switzerland from 16 June to 4 July. Switzer ...

.Copa do Mundo da FIFA Suíça 1954
He also played for

LASK Linzer Athletik-Sport-Klub, commonly known as Linzer ASK () or simply LASK, is an Austrian professional football club, from the Upper-Austrian state capital Linz. It is the oldest football club in that region, and plays in the Austrian Footbal ...

. Teinitzer was the last surviving member of Austria's 1954 World Cup squad.

References

1929 births 2021 deaths Austrian men's footballers Men's association football midfielders Austria men's international footballers 1954 FIFA World Cup players SK Rapid Wien players LASK players Footballers from Vienna {{Austria-footy-bio-stub