Erich Probst (5 December 1927 – 16 March 1988) was an

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 ...

footballer A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of football are association football, American football, Canadian football, Australian rules football, Gaelic football, rugby ...

who played as a striker.

International career

Probst made his debut for

in a May 1951 friendly match against

Scotland Scotland (, ) is a Countries of the United Kingdom, country that is part of the United Kingdom. Covering the northern third of the island of Great Britain, mainland Scotland has a Anglo-Scottish border, border with England to the southeast ...

and was a participant at 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 ...

tournament 1954 in Switzerland, where he was one of the foremost strikers. Austria reached third place and Probst ended second in the scorer list with six goals, behind the Hungarian Sandor Kocsis and jointly with

Max Morlock Maximilian Morlock (; 11 May 1925–10 September 1994) was a German footballer active in the 1950s and early 1960s. In his time with the West Germany national team, he earned 26 caps and scored 21 goals. His position was that of an inside ri ...

of Germany and the Swiss

Josef Hügi Josef Hügi (23 January 1930 – 16 April 1995) was a Swiss international footballer who played as a striker during the late 1940s, 1950s and early 1960s. Career Hügi was born in the town of Riehen on 23 January 1930 and played football fr ...

. Probst earned 19 caps, scoring 17 goals.Goalscoring for Austrian National Team
- RSSSF His final international was a March 1960 European Championship qualification match against France national football team, France.

Honours

*Austrian Football Bundesliga (4): ** 1951, 1952, 1954, 1956 *Mitropa Cup, Zentropa Cup (1): ** 1951

External links

Rapid stats
- Rapid Archive *

References

1927 births 1988 deaths Footballers from Vienna Austrian footballers Austria international footballers 1954 FIFA World Cup players First Vienna FC players SK Rapid Wien players Wuppertaler SV players FC Zürich players Expatriate footballers in Germany Expatriate footballers in Switzerland Association football forwards {{austria-footy-forward-stub