Ernst Melchior (26 June 1920 – 5 August 1978) was an Austrian former professional

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 le ...

who played as a striker.

Club career

Melchior was born in

Villach Villach (; sl, Beljak; it, Villaco; fur, Vilac) is the seventh-largest city in Austria and the second-largest in the federal state of Carinthia. It is an important traffic junction for southern Austria and the whole Alpe-Adria region. , the po ...

. He played seven years for Austrian club Austria Wien before moving to France where he played for

FC Rouen Football Club de Rouen 1899 (; commonly referred to as simply FC Rouen) is a French association football club based in Rouen, Normandy. The club was formed in 1899 and currently plays in Championnat National 2, the fourth level of French foot ...

and

FC Nantes Football Club de Nantes (; Gallo: ''Naunnt''), commonly referred to as FC Nantes or simply Nantes (), is a French professional football club based in Nantes in Pays de la Loire. The club was founded on 21 April 1943, during World War II, a ...

International career

Melchior made his debut 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 an April 1946 friendly match against

Hungary Hungary ( hu, Magyarország ) is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Spanning of the Carpathian Basin, it is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine to the northeast, Romania to the east and southeast, Serbia to the south, Croatia a ...

and was a participant at the 1948 Summer Olympics He earned 36 caps, scoring 16 goals. His last international was a November 1953 World Cup qualification match against

Portugal Portugal, officially the Portuguese Republic ( pt, República Portuguesa, links=yes ), is a country whose mainland is located on the Iberian Peninsula of Southwestern Europe, and whose territory also includes the Atlantic archipelagos of ...

International goals

''Austria score listed first, score column indicates score after each Melchior goal.''

Managerial career

Melchior was manager of Beşiktaş J.K. (Turkey),

Fortuna Düsseldorf Düsseldorfer Turn- und Sportverein Fortuna 1895 e.V., commonly known as Fortuna Düsseldorf (), is a German football club in Düsseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia, which competes in the 2. Bundesliga. Founded in 1895, Fortuna entered the league ...

(Germany),

Club Africain Club Africain ( ar, النادي الإفريقي) is a Tunisian football club based in Tunis that competes in the Tunisian Championship. It fields several sports teams, including football, handball, basketball, swimming and volleyball. The foot ...

(Tunisia) and

Rouen Rouen (, ; or ) is a city on the River Seine in northern France. It is the prefecture of the Regions of France, region of Normandy (administrative region), Normandy and the Departments of France, department of Seine-Maritime. Formerly one of ...

(France). He was also the tenth manager of the

Luxembourg national football team The Luxembourg national football team (nicknamed the ''Red Lions''; lb, Lëtzebuergesch Foussballnationalequipe, french: Équipe du Luxembourg de football, german: Luxemburgische Fußballnationalmannschaft) is the national football team of Luxe ...

, in charge for 13 games.

Death and legacy

Melchior died, aged 58, after a long illness in

. In his honour, a ''gasse'' (street) in

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was named after him.

External links

Profile
- Austria Archive *

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Melchior, Ernst 1920 births 1978 deaths Sportspeople from Villach Footballers from Carinthia (state) 20th-century Austrian people Austrian footballers Austria international footballers Olympic footballers of Austria Footballers at the 1948 Summer Olympics FK Austria Wien players FC Rouen players FC Nantes players Expatriate footballers in France Austrian expatriate sportspeople in France Austrian expatriate sportspeople in Turkey Austrian expatriate sportspeople in Luxembourg Expatriate football managers in Luxembourg Austrian football managers Beşiktaş J.K. managers Fortuna Düsseldorf managers Jeunesse Esch managers FC Rouen managers Luxembourg national football team managers Club Africain football managers Association football forwards