Paul Halla (10 April 1931 – 6 December 2005) 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 ...

Club career

He played for

SK Sturm Graz Sportklub Sturm Graz is an Austrian association football club, based in Graz, Styria, playing in the Austrian Football Bundesliga. The club was founded in 1909. Its colours are black and white. In its history, Sturm Graz has won the Austria ...

Grazer AK Grazer AK, founded 18 August 1902 as Grazer Athletiksport Klub (in Austria the abbreviation GAK is more common), is an Austrian sports club, from the city of Graz in the federal state of Styria (''Steiermark''). The football section used to be on ...

and

SK Rapid Wien Sportklub Rapid Wien (), commonly known as Rapid Vienna, is an Austrian football club playing in the country's capital city of Vienna. Rapid has won the most Austrian championship titles (32), including the first title in the season 1911–12, ...

(1953–1965). He skippered Rapid in his final season there.

International career

He earned 34 caps and scored 2 goals for the

Austria national football team The Austria national football team (german: Österreichische Fußballnationalmannschaft) represents Austria in men's international football competition and it is controlled by the Austrian Football Association (German: Österreichischer Fußbal ...

from 1954 to 1965, and participated 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 ...

and the 1958 FIFA World Cup.

Death

He died in a Vienna hospital in December 2005 after stomach surgery.

Honours

* Austrian Football Bundesliga (5): ** 1954, 1956, 1957, 1960, 1964 * Austrian Cup (1): ** 1961

References

External links

Rapid Wien players
- Rapid Archiv * * 1931 births 2005 deaths Austrian men's footballers Austria men's international footballers 1954 FIFA World Cup players 1958 FIFA World Cup players SK Sturm Graz players Grazer AK players SK Rapid Wien players Austrian Football Bundesliga players Men's association football defenders {{austria-footy-defender-stub