Karl Putzendopler (24 April 1898 – 11 January 1983) 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 for

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, ...

and

FC Basel Fussball Club Basel 1893, widely known as FC Basel, FCB, or just Basel, is a Swiss football club based in Basel, in the Canton of Basel-Stadt. Formed in 1893, the club has been Swiss national champions 20 times, Swiss Cup winners 13 times, a ...

. He played in the position as

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 ...

Football career

Putzendopler started his youth football and his football career by Rapid Wien. During the season 1919/20 he played a total of four games in the Austrian Championship. During 1920 he and his elder brother

Gustav Putzendopler Gustav Putzendopler (16 January 1894; – 20 November 1969) was an Austrian international footballer who played for SK Rapid Wien, FC Basel and FC Mulhouse. He played in the position as midfielder. Football career Putzendopler started hi ...

moved to Switzerland to find work. Both had suffered due to the First World War, in fact Gustav had been held captured by the Russians for over 40 months. The brothers had completed an apprenticeship in

Galvanoplastic Electrotyping (also galvanoplasty) is a chemical method for forming metal parts that exactly reproduce a model. The method was invented by Moritz von Jacobi in Russia in 1838, and was immediately adopted for applications in printing and several o ...

and after the War both were unable to find an occupation in their home country. In Basel they both found work and both joined FC Basel and settled in quickly, they played regularly. Between the years 1920 and 1927 Putzendopler played a total of 154 games for Basel scoring a total of 10 goals. 79 of these games were in the Swiss Serie A, three in the

Swiss Cup The Swiss Cup (; ; ; ) is a football cup tournament that has been organised annually since 1925–26 by the Swiss Football Association. Since 1999 the winner earns the chance to qualify for the UEFA Europa League or the UEFA Europa Conference ...

and 72 were friendly games. He scored five goals in the domestic league, the other five were scored during the test games. Putzendopler went on to become

player-coach A player-coach (also playing coach, captain-coach, or player-manager) is a member of a sports team who simultaneously holds both playing and coaching duties. A player-coach may be a head coach or an assistant coach. They may make changes to the sq ...

of Black Stars Basel. Under him the team won promotion to the 1930–31 Swiss Serie A, but winning only four points that season they suffered immediate relegation.

References

Sources

* Rotblau: Jahrbuch Saison 2017/2018. Publisher: FC Basel Marketing AG. * Die ersten 125 Jahre. Publisher: Josef Zindel im Friedrich Reinhardt Verlag, Basel.
Verein "Basler Fussballarchiv" Homepage
{{DEFAULTSORT:Putzendopler, Karl SK Rapid Wien players Austrian men's footballers FC Basel players FC Black Stars Basel players Men's association football midfielders 1898 births 1983 deaths