Walter Schleger
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Full name | Walter Schleger | ||||||||||||
Date of birth | 19 September 1929 | ||||||||||||
Place of birth | Prague, Czechoslovakia | ||||||||||||
Date of death | 3 December 1999 | (aged 70)||||||||||||
Position(s) | Striker | ||||||||||||
Youth career | |||||||||||||
AC Sparta Prague | |||||||||||||
Senior career* | |||||||||||||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||
1949–1951 | Wiener Sportclub | ||||||||||||
1951–1964 | Austria Wien | 334 | (107) | ||||||||||
National team | |||||||||||||
1951–1962 | Austria | 22 | (1) | ||||||||||
Honours
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* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only |
Prof. Dr. Walter Schleger (19 September 1929 – 3 December 1999) was an Austrian football player.
Club career[]
A speedy and tricky attacker, Schleger played for several clubs: he began his career in Sparta Prague, where he played in their youth team, later went to Vienna and played for Wiener Sportclub (1949–1951) and Austria Wien (1951–1964).
A veterinarian, he later became head of the genetics institute at the University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna.
International career[]
He made his debut for Austria in a September 1951 friendly match against West Germany and was a participant at the 1954 FIFA World Cup and 1958 FIFA World Cup.[1] He earned 22 caps, scoring one goal.
Honours[]
- Austrian Football Bundesliga (4):
- 1953, 1961, 1962, 1963
- Austrian Cup (3):
- 1960, 1962, 1963
External links[]
- Austria Wien archive (in German)
- Walter Schleger at National-Football-Teams.com
References[]
- ^ Record at FIFA Tournaments - FIFA
Categories:
- 1929 births
- 1999 deaths
- Austria international footballers
- Austrian footballers
- 1954 FIFA World Cup players
- 1958 FIFA World Cup players
- AC Sparta Prague players
- FK Austria Wien players
- Austrian veterinarians
- Czech veterinarians
- German Bohemian people
- Austrian people of German Bohemian descent
- Sportspeople from Prague
- Footballers from Vienna
- 20th-century Austrian zoologists
- Association football forwards
- Austrian football forward stubs