Walter Horak
Appearance
Personal information | |||
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Full name | Walter Horak | ||
Date of birth | 1 June 1931 | ||
Place of birth | Marchegg, Austria | ||
Date of death | 24 December 2019 | (aged 88)||
Place of death | Vienna, Austria | ||
Height | 1.79 m (5 ft 10 in) | ||
Position(s) | Striker | ||
Youth career | |||
Marchegg | |||
FC Stadlau | |||
Leopoldsdorf | |||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
1954–1959 | Wiener Sport Club | 121 | (83) |
1959–1960 | SC Wacker Wien | 9 | (1) |
1961 | Grazer AK | 12 | (3) |
1961–1962 | Austria Wien | 10 | (2) |
1962 | FC Sochaux | 19 | (6) |
1962–1966 | 1. Schwechater SC | 71 | (14) |
1966–1967 | Austria Klagenfurt | 1 | (0) |
Total | 243 | (109) | |
International career | |||
1954–1960 | Austria | 13 | (3) |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
Walter Horak (1 June 1931 – 24 December 2019)[1] was an Austrian football player.
Club career
[edit]Horak played for several clubs, including Austria Wien, SC Wacker Wien, Grazer AK, and FC Sochaux (France). But with Wiener Sport Club he won two league titles and he topped the final goalscorers chart once.
International career
[edit]He made his debut for Austria in November 1954 against Hungary and was a participant at the 1958 FIFA World Cup and the 1960 European Nations' Cup where he scored against France. He earned 13 caps, scoring 3 goals.
Honours
[edit]- Austrian Football Bundesliga (3):
- 1958, 1959, 1962
- Austrian Cup (1):
- 1962
- Austrian Bundesliga Top Goalscorer (1):
- 1958 [2]
References
[edit]- ^ "Sportclub-Legende Walter Horak gestorben".
- ^ Österreichs Torschützenkönige Archived 2007-09-15 at the Wayback Machine - Oberliga.at
External links
[edit]- (in German) Austria Wien archive
- Walter Horak at National-Football-Teams.com
Categories:
- 1931 births
- 2019 deaths
- Austrian men's footballers
- Austria men's international footballers
- 1958 FIFA World Cup players
- FK Austria Wien players
- FC Sochaux-Montbéliard players
- Grazer AK players
- Austrian expatriate men's footballers
- Expatriate men's footballers in France
- Ligue 1 players
- Austrian Football Bundesliga players
- Men's association football forwards
- 20th-century Austrian sportsmen
- Austrian football forward stubs