Wunderteam

Wunderteam (German pronunciation: [ˈvʊndɐˌtiːm]; Wonder Team) was the name given to the Austria national football team of the early 1930s. Team manager was Hugo Meisl. The team to which the name referred played 15 matches between May 1931 and February 1933. They won 12, 2 draws and lost 1.

Matches of the „Österreichischen Wunderteams“ 1931 - 1933

Date	Place	Match	Result	Scorer
16 May 1931	Vienna	Austria– Scotland	5:0	Anton Schall, Karl Zischek (2), Adolf Vogl, Matthias Sindelar
24 May 1931	Berlin	Germany– Austria	0:6	Anton Schall (3), Adolf Vogl, Karl Zischek, Friedrich Gschweidl
16 June 1931	Vienna	Austria– Switzerland	2:0	Friedrich Gschweidl, Anton Schall
13 September 1931	Vienna	Austria– Germany	5:0	Matthias Sindelar (3), Friedrich Gschweidl, Anton Schall
4 October 1931	Budapest	Hungary– Austria	2:2	Karl Zischek (2)
29 November 1931	Basel	Switzerland– Austria	1:8	Anton Schall (3), Friedrich Gschweidl (2), Matthias Sindelar, Adolf Vogl, Karl Zischek
20 March 1932	Vienna	Austria– Italy	2:1	Matthias Sindelar (2)
24 April 1932	Vienna	Austria– Hungary	8:2	Matthias Sindelar (3), Anton Schall (4), Friedrich Gschweidl
22 May 1932	Prague	Czechoslovakia – Austria	1:1	Matthias Sindelar
17 July 1932	Stockholm	Sweden– Austria	3:4	Adolf Vogl, Matthias Sindelar, Georg Waitz, Josef Molzer
2 October 1932	Budapest	Hungary– Austria	2:3	Borsanyi (Eigentor), Heinrich Müller, Georg Braun
23 October 1932	Vienna	Austria – Switzerland	3:1	Heinrich Müller, Anton Schall (2)
7 December 1932	London	England – Austria	4:3	Karl Zischek (2), Matthias Sindelar
11 December 1932	Brüssel	Belgium – Austria	1:6	Karl Zischek, Franz Weselik, Anton Schall (4)
12 February 1933	Paris	France – Austria	0:4	Matthias Sindelar, Franz Weselik, Adolf Vogl, Karl Zischek

The end

The match against France in Paris, which Austria was able to win 4-0, is generally seen as the last game played by the miracle team. Hiden got an offer from Racing Club de Paris President Jean-Bernard Lévy. He made an offer to the Austrian goalie, which Hiden immediately accepted. He ended his career in the Austrian national team with this game and moved from Wiener AC to Paris in 1933 for a transfer fee of 80,000 francs. Several national players followed Hiden's example and went abroad, which caused significant losses in the technical game of the Austrians, although there was only one defeat against Czechoslovakia (1:2) in the following 13 games.

Other websites

• Rough Guide Archived 2007-03-24 at the Wayback Machine