Karl Rappan

Karl Rappan
Karl Rappan 1935
Personal information
Date of birth (1905-09-26)26 September 1905
Place of birth Vienna, Austria-Hungary
Date of death 2 January 1996(1996-01-02) (aged 90)
Place of death Bern, Switzerland
Position(s) Forward
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1922-1924 SV Donau Wien
1924-1928 SC Wacker Wien
1928-1929 FK Austria Wien
1929-1931 SK Rapid Wien
1931-1935 Servette Genf
International career
1927 Austria 2 (1)
Managerial career
1931-1935 Servette Genf (playing coach)
1935-1948 Grasshopper Club Zürich
1937-1938 Switzerland
1942-1949 Switzerland
1948-1957 Servette Genf
1953-1954 Switzerland
1958-1959 FC Zürich
1960-1963 Switzerland
1964-1968 FC Lausanne-Sport
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Karl Rappan (born September 26, 1905 in Vienna, Austria-Hungary; † January 2, 1996 in Bern) was an Austrian football player and coach. He played as forward. As a club coach in Switzerland, he won the championship title nine times and the cup eight times with Servette FC, Grasshopper Club Zurich and Lausanne-Sport. He coached the Switzerland national football team at World Cup finals three times (1938, 1954, 1962).

Later he was the initiator of the UEFA Intertoto Cup. Sometimes it was referred tonas Rappan Cup. [1]

Career

Karl Rappan gained his first senior experience at SV Donau. Then he went on to SC Wacker Wien in the 1924/25 season . In the 1928/29 season, Rappan played for FK Austria Wien alongside Matthias Sindelar. After one season he moved to SK Rapid Wien. Alongside Ferdinand Wesely and Franz Weselik, Rappan won the championship with Rapid.

The former employee in a Viennese textile company was transferred to Geneva for work in 1931. There he joined Servette FC as a footballer. For the team he was player-coach from 1932 till 1935. In 1935 he accepted the offer of Grasshopper Club Zürich and became coach. Till 1948 he reached five championships (1937, 1939, 1942, 1943, 1945) and seven cup successes (1937, 1938, 1940 to 1943, 1946). His time with the “Hoppers” was accompanied by two additional seasons with the national team: 1937 to 1938 and 1942 to 1949. For the 1948/49 season, Rappan returned to Geneva and took over Servette for the second time. After one year with FC Zurich he managed FC Lausanne-Sport. With this team he won his ninth championship title in the 1964/65 season and reached the cup final in 1966/67. As his last club activity, Rappan briefly held the position of technical director at Rapid Wien in his hometown in 1969.

Manager

Rappan was four times manager of the Switzerland national football team. He was manager at three world championships ((1938, 1954, 1962)). In 1970 Rappan became director of the Swiss Football Association.

As a club coach in Switzerland, he won the championship title nine times and the cup eight times with Servette FC, Grasshopper Club Zurich and Lausanne-Sports.

Honours

as player
as manager

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References

  1. ↑ Bernd Rohr, Günter Simon: Fussball Lexikon. Copress Verlag, München 1993, ISBN 3-7679-0829-8, S. 205
  2. ↑ ÖFB Players profile
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