Adolf Blutsch

Adolf Blutsch (born 18 August 1940 in Vienna) is a former Austrian football player and coach. As a midfielder he won championships with FK Austria Wien and Linzer ASK.

Adolf Blutsch
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Personal information
Date of birth(1940-08-18)18 August 1940
Place of birthSteyr, Austria
Playing positionMidfielder
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
1958-1961FK Austria Wien
1961-1962Hakoah Sydney
1963FK Austria Wien
1964-1965LASK
1965-1966Wiener Sport-Club
1966-1967Schwarz-Weiß Bregenz
1967-1968FC Wacker Innsbruck
1968-1969Schwarz-Weiß Bregenz
1969-1973SV Austria Salzburg53(5)
1973-1974FC Vorarlberg
Teams managed
1973-1974FC Vorarlberg (player-coach)
1974-1976SV Rapid Lienz
1976-1978USK Anif
1978-1983LASK
1984-1985Favoritner AC
1986SV Austria Salzburg
1986-1987Grazer AK
1987LASK
1990LASK
1992-1993GKS Katowice
1993-1995Wiener Sport-Club
1996-1998SK Vorwärts Steyr
1999-2000SV Spittal/Drau
2001-2005LASK Amateure
2005-2006FC Blau-Weiß Linz
2008SV Gmunden
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only

Career

He started his professional career with FK Austria Wien. 1961 to 1962 he played in Australia for Hakoah Sydney. After a short time with Austria again he moved to LASK. He there was part of the team which won, as first team outside of Vienna, the Championship. This was followed by one-year engagements at the Wiener Sport-Club, Schwarz-Weiß Bregenz, FC Wacker Innsbruck and again in Bregenz. From 1969 to 1973 he played three seasons at SV Austria Salzburg. He then played again for a year at Bregenz before retiring after relegation in 1973/74 with FC Vorarlberg. He appeared in 252 games in Austria's top division and scored 18 goals.[1]

Manager

His coaching career has brought Adolf Blutsch to Salzburg several times. At SAK 1914 he worked as a supervisor in the 1976 autumn season. In his coaching era from 1977 to 1978, Blutsch led USK Anif directly from the Salzburg league to the second division. At SV Austria Salzburg he followed Hannes Winklbauer in 1986.

Blutsch was also a coach at SW Bregenz, the second division team SV Rapid Lienz (ÖFB Cup semifinals 1976 as player coach), Linzer ASK, which he led to promotion to the first division in 1978/79, where he finished third in 1980, and Grazer AK. For the 1992/93 season he became the first western coach in Poland after the fall of the "iron curtain" [2] and led GKS Kattowitz to the 1993 cup victory. He also coached the Wiener Sportclub (12/1993 to 5/1995), Vorwärts Steyr (1996 to March 1998), SV Spittal (1999/2000), LASK Amateurs (2000-2004), BNZ Linz and came to FC Blau-Weiss Linz in spring 2005, where he stayed until the end of the 2006 autumn season in the Regionalliga Mitte. In April 2008, Blutsch was hired by SV Gmunden to save the club from the threat of relegation from the Regionalliga Mitte, but he failed to do so.[3]

Honours

    • as player
  • Austrian Champion: 1963 (Austria Wien), 1965 (LASK)
  • Austrian Cup: 1960, 1963, 1965 (LASK)
    • as manager
  • Polish cup: 1993

References

  1. Bundesliga.at:Adolf Blutsch-Spielerstatistik
  2. David Forster: „Die Legionäre“: Österreichische Fußballer in aller Welt, LIT Verlag, Münster, 2011, S. 131–132.
  3. OÖN

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