Rudi Hiden
Rudi Hiden (Josef Rudolf Hiden, born 9 March 1909 in Graz, Styria, Austria – died 11 September 1973 in Vienna) was an Austrian–French footballer. He was goalkeeper. After his career as player he became football coach.
Career
He started playin football with Grazer A.K., where he played from 1925 - 1927. Then he went to Vienna, where he played for WAC(1927-1933). 1933 he planed to went to Arsenal London, but the Players Union did not allow this, so he went on to RC Paris together with Auguste Jordan, another Austrian footballer. 1937 he took the French nationality and played once for the French team in a 1940 match versus Portugal.
International career
He started at the age of 19 in a match versus Yugoslavia(3:0). His second match he played two years later, he was very good so he became No.1 goalkeeper of the Austrian team. He was the goalkeeper in the golden age of the Austrian team, the so-called Wunderteam (Wonderteam). In the early 1930 the team played 15 matches and won 12 and lost only one game (in Wembley versus England 3:4)
After his footballer career he became coach of different teams in Italys Seria B.
- 1951–1952 Salernitana
- 1952–1953 Messina
- 1953–1954 Palermo
- 1956–1957 Messina
- danach US Carrarese
- 1963–1964 Salernitana
Honours
- Austrian Cup (1):
- 1931
- French championship (1):
- 1936
- Coupe de France (3):
- 1936, 1939, 1940
- In 2005 a lane in Viennas district Donaustadt was named after him (Rudi-Hiden-Gasse)
Other websites
- The Wonderteam-Painting by Paul Meissner Archived 2015-04-03 at the Wayback Machine