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Gustav Lechner
Personal information
Date of birth (1913-02-17)17 February 1913
Place of birth Osijek, Austria-Hungary
Date of death 5 February 1987(1987-02-05) (aged 73)
Place of death Zagreb, SFR Yugoslavia
Position(s) Midfielder
Senior career*
Years Team Apps ( Gls)
1930–1934 Slavija Osijek
1934–1941 BSK Belgrade
1941–1945 Građanski Zagreb
1945–1949 Proleter Osijek
International career
1931–1940 Yugoslavia 44 (0)
1941–1944 Croatia 12 (0)
Managerial career
1945–1949 Proleter Osijek (player-manager)
Metalac Osijek
Dinamo Pančevo
1953–1957 Vojvodina
1957–1958 Dinamo Zagreb
1959–1960 Velež
Slavonija Požega
196x–1966 NK Zagreb
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Gustav Lechner (17 February 1913 – 5 February 1987) was a football player and coach. At international level he represented both the Yugoslavian and Croatian national sides. [1]

Club career

Born in Osijek, Austria-Hungary and nicknamed Lembika, [2] he spent his early career with Slavija Osijek and BSK Belgrade; while playing with the latter he won 3 Yugoslav titles and graduated from law school. [2] In 1941 he and teammate Ernest Dubac joined Građanski Zagreb. At the end of the war, he became player-manager of Proleter Osijek. [2]

International career

Lechner made his debut for Yugoslavia in an August 1931 friendly match against Czechoslovakia and earned a total of 44 caps scoring no goals. [2] He then played 12 matches under the flag of the Independent State of Croatia, a World War II-era puppet state of Nazi Germany. His final international was an April 1944 friendly against Slovakia. [3]

Coaching career

After retiring as a player in 1949, Lechner became a coach and managed Metalac Osijek, Dinamo Pančevo, Vojvodina Novi Sad, Dinamo Zagreb, Velež Mostar, Slavonija Požega and NK Zagreb. [2]

Death

Lechner died on 5 February 1987 in Zagreb, and was buried on 11 February at the Saint Anne Cemetery in his hometown of Osijek. [4] [5]

References

  1. ^ "Players Appearing for Two or More Countries". Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. Retrieved 17 April 2008.
  2. ^ a b c d e Gustav Lehner at Reprezentacija.rs
  3. ^ "Player Database". EU-football. Retrieved 8 October 2022.
  4. ^ "Gustav Lehner". Retrieved 14 October 2022.
  5. ^ "Proslavljeni asovi i igračke legende NS Osijek − Lembika" (in Croatian). Nogometno središte Osijek. Retrieved 15 October 2022. Umro je 1987. u Zagrebu, a pokopan na Aninom groblju u rodnom gradu.

External links

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