Ernst HAPPEL | 1950-1954 | PES Stats Database (Golden Era Backup)

HAPPEL PES STATS | 1950-1954

Scotty Africa Stats by Scotty Africa (with some suggestions from Plava Čigra) Ernst HAPPEL | 1950-1954 Name: Ernst Happel Club: SK Rapid Wien Number: 3 (1954 World Cup) Position: *CB, DMF, CWP Nationality: Austria Age: 24-28 (29/11/1925) Era: 1950/1954 Foot: R Side: B Height: 178 cm Weight: 79 kg Attack: 68 Defence: 90 Balance: 87 Stamina: 84 Top Speed: 73 Acceleration: 74 Response: 85 Agility: 72 Dribble Accuracy: 75 Dribble Speed: 72 Short Pass Accuracy: 80 Short Pass Speed: 81 Long Pass Accuracy: 82 Long Pass Speed: 83 Shot Accuracy: 73 Shot Power: 87 Shot Technique: 74 Free Kick Accuracy: 80 Curling: 80 Header: 78 Jump: 77 Technique: 77 Aggression: 70 Mentality/Tenacity: 90 Goalkeeper Skills: 50 Team Work: 88 Injury Tolerance: A Form/Condition/Fitness: 6 Weak Foot Accuracy: 5 Weak Foot Frequency: 5 Consistency: 6 Growth type: Standard CARDS: P04: Anchor Man P08: Pinpoint Pass P18: Extra Attacker S07: Man Marking S08: Covering S10: DF Leader SPECIAL ABILITIES: *Marking *Covering *D-Line Control Attack/Defence Awareness Card: Balanced *Sort of in the Ronald Koeman mold, however better defensively and weaker at free-kicks. INFO: Ernst Franz Hermann Happel (29 November 1925 – 14 November 1992) was an Austrian football player and coach. He is regarded as one of the most successful managers ever, winning both league and domestic cup titles in the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany and Austria as well as winning the European Cup twice the first in 1970 and the second in 1983 and a runners-up medal at the 1978 FIFA World Cup. He is one of only three managers to have won the European Cup with 2 different clubs, along with Ottmar Hitzfeld and either Louis van Gaal or Jose Mourinho dependent on the result of the 2010 UEFA Champions League Final. Playing career Club level Happel started his professional career at Rapid Wien, where he made his first team debut at 17 years of age. Forming a solid defensive partnership with Max Merkel, he played 14 years for Rapid, from 1943 till 1954 and 1956 till 1959, winning the Austrian Championship title 6 times. He was chosen in Rapid's Team of the Century in 1999. The 2 years in between Happel played for Racing Club de Paris in France. International level He made his debut for Austria in September 1947 against Hungary and was a participant at the 1954 World Cup in Switzerland, where he helped them reach 3rd place, and also at the 1958 World Cup. His last international was a September 1958 match against Yugoslavia. He earned 51 caps, scoring 5 goals. Managerial career After retiring as a player, Happel went on to become one of the greatest coaches of all time. He won the league title in four different countries. He also took two different clubs to gold in the European Champions' Cup (now the UEFA Champions League) and the Netherlands to second place in the 1978 World Cup. His first club was ADO Den Haag in 1962, with whom he won the Dutch Cup in 1968. After Den Haag he coached Feyenoord, with whom he won the Dutch championship in 1971, as well as the European Cup and the Intercontinental Cup in 1970. At the 1978 FIFA World Cup in Argentina, Happel was coach of the Dutch national team and reached the final against the Argentine national team. Always a man of few words, Happel's pre-match pep talk is said to have consisted of just one sentence: ''Gentlemen, two points.''. The Dutch subsequently lost. During his career as coach Happel worked for several clubs, including Sevilla, Club Brugge (winning the Belgian Championship title several times) and Hamburg (1981-1987, German champions in 1982 and 1983, German Cup winner 1987). In 1983 he won the European Cup again, 13 years after the triumph with Feyenoord Rotterdam, this time with Hamburg. He is one of few coaches in the history of the European Cup (now called UEFA Champions League) to win the title with two different clubs. In 1987 Happel returned to Austria as coach of FC Swarovski Tirol. With FC Tirol he won the Austrian Championship title twice (1989 and 1990) before becoming coach of the Austrian national team in 1992. Death He died of lung cancer in 1992 aged 66. After his death, the biggest football stadium in Austria, the Praterstadion in Vienna, was renamed Ernst Happel Stadion. ADDITIONAL LINKS: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_Happel http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_Happel http://www.fifa.com/worldfootball/news/ ... 66615.html http://www.national-football-teams.com/ ... p?id=22551 http://www.worldfootball.net/spieler_pr ... st-happel/ http://www.zerozerofootball.com/player/ ... /?search=1 http://www.footballdatabase.eu/football ... 87.en.html _________________ forever and always - football Ernst HAPPEL | 1950-1954 | PES Stats Database (Golden Era Backup)