Information AboutErnst Happel |
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PLAYER Happel was capped 51 times for the Austrian National Team , where he reached the 3rd place at the in Switzerland . On the club level he played 14 years for Rapid Vienna , from 1943 till 1954 and 1956 till 1959 , winning the Austrian Championship Title 7 times. The 2 years in between Happel played for Racing Club De Paris in France . COACH After retiring as a player, Happel worked as a football coach. His first club was ADO Den Haag in 1962. After Den Haag he coached Feyenoord , where he won the Dutch Championship in 1971, as well as the European Cup and the Intercontinental Cup in 1970. At the in Argentina, Happel was coach of the Dutch National Team and reached the final against the Argentine National Team . 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 the only coach in the history of the European Cup (now called UEFA Champions League ), besides Ottmar Hitzfeld , 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 2 times (1989 and 1990) before becoming coach of the Austrian National Team in 1992. After his death the biggest football stadium in Austria, the ''Praterstadion'' in Vienna, was renamed '' Ernst Happel Stadion ''. |
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