Rudi Hiden

Rudi Hiden
	Rodolphe Hiden in April 1939
Personal information
Full name	Rudolf Hiden
Date of birth	9 March 1909
Place of birth	Graz, Austria-Hungary
Date of death	11 September 1973 (aged 64)
Place of death	Vienna, Austria
Height	1.84 m (6 ft 1⁄2 in)
Position(s)	Goalkeeper
Youth career
1925–1927	Grazer AK
Senior career*
Years	Team
1927–1933	Wiener AC
1933–1940	RC Paris
National team
1928–1933	Austria
1940	France
Teams managed
1951–1952	Salernitana
1952–1953	Messina
1953–1954	Palermo
1956–1957	Messina
	Carrarese
1963–1964	Salernitana
	* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only

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