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| Full name | Ernst Stojaspal | |||||||||||||
| Date of birth | (1925-01-14)14 January 1925 | |||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Simmering,Vienna, Austria | |||||||||||||
| Date of death | 3 April 2002(2002-04-03) (aged 77) | |||||||||||||
| Place of death | Moulins-lès-Metz, France | |||||||||||||
| Position(s) | Forward | |||||||||||||
| Youth career | ||||||||||||||
| FC Strindberg | ||||||||||||||
| Mautner Markhof | ||||||||||||||
| SC Simmering | ||||||||||||||
| Ostbahn XI | ||||||||||||||
| Senior career* | ||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | |||||||||||
| 1944–1954 | Austria Wien | 184 | (220) | |||||||||||
| 1954–1957 | Strasbourg | 95 | (57) | |||||||||||
| 1957–1958 | AS Béziers | 23 | (5) | |||||||||||
| 1958–1959 | Monaco | 23 | (10) | |||||||||||
| 1959–1961 | Troyes | 24 | (3) | |||||||||||
| 1961–1962 | Metz | 19 | (6) | |||||||||||
| Total | 368 | (301) | ||||||||||||
| International career | ||||||||||||||
| 1946–1954 | Austria | 32 | (15) | |||||||||||
Medal record
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| *Club domestic league appearances and goals | ||||||||||||||
Ernst Stojaspal (14 January 1925 – 3 April 2002) was an Austrian professionalfootballer. He was born inVienna. He was aforward orattacking midfielder noted for his prolific goalscoring record and technical ability.
A prolific striker, the left-footed Stojaspal played forAustria Wien for 10 years, winning three league titles and two domestic cups. Also, he topped the final goalscoring charts five times. After the1954 World Cup, he moved abroad to play forRacing Strasbourg,AS Béziers,AS Monaco,Troyes AC andFC Metz in France. Stojaspal scored 481 goals in 413 games forAustria Wien and scored 674 goals in his career, both including friendlies.[1][2]
In 2001, he was chosen in Austria's Team of the Century.
Stojaspal made his debut forAustria in December 1946 againstItaly and was a participant at the1954 FIFA World Cup where he scored three goals in four matches.[3] The third-place playoff againstUruguay proved to be his final international game. He earned 32 caps, scoring 15 goals.[4] He was also part of Austria's squad for thefootball tournament at the1948 Summer Olympics, but he did not play in any matches.[5]
Stojaspal later worked as a football coach and led some French clubs, most notableAC Ajaccio. He died inMoulins-lès-Metz, France.
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