Franz Binder was an Austria

Austria

Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of roughly 8.4 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the...

n football player and coach.

Club career

Nicknamed Bimbo, Binder was a prolific goalscorer who played for SK Rapid Wien

SK Rapid Wien

The Sportklub Rapid Wien is an Austrian football club playing in the country's capital city of Vienna. Rapid is the most popular club in Austria and also record title holder having won the Austrian national football title 32 times...

. He won the national Austrian championship four times and was three times top goalscorer in Austrian league. In 1941 he also won the German championship with a 4–3 victory against Schalke 04, when he scored three goals. In his whole career he would score 1006 goals in 756 matches. With an average-score of 1.33 goals per match, it would be a world record, so Binder would have been one of few players, scoring more than 1000 goals in his career beside Gerd Müller

Gerd Müller

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, Arthur Friedenreich

Arthur Friedenreich

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, Romario

Romário

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, Josef Bican

Josef Bican

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 and Pelé

Pelé

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.

International career

Internationally he represented the Austria national football team

Austria national football team

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 (19 caps, 16 goals), and the Germany national football team

Germany national football team

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 (9 caps, 10 goals) during the Anschluss

Anschluss

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Managerial career

After retirement from playing he became a football coach, of teams such as SSV Jahn Regensburg, PSV Eindhoven, 1. FC Nuremberg, 1860 München and Rapid Wien.

Player honours

• Austrian Football Bundesliga (4):
  • 1935, 1938, 1946, 1948
• Great Germany Gauliga (2):
  • 1940, 1941
• Wiener Cup
  Austrian Cup
  The Austrian Cup, in German: ÖFB-Cup is an annual football competition held by the Austrian Football Association, the ÖFB.It has been held since 1919, with the exception of the time of the Anschluss between 1939 and 1945 and the period between 1950 and 1958 when the competition was deemed of...
  
   (1):
  • 1946
• German Cup (1):
  • 1938
• Austrian Bundesliga Top Goalscorer (3):
  • 1933, 1937, 1938
• Gauliga Top Goalscorer (3):
  • 1939, 1940, 1941

External links

• Player profile and stats – Rapidarchiv
• Career stats – National Football Teams
• Career stats – Weltfussball