Ladislav 'Les' Scheinflug (born 1 October 1938 in Bückeburg

Bückeburg

Bückeburg is a town in Lower Saxony, Germany, on the border with North Rhine Westphalia. It was once the capital of the tiny principality of Schaumburg-Lippe and is today located in the district of Schaumburg close to the northern slopes of the Weserbergland ridge...

, Germany) is a former football (soccer)

Football (soccer)

Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball...

 player and coach.

Arriving in Australia in the early 1950s he lived as a youth at Villawood Migrant Hostel and played for the hostel soccer team (Villawood Tigers) He was picked to play in the Southern Districts representative soccer team during these years

Scheinflug played 6 full international matches for Australia before becoming assistant coach to Rale Rasic

Ralé Rasic

Zvonimir "Ralé" Rašić OAM Zvonimir "Ralé" Rašić OAM Zvonimir "Ralé" Rašić OAM (born 26 December 1935 in Mostar, Littoral Banovina, Kingdom of Yugoslavia (now Bosnia and Herzegovina) is a Serbian-Australian former football player, coach and media personality....

 before the 1974 FIFA World Cup

1974 FIFA World Cup

The 1974 FIFA World Cup, the tenth staging of the World Cup, was held in West Germany from 13 June to 7 July. The tournament marked the first time that the current trophy, the FIFA World Cup Trophy, created by the Italian sculptor Silvio Gazzaniga, was awarded...

. He later coached the Socceroos team as well as the under 17 and 20 teams.

Honours

• Australian Hall of Fame Inaugural Inductee
• Australian National Team Coach
• Australian Youth Team Coach
• 1979 NSL Coach of the Year

• New South Wales Representative Honours
• 1959 - Northern New South Wales
• 1965 - Torpedo Moscow, Chelsea

• Representative Honours
• 1959 - NSWSF XI v The Rest
• 1965 - Sydney XI v Torpedo (c), Sydney XI v Hapoel Tel-Aviv