Heinrich Retschury

Heinrich Retschury played for First Vienna FC as defender.[1] Together with Wilhelm Eipeldauer he formed the defence of the club. He also played in the Austrian national football team.[2] His first match was a 4:0 win against Transleithanien. Transleithanien was the Hungarian part of the Austrian-Hungary Empire. He played another 5 times in the team . His last appearance for Austria was a 1:8 versus England on 1 June 1909.[3] Later he was a member of the Olympic squad for the Stockholm Olympic games in 1912, but he did not play there.[1]

During the First World War he was caretaker of the football national team because the coach Hugo Meisl became soldier. (22 matches: 8 won, 3 draws, 11 lost). Also in the year 1937, after the death of Hugo Meisl, he became caretaker of the national team (5 matches: 2 won, 1 draw, 2 lost) and reached the qualification for the 1938 FIFA World Cup where Austria did not play, because the country was occupied by Germany.

After his football career he became a successful international referee. At the 1924 Olympic Games in Paris, he refereed three matches (Round of 16: Belgium-Sweden 1:8;[4] Quarterfinal: Netherlands-Irish Free State 2:1;[5] First Bronze medal: Netherlands-Sweden 1:1;[6]) He also refereed league and cup matches in Austria.