Emerich Vogl

Emerich (Imre) Vogl (born 12 August 1905 in Temesvár, Austria-Hungary (now Romania) – died 29 October 1971 in Bucharest, Romania) was a Romanian football player and coach of Banat Swabian ethnicity who was a member of Romanian team which participated at the 1930 World Cup from Uruguay and the 1934 edition in Italy.

Club career
Emerich Vogl was born on 12 August 1905 in Temesvár, Austria-Hungary, growing up in the Mehala neighborhood, then playing as a youth for local club, Chinezul between 1921 and 1922. In 1922, at 17, Vogl made his debut for the senior team and until 1924 he played on different positions, before settling as a central midfielder. He played for Chinezul until 1929, winning five Divizia A titles with them, at the one from the 1925–26 season scoring 15 goals in the regional and national championship together, being the team's second top-goalscorer after Augustin Semler who scored 41. Around this time he was considered by the press to be the best central midfielder in Europe, being appreciated for his technical abilities and his physical condition, at one point winning a local 800 metres running competition.

In 1929, together with his teammate Ladislau Raffinsky he moved to Juventus București. Vogl made his debut for his new team under coach Gyula Feldmann on 13 October in a 1–0 home victory with Venus București from the regional championship, scoring his first goal on 3 November in a 1–0 away win over Maccabi București. Juventus won the regional championship, thus qualifying for the national championship which was won after a 3–0 victory in the final against Gloria Arad, Vogl being used by coaches Feldmann and György Hlavay in all of the 14 matches from the campaign, having one goal scored. In the following seven years, Vogl appeared regularly for the team, helping it gain promotion to Divizia A by the end of the 1932–33 season, also having two spells as a player-coach, the highlights of this period being a third place in the 1935–36 season and reaching two times in a row the Cupa României semi-finals.

International career
Emerich Vogl played 29 games and scored one goal at international level for Romania. He made his debut on 31 August 1924 under coach Teofil Morariu in a away friendly against Czechoslovakia which ended with a 4–1 loss. In his third match for the national team, Vogl was named the team captain in a 3–1 away win in a friendly over Turkey. He scored his first and only goal at international level in a 8–1 win with Greece from the successful 1929–31 Balkan Cup. He was selected by coach Constantin Rădulescu to be part of the squad for the 1930 World Cup but the chairman of Astra Română, a company where Vogl and his teammate Ladislau Raffinsky were office workers, interdicted the two players to leave their workplace, eventually after the Romanian Football Federation's secretary Octav Luchide went to the company with a letter of the Romanian squad that should be at the final tournament which was signed by King Carol II, they were allowed to participate. Vogl played in both Group 3 matches at that World Cup, a 3–1 win over Peru and a 4–0 loss to hosts and eventual world champions Uruguay. Afterwards he helped the team win two competitions, the 1933 Balkan Cup where he appeared in all three matches and the 1931–34 Central European Cup for Amateurs where he played five games. Vogl played two games at the successful 1934 World Cup qualifiers, being selected by coaches Josef Uridil and Rădulescu to be part of the squad at the final tournament where he played and captained the team for the last time in a first round exit as they were defeated with 2–1 by eventual finalists, Czechoslovakia.

International goals

 * Scores and results list Romania's goal tally first. "Score" column indicates the score after each Emerich Vogl goal.

Managerial career
Emerich Vogl's first coaching experience was when he replaced Rudolf Wetzer at Juventus București for the second half of the 1930–31 regional championship, being a player-coach, taking the club from the third place and finishing on the second with only one point below winners Unirea Tricolor București. In the following season he finished on the fourth place, then in the 1932–33 edition he led them in the first half, finishing first but was replaced with Ladislau Csillag for the second half who kept the team on the lead position, earning the promotion to Divizia A. He was player-coach again when he replaced Csillag for the second half of the 1933–34 season, making his Divizia A debut as coach in a 3–1 home win over Șoimii Sibiu, finishing the season on the fourth position. After finishing the first half of the following season on the 10th place from 12 teams, Vogl was replaced with Gyula Dobo. In 1943 he led Juventus once again, this time only as coach, competing because of World War II in a unofficial championship and in the Cupa României, also on 13 June he led Romania's national team for the first time in a friendly which ended 2–2 with Slovakia. Vogl returned to Juventus for a final time in the second half of the 1945–46 București championship, replacing Nicolae Petrescu who remained in his staff as an assistant. In the following two seasons he coached the team in Divizia A, finishing the first one on the fourth place and the second on fifth, then in the 1948–49 season after losing in the 19th round with 3–2 a home game with ASA București he was replaced with Colea Vâlcov. In 1949, Vogl had his second experience at Romania's national team, this time leading the team together with Coloman Braun-Bogdan in a 1–1 home friendly against Albania. From 1950 until 1952, Vogl had his last spell as Romania's coach, leading it in four friendly games which consisted of a win and two draws with Czechoslovakia and a victory with Albania, from all of his three spells at the national team he obtained two victories, four draws and no losses.

Between 1963 and 1967, he was a consultant for Rapid București, helping it win the first title in its history in the 1966–67 season, afterwards he was a consultant at the national team from 1967 until 1971, helping Romania to qualify in 1970 at a FIFA World Cup after 32 years.

Death
Emerich Vogl died on 29 October 1971 at the age of 66.

Player
Chinezul Timișoara Juventus București Romania
 * Divizia A: 1923–24, 1924–25, 1925–26, 1926–27
 * Divizia A: 1929–30
 * Balkan Cup: 1929–31, 1933
 * Central European International Cup: 1931–34