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Full name
  
Alois Hess

Years
  
Team

Date of birth
  
3 January 1903

Name
  
Alois Hess

Place of birth
  
Austria

Role
  
Football player

Place of death
  
Tel Aviv, Israel


Date of death
  
July 3, 1956(1956-07-03) (aged 53)

Died
  
July 3, 1956, Tel Aviv, Israel

Alois Hess (Hebrew: לאיוש (אהרון) הס‎‎) (1903–1956) was an Austrian football player who played for Hakoah Vienna.

Career

Hess started playing for Hakoah Vienna in 1919 was part of the squad that beat West Ham United F.C. in London, scoring the third goal of the match, as well as being part of the team that toured North America in 1927 and 1929.

Hess emigrated to Mandatory Palestine in 1934, joining Maccabi Tel Aviv, as well as serving as the team's manager. In 1937 Hess was appointed as manager of the newly formed Beitar Tel Aviv, a position he held until 1947.

In 1949, Hess was appointed as manager of the Israel national football team ahead of the national team's 1950 FIFA World Cup qualification campaign. In his first match as manager of the national team, against Cyprus, Israel recorded its first victory as independent country (having previously beaten Lebanon as Mandatory Palestine in 1940), beating its rivals 3–1. The national team was beaten in both qualification matches by Yugoslavia, and Hess left the position.

Hess returned to Beitar Tel Aviv in 1954, as the team was at risk of relegation to Liga Bet He died in Tel Aviv on 3 July 1956 during a practice.

References

Alois Hess Wikipedia