Full name Robert Dienst Name Robert Dienst Role Football player | ||
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Date of birth (1928-03-01)1 March 1928 Date of death 13 June 2000(2000-06-13) (aged 72) Died June 13, 2000, Vienna, Austria | ||
Robert Dienst (1 March 1928 – 13 June 2000) was an Austrian football forward. He died in 2000 after a long illness.
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Club career
Robert Dienst started his career at Floridsdorfer AC, where he played his first game as a midfielder during World War II. He turned into a prolific striker at Rapid Wien and became one of the most successful Austrian goalscorers in the 1950-s., three times topping the top goalscorers charts and winning 6 league titles. With his 307 Bundesliga goals, he is still Rapid's record league goalscorer.
He scored 323 goals in 351 games in total in the Austrian Football Bundesliga.
International career
He made his debut for Austria in an October 1949 match against Hungary and earned a total of 27 caps, scoring 12 goals. He was a participant at the 1954 FIFA World Cup and 1958 FIFA World Cup.