SOCCER PLAYER

Karl Rappan

1905 - 1996

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Karl Rappan (26 September 1905 – 2 January 1996) was an Austrian footballer and coach. He played and managed mostly in Switzerland, where he won multiple titles. He had four tenures as coach of the Switzerland national team, which he managed in three World Cups, and is the all-time leader in matches won as coach of the Swiss team. He introduced a major football strategy known as the "bolt", which gave origin to the catenaccio system. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Karl Rappan is the 1,076th most popular soccer player (down from 525th in 2019), the 559th most popular biography from Austria (down from 414th in 2019) and the 10th most popular Austrian Soccer Player.

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, Karl Rappan ranks 1,076 out of 21,273. Before him are Craig Brown, Pauleta, Akira Nishino, Michael Rummenigge, Vladimir Durković, and Sadio Mané. After him are Luis Regueiro, Željko Čajkovski, Alexis Sánchez, Preguinho, André Onana, and Harald Nielsen.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1905, Karl Rappan ranks 134. Before him are Dmitri Shepilov, Hilde Holger, Joseph Bonanno, Tore Keller, Clarence Zener, and Hiroshi Inagaki. After him are Preguinho, Abraham Zapruder, Sven Rydell, Eduard Tubin, Bobby Pearce, and Alex Wilson. Among people deceased in 1996, Karl Rappan ranks 113. Before him are Shams Pahlavi, Bartel Leendert van der Waerden, Dondinho, Gerry Mulligan, Margaux Hemingway, and Petro Shelest. After him are Pierre Grimal, Don Simpson, Neelam Sanjiva Reddy, Hernán Siles Zuazo, José Donoso, and Idries Shah.

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In Austria

Among people born in Austria, Karl Rappan ranks 559 out of 1,424. Before him are Egon Friedell (1878), Franz Schalk (1863), Hermann Bondi (1919), Bernhard Wicki (1919), Archduchess Isabella Clara of Austria (1629), and Dezső Kosztolányi (1885). After him are Annemarie Moser-Pröll (1953), Berta Karlik (1904), Gottfried Helnwein (1948), Raul Hilberg (1926), Friedrich Welwitsch (1806), and Ulrich von Liechtenstein (1200).

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS In Austria

Among soccer players born in Austria, Karl Rappan ranks 10. Before him are Friedrich Koncilia (1948), Brian Laudrup (1969), Erich Probst (1927), Ernst Ocwirk (1926), Richard Kohn (1888), and Theodor Wagner (1927). After him are Gerhard Hanappi (1929), Ernst Stojaspal (1925), Alfred Körner (1926), Karl Koller (1929), Anton Schall (1907), and Herbert Prohaska (1955).

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