Ernst Franz Hermann Happel was an Austrian football player and manager.
17 Facts About Ernst Happel
2.
Ernst Happel won the European Cup twice, in 1970 with Feyenoord and 1983 with Hamburger SV, managed Club Brugge to a European Cup runner-up finish in 1978, and won a runners-up medal with the Netherlands at the 1978 FIFA World Cup.
3.
Ernst Happel was the first of the five managers to have won the European Cup with two clubs.
4.
Ernst Happel started his professional playing career at Rapid Wien, where he made his first team debut at age 17.
5.
Ernst Happel was chosen in Rapid's Team of the Century in 1999.
6.
Ernst Happel made his debut for Austria in September 1947 against Hungary.
7.
Ernst Happel played for Austria at the 1948 Summer Olympics.
8.
Ernst Happel was a participant at the 1954 FIFA World Cup in Switzerland, where he helped them reach third place, and at the 1958 World Cup.
9.
Ernst Happel's last international was a September 1958 match against Yugoslavia.
10.
Ernst Happel took two clubs to gold in the European Champions' Cup and the Netherlands to second place in the 1978 World Cup.
11.
At the 1978 World Cup in Argentina, Ernst Happel was coach of The Netherlands national team and reached the final against the Argentina national team.
12.
In 1987, Ernst Happel returned to Austria as coach of Swarovski Tirol.
13.
Ernst Happel reported he refused to sing along to their songs until he was kicked out of their gatherings.
14.
Ernst Happel was conscripted and dispatched to the Eastern Front in 1943.
15.
Ernst Happel escaped by jumping out of the train wagon in Munich and took several months to make his way back to Vienna.
16.
Ernst Happel smuggled himself into the Soviet occupation zone with the excuse that he had seen from afar his house was still standing and that he'd started playing at Rapid Vienna again.
17.
Ernst Happel was described by one of his ex-players Birger Jensen as a bit of a loner, always accompanied by his cigarettes and cognac.