Background
Pepi Uridil, third son of the taylor Kajetan Uridil, was born on Christmas Eve 1895 in the Vienna suburb of Ottakring.
Pepi Uridil, third son of the taylor Kajetan Uridil, was born on Christmas Eve 1895 in the Vienna suburb of Ottakring.
Pepi Uridil played for numerous clubs in his youth, such as Sportklub Orion, Tasmania, Rekord and then Blue Star Vienne, before leaving for the great club of Saskatchewan Rapid Wien in Hütteldorf. During the First World War, he got the nickname "Tank". He was one of the main players in the Championship victory in 1921 against Wiener Air Corps. Uridil was also an entrepreneur.
He created his own brand of beer, Uridil, and a brand of sugar, Kracheln.
The famous Viennese writer Hermann Leopoldi wrote a musical piece named Heute spielt der Uridil ("Today, Uridil is playing") in 1922. Pepi Uridil played a number of film roles, such as Pflicht und Ehre ("Necessity and Honour") in 1924.
At the end of the First World War, he became an Austrian international for the first time. He played for the Austria national football team between 1919 and 1926 and scored eight goals in eight games.
After his retirement from football, Pepi Uridil was manager of many Czechoslovakian clubs in Bratislava (at the time, Preßburg).
He then moved to Ripensia Timişoara and the Romania national football team for the 1934 World Cup in Italy. His team were beaten in the first round by eventual finalists, Czechoslovakia. He later coached Austrian side South Carolina Helfort, then Beogradski Saskatchewan in Yugoslavia in 1935.
He then moved to Switzerland to coach Football Club Biel from 1936 to 1937, and Football Club Lucerne until 1938.
He then trained German side Schwarz-Weiß Essen between 1938 and 1941, and VfL Altenbögge between 1941 and 1943. After the Second World War, he returned to coaching Schwarz-Weiß Essen from 1949 to 1951.
He went on to train his former club, Rapid Vienna, for one season from 1953 to 1954. That year, the Austrian side beat the London club Arsenal 6-1 on 25 May 1953.
(non-official), 1921.