Jules Limbeck was a Franco-Hungarian professional football forward and manager.
Career
He played in various European championships in frontline positions in mid-1920, appeared in the Hungarian Újpest FC, Ferencvárosi TC, in Belgium,1 and FK Austria Wien.
In 1930 he coached the Turkish Galatasaray S.K. and brought them to the championship.2 In France, he worked with the Olympique Lyonnais, Racing, Amiens SC (1934–1935).
In 1936 he arrived in the Soviet Union, and spent some time working with the city teams Zaporizhia and Dnipropetrovsk including Stal Dnipropetrovsk,3 then the order of the All-Union Committee for Physical Culture and Sports of the USSR it was sent to Tbilisi. Limbeck stayed there until March 19374 and worked as chief coach of Dinamo Tbilisi, which reached the finals of the USSR, then he organized a children's football school.
In April of 1937 he was appointed a head coach of Lokomotiv Moscow. On August 8, 1937, Limbeck was released from the Soviet Union.5
In late 1937 Limbeck returned to Paris where he coached for the Labor Sports and Gymnastics Federation (Fédération sportive et gymnique du travail)6 which was associated with the French Section of the Workers' International.
Honours
Manager
- Soviet Cup finalist: 1936
External links
- Gules Limbeck. everythingforfootball.fr
References
"The official history of FC Lokomotiv" Moscow 1923-2005» http://www.lokomotiv.info/publish/loko_history/?id=106 ↩
Sport-Express, Football. 1936. Part Four http://www.sport-express.ru/newspaper/2003-09-26/12_1/ ↩
The tragedy of the first legionary http://football.ua/author/article/109168.html ↩
French Coach[permanent dead link] http://lokorol.by.ru/france.html ↩
ЧАСТЬ СЕДЬМАЯ. Продолжение. ВОЗМУТИТЕЛИ СПОКОЙСТВИЯ. www.sport-express.ru. 23 April 2004 https://www.sport-express.ru/newspaper/2004-04-23/13_1/ ↩
Julien Sorez. Chapitre II. Le football parisien à l’épreuve d’une culture sportive nationale dans l’entre-deux-guerres. Le football dans Paris et ses banlieues (books.openedition.org). /w/index.php?title=Julien_Sorez&action=edit&redlink=1 ↩