Name: Ernst Melchior

Nickname: "Gscherter"



Country: Austria
Club: FK Austria Wien
Position: *WF, CF
Side: RF/RS
Age: 26-32 years (26/06/1920)

Height: * 179 cm (not found)
Weight: * 78 kg (not found)

Attack: 85
Defence: 37
Balance: 82
Stamina: 80
Top Speed: 90
Acceleration: 87
Response: 79
Agility: 85
Dribble Accuracy: 81
Dribble Speed: 83
Short Pass Accuracy: 76
Short Pass Speed: 69
Long Pass Accuracy: 78
Long Pass Speed: 73
Shot Accuracy: 84
Shot Power: 83
Shot Technique: 88
Free Kick Accuracy: 71
Curling: 75
Header: 77
Jump: 78
Technique: 82
Aggression: 90
Mentality: 79
Keeper Skills: 50
Team Work: 76

Injury Tolerance: A
Condition/Fitness: 7
Weak Foot Accuracy: 5
Weak Foot Frequency: 5
Consistency: 6
Growth Type: Standard Lasting


CARDS:
P06: Speed Merchant
P17: Free Roaming
S01: Reaction
S05: 1-touch Play

SPECIAL ABILITIES: Side - Reaction - Scoring - 1 touch Pass

Attack / Defence Awareness Card: Attack Minded


INFO:

Ernst Melchior is former Austrian striker. He played mainly as right winger and was one of the best Austrian players on that position. Ernst was very fast player but also strong and direct, very determinate with good attacking intelligence and very effective, always took his chances very well. Ernst Melchior began his football career with his hometown club SV Villach. In 1946, the striker was a surprise of Edward Bauer for the international match on 14 April against the "arch rivals" placed Hungary. For the first time since Franz Fuchs Berger, in 1936, was convened by the SV Urfahr, an amateur playing in the national leagues of the Austrian national football team. Ernst Melchior was able to score on his debut for the 3-2 victory over the Magyars and contribute attracted the attention of many professional clubs in Vienna. This developed into a duel between Rapid and Austria, both of Ernst Melchior tried to win over. In the summer of 1946 he came with his lesser-known younger brother Otto to the violets, where he soon had a Fixleiberl. In a total of 158 league games scored 122 goals for Ernst Melchior violets and could be three times Austrian champion. He also received his unimaginative nickname "G'scherter". In the national team scored some important goals of the Villach for the team, his most famous 1-0 win over Scotland in Glasgow. These were the first victory of a continental European team over the Scots in their country. In addition, he also met in a 2-2 at Wembley against England alongside his club colleague Ernst Stojaspal 1951. During the season 1953/54 he went to France, where he served as player and coach, he missed the part in the World Cup 1954th He was playing for FC Rouen, 1953-1958, however, documented only a midfield place in Division 2 (second division). This changed not changed in the season 1958/59, as Ernst Melchior from Normandy to FC Nantes in Brittany. After all, he has brought it into the six French years ago to 193 points wagered (158 Rouen, 35 Nantes), and without its numerous gates were his club certainly get into bigger troubles: He came into the league 70 times for FC Rouen and 16 times for FC Nantes. He was in the French Cup in March 1954 with Rouen in the quarterfinals, but had to bow to the Erstdivisionär Olympique Marseille 2:3. After the end of his playing career, Melchior suggested that a coaching career and served among other things, Besiktas Istanbul, Fortuna Düsseldorf, Rouen and the Luxembourg national team. In 1978 he died, just 58-years old, French in his adopted homeland. In 2001 was named in the Vienna Leopold city, a street of the city of Vienna to Ernst Melchior.