Name: Auguste "Gusti“ Jordan

Nickname: "Le Baby de Linz"



Country: / Austria/France
Club: Racing Club de Paris
Position: *CMF, SS, AMF, DMF, CF, CB
Side: RF/BS
Age: 24-30 years (21/02/1909)

Height: 178 cm
Weight: 76 kg

Attack: 79
Defence: 75
Balance: 78
Stamina: 84
Top Speed: 78
Acceleration: 80
Response: 81
Agility: 79
Dribble Accuracy: 84
Dribble Speed: 77
Short Pass Accuracy: 88
Short Pass Speed: 79
Long Pass Accuracy: 85
Long Pass Speed: 78
Shot Accuracy: 78
Shot Power: 82
Shot Technique: 77
Free Kick Accuracy: 68
Curling: 67
Header: 88
Jump: 84
Technique: 86
Aggression: 75
Mentality: 81
Keeper Skills: 50
Team Work: 84

Injury Tolerance: B
Condition: 6
Weak Foot Accuracy: 7
Weak Foot Frequency: 7
Consistency: 6
Growth type: Early Lasting

CARDS:
P20 Talisman
S02 Passer

SPECIAL ABILITIES: Playmaking - Passing - Centre

Attack / Defence Awareness Card: Attack Minded


INFO:

Gusti Jordan is former Austrian and French player. He started to play as centre forward but later moved more and more deeper on the field, first as an inside forward, than wing half and even centre half. His trademark was excellent heading, he was also very good technician with precise passing range, had good vision and was two-footed player, he was well trained. August Jordan started his playing career as many young football players in the Upper Austrian capital Linz in the 1920s. From there he joined the youth team of the Linz ASK and was due to his talent at age 15 years used as a link striker in the first team. With the of Linz, he won several times the Upper Austrian provincial championship and in the season 1930/31 the Austrian State Amateur Championship. In 1932 Jordan changed during the current season, the then first division Floridsdorfer Wiener AC in the Austrian top professional league. In the remaining games of the season 1931/32 he scored 16 goals for this Floridsdorf. After he received an offer from Paris in 1933, went with Rudolf Hiden to France and played from 1933 to 1945 at the Racing Club de Paris. With this club, he won the 1936 French Championship Division 1 and celebrated by winning the Coupe de France and the double. With the Cup victories in 1939, 1940 and 1945, the native of Linz three other major title wins in his celebrated career. From 1937 he was considered a naturalized Frenchman, in 1938 Jordan was then finally a French citizen and was in the same year his first enlistment in the French national team. At the World Cup 1938, which was held in France, Auguste Jordan came in two games for use, but on the rotor position. The French failed after a 3-1 win over Belgium in the quarter-finals at the eventual champions Italy 1-3. Overall, it took Jordan 1938-1945 to 16 games and a goal for the Equipe Tricolore and was at times also the team captain. On 6 December 1945 Gusti Jordan played his last game for the French national team selection for the first and only time against his former compatriots. The Austrians won the match 3-1 in Vienna. After he had been during his playing days at RC Paris casually tried as a coach in Epinal, he moved to his career as a player in the final as coach and worked on the teams of Red Star Paris, Marseille and Paris Racing. With the first FC Saarbrücken, he reached the final match of the 1952 German championship. His biggest success as a coach, he celebrated with the team from Standard Liege in 1963 for which he won the Belgian championship. Gusti died in 1990.