Arnold Pihlak

[3][4] Pihlak began playing football as a school pupil in Pelgulinn, but his studies and sporting aspirations were interrupted by his voluntary participation in the Estonian War of Independence, where he served on the armoured train No.

[3] Pihlak made a strong impression during the 1927 FIFA Helsinki tournament and in the April of the following year, while playing for TJK in Riga, he was approached by Karl Kurz with a proposal to join Austria Wien.

[3][5] Pihlak made his unofficial debut for Austria Wien in December 1928 during their tour in Italy.

[3] Pihlak impressed on his official first team debut, scoring two goals in the club's 3–0 victory in the Austrian Cup match against SC Westmark Wien on 20 January 1929.

[6] He retired from football in 1934, after he had been injured in a car accident the previous year, when his truck was hit by an oncoming train at an Ülemiste intersection.

Arnold Pihlak (first in the front row) was one of the founders of JS Estonia