Emerich Vogl

Emerich (Imre) Vogl (born 12 August 1905 in Temesvár, Austria-Hungary (now Romania) – died 29 October 1971 in Bucharest, Romania) was a Romanian football player and coach of Banat Swabian ethnicity who was a member of Romanian team which participated at the 1930 World Cup from Uruguay and the 1934 edition in Italy.

Emerich Vogl was born on 12 August 1905 in Temesvár, Austria-Hungary, growing up in the Mehala neighborhood, then playing as a youth for local club, Chinezul between 1921 and 1922.

[1][5][6] Around this time he was considered by the press to be the best central midfielder in Europe, being appreciated for his technical abilities and his physical condition, at one point winning a local 800 metres running competition.

[3][6][16][18][19] He was selected by coach Constantin Rădulescu to be part of the squad for the 1930 World Cup but the chairman of Astra Română, a company where Vogl and his teammate Ladislau Raffinsky were office workers, interdicted the two players to leave their workplace, eventually after the Romanian Football Federation's secretary Octav Luchide went to the company with a letter of the Romanian squad that should be at the final tournament which was signed by King Carol II, they were allowed to participate.

[23][24][25] Vogl returned to Juventus for a final time in the second half of the 1945–46 București championship, replacing Nicolae Petrescu who remained in his staff as an assistant.