Paul Halla

Paul Halla (10 April 1931 – 6 December 2005) was an Austrian footballer.

He skippered Rapid in his final season there.

He earned 34 caps and scored 2 goals for the Austria national football team from 1954 to 1965, and participated in the 1954 FIFA World Cup and the 1958 FIFA World Cup.

He died in a Vienna hospital in December 2005 after stomach surgery.

This biographical article related to association football in Austria, about a defender, is a stub.

Austria national football team in 1958 with the following players – from left to right, standing; Walter Horak , Ernst Happel , Karl Koller , Alfred Körner , Paul Halla, Walter Schleger ; crouched: Helmut Senekowitsch , Gerhard Hanappi , Rudolf Szanwald , Franz Swoboda and Johann Buzek .