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Adalbert Steiner

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Adalbert Steiner
Steiner in 1966
Personal information
Date of birth (1907-01-24)24 January 1907
Place of birth Temesvár, Austria-Hungary
Date of death 10 December 1984(1984-12-10) (aged 77)
Position(s) Defender
Youth career
1920–1921 AVTK Timișoara
1921–1922 Unirea Timișoara
1922–1924 Chinezul Timișoara
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1924–1930 Chinezul Timișoara[a] 32 (0)
1930 CA Timișoara
International career
1926–1930 Romania 10 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Adalbert Steiner II (24 January 1907 – 10 December 1984) was a Romanian football defender.

Club career

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Steiner was born on 24 January 1907 in Temesvár, Austria-Hungary (now Romania).[1][2][3] He started playing junior level football at the age of 13 at local club, AVTK.[2] In 1921 he moved to newly-founded club, Unirea.[1][2][3] One year later he went to play for Chinezul Timișoara.[1][2][3]

In 1924 at age 17, Steiner started to play for the senior squad of Chinezul, winning three consecutive titles in his first three seasons.[1][2][3] At the conquest of the first two he worked with coach Frontz Dőme who used in 17 matches in the second season.[1][2][4] For the third title he played 15 games under coaches Dőme and Jenő Konrád, also being teammate with his brother, Rudolf.[1][2][4][5] His last spell of his club career took place in 1930 at CA Timișoara.[1][3][6]

International career

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Steiner played ten games for Romania.[6] He and his brother Rudolf made their debut together on 7 May 1926 under coach Teofil Morariu in a friendly that ended with a 3–1 away victory against Turkey.[6][7] Adalbert played in two victories against Yugoslavia and Greece at the 1929–31 Balkan Cup, a tournament that was won by Romania.[6][8]

He was selected by coach Constantin Rădulescu to be part of Romania's squad at the 1930 World Cup.[2][3][6] There he played in the first game from the group stage, a 3–1 victory against Peru in which he got injured by opponent Luis de Souza, an injury from which he never recovered, ending his career at age 23.[2][3][6][9][10] The second game was a 4–0 loss to hosts and eventual world champions Uruguay.[3]

Personal life

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His father, Karl Steiner was an engineer that was born in Bohemia who settled in Temesvár where he got married and had eight children.[2][11] One of Adalbert's brothers, Rudolf Steiner was also a footballer, they played together at Chinezul Timișoara and Romania's national team.[2][3] In 1941, Adalbert married a woman named Aurora Subolotzky, with whom he had two sons, Iosif and Adalbert.[2]

Death

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Steiner died on 10 December 1987 at age 87 in his native Timișoara.[1][3][6]

Honours

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Chinezul Timișoara

Romania

Notes

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  1. ^ Only the statistics for the 1925–26 and 1926–27 Divizia A seasons are available.[1]

References

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  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j Adalbert Steiner at RomanianSoccer.ro (in Romanian)
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l "ÎN AMINTIREA LEGENDELOR: Adalbert Steiner, Chinezul Timișoara" [IN MEMORY OF THE LEGENDS: Adalbert Steiner, Chinezul Timișoara] (in Romanian). Ripensiatimisoara.ro. 8 February 2013. Retrieved 21 September 2020.
  3. ^ a b c d e f g h i j "Cel mai ghinionist timișorean de la Montevideo. Povestea lui Adalbert Steiner, care nu a jucat decât o repriză la primul campionat mondial de fotbal" [The most unlucky Timișoara resident in Montevideo. The story of Adalbert Steiner, who only played one half at the first world football championship] (in Romanian). Pressalert.ro. 24 March 2019. Retrieved 22 May 2020.
  4. ^ a b c "Romania National Champions". RomanianSoccer. Retrieved 14 May 2025.
  5. ^ "Cornel Lazăr, creatorul marilor Chinezul și Ripensia. Un vizionar al fotbalului românesc" [Cornel Lazăr, the creator of the great Chinese and Ripensia. A visionary of Romanian football] (in Romanian). Ripensia-sport-magazin.ro. 1 August 2016. Retrieved 14 May 2025.
    "Timișoara, regina fotbalului românesc interbelic" [Timisoara, the queen of interwar Romanian football] (in Romanian). Ripensia-sport-magazin.ro. 14 December 2016. Retrieved 14 May 2025.
    "Jenő Konrád profile". WorldFootball. Retrieved 14 May 2025.
  6. ^ a b c d e f g h "Adalbert Steiner". European Football. Retrieved 22 May 2020.
  7. ^ "Rudolf Steiner". European Football. Retrieved 22 May 2020.
    "Turkey - Romania 1:3". European Football. Retrieved 20 May 2020.
  8. ^ a b "Balkan Cup 1929–31". European Football. Retrieved 22 May 2020.
  9. ^ "Peru - Romania 1:3". European Football. Retrieved 22 May 2020.
  10. ^ "Descoperire unică: poveștile și arhiva foto din Uruguay 1930 ale românului care a marcat într-un picior în primul nostru meci la un Mondial" [Unique discovery: the stories and photo archive from Uruguay 1930 of the Romanian who scored with one foot in our first match at a World Cup] (in Romanian). Gsp.ro. 31 October 2022. Retrieved 31 October 2022.
  11. ^ "Nostalgii timișorene: Povestea uzinei de gaz din Timișoara, apărută în 1858" [Timișoara nostalgia: The story of the gas plant in Timișoara, built in 1858] (in Romanian). Adevarul.ro. 11 April 2013. Retrieved 22 May 2020.
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