Ladislav "Les" Scheinflug (born 1 October 1938) is a former professional
soccer
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player and manager. Born in Germany, he played for the
Australia national team.
Biography
Arriving in Australia in the early 1950s he lived as a youth at Villawood Migrant Hostel and played for the hostel soccer team (Villawood Tigers) He was picked to play in the Southern Districts representative soccer team during these years
Between November 1965 and April 1968 Scheinflug played 6 full international matches for
Australia
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, scoring four goals.
Before the
1974 World Cup
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he became assistant to head coach
Rale Rasic of the national side. He later served himself on several occasions as head coach of the ''Socceroos'' as well as the under 17 and 20 sides.
In 1979 Les Scheinflug won the Australian Championship and in 1980 the Australian Cup, both with
Marconi Fairfield
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The Stallions are the soccer team of Club Marc ...
. In 1979, he was voted Coach of the Year by the Australian Soccer Press Association.
In the
2000 Australia Day Honours
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The Austr ...
he was awarded an AM (
Member of the Order of Australia
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) for services to soccer as a national player and coach.
Honours
*Australian Hall of Fame Inaugural Inductee
*Australian National Team Coach
*Australian Youth Team Coach
*1979 NSL Coach of the Year
*New South Wales Representative Honours
*1959 - Northern New South Wales
*1965 - Torpedo Moscow, Chelsea
*Representative Honours
*1959 - NSWSF XI v The Rest
*1965 - Sydney XI v Torpedo (c), Sydney XI v Hapoel Tel Aviv
References
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1938 births
Living people
People from Bückeburg
German emigrants to Australia
Australian expatriate sportspeople in Germany
Australian men's soccer players
Australia men's international soccer players
Australian soccer managers
Australian expatriate soccer managers
Australia men's national soccer team managers
Fiji national football team managers
Safeway United managers
Sydney Olympic FC managers
Sydney United 58 FC managers
Adelaide City FC managers
Men's association football forwards
Men's association football midfielders
Footballers from Lower Saxony
Sydney FC Prague players
Members of the Order of Australia
Australian people of Czech descent
Australian people of German descent
German people of Czech descent
20th-century Australian sportsmen