Moses “Moritz” or “Moschkatz” Häusler (July 20, 1901 in Solotvyn – December 24, 1952 in

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who played professionally in Austria and the United States. He also earned seven

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with the

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between 1923 and 1925.

Player

Professional

Häusler began his career with

based youth teams Armania and Romania. In 1918, he signed with

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in Austria, but did not break into the first team until the 1919–1920 season. However, he remained a minor role player until the 1922–1923 season. In 1926, Hakoah Vienna toured the United States. Impressed by the high pay and low level of anti-Semitism compared to Europe, Häusler and several of his teammates decided to return to the United States to play in the American Soccer League. In the fall of 1926, Häusler signed with the

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. In 1928, the ASL and the

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began a struggle for supremacy in U.S. soccer. Known as the “Soccer War”, it led to the USFA declaring the ASL an “outlaw league” in the fall of 1928. At that time, Häusler had already played six games with the Giants. Declining to play with an “outlaw team” Häusler jumped to the competing, and legal,

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where he signed with

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. New York Hakoah took second place in the ESL and won the

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with Häusler scoring a goal in Hakoah’s 3-0 victory over St. Louis Madison Kennel. At the end of 1929, the ASL made peace with USFA which brought about the merger of the ASL and ESL and the merger of the ESL

with the ASL

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to form the

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. Häusler joined the new team and remained with it until 1931. That year, he signed with the

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as the ASL began to collapse. In 1933, the Americans lost in the

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championship series. Following that loss, Häusler returned to Austria, where he rejoined

for the 1933–1934 season. He retired and became a coach, but returned to Hakoah Vienna at the end of the 1935–1936 season.

National team

Häusler earned seven

, scoring two goals, with the Austria national team. His first came in an August 1923 victory over

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. He scored in his second game with the national team, a win over

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. His last game was a November 1925 game with

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Coach

Following his retirement in 1934, Häusler moved to Poland to coach

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. He later coached in northern Europe and Luxembourg. In 1950, he returned to Vienna, where he owned a coffee house until his death in 1952.

External links

1924/25 Hakoah team photo

References

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