Euro legends: Remembering Matthias Sindelar, Austria's inspirational forward

Matthias Sindelar
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When a gaggle of reporters surrounds a national team manager in a café, begging him to recall a striker from the international wilderness, that marksman may just have something special about him.

That was certainly true of Austria’s Matthias Sindelar. What’s more, this supposed café coup in 1931 was successful in changing the mind of manager Hugo Meisl, who recalled him to the side.

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