Kurt Schmied [SEP] member of sports team
Kurt Schmied
Kurt Schmied (14 June 1926 – 9 December 2007) was a goalkeeper for First Vienna FC and Austria national football team.
International career.
He made his debut for Austria in May 1954 against Wales. He represented Austria during the FIFA World Cup 1954 and again in 1958. He was a hero of the quarter-final game versus Switzerland in the 1954 finals where he played on despite suffering from a debilitating heatstroke in a game that is often remembered as the Hitzeschlacht von Lausanne, or Heat Battle
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- December 5: Alois Kracher, 48, winemaker, pancreatic cancer.
- December 9: Kurt Schmied, 81, footballer, former member of the national team.
- December 11: Carl Ludwig, Archduke of Austria, 89, son of Emperor Charles I of Austria.
- December 12: Alfons Maria Stickler, 97, prelate of the Roman Catholic Church.
- December 24: Andreas Matzbacher, 25, cyclist, car accident.