22 Dec 1912: Austria win 3–1 in Genoa in Hugo Meisl’s first match as national-team manager. We relive the game, then step into Meisl’s Vienna: coffee-house football, the Danubian style, professionalism in 1924, and the competitions he helped build (including Mitropa, as in E0013). Finally: Sindelar, the Wunderteam, and Austria’s 1934 World Cup run — and what modern football inherited from Meisl’s ideas.

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