What is Leopold Nitsch?
{{Infobox football biography |name = Leopold Nitsch |image = |caption = |fullname = |birth_date = {{birth date|1897|8|4|df=y}} |birth_place = [[Vienna]], [[Austria-Hungary]] |death_date = {{Death date and age|1977|1|18|1897|8|4|df=y}} |death_place = |height = |position = [[Midfielder]] |youthyears1 = 1911-1915 |youthclubs1 = [[SK Rapid Wien|Rapid]] |years1 = 1915-1927 |clubs1 = [[SK Rapid Wien|Rapid]] |caps1 = 198 |goals1 = 0 |totalcaps = 198 |totalgoals = 0 |nationalyears1 = 1915–1926 |nationalteam1 = [[Austria national football team|Austria]] |nationalcaps1 = 35 |nationalgoals1 = 0 |manageryears1 = 1924 |managerclubs1 = [[Bulgaria national football team|Bulgaria]] |manageryears2 = 1928-1936 |managerclubs2 = [[SK Rapid Wien]] (Youth) |manageryears3 = 1936-1945 |managerclubs3 = SK Rapid Wien }} '''Leopold Nitsch''' (14 August 1897 – 18 January 1977) was an Austrian international footballer. He played for [[SK Rapid Wien]] as midfielder. With Rapid he won the Austrian championship six times and the Austrian Cup three times. He also played for the [[Austria national football team|Austrian national football team]]. ==Career== He joined the Rapid youth team in 1911. Four years later he moved up to the first team. He won his first Austrian championship title in the 1915–16 season. The team soon dominated the championship. Nitsch won five more titles in 1917, 1919, 1920, 1921 and 1923. He also won the first two official ÖFB cup competitions in [[1918–19 Austrian Cup|1919]] and [[1919–20 Austrian Cup|1920]]. In 1924 he became coach. He coached [[Bulgaria national football team|Bulgaria]] at the [[1924 Summer Olympics]] in Paris. He soon returned to the active ranks and played as a defender for Rapid towards the end of his career. From 1925 to 1928 he was [[Captain (association football)|captain]] of the team.<ref>[https://www.rapidarchiv.at/spieler/nitsch_leopold.html SK Rapid Wien Archiv (German)]