The modern game was created in the coffee houses of Vienna
at the ongoing Euro football championship have caught the eye as much as Austria’s 3-2 triumph over the Netherlands on June 25th. The win meant that the Austrians topped the “group of death”, leaving the thoroughbreds from France and Poland, as well as the men in orange, trailing. Having started the tournament as rank outsiders, they are now outside favourites. They are also drawing plaudits for their exuberant, attacking style of play.
Like many other countries, football was introduced to Austria by English expats. First, they formed a cricket club in Vienna, but then started playing football, in the grounds of Baron Rothschild’s estate. Thus was born the “First Vienna Cricket and Football-Club”, which in November 1894 lined up against the “Vienna Football Club” for the country’s first official match. The game quickly caught on, and the first league championship was played in the 1911-12 season.
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