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had disciplinary problems, especially at derbies; for instance, in the scandalous game in the spring of 1937 in which, due to injuries and exclusions, there were only 6 Rapid players on the field when the score was 0–5, the referee wisely blew his whistle and Schönecker immediately ran up to him and gave his unprintable opinion, which earned him a hefty fine.
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indebted club had resigned as a whole, and the majority of the players had also turned their backs on the club, and to make the situation even worse, the city of Vienna had canceled the lease for the
Rudolfsheim sports field, the area of which was needed to expand the Meiselmarkt, which left Rapid homeless virtually overnight.
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Republic's Silver Medal of Honor for his services. Despite all the titles won under his leadership, his most lasting legacy remains that he anchored the Rapid virtues of
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Austria, having become a republic, was going through a period of crisis, so the 1920s were characterized by the scarcity of financial resources which weighed on the results of the club, who suffered a title drought until winning the championship again in 1922–23, but the team then
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In the following years, Schönecker consolidated Rapid's status as
Austria's most successful team, winning the title in 1912–13 without a single defeat, which was followed by the fifth championship title and the first cup victory in 1918–19. The club then won the double again in the next season.
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September 1938, when after suffering from appendicitis, the 50-year-old was operated on, but still died a few days later on 14 September. In his last season (1937–38), Rapid won the national title,
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championship. Until 1926, the leader of the football section also acted as the team's coach, but after a few less successful years, it was Schönecker himself who made a change, resigning as coach and designating one of his former players,
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In 1985, the Schöneckergasse street in Vienna-Penzing (14th district) was named after him. The statue of Dionys Schönecker still stands outside the old
Pfarrwiese ground, surviving the transition from Gerhard-Hanappi-Stadion to Allianz.
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His management style was often described as authoritarian, almost dictatorial, and when there were disciplinary problems with a player, the offending player was often quickly thrown out, with a famous example of this being
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community spirit, fighting spirit, and the will to win in the club mentality. In doing so, he coined the "Rapid Spirit", of which he is now rightly regarded as the father of ("Mister Rapid").
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