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{{Short description|Romanian footballer and manager}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=December 2020}}
{{Infobox football biography
| name = Rudy Wetzer
| image = Rudolf Wetzer 1929 (cropped).jpg
| fullname = Rudolf Wetzer I
| caption = Wetzer in 1929
| height = 
| birth_date = {{Birth date|df=yes|1901|3|17}}
| birth_place = [[Timișoara|Temesvár]], [[Austria-Hungary]]
| death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|1993|4|13|1901|4|13}}
| death_place = [[Haifa]], [[Israel]]
| position = [[Striker (association football)|Striker]]
| youthyears1 = <!--No info-->
| youthclubs1 = <!--No info-->
| years1 = 1920–1921
| clubs1 = [[Chinezul Timişoara]]
| caps1 = 3
| goals1 = 8
| years2 = 1921–1922
| clubs2 = [[Törekvés SE]]
| caps2 = 1
| goals2 = 2
| years3 = 1922–1924
| clubs3 = Unirea Timișoara
| caps3 = 15
| goals3 = 20
| years4 = 1924–1925
| clubs4 = [[BSK Belgrade]]
| caps4 = 2
| goals4 = 1
| years5 = 1925–1928
| clubs5 = [[Chinezul Timişoara]]
| caps5 = 5
| goals5 = 3
| years6 = 1929
| clubs6 = [[Újpest FC|Újpest]]
| caps6 = 1
| goals6 = 0
| years7 = 1929
| clubs7 = [[Pécs-Baranya FC|Pécs-Baranya]]
| caps7 = 6
| goals7 = 4
| years8 = 1930–1931
| clubs8 = [[FC Juventus București (1924)|Juventus București]]
| caps8 = 8
| goals8 = 11
| years9 = 1931–1932
| clubs9 = [[Ripensia Timişoara]]
| caps9 = 4
| goals9 = 5
| years10 = 1932–1933
| clubs10 = [[FC Hyères]]
| caps10 = 13
| goals10 = 5
| years11 = 1934–1935
| clubs11 = [[ILSA Timișoara]]
| caps11 = -
| goals11 = -
| years12 = 1935–1936
| clubs12 = Rovine Grivița Craiova
| caps12 = -
| goals12 = -
| years13 = 1936–1937
| clubs13 = [[ACS Electrica Timișoara|Progresul Timișoara]]
| caps13 = -
| goals13 = -
| totalcaps = 28
| totalgoals = 59
| nationalyears1 = 1923–1932
| nationalteam1 = [[Romania national football team|Romania]]
| nationalcaps1 = 17
| nationalgoals1 = 13
| manageryears1 = 1930
| managerclubs1 = [[FC Juventus București (1924)|Juventus București]]<ref>{{cite web | url=https://ploiestiulpatrianoastra.com/2014/03/29/file-de-poveste-perioada-juventus-episodul-xi-titlul-districtual-decis-si-de-o-contestatie/ | title=File de poveste – perioada Juventus! Episodul XI – TITLUL DISTRICTUAL DECIS ŞI DE O CONTESTAŢIE| publisher=Ploiestiulpatrianoastra.com| language=Romanian |trans-title=Story files - the Juventus period! Episode XI - THE DISTRICT TITLE DECIDED AND BY A CONTEST| date=29 March 2014 | access-date=7 December 2022}}</ref>
| manageryears2 = 1935
| managerclubs2 = [[Ripensia Timişoara]]
| manageryears3 = 1935–1936
| managerclubs3 = [[ILSA Timișoara]]
| manageryears4 = 1936–1938
| managerclubs4 = [[ACS Electrica Timișoara|Progresul Timișoara]]
| manageryears5 = 1938–1939
| managerclubs5 = [[Tricolor Ploieşti]]
| manageryears6 = 1940–1947
| managerclubs6 = [[FCM Reşiţa|Oţelul Reşiţa]]
| manageryears7 = 1948–1952
| managerclubs7 = [[FC Dinamo București|Dinamo București]]
| manageryears8 = 1952
| managerclubs8 = [[Dinamo Oraşul Stalin]]
}}

'''Rudolf 'Rudy' Wetzer''' (17 March 1901 – 13 April 1993) was a Romanian football player and manager.  He was the captain and team-coach alongside [[Octav Luchide]], under the management of [[Constantin Rădulescu (footballer, born 1896)|Costel Rădulescu]] of the first [[Romania]]n side to participate in a [[FIFA World Cup]]. He was of [[Jewish]] ethnicity.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.sem40.ru/sport/24860/ |title=Спорт - Центральный Еврейский Ресурс. Сайт русскоязычных евреев всего мира. Еврейские новости. Еврейские фамилии |access-date=2009-10-14 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101218233227/http://www.sem40.ru/sport/24860/ |archive-date=18 December 2010}}</ref> His brothers Ștefan and Ioan were also footballers.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://sport.hotnews.ro/stiri-fotbal_de_poveste-17378435-povestile-fotbalulu-iubim-atat-mult-fotbalul-rudy-wetzer-capitanul-nationalei-urugauay-1930-are-cuvantul.htm | title= Povestile fotbalului. De ce iubim atat de mult fotbalul? Rudy Wetzer, capitanul nationalei de la CM Uruguay 1930, are cuvantul| publisher=hotnews.ro| language=ro |trans-title=Football stories. Why do we love football so much? Rudy Wetzer, the national team captain at the 1930 WC in Uruguay has the word| date=29 May 2014 | access-date=22 November 2018}}</ref>

==Career==
In club football, Wezter played for [[FC Petrolul Ploiești|Juventus București]] (who were Romanian national champions in the 1929–1930 season),<ref>[http://www.romaniansoccer.ro/clubs_2/juventus_bucuresti/juventus_bucuresti.shtml Juventus Bucuresti<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> as such he was a colleague of squad members Vogl and [[Ladislau Raffinsky]]. In the 1920s, he had played for [[Unirea Timişoara]] (appearing, whilst with them, at the [[1924 Summer Olympics|1924 Olympic Games]])<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/27117 |title=Rudolf Wetzer |work=Olympedia |access-date=21 August 2021}}</ref> and [[Chinezul]] before moving on. His last matches for Romania (played while he was playing for [[Ripensia]]) were in 1932; his last match came in a 2–0 defeat to [[Bulgaria]] in [[Belgrade]].<ref>[http://www.fotbal.net/content/view/373/439/ Fotbal Minut Cu Minut – Romanian Soccer | Anul 1932 | Ripensia, Cao, Antrenor, RomÂnia, Bodola<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> Otherwise he played for [[BSK Beograd|BSK Belgrade]], [[Újpest FC]], [[Pécs-Baranya FC|Pécs-Baranya]], [[Hyères FC]], [[ILSA Timișoara]] and [[Craiovan Craiova]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.magyarfutball.hu/hu/szemelyek/adatlap/20488/wetzer_rudolf |title=Rudolf Wetzer|publisher=Magyarfutball|access-date=12 June 2022}}</ref> While playing in Hungary, he used the name Rudolf Veder, in Serbia, Rudolf Večer.

When BSK brought Wetzer along another Romanian, Dezideriu Laki, to its team in 1924, they became the first foreign professionals to play in Serbia.<ref>50. godina BFS, page 37 {{in lang|sr}}</ref>

==International career==
During the [[1930 FIFA World Cup]] Wetzer became Romania's team captain and team-coach alongside [[Octav Luchide]], under the management of [[Constantin Rădulescu (footballer, born 1896)|Costel Rădulescu]]. This was Rădulescu's decision in the weeks prior to the tournament. In May 1930 the Romanians had lost the [[King Alexander's Cup]] (a two-team event) to [[Yugoslavia]] in [[Belgrade]]. At the time [[Emerich Vogl]] was team captain.  Wetzer was brought back into the side two weeks' later for a friendly against [[Greece]] in [[Bucharest]].  This decision reaped considerable rewards for both Rădulescu and Wetzer as Wetzer scored 5 goals in an 8–1 victory for his team. Romania had been grouped with [[Uruguay]] and [[Peru]] in the tournament. They defeated the Peruvians 3–1 before losing to the eventual winners and hosts 4–0. The second of these games was held at the [[Estadio Centenario]] in [[Montevideo]].

Wetzer was a very prolific scorer for [[Romania national football team|Romania]]. He and [[Gyula Bodola|Bodola]] were the top two goalscorers of the [[1929–31 Balkan Cup|1929–31]] (first) edition of the [[Balkan Cup]] (which [[Romania national football team|Romania]] won). They scored 7 goals each for their country in that tournament alone.<ref name="RSSSF">{{cite web|url=https://www.rsssf.org/tablesb/balkancup29.html|title=Balkan Cup (for Nations) 1929/31|publisher=Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation}}</ref>

In total Wetzer was to play 17 times for Romania scoring 13 goals.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://eu-football.info/_player.php?id=22773|title=Rudolf Wetzer|publisher=European Football|access-date=12 June 2022}}</ref>

==Coaching career==
After retiring as a footballer Wetzer became a trainer. In 1958, during a purge by the ruling national party against "revisionism and bourgeois ideology, indiscipline and descriptive anarchic elements" Wetzer became subject to an order forbidding him from "leaving the collective in which he was engaged without good reason, under penalty of being expelled from the trainers' corps.<ref>[https://archive.today/20070420032558/http://files.osa.ceu.hu/holdings/300/8/3/text/48-7-176.shtml Wave Of Purges In Every Field Of Rumanian Public Life<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>

==Honours==
===Player===
'''Chinezul Timișoara'''
*[[Liga I|Divizia A]]: [[Divizia A 1925–26|1925–26]], [[Divizia A 1926–27|1926–27]]
'''Juventus București'''
*[[Liga I|Divizia A]]: [[1929–30 Divizia A|1929–30]]<ref>{{cite web | url=https://ploiestiulpatrianoastra.com/2014/03/22/file-de-poveste-perioada-juventus-episodul-x-juventus-campioana-romaniei-partea-iii/ | title=File de poveste – Episodul X – "JUVENTUS – CAMPIOANA ROMÂNIEI" partea III| publisher=Ploiestiulpatrianoastra.com| language=Romanian |trans-title=Story files - Episode X - "JUVENTUS - CHAMPION OF ROMANIA" part III| date=22 March 2014 | access-date=7 December 2022}}</ref>

===Coach===
'''Ripensia Timișoara'''
*[[Liga I|Divizia A]]: [[Divizia A 1934–35|1934–35]], [[Divizia A 1935–36|1935–36]]

==References==
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==External links==
* {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091027144012/http://www.geocities.com/maximolenev/1930-WM.htm |date=27 October 2009 |title=Geocities account of 1930 World Cup Finals in Uruguay }}
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