Remembering on the day of his birth #MatthiasSindelar, who played as a centre-forward for #AustriaVienna and the celebrated Austria national team of the early 1930s known as the Wunderteam, which he captained at the 1934 #WorldCup. Known as "The Mozart of football" (1)

or "Der Papierene" for his slight build, he was renowned as one of the finest pre-war footballers, known for his fantastic dribbling ability and creativity.
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On 3 April 1938, the Austrian team played Germany in the Prater Stadium in Vienna its last match as an independent (2)

Austrian team, as some weeks earlier, Germany had annexed Austria (Anschluss) and the Nazis ordered the dissolution of the Austrian team into a common team with Germany, even though it had qualified for the 1938 #WorldCup.
The match "Anschlussspiel" was dubbed as a game for (3)

celebrating the Anschluss and Austria's "coming home to the Reich". The Austrians played on the wish of Sindelar in red-white-red kits (the national flag's colours) instead of their traditional white and black. Austria missed out many sitters in a way that looked deliberate (4)

However, in the last 20 minutes, #Sindelar and teammate #KarlSesta both scored as the game finished 2–0. Sindelar is reported to have celebrated extravagantly in front of senior Nazi dignitaries. Always refusing to leave his home country, #Sindelar refused to play for Germany (5)

after Austria was annexed by Nazi Germany in 1938, citing old age (by then 35 years) or injury as his excuse.
On 23 January 1939 both #Sindelar and his girlfriend Camilla Castagnola were found dead at the apartment they shared in Vienna (6)

the official verdict cited carbon monoxide poisoning as the cause. Different theories speculated that his death was a murder. The poem suggested that he had committed suicide as a result of the German Anschluss of Austria in 1938.