Wilhelm Huberts

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Willi Huberts
Full name	Wilhelm Huberts (I)
Date of birth	February 22, 1938 (1938-02-22) (age 70)
Place of birth	Voitsberg, Austria
Height	1.79 m (5 ft 10+¹⁄₂ in)
Playing position	Midfielder
Club information
Current club	Retired
Senior clubs¹
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1961-1963 1963-1970 1970-1971 1971-1975	Grazer AK Hungaria New York Eintracht Frankfurt Austria Wien Grazer AK	213 (67)
National team²
1959-1960	Austria	004 0(1)
¹ Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 5 May 2007. ² National team caps and goals correct as of 5 May 2007. * Appearances (Goals)

Wilhelm ("Willi" or "Willy") Huberts (I) (born February 22, 1938 in Voitsberg) is a former Austrian football player.

Huberts began his career in his hometown with ASK Voitsberg. From there he was transferred to Grazer AK, who got him to the Stadion an der Körösistraße in 1955. Through his immense techniqual skills and his scoring qualities he became a supporter's favourite in Graz.

When GAK played a couple of friendlies in New York in 1959, two of them against Real Madrid, it had causes for Huberts. The midfielder could convince at this tour, and so finally New York Hungarians signed him in 1960. With this club he won U.S. Open Cup (today Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup) in 1962.

The rising star set an unwanted end of his national team career for Austria. He was capped for four times between 1959 and 1960, while netting in his debut against Belgium on the 0-2 away win. With this club change to New York and the travel opportunities then he longer was eligible for Austria and even when he joined Eintracht Frankfurt he never played again for the national team. The reason was the politics of the clubs not to release foreign players except for big tournaments. In 1963 he went to Frankfurt in Germany. In this year the Bundesliga was founded and the Eagles from Hesse were a founding member. Huberts was one of only four foreign players in German pro football, and the only Austrian. In the 1960s team of Frankfurt he was a key player. With the jersey number 10 he scored 80 times for the boys from Main.

For the 1970-71 season he returned to Austria and joined Austria Wien and eventually his home club Grazer AK in 1971 and retired in 1975.