RING CAFÉ RANKINGS
Frigyes Becske | 21/01/1934, Vienna

The Ring Café has just finished its usual year-end continental football rankings, which have already been heavily complained about by international football clubs. The leaderboard will once again give rise to a lot of controversy, but this is inevitable in the case of similar strengths, especially when it comes to judging football performance, where no more than dry data on results statistics provide a semi-acceptable basis for evaluation. Ultimately, therefore, it is a matter of expertise and taste to appreciate the performance and knowledge of the players and teams, and thus Ring Café rankings cannot claim appeals either. The rankings look like this:

I. NATIONAL TEAMS


Extra-class: Austria, Italy.

Group A: Netherlands, Germany, Czechoslovakia, Spain, Hungary.

Group B: Portugal, Romania, Yugoslavia, Switzerland, Sweden, Russia.

Group C: France, Belgium, Denmark, Norway, Poland, Greece, Turkey.



II. CLUB TEAMS 


Extra-class: 1. Austria, 2. Rapid, 3. Ambrosiana, 4. Juventus, 5. Admira, 6. Slavia, 7. Sparta, 8. Vienna, 9. Ferencváros, 10. Újpest, 11. WAC, 12. Bologna.



III. PLAYERS


Goalkeepers: Hiden, Platzer, Plánička, Zamora, Combi, Ceresoli, Thépot, Seehaye, Kress.

Full-backs: Caligaris, Rosetta, Biró, Sesta, Haringer, Stubb, Minelli, Burgr.

Wing half-backs: Pitto, Bertolini, Wagner, Nausch, Vodicka, Lázár, Szalay, Barátky.

Centre half-backs: Sárosi, Kalmár, Čambal, Smistik, Mock, Monti.

Outside forwards: Orsi, Guarisi, Frione, Zischek, Titkós, P. Szabó, Junek, Adam, Politz.

Inside forwards: Ferrari, Cesarini, Regueiro, Stroh, Kaburek, Schall, Lachner, Avar, Takács II., Svoboda, Puč, Abbeglen II.

Centre-forwards Bican, Sindelar, Hitl, Gschweidl, Meazza, Borel II., Lángara, Hitrec, Rohr. 



IV. THREE CONTINENTAL SELECTIONS 


Team A: Hiden — Caligaris, Rosetta — Nausch, Sárosi, Szalay — Zischek, Meazza, Bican, Puč, Orsi.

Team B: Platzer — Sesta, Biró — Pitto, Čambal, Bertolini — Frione, Hitrec, Sindelar, Ferrari, Politz.

Team C: Plánička — ?, Stubb — Wagner, Smistik, Lázár — Junek, Takács II., Lángara, Schall, Titkós.



V. COACHES


Bányai, Braun, Gyula Biró, Bauer, Josef Blum, Zoltán Blum, Feldmann, Guttmann, Ging, Konrád I, Konrád II., Kürschner, Little, József Nagy, Orth, István Tóth, Révész, Schaffer, Viola, Weisz, Winkler.



V. REFEREES


Braun, Beranek, Dr. Bauwens, Birlem, Barlassina, Boronkay, Currazo, Langenus, Cepiar, Frankenstein, Iváncsics, Klug, Klein, Miess, Mutters, Mercet, Ruof.