Vienna, Austria ? Toni Fritsch, who went from Austrian soccer player to place-kicker for the Dallas Cowboys, died Tuesday. He was 60.

Peter Klingelmueller, a spokesman for Rapid Vienna, the soccer club on which Fritsch played for 14 years, confirmed Fritsch’s death. The Austria Press Agency reported that Fritsch collapsed and died of heart failure in Vienna after eating at a restaurant.

Fritsch played in nine matches for the Austrian national soccer team and, in 1965, scored two goals for Austria as it defeated England, 3-2, in London. Six years later, soccer-style kickers were becoming popular in the NFL, and the Cowboys sent scouts to Europe in search of strong-legged soccer players who could be taught to boot footballs.

Fritsch shared kicking duties in Dallas in 1971, then had the job pretty much to himself for the 1972, ’73 and ’75 seasons. He led the NFC with 22 field goals in 1975. The Cowboys beat Miami in the Super Bowl after the 1971 season and lost the title game to Pittsburgh after the ’75 season.