Alfred Hörtnagl

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Alfred Hörtnagl
Alfred Hörtnagl - SK Rapid Vienna (2) .jpg
Alfred Hörtnagl 2009
Personnel
birthday September 24, 1966
place of birth Matrei am Brenner ,  Austria
size 182 cm
position central midfield
Juniors
Years station
1973-1981 SV Matrei am Brenner
1981-1984 FC Wacker Innsbruck
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1984-1993 FC Wacker Innsbruck 218 (18)
1993-1994 SK Rapid Vienna 24 0(2)
1994-1996 SK Sturm Graz 16 0(1)
1996-1997 AO Kavala 25 0(5)
1997-1998 APOEL Nicosia 8 0(2)
1998-2002 FC Tirol Innsbruck 128 (10)
2002-2005 Wacker Innsbruck
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1989-2001 Austria 27 0(1)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
2004-2005 Wacker Innsbruck (sports director)
2006-2011 Rapid Vienna (sports director)
2011–2012 SpVgg Greuther Fürth (junior co-ordinator.)
2013-2015 FC Rot-Weiß Erfurt (Sports Director)
2015-2019 Wacker Innsbruck (sports director)
1 Only league games are given.

Alfred "Ali" Hörtnagl (born September 24, 1966 in Matrei am Brenner ) is a former Austrian soccer player (1985–2005) and was sports director at SK Rapid Wien (2006–2011), junior coordinator at German first division club SpVgg Greuther Fürth (November 2011 to December 2012) and from January 2013 to 2015 sports director at the German third division club FC Rot-Weiß Erfurt .

Career

At the age of almost 19, the Wipptaler made his debut in the first team of the SSW Innsbruck in the Bundesliga under the coaching duo Werner Schwarz and Friedl Peer, who coached the team after Cor Brom was eliminated. Hörtnagl was used in the last seven games of the 1984/85 season. It was only in the summer of 1984 that he joined Innsbruck's U21 team from the Tyrolean performance center.

In the following years he was a fixed point in the team. Especially under Ernst Happel , he was instrumental in the great successes of FC Swarovski Tirol from his second year in Innsbruck - double in 1989 and champion in 1990. The Tivoli gala games in the 1989 Cup final return match against Admira and in the historic 6-1 victory over Rapid in April 1990 are unforgettable. Once again, in the 1992/93 season, Hörtnagl was able to celebrate a national title, the Cup victory in the Vienna Prater against its arch rivals Rapid. Under the new coach Horst Köppel , Hörtnagl was no longer in the FC Tirol squad. In autumn he came to Rapid, but was not really happy in Hütteldorf and then moved to SK Sturm Graz for two years . In the summer of 1996 he ventured to Greece , after a year he went on to Cyprus .

Alfred Hörtnagl at the “Night of Sports” 2008

In the winter of 1997/98, when FC Tirol Innsbruck was in a serious sporting crisis, Peter Koncilia brought him back home. A gold handle for both sides, as the future should prove. Under the coach Cipro and then under Kurt Jara , he became one of the best defensive midfielders in Austria. During the great successes from 2000 to 2002 he was a key player in the ranks of FC Tirol Innsbruck. After the bankruptcy in the summer of 2002, he and Robert Wazinger were the only ones on the championship team who playfully supported the new beginning under the umbrella of FC Wacker Tirol . From the 2002/2003 game year, the club rose from the regional league to the Bundesliga within two years . In the 2004/05 season , Alfred Hörtnagl was also sporting director and player in personal union. Due to differing views on the future of FC Wacker Tirol, the separation took place at the end of the 2004/05 season.

Internationally, Hörtnagl was not spoiled by success. In the UEFA Cup , he failed with FC Swarovski in 1987 only in the semi-finals against eventual winners IFK Göteborg , but was only used sporadically. Neither in the Happel years nor in the Jara era could the ambitious goals of the Tyroleans be achieved, and there was no great international success.

With the Austrian national team he managed to qualify for the 1990 World Cup in Italy , in preparation he initiated the turnaround to the sensational 2: 3 victory of the Austrians with his connection goal to 2-1 in Spain. After the rather disappointing World Cup, he was spared the need to take part in the Faroe Islands disgrace . No longer taken into account by team bosses Dietmar Constantini , Ernst Happel and Herbert Prohaska , he celebrated a comeback under Otto Barić in 1999 and came on a few more missions.

In the summer of 2005, the defensive midfielder ended his active career as a professional footballer after 20 years. Then he wrote his first book.

Since January 2006, Alfred Hörtnagl has been the EURO 2008 ambassador for the European Championship venue Innsbruck. He also writes columns for the Kronen Zeitung regularly and in the summer of 2006 he organized two football and leisure camps for children. On December 20, 2006 it was announced that Hörtnagl will be the new sports director of Rapid, on March 30, 2011 he voluntarily resigned from this post. From November 2011 to December 2012 he held the position of youth coordinator at the German first division club SpVgg Greuther Fürth . From January 2013 he was director of sports at the German third division club FC Rot-Weiß Erfurt . In May 2015 he was replaced by Torsten Traub . From July 2015 to the end of June 2019, Hörtnagl was appointed General Manager of FC Wacker Innsbruck, after relegating to the 2nd division , his contract was terminated.

successes

Works as a writer

  • Fight and win with heart: football as a way of life (Berenkamp Verlag); ISBN 3-85093-206-0

Web links

Commons : Alfred Hörtnagl  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Hörtnagl leaves the SpVgg again - Bundesliga - kicker. In: kicker.de . December 5, 2012, accessed May 30, 2016 .
  2. ↑ a b Hörtnagl finds new challenge - 3rd division - kicker. In: kicker.de . January 11, 2013, accessed May 30, 2016 .
  3. ↑ Jens Pachmann: FC Rot-Weiß Erfurt: Torsten Traub inherits Hörtnagl as sports manager. In: Thüringische Landeszeitung . May 5, 2015, accessed May 30, 2016 .
  4. ↑ Wacker Innsbruck fires all employees, including sports director Hörtnagl. derstandard.at, June 19, 2019, accessed on June 20, 2019 .
  5. ↑ FC Wacker is losing weight. tirol.at, June 19, 2019, accessed on June 20, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Hörtnagl, Alfred
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hörtnagl, Ali (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH September 24, 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH Matrei am Brenner , Austria