Guido Burgstaller

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Guido Burgstaller
2018-08-17 1. FC Schweinfurt 05 vs. FC Schalke 04 (DFB Cup) by Sandro Halank – 114.jpg
Guido Burgstaller (2018)
Personnel
birthday April 29, 1989
place of birth Villach ,  Austria
size 187 cm
position Storm
Juniors
Years station
1996-2003 ASKÖ Gmünd
2003-2007 FC Carinthia
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
2007-2008 FC Carinthia 33 0(2)
2007-2008 FC Carinthia II 5 0(2)
2008-2011 FC Magna Wiener Neustadt 81 (12)
2009 FC Magna Wiener Neustadt II 1 0(0)
2011-2014 SK Rapid Vienna 85 (24)
2014-2015 Cardiff City 3 0(0)
2015-2017 1. FC Nuremberg 63 (33)
2017– FC Schalke 04 90 (24)
National team
Years selection Games (goals) 2
Austria U-16 2 0(0)
Austria U-17 8 0(0)
Austria U-18 4 0(0)
2007 Austria U-19 4 0(3)
2008 Austria U-20 4 0(0)
2009-2010 Austria U-21 11 0(0)
2012-2019 Austria 25 0(2)
1 Only league games are given.
Status: February 20, 2020

2 As of August 26, 2019

Guido Burgstaller (born April 29, 1989 in Villach ) is an Austrian football player . The center forward has been under contract with FC Schalke 04 since the winter break of the 2016/17 season .

Club career

Beginnings and time at FC Kärnten

Burgstaller was born in 1989 in Villach in Carinthia and started playing football in 1996 at ASKÖ Gmünd, a club from Gmünd in Carinthia . He stayed there until 2003. He then joined the youth department of FC Kärnten . Until 2007 he went through all youth selections and then received a professional contract with the club from Klagenfurt am Wörthersee playing in the first division . Already in his last year in the U-19 he was irregularly in the squad of the first or second team since March 2007. On March 23, 2007, he played his first game for the amateur team of FC Carinthia, which played in Regionalliga Mitte that season. He played his first professional game on April 6, 2007, the 24th matchday of the 2006/07 season . For the 2007/08 season Burgstaller had earned a permanent place in the squad of the professional team. He was used in 29 league games in which he scored one goal and prepared four more. He also helped out once in the reserve team.

FC Magna Wiener Neustadt

Due to financial problems and a weak sporting season for FC Kärnten, Burgstaller moved to FC Magna Wiener Neustadt . There he became a top performer. In the league, Burgstaller scored seven goals and prepared five goals in 26 games. There is also a cup goal from four cup games. At the end of the season he was with the team champions of the second division and rose.

The 2009/10 season denied Burgstaller first time in the Bundesliga . In 30 league games he remained goalless; He only contributed three templates . Nevertheless, the team finished fifth at the end of the season and just barely missed qualifying for an international competition. He also remained goalless in three games in the ÖFB Cup . The team still made it to the final, in which they lost 0-1 to SK Sturm Graz . Burgstaller was not used. There was also a use for the reserve team in the 2nd regional league East .

The following season went better for Burgstaller personally. In 25 games he scored five goals and gave five goal preparations. However, the ÖFB Cup failed in the first round at FC Dornbirn in 1913 .

SK Rapid Vienna

Burgstaller in the Rapid Wien jersey (right) in a duel with Thorsten Röcher , 2013

For the 2011/12 season he moved to SK Rapid Vienna . Due to partial damage to the cruciate ligament, he missed the start of the league. At the end of the season, Burgstaller had seven goals and one preparation goal in 23 appearances. The team reached second place and qualified for the Europa League.

Rapid started the new season with a successful qualification against the Serbian club FK Vojvodina and against PAOK Thessaloniki from Greece and took part in the Europa League . In this competition, he played four of six group games in addition to the four qualifying games already mentioned, but remained goalless. In the ÖFB Cup they were eliminated in the quarterfinals against FC Pasching . Rapid was third in the league. Burgstaller scored six times in 32 league games and prepared five goals. In the Cup, he scored two goals in four games and prepared five more goals.

The 2013/14 season should be Burgstaller's best season personally: In 30 league games, he scored eleven goals and prepared five more goals. In the qualifying games against the Greek club Asteras Tripolis they successfully prevailed and played in the Europa League . He scored his first goal in an international competition against Dynamo Kiev . In the cup it was already over in the first round.

Cardiff City

The second division Cardiff City signed the Austrian for the Football League Championship season 2014/15 . At Cardiff, however, Burgstaller could not prevail. Only in the League Cup did he score one goal in two games.

1. FC Nuremberg

Burgstaller joined the German second division club 1. FC Nürnberg on a free transfer , with whom he received a contract that ran until the summer of 2017. At the end of the season he had scored six goals in 14 games.

In the 2015/16 season he scored 13 goals in 33 games and prepared nine more. In third place, the FCN qualified for the promotion relegation games against Eintracht Frankfurt , but failed there. In the DFB Cup they were eliminated in the round of 16 against Hertha BSC . Burgstaller contributed one goal and two assists in this competition.

In the 2016/17 season he scored 14 goals in 16 games in the first half of the season . This made him the most accurate player in the league and moved into the focus of higher-class clubs.

FC Schalke 04

Burgstaller before a Schalke training session

During the 2016/17 winter break, Burgstaller moved to the Bundesliga for FC Schalke 04 , where he signed a contract until June 30, 2020. In the remainder of the 2016/17 season he scored 9 goals in 18 appearances and was also a successful goalscorer in the Europa League. In the Schalke runner-up season 2017/18, Burgstaller scored 11 goals in 32 appearances. On November 6, 2018, he scored his first goal in the Champions League in a 2-0 home win against Galatasaray Istanbul.

His contract in Gelsenkirchen runs until 2022.

National team

Burgstaller played four times for the Austrian U-20 team and eleven times for the U-21 team . In the senior national team he made his debut on February 29, 2012 in a friendly against Finland in a 3-1 win in Klagenfurt . After about two and a half years without a job, Burgstaller was reassigned to the A-team on March 21, 2016. On August 26, 2019, he ended his active team career for health reasons. He had two hits in 25 games.

successes

Web links

Commons : Guido Burgstaller  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Guido Burgstaller moves to Cardiff ( Memento from June 2, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) In: 90minuten.at. May 23, 2014, accessed June 2, 2014.
  2. ↑ Guido Burgstaller and Adrian Nikci come to 1. FC Nürnberg , bundesliga.de, January 30, 2015, accessed on January 18, 2017
  3. ↑ Spox.com : Guido Burgstaller before Augsburg change? Specific reference to Burgstaller-Transfer , dated December 19, 2016, accessed on January 22, 2017.
  4. ↑ Guido Burgstaller changes to FC Schalke 04 fcn.de, accessed on January 17, 2017
  5. ↑ Burgstaller receives contract until 2020, Badstuber is loaned In: schalke04.de. January 12, 2017, accessed on January 12, 2017.
  6. ↑ Schalke 04 extends contract with Guido Burgstaller until 2022 In: schalke04.de. March 26, 2019, accessed March 26, 2019.
  7. ^ Burgstaller says goodbye to the national team. sport.ORF.at, August 26, 2019, accessed on August 26, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Burgstaller, Guido
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH April 29, 1989
PLACE OF BIRTH Villach , Austria