Austrian Olympic football team

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The Austrian Olympic Football Team was a selection team, often referred to as the Olympic Team , of the Austrian Football Association , which was formed in 1986 for the qualifying tournament for the 1988 Olympic Games in South Korea. In 1984 they did not participate, before that Austria was represented at the Olympic Games by the Austrian national soccer team of amateurs .

The unofficial Olympic Team II existed from 1990 to 1991, but was officially replaced by the U-21 national team .

history

The background for the formation of its own football Olympic team was a change in the conditions of participation for the 1984 Olympic Games , which also allowed the use of professional players who had not yet played for the senior national team at a world championship . Accordingly, the Austrian amateur national team could no longer be called up , but neither could the Austrian professional national team. When putting together the squad, the Austrian Football Association paid particular attention to promoting young players; the actual Olympic qualification was a secondary goal.

The first official game of the Austrian Olympic team took place on November 11, 1986 in Kőszeg and ended with a 0-1 away defeat against Hungary .

The Austrian starting line-up for the first official Olympic selection game:

Welfare (TW)
Piesinger    -    Garger  -    Frind  -    Feirer
Marko    -    Linzmaier    -    Reisinger    -    Webora
Roscher    -    Abfalterer

The last official game of the Austrian Olympic team took place on May 31, 1988 in Wolfsberg and ended with a 2-0 defeat against Finland .

The starting line-up of that game:

Consel (TW)
Schöttel    -    Sperr  -    Pfeffer
Madlener    -    Zsak    -    Artner    -    Heraf    -    Russ
Rodax    -    Hasenhüttl

After the 1992 Olympics , the European Junior Championships in 1992 was used, the team officially joined the U-21 national team at, but was from ÖFB as part of the then youth development concept as Olympic Team II referred. All qualification and friendly games of the Olympic Team II are counted as U-21 international games.

Olympic Team I.

Between 1986 and 1988 , the Olympic Team I played ten games against six different opponents, nine of which are considered official encounters. Of these, two were won, one ended in a draw and seven were lost. A total of 37 players were used. Manfred Zsak , who played seven of the ten games, had the most appearances . With two goals, Rupert Marko and Jürgen Werner I were the most successful goal scorers.

Preparation games

The first game of the Austrian Olympic team took place on October 7, 1986 in Kufstein and ended with a 1-1 draw against the German club 1. FC Nürnberg . The game is not recognized as an official international match.

date pairing Venue spectator Result Goal scorers Trainer
07.10.1986 Austria Olympia - 1. FC Nuremberg Kufstein 1,800 1: 1 (0: 1) Wilbois (7th), Werner I (52.) Branko Elsner
11/10/1986 Hungary - Austria Olympia Kőszeg 1,000 1: 0 (0: 0) Imre Nagy (64th) Branko Elsner

Qualification Olympia 1988

Austria was in qualification group 5 together with Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia, Belgium and Finland. The team started the round well and won first away in Belgium and then in Salzburg against Finland. In the remaining six games, however, no more victory could be celebrated, so that participation in the Olympic Games was clearly missed. From 1986 to 1988 Branko Elsner had entrusted the selection in a double function as senior national team and Olympic team coach, from 1988 Josef Hickersberger took over the team in the same function for the last two qualifying games.

date pairing Venue spectator Result Goal scorers Trainer
11/18/1986 Belgium Olympia - Austria Olympia Antwerp 1,000 2: 3 (2: 2) Beugnies (15th), Goossens (19th), Zsak (38th), Spielmann (45th), Werner I (63rd) Branko Elsner
04/14/1987 Austria Olympia - ČSSR Olympia Salzburg 5,600 2: 0 (2: 0) Werner I (23rd), Marko (35th) Branko Elsner
05/12/1987 Finland - Austria Olympia Pori 3,912 2: 1 (2: 0) Myyry (14th), Niinimäki (21st), Marko (89th) Branko Elsner
06/03/1987 Austria Olympia - Yugoslavia Olympia Graz 4,500 0: 1 (0: 1) Tuce (45.) Branko Elsner
08/26/1987 Yugoslavia Olympia - Austria Olympia Marburg 8,000 2: 1 (1: 0) Stojkovic (16.), Katanec (55.), Perstling (56.) Branko Elsner
11/11/1987 Austria Olympia - Belgium Olympia Linz 1,600 0: 1 (0: 0) Boffin (71st) Branko Elsner
04/12/1988 ČSSR Olympia - Austria Olympia Nitra 11,000 1: 0 (0: 0) Danek (77.) Josef Hickersberger
05/31/1988 Austria Olympia - Finland Wolfsberg 4,500 0: 2 (0: 0) Nikkilä (64.), Lius (90.) Josef Hickersberger

*) Finland competed with the senior national team, as only amateur players were used, all other teams played with their Olympic selections.

Used players

Olympic Team II

In the run-up to the 1992 Olympic football tournament in Barcelona , there was irritation about the admission regulations. While the world football association FIFA wanted to enforce an age limit of 23 years, the International Olympic Committee spoke out against this limit. Finally, FIFA prevailed with their demand. The ÖFB reacted to the unclear situation with the formation of a new Olympic selection team, which denied the preparation with players under 21 years of age. After the qualifying games for the U-21 European championship also served as the European qualification for the 1992 Olympic tournament, all games of Olympic Team II were officially rated as U-21 international games. In Austria, however, the team was referred to as Olympic Team II throughout the qualification .

Including preparation games, the team played ten games against six different opponents between 1990 and 1991. Of these, six were won, two ended in a draw and two were lost. With third place behind Denmark and Yugoslavia one could not qualify for the tournament. The top scorer was Arnold Wetl with nine goals in six appearances. Herbert Gager and Dieter Ramusch were used in all ten matches of the Olympic Team II .

Web links

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Games of the Olympic team austriasoccer.at, accessed on May 7, 2017
  2. ↑ Game 1: Austria Olympia - 1.FC Nürnberg 1: 1 , austriasoccer.at, accessed on May 7, 2017
  3. ↑ Game 2: Hungary - Austria Olympia 1-0, Austria Press Agency , November 10, 1986
  4. ↑ Game 3: Belgium Olympia - Austria Olympia 2: 3 , austriasoccer.at, accessed on May 7, 2017
  5. ↑ Game 4: Austria Olympia - ČSSR Olympia 2-0 , austriasoccer.at, accessed on May 7, 2017
  6. ↑ Game 5: Finland - Austria Olympia 2: 1 , austriasoccer.at, accessed on May 7, 2017
  7. ↑ Game 6: Austria Olympia - Yugoslavia Olympia 0: 1 , austriasoccer.at, accessed on May 7, 2017
  8. ↑ Game 7: Yugoslavia Olympia - Austria Olympia 2: 1 , austriasoccer.at, accessed on May 7, 2017
  9. ↑ Game 8: Austria Olympia - Belgium Olympia 2: 3 , austriasoccer.at, accessed on May 7, 2017
  10. ↑ Game 9: ČSSR Olympia - Austria Olympia 1-0 , austriasoccer.at, accessed on May 7, 2017
  11. ↑ Game 10: Austria Olympia - Finland 0: 2 , austriasoccer.at, accessed on May 7, 2017
  12. ↑ Compulsory exercise for Austria's Olympic Team 2, Austria Press Agency , from October 15, 1990
  13. ↑ Olympic Team 2 rehearsing an emergency against CSFR, Austria Press Agency , from May 20, 1991
  14. ^ Josef Huber .: Football 1992: Official yearbook of the Austrian Bundesliga . Vienna 1992, ISBN 3-7046-0317-1 , international games of the Olympic team , pp. 187–188