Adi Pinter

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Adolf "Adi" Pinter (born January 19, 1948 in Graz ; † May 20, 2016 ) was an Austrian soccer coach , mental coach and politician .

Life

Pinter grew up with his brother in an orphanage in the Styrian capital Graz. He began his career as a soccer player with the Grazer AK ; after work and training in all youth teams, Pinter moved to Belgium as a young senior. He later became a player-coach there, went to Germany and Sweden. In 1978 he finished his sports studies at the German Sport University in Cologne , met Ernst Happel in Belgium at FC Bruges and remained his student in other clubs until Happels death. Adi Pinter lived in Bavaria with his wife and four children .

Services

At KRC Harelbeke, Adi Pinter was Ernst Happel's co-trainer. Then he became a volunteer at Hamburger SV . Pinter was mental coach at Bio-Med from 1988 to 1998 and from 1998 to 2011 chief coach at the Total Coaching seminar center . Then Pinter was a coach at the regional division FC Superfund Pasching (Austria). From December 2007 Pinter was hired as a mental coach by the president of the Fürstenfeld Panthers . Together with basketball head coach Aaron Mitchell , the Fürstenfeld Panthers became Austrian champions in the same season. In December 2009 Pinter took over the coaching position of the Croatian first division club NK Croatia Sesvete and was dismissed after a week and a game. After the away game against Dinamo Zagreb, Pinter expressed suspicions that there were irregularities in the game. Weeks later, 21 people were arrested for betting scandals, including Jasmin Agić and people from NK Croatia Sesvete and Dinamo Zagreb .

In October 2011, Pinter was introduced as the new coach of relegation-threatened FC Superfund Pasching in the Regionalliga Mitte, where he was dismissed without notice a month later because he showed his back painted with GAK lettering during the game against the Grazer AK. After Pinter was appointed Vice President and Head of Sports at DSV Leoben , which is now in the third division, on February 7, 2012 , DSV trainer Gregor Pötscher announced his voluntary departure one day later . As with most of his last stations, this one did not last long; After exactly three months and after Pinter had also worked as interim trainer for the first combat team for a few days, after he had suspended the new coach Bernhard Muhr and six players, he was dismissed again. Most recently he gave coaching seminars.

Employment as a trainer or manager

1st division:

other upper game classes:

Promotion to the 1st division

  • Graz AK
  • Viennese sports club

politics

He stood for the list of fresh winds in the municipal elections in Graz in 1988. In the national elections in Austria in 1994 he led the VGÖ ( United Greens Austria ). As early as the 1980s he competed as a local politician in various elections.

Quotes

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"There are two percent geniuses and 98 percent natural idiots."

- Adi Pinter on his image of humanity.

"The GAK is comparable to my first great love."

- Adi Pinter on the Red Devils.

"I used to have two Ribérys at GAK ."

- Adi Pinter on his ex-club GAK.

"Today these are mostly profile neurotics."

- Ex-politician Adi Pinter on politicians.

“If you score a goal or make a point at the Euro, Austria must put a monument to the Hickersberger . A monument!"

- Adi Pinter before the home Euro 2008 .

"I have always known more than those who are at work."

- Adi Pinter on healthy self-confidence.

"I guarantee you, if I were a coach at one of the Graz clubs, the box would be full again at the home games."

- Adi Pinter on his popularity.

"If you peel off people's skin - and I dissected enough corpses in medical school - they are all yellow."

- Adi Pinter's principle of equality.

"At that time I knocked it out at the sports club for reasons of character."

- Adi Pinter on Roman Mählich .

"I believe in what is good and I am convinced that I am a decent person."

- Adi Pinter about Adi Pinter.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ "Red Messiah" Adi Pinter is dead! Kronen Zeitung , May 20, 2016.
  2. ↑ Total Coaching - Adi Pinter . ( Memento of May 21, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Retrieved May 21, 2016.
  3. ↑ Croatia: Adi Pinter sacked after just one game . ( Memento from December 29, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) apa article on weltfussball.de, March 6, 2010.
  4. ↑ Marco Wolfsberger: Termination without notice after a scandal! “The Pinter project failed!” ( Memento from January 16, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) November 12, 2011.
  5. ↑ RLM: Pinter resigned from the DSV , accessed on May 23, 2016
  6. ^ Adi Pinter: The ten best sayings , accessed on May 23, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Pinter, Adi
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pinter, Adolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian soccer player, coach and politician
DATE OF BIRTH January 19, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Graz , Austria
DATE OF DEATH May 20, 2016