Andreas Poiger

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Andreas Poiger
Personnel
birthday 4th April 1968
place of birth Vienna ,  Austria
size 188 cm
position Defender
Juniors
Years station
until 1987 Viennese sports club
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1987-1989 Viennese sports club 71 0(2)
1989-1993 SK Rapid Vienna 79 0(2)
1993-1994 VfB Mödling 35 0(6)
1994-1995 FC Tirol Innsbruck 27 0(3)
1995-1997 VfB Mödling 50 (14)
1997-2001 SV Stockerau 96 (14)
2001-2002 FC Stadlau 24 0(1)
2002-2005 SV Stockerau
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1987-1989 Austria U-21 11 0(0)
1990 Austria 1 0(0)
1 Only league games are given.

Andreas Poiger (born April 4, 1968 in Vienna ) is a former Austrian football player .

The professional career of the goal- scoring defender was closely linked to Hans Krankl , under whom he played at a total of three different clubs.

Club career

Poiger celebrated his professional debut on the seventh match day of the 1987/88 season , under the newly signed coach Franz Hasil for the Vienna Sport Club . The WSC had a weak start to the season under Ernst Hlozek with two defeats and two draws, after which Hasil made some significant changes within the team. Among other things, due to the injury to defense chief Søren Busk , he installed the two 19-year-old Oliver Prudlo and Poiger as regular man markers. Both were able to convince in a row and stabilized the defensive, whereby Prudlo lost his regular place after the return from Busk and was awarded to Vorwärts Steyr , while Poiger remained in the first eleven. The team around old star Hans Krankl made it into the championship playoff as eighth in the table , where they could not improve. Despite the departures of Krankl and Felix Gasselich the following season , the WSC was able to prolong its preseason and once again made it into the championship round as eighth in the table, where they only narrowly failed to qualify for the UEFA Cup as sixth in the table . Despite his young age, Poiger was still set as a man mark. In the 1989/90 season he was active in the first six rounds for the WSC before he was brought to SK Rapid Vienna as a dream player by the newly appointed coach Hans Krankl, together with Andreas Reisinger and Christian Keglevits .

In his first year in Hütteldorf he was only a substitute for the defensive tribe with Reinhard Kienast , Robert Pecl and Peter Schöttel together with Franz Resch and was only used 18 times. The season was sobering with three places in the table behind champions FC Swarovski Tirol and eternal rivals FK Austria Wien , and they lost the final of the ÖFB Cup in 1990 after a 1-1 draw in regular time with 1: 3 after extra time against Austria . Poiger was used in the final over the full distance. By changing the system to four defensive players in the 1990/91 season , he became a regular and subsequently a national player. The season was disappointing with fourth place in the table, the only highlight of the season was the 2-1 home win over the later UEFA Cup winners Inter Milan , during which Poiger was able to completely take the Italian star striker Aldo Serena out of the game. In the cup they reached the final again, but where they lost 2-1 to the then second division SV Stockerau and thus suffered one of the biggest defeats in the club's history. During the 1991/92 season, Poiger was seriously injured in the middle of the first half of the season and only returned to the squad in April of the following year, only to be absent after four games until the end of the season. Since Robert Pecl and Reinhard Kienast were also missing for a long time, Krankl had to rebuild the defense and forced the installation of the two talents Herbert Gager , Christian Salaba and Martin Puza , who, however, could not replace the regular formation equally. With the once again disappointing fifth place in the championship play-off, still behind Admira / Wacker , they fell far short of expectations, in the cup they did not get past the second round. As a consequence, trainer Krankl had to leave at the end of the season, who was replaced by Gustl Starek . Under Starek, he subsequently lost his regular place to Michael Hatz and Patrick Jovanovic , was only used 13 times, whereby he was only 7 times in the regular formation. Although he made it with the club again in the 1993 Cup final , which was lost 3-1 to FC Wacker Innsbruck . Poiger was not used. At the end of the season he followed the call of his former trainer Krankl, who in the meantime had taken over the coaching position at the then league competitor VfB Mödling .

Mödling then advanced to the surprise of the season and, when traded as a relegation candidate, achieved sixth place in the table, tied with Rapid, the best placement in the history of the club. Poiger, together with Gager and Resch, who were also brought from Hütteldorf, formed the defensive in front of defense chief Janusz Nawrocki , which was an important part of the success. Poiger experienced his strongest professional playing time and developed into the most dangerous defender in the league with six goals this season, including the winning goal for the 3-2 home win against future champions Casino Salzburg .

Krankl then took over the coaching position at FC Tirol Innsbruck , where Poiger followed him as his dream player. At FC Tirol, Klaus Mair, who was later convicted of embezzlement, had previously taken over the presidency and provided the sum of 20 million schillings, which was utopian for Austrian conditions at the time, for a new team. Krankl was able to buy a team according to his wishes and, in addition to Poiger, brought in the designated star players Harald Cerny , Peter Stöger , Manfred Schwabl , Roman Mählich and the Senegalese counter-striker Souleymane Sané . Until the winter break, what the Austrian media referred to as the "dream team" was also the measure of all things in Austria and achieved the autumn championship title in a superior manner. However, after more and more details about the financial scandal surrounding the association became known after the arrest of President Mair and the association was about to be dissolved, a total crash occurred in the spring. The team offered inferior performances and lost almost all important games against their competitors and slipped to fifth place in the table at the end of the season. Poiger's performances ran simultaneously with the season. Although he was a regular player for the entire season, after strong performances at the start of the season, like the whole team, he lost a lot in the second half of the season.

At the end of the season Poiger left the insolvent club again and switched to VfB Mödling, who had since been relegated to the second division . After the club seemed to miss the desired promotion during the winter break, Krankl also returned as a coach to bring the successful run back from the top division. However, the club clearly missed the target with 22 points behind champions FC Linz and only finished fourth in the table. Only Poiger played an outstanding season and was crowned the club's top scorer with nine goals this season as a defender. As a consequence, President Hans-Werner Weiss ordered the association to take drastic austerity measures, which resulted in the departure of almost all top performers such as Erik Orie , Volker Piesczek , Carsten Bjerregaard and Marcel Oerlemans . Poiger found himself as one of the few remaining veterans the entire season in the lower area of ​​the table and left the club at the end of the season after the club's merger with local rivals FC Admira / Wacker and moved to SV Stockerau within the league .

With the chronically financially weak Lower Austrians, he held the class for two years in a row and remained loyal to the club even after relegation to the Regionalliga Ost for the 1999/00 season . In spring 2001, after Stockerau had filed for bankruptcy, he moved back to FC Stadlau in the league . With the Donaustadters he was able to stabilize the defense immediately as a Libero and was considered one of the guarantors of relegation. When he forced his substitution at the end of the first half of 2001 during the 6-0 away defeat against ASK Kottingbrunn , when the score was 4-0, against the will of the then Stadlau coach Walter Streif , there was a rift with the club's management. As a consequence, he left Stadlau for the winter break and returned to the Stockerauern, who had since been relegated to the Lower Austrian regional league , where he ended his active career in 2005 .

National team

After strong performances for Rapid Vienna Poiger was the freshly appointed team manager Alfred Riedl for the European Championship qualifier against Northern Ireland in the team squad convened. Riedl had previously taken over a completely insecure team that had come under massive public criticism after the historic 0-1 defeat in Landskrona against the Faroe Islands and an inferior 4-1 in the away game against Yugoslavia . In order to operate damage limitation, he now relied on a strongly defensive tactic in the home game against Northern Ireland and brought with Poiger a debutant as a man hit. However, since Northern Ireland also acted strongly defensively and only brought up a storm, Poiger had no opponent, but had a lot of space that he could not use. The game ended 0-0, Poiger was noticed mainly by a few bad passes and was subsequently not called up in the team.

successes

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The day on which Rapid Inter Milan fought down abseits.at, accessed on April 22, 2017
  2. ^ Josef Huber .: Football 1992: Official yearbook of the Austrian Bundesliga . Vienna 1992, ISBN 3-7046-0317-1 , p. 56.
  3. ↑ Krankl sang, and Poiger shouted his "Yes" to Tirol , Kronen Zeitung of June 10, 1994, page 42
  4. ↑ Removal wrap: How expensive is Andi Poiger? , Kronen Zeitung of June 24, 1994, page 36
  5. ↑ Million roulette in Tyrol , Kronen Zeitung of July 23, 1994, page 21
  6. ^ Krankl's first dream team with six newcomers , Kronen Zeitung of July 5, 1994, page 35
  7. ↑ The Tyrolean Dream Team is where it belongs for its fans , Kronen Zeitung of August 5, 1994, page 50
  8. ^ Josef Huber .: Football 1995: Official yearbook of the Austrian Bundesliga . Vienna 1995, p. 32.
  9. ↑ Mödlinger want Poiger , Kronen Zeitung of June 28, 1995, page 23
  10. ↑ The Goleador is back! , Kronen Zeitung of January 21, 1996, page 52
  11. ^ Josef Huber .: Football 1996: Official yearbook of the Austrian Bundesliga . Vienna 1996, p. 79.
  12. ↑ Poiger fix in Stockerau! , Kronen Zeitung of July 12, 1997, page 53
  13. ↑ Poiger gives the Stadlau defense the support that the OMV team did not have in autumn , Kronen Zeitung of April 9, 2001, page 46
  14. ↑ Der neue Feldwebel , Kronen Zeitung of January 2, 2002, page 51
  15. ↑ History: Faroe Islands-Austria 1-0 uefa.com, accessed April 22, 2017
  16. ↑ History: Yugoslavia-Austria 4-1 uefa.com, accessed April 22, 2017
  17. ^ History: Austria-Northern Ireland 0-0 uefa.com, accessed April 22, 2017
  18. ^ Team boss Riedl - Fatales und Fatalismus ballverliebt.eu, accessed on April 22, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Poiger, Andreas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH 4th April 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna , Austria