Austria's new football star

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Television broadcast
Original title Austria's new football star
Austrias New Footballstar.jpg
Country of production Austria
year 2010
Production
company
Pulse 4
Episodes 8 in 1 season
Broadcasting
cycle
weekly
genre Casting show
idea Pulse 4
Moderation Patricia Kaiser Frenkie Schinkels (jury), Toni Polster (jury)
First broadcast September 9, 2010 on pulse 4

Austria's New Footballstar was a casting broadcast on the Austrian private broadcaster Puls 4 . The winner of the casting show, whose name is based on Austria's Next Top Model , won a football contract with SV Kapfenberg .

1st season

Attendees
Dominik Scherr
Erkan Özmen
Denis Gavran
Alexander Diaz
Bernhard Hendl
Diego Rougier
Florian Taxacher
Michael "Becks" Rossnegger
Samuel Akinlade
Sasha Zapracsny
Sladjan Djurdjevic
Zoran Marinovic

A little more than 900 young footballers applied for the first season. From these applications, 12 candidates were allowed to move into the show's own villa and face the challenges of the trainers and jury. In the final, the remaining five finalists fought for victory. The jury consisted of the football legends Frenkie Schinkels and Toni Polster . Social and communicative skills, personality and charisma were also in demand. Neither the players themselves nor the audience were responsible for selecting and deselecting the participants. Only the jury decided. The sightings began in Kapfenberg on June 26th and continued in various regions of Austria before the final training sessions were held in Vienna and Salzburg. The candidates were filtered out by means of a standardized selection process with grades in different categories, according to Martin Daxl from Davitasports, who was responsible for the sport-technical processing.

The first season was won by Dominik Scherr. He got a professional contract with Bundesliga club Kapfenberger SV , but was never used. In summer 2011 he moved to the club's third team. A second season has not yet been commissioned.

The basic idea

The German company DavitaSports has set itself the goal of giving footballers the “2nd Chance to become a professional soccer player ”. The company sees the concept as a social responsibility towards young people who have left or have left the youth development program for private, professional or health reasons. This means that these talents are also disappearing from the focus of the Bundesliga clubs.

Concept in Germany

The German television broadcaster RTL Television also wants to adopt the format of Austria's New Footballstar, which Sylvie van der Vaart has planned as the presenter ; however, this has not yet been determined with certainty. The broadcast dates and the members of the jury have not yet been set either.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Who will be Austria's new football star? ( Memento from September 24, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
  2. More than 900 applicants for "Austria's New Footballstar" «DiePresse.com
  3. What happened to ... Austria's New Footballstar? DiePresse.com, February 14, 2012, accessed on May 18, 2012 .
  4. Toni Polster, the Heidi Klum of football «DiePresse.com