Branko Elsner

Branko Elsner (born November 23, 1929 in Ljubljana ; † November 17, 2012 ibid) was a Yugoslav and Slovenian sports educator and football coach , who gained notoriety as the two-time Austrian team boss .

Career

Branko Elsner celebrated his first successes as a football coach in his Slovenian homeland with NK Olimpija Ljubljana , whom he looked after from 1964 to 1967. In 1968 he made the jump to Austria, where he reached his peak as a club coach at the beginning of the 1970s with the SSW Innsbruck . With the Innsbruck team, the Slovenian won the championship in 1972 and 1975 , the ÖFB Cup in 1970 and 1975 and the Mitropacup at international level in 1975 and 1976. These successes and his great popularity even led to his 1975, if only temporarily the Austrian national team took over as coach for two European Championship qualifiers. After Béla Guttmann and Leopold Šťastný he was only the third legionnaire on the coaching bench of the Austrian national team.

After the position of the Austrian team boss became vacant in January 1985, ÖFB President Beppo Mauhart decided to go back to the Slovenian. Branko Elsner's assistant on the team was Gustl Starek . The best-known game of the "Elsner team boss" was the 4-1 home win at the reopening of the Prater Stadium over Germany. However, he failed to qualify for the European Championship in 1988 and also failed with his Olympic team, which in 1987 led to Elsner's replacement by Josef Hickersberger , who promptly qualified for the World Cup. More recently, Branko Elsner has worked as a coach at the Japanese first division club Brummel Sendai, among others .

Branko Elsner received his doctorate in 1982 and taught in the 1990s as a professor at the Sports Faculty of the University of Ljubljana .

family

Branko's son Marko (born April 11, 1960), bronze medalist with the Yugoslav team at the 1984 Olympic Games , played for Red Star Belgrade , OGC Nice and Austria , among others .

Web links

• Ex-ÖFB team boss Branko Elsner has passed away , kurier.at, November 17, 2012
• Umrl je Branko Elsner, oče slovenskih trenerjev , siol.net, November 17, 2012 (Slovenian)

ÖFB international matches under team boss Branko Elsner

Legend

• H = home game
• A = away game
• * = Play on a neutral place
• - = no official international match
• n / a = after extension
• green background color = victory of Austria
• yellow background color = tie
• red background color = defeat

First term of office of team boss Branko Elsner

Games	Victories	draw	Defeats	Gates	TD
2	1	0	1	6: 3	+3

No.	date	Result	opponent		venue	occasion	comment
401	October 15, 1975	6: 2	Luxembourg	H	Vienna	EM 1976 qualification	First international match under Branko Elsner
402	November 19, 1975	0: 1	Wales	A.	Wrexham ( WAL )	EM 1976 qualification	Last international game under Branko Elsner, 200th away game Austria missed the EM 1976 as third in the group

Team boss Branko Elsner's second term of office

Games	Victories	draw	Defeats	Gates	TD
18th	5	5	8th	20:28	−8

No.	date	Result	opponent		venue	occasion	comment
476	March 27, 1985	0: 2	Soviet Union	A.	Tbilisi ( URS )		First international match in Branko Elsner's second term
477	04/17/1985	0: 3	Hungary	H	Vienna	1986 World Cup qualification
478	05/01/1985	1: 1	Netherlands	A.	Rotterdam ( NED )	1986 World Cup qualification
479	05/07/1985	4-0	Cyprus	H	Graz	1986 World Cup qualification	Austria missed qualification as third in the group
480	October 16, 1985	0: 3	Yugoslavia	H	Linz
481	November 20, 1985	0-0	Spain	A.	Zaragoza ( ESP )
482	03/26/1986	1: 2	Italy	A.	Udine ( ITA )
483	05/14/1986	1-0	Sweden	H	Salzburg
484	08/27/1986	1: 1	Switzerland	H	innsbruck		First international match in Innsbruck, only international match in the old Tivoli Stadium
485	09/10/1986	0: 4	Romania	A.	Bucharest ( ROU )	Euro 1988 qualification
486	10/15/1986	3-0	Albania	H	Graz	Euro 1988 qualification
487	October 29, 1986	4: 1	Germany	H	Vienna		Last win against Germany for over 31 years.
-	02/07/1987	3: 1	Tunisia	A.	Tunis ( TUN )		No official international match
488	03/25/1987	0: 4	Yugoslavia	A.	Banja Luka ( YUG )
489	04/01/1987	2: 3	Spain	H	Vienna	Euro 1988 qualification
490	04/29/1987	1-0	Albania	A.	Tirana ( ALB )	Euro 1988 qualification
491	08/18/1987	2: 2	Switzerland	A.	St. Gallen ( SUI )
492	10/14/1987	0: 2	Spain	A.	Seville ( ESP )	Euro 1988 qualification
493	11/18/1987	0-0	Romania	H	Vienna	Euro 1988 qualification	Last international game under Branko Elsner 100. Draw in an international game Austria again missed the leap to the finals

Individual evidence

1. ^ ÖFB homepage , accessed on November 17, 2012.
2. ↑ Ex-ÖFB team boss Branko Elsner has died , kurier.at, November 17, 2012