Christoph Friday

Christoph Friday
Christoph Friday (2018)
Personnel
birthday	January 21, 1990
place of birth	Judenburg ,  Austria
size	184 cm
position	midfield
Juniors
Years	station
1996-2004	ASK Rot-Weiss Knittelfeld
2004	FC Knittelfeld
2004-2008	FK Austria Vienna
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
2008–2012	FK Austria Vienna II	68 (13)
2011–2012	→  FC Lustenau 07  (loan)	36 0(3)
2012-2015	SC Wiener Neustadt	62 0(2)
2015-2019	FC Wacker Innsbruck	88 (10)
2019–	SC Austria Lustenau	18 0(3)
1 Only league games are given. Status: July 3, 2020

Christoph Freitag (born January 21, 1990 in Judenburg ) is an Austrian football player on the position of midfielder .

Career

Friday began his active career as a football player in Knittelfeld in Styria, only a few kilometers from his birthplace . There he played from 1996 to 2004 in the offspring of the ASK Rot-Weiss Knittelfeld and went through several youth division. At the beginning of February 2004, Freitag decided to move to FC Knittelfeld, which is also based in the same region . Five months later he transferred to the youth department of FK Austria Wien and also attended the Frank Stronach Academy in Hollabrunn . After he made 18 appearances in the Toto- sponsored U-19 youth league in the 2007/08 season , he was also in the squad of the second team of Austria, who play in the second-class first division.

In the second team of Vienna Austria he made his debut as a professional football player on April 25, 2008 in a 4-1 away win when he was substituted on for Harald Unverdorben in the 63rd minute of the game . In the same game he succeeded in the third minute of stoppage time after a presentation by Christian Haselberger, the goal to make it 4-1.

During the season, the young midfielder made another five professional appearances. In the 2008/09 season , Friday was used more often by the amateurs, but initially he only made a few short appearances, later he managed to spend a long time on the pitch. The native of Styria played a total of 24 games and scored one goal this season. He also played three games in the 2008/09 ÖFB Cup and was even used in the semifinals of the competition , which was lost 3-1 to FC Admira Wacker Mödling .

At that time, Friday played the 2009/10 season with his team and made up to nine league appearances and two goals. As in the previous season, he was also in action at the ÖFB Cup 2009/10 for FK Austria Wien II, but had to play with the team in the second round of the competition after a 6-7 defeat on penalties against the regional league team FC Blau-Weiß Linz are eliminated after they only narrowly progressed 9: 8 after the penalty shoot-out against SV Horn in the first round .

In addition to his missions for the second team of Wiener Austria, he came to a total of four missions for the professional team; however, only in test or preparation games.

In summer 2012 he moved to SC Wiener Neustadt in the Bundesliga .

After the relegation of Wiener Neustädter from the Bundesliga, Friday moved to league rivals FC Wacker Innsbruck at the beginning of the 2015/16 season . With Innsbruck he was promoted to the Bundesliga in 2018. With Wacker he had to relegate from the Bundesliga in 2019. After relegation, he moved to second division SC Austria Lustenau for the 2019/20 season , with whom he received a contract that ran until June 2021.

Private

He is completing a distance learning course on the subject of sports management.

successes

• 1 × ÖFB Cup semi-finalist: 2008/09

Web links

Commons : Christoph Freitag  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Christoph Freitag in the database of weltfussball.de
• Christoph Freitag in the database of transfermarkt.de
• Player profile in the archive of FK Austria Wien

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Further reinforcement for the squad - Christoph Freitag austria-lustenau.at, on June 14, 2019, accessed on June 14, 2019