Dominique Taboga

Dominique Taboga
Dominique Taboga (2009)
Personnel
birthday	November 6, 1982
place of birth	Vienna ,  Austria
size	188 cm
position	defense
Juniors
Years	station
1987-1991	ASV Spratzern
1991-1997	VSE St. Pölten
1997	→  VfB Admira Wacker Mödling  (loan)
1997-2000	SK Rapid Vienna
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
2000-2001	SKN St. Pölten
2001-2002	Kremser SC
2002-2006	DSV Leoben	61 0(4)
2006-2009	Kapfenberger SV	84 (10)
2009–2012	Tromso IL	5 0(0)
2010–2012	→ Kapfenberger SV (loan)	51 0(1)
2012-2013	SV Grödig	47 0(2)
1 Only league games are given.

Dominique Taboga (born November 6, 1982 in Vienna ) is a former Austrian football player on the position of a defender .

Career

youth

Taboga began his active career as a football player in 1987 in the youth teams of the ASV Ofenbinder Spratzern . After four years he was awarded the SKN St. Pölten (then VSE St. Pölten ). From January to June 1997 he was a youth player for Vfb Admira Wacker Mödling before moving to SK Rapid Vienna in July of the same year . At Rapid he trained together with Andreas Ivanschitz , but did not make the leap into the fighting team. After three years at Rapid, he returned to SKN St. Pölten in 2000. In 2001 he finally moved to Kremser SC , from whose men's team he moved to Styria in 2002 to his first professional station, the DSV Leoben in the mining town of Leoben .

First stations as a professional

He made his professional debut at DSV Leoben in the second-rate Austrian First League on July 25, 2003 in a 1-0 away win over SC Untersiebenbrunn , when he was on the pitch for the entire duration of the game. His first goal as a professional football player was his third appearance on September 13, 2003, when he scored the 1-0 opening goal in a 4-0 home win over FC Wacker Innsbruck .

Dominique Taboga in the jersey of Kapfenberger SV

After more than four years with the Donawitzers and a record of 61 league appearances and four goals, he moved within Styria to Kapfenberger SV during the 2006/07 season , where he made his club debut just two days after signing his contract. From this game he was a regular in the Kapfenberg defense line and later became the captain of his team. A special feature of Taboga's style of play are his extremely long throw-ins , which, when they go into the opponent's penalty area, are often used as assists. His teammates were able to score several league goals just by throwing in from distance.

At the end of the 2007/08 season Taboga rose with the team in the top division in Austrian football. He made his debut in the Austrian Bundesliga on July 9, 2008 in the 0-1 home defeat against LASK Linz . In the 2008/09 season , Taboga scored four goals, three of which were headers.

Tromso IL

After the season, Taboga received an offer from the Norwegian Tippeligaen club Tromsø IL , whereupon he and his wife Nicole flew to Tromsø for a five-day trial . After his return he was very optimistic that he would get a contract with Tromsø Idrettslag, although the club has not yet made a decision as they wanted to sell a defender from their own team before they agreed to Taboga. So Taboga set a deadline for the Norwegian club, which expired on June 19, 2009 without any result.

“Off, that's it, I'll stay in Kapfenberg. It would have been a great opportunity, but I won't let myself be fooled. "

- Dominique Taboga on the failed move to Tromsø IL

In interviews he stated that he would continue to be loyal to Kapfenberger SV and that no change was planned after all. After he had already played a game in the 2009/10 season, Taboga moved to Tromsø IL in Norway on July 25, 2009, exactly six years to the day after his professional debut. It was agreed not to disclose the transfer fee, but should Taboga be transferred, Kapfenberger SV would collect one more time. Taboga's contract with Tromsø IL ran until December 31, 2012.

He made his team debut on August 27, 2009 in the fourth and final Europa League qualifying round against Athletic Bilbao , which ended in a 1-1 draw. In the game Taboga came on in the 90th minute for Hans Åge Yndestad . He made his debut in the Tippeligaen on September 13, 2009 in the 2-0 away defeat against Sandefjord Fotball , in which he was on the field for the entire game.

Change back to Kapfenberg on loan

In the summer break before the 2010/11 season , the central defender moved back to Kapfenberger SV for a year on loan. The former captain of Obersteirer had two or three offers from other clubs at the same time, but decided on Kapfenberg because he got the first offer from them. After another season and relegation from the Bundesliga, he moved to KSV's new league competitor, SV Grödig .

Due to a fraud affair (see below), the Austrian Bundesliga imposed a lifelong ban on all functions against Taboga at the end of February 2014.

successes

• 1 × Austrian second division champion: 2007/08 ( first division ) (promotion to the Bundesliga)

Fraud affair

On November 27, 2013, Taboga was arrested for betting fraud. He was suspected of fraud in connection with match-fixing and was also investigated for embezzlement. On February 19, 2014, he was banned from the Bundesliga for life. Dominik Taboga was sentenced to three years of partial imprisonment in a criminal trial. In addition to Sanel Kuljić and Taboga, six other defendants were conditionally sentenced to terms of between one year and four years.

In November 2016, Taboga published his autobiography "Serious foul - in the labyrinth of the most beautiful game in the world" ( ISBN 978-3-902480-40-8 ), in which he dealt with the past and described himself as "young, naive and stupid".

Web links

Commons : Dominique Taboga  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Dominique Taboga in the database of transfermarkt.de
• Player profile at fussballoesterreich.com

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Taboga: "The whole truth about the failed Tromso transfer". Kleine Zeitung , June 22, 2009, archived from the original on July 23, 2009 . 
2. ↑ The KSV captain remains on board ( memento from November 12, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), Kleine Zeitung July 26, 2009
3. ↑ Message about the change to Tromsø IL on the club's homepage  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed July 26, 2009  
4. ↑ Taboga is still a "Viking" , accessed on July 26, 2009
5. ↑ Dominique Taboga returns!  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed June 8, 2010  
6. ↑ Homecoming Dominique Taboga in an interview  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed June 8, 2010  
7. ↑ Liga bans Taboga for life , accessed February 25, 2014
8. ↑ Taboga in custody - 26 table football, 15 games suspicious  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed November 28, 2013.  
9. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from February 24, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
10. ↑ Betting scandal: 5 years imprisonment for Kuljic, 3 years for Taboga. The courier of October 3, 2014.
11. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from January 29, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.