Ernst Aigner (soccer player)

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Ernst Aigner (2010)

Ernst Aigner (born October 31, 1966 in Mödling ) is a former Austrian football player on the position of defender . As a national player, he took part in the 1990 World Cup in Italy.

Club career

Ernst Aigner started playing soccer in his home community with 1. SVg. Guntramsdorf and at the age of twelve moved to the youth department of the then first division club FC Admira / Wacker in Maria Enzersdorf . As a teenager, he began an apprenticeship as a carpenter in 1982, which he completed in 1985 at the Pöchlarn vocational school . With the Südstadt team he played his way up to the fighting team and made his debut in the Austrian Bundesliga in 1986.

He had his best season with the then Lower Austrian top club in 1988/1989. In the championship he and the team reached second place in the Bundesliga behind the FC Swarovski Tirol , which was supervised by Ernst Happel , and thus the best placement of the fusion club since 1971. They also lost in the ÖFB Cup after victories over Rapid (3: 2) and FK Austria Wien (5: 2) only in the final against the Tyroleans, whereby Ernst Aigner even scored the opening goal for his eleven in the 75th minute in the surprising 2-0 victory of Admira in the first final game in Südstadt in front of 8,000 spectators. The second final game in Innsbruck was lost by the Lower Austrians, who had players like Peter Artner , Ernst Baumeister , Manfred Kern , Gerhard Rodax as well as Wolfgang and Walter Knaller on their team, but clearly 2: 6.

During the summer break in 1989, Aigner moved to Austria Vienna, where he was able to celebrate his greatest successes. He came to replace the longtime libero Erich Obermayer , who had ended his career. Overall, he won the championship three times with the Violets (1991, 1992, 1993) and the ÖFB Cup three times (1990, 1992, 1994), although he was not used in the finals in 1992 and 1992.

In the autumn of 1994 Ernst Aigner left Vienna Austria and moved to the VSE St. Pölten in the second division. For the 1996/97 season he again achieved a commitment with his former club in the south of the city, which at that time was called SC Niederösterreich Admira / Wacker , and thus returned to the first Bundesliga. However, he no longer played for the championship title with the Lower Austrians, but against relegation, which could ultimately only be prevented this season by the merger of the two major Linz clubs and the SCN's own merger with VfB Mödling . After Aigner relegated from the maximum Bundesliga with the Mödlingers in 1998 , he managed to get promoted again with the club in the 1999/2000 season and thus played in the top Austrian league for the last time in 2000/01. In the summer break of 2001 he moved to ASK Kottingbrunn in the Regionalliga Ost , before ending his career in 2003 with the small Lower Austrian lower division 1. SC Sollenau in the area league South / Southeast.

Career in the national team

In the national team, Ernst Aigner celebrated his debut as Admiraner in the second half of the friendly against Norway on May 31, 1989. In the World Cup qualification, he played in the decisive 3-0 win against the GDR in Vienna and was in the preparation period for 3: 2 away win against Spain and in the 3-0 win against arch-rivals from Hungary on the pitch. At the World Cup in Italy , he and the Austrian team only narrowly failed on the hosts and Czechoslovakia on promotion to the second round. After the World Cup, Aigner, who was repeatedly plagued by injuries, only played one international match on October 31, 1990 against Yugoslavia .

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SURNAME Aigner, Ernst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH October 31, 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH Mödling , Austria