Felix Gasselich

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Felix Gasselich
Ajax to Willem II Gasselich (left) in duel met een Willem II speler, inventory number 932-6748.jpg
Personnel
birthday December 21, 1955
place of birth Vienna ,  Austria
Size 183 cm
position midfield player
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1970-1983 FK Austria Vienna 334 (94)
1983-1985 Ajax Amsterdam 57 (16)
1985-1986 LASK Linz 23 0(8)
1986-1988 Viennese sports club 64 (11)
1988-1989 Graz AK 30 0(3)
1989-1990 Kremser SC 17 0(1)
1990-1991 SR Donaufeld Vienna
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1978-1984 Austria 19 0(3)
1 Only league games are given.
Frank Rijkaard, Felix Gasselich, Aad de Mos, Walter Meeuws & Sonny Silooy

Felix Gasselich (born December 21, 1955 in Vienna ) is a former Austrian football player and active youth coach .

At FK Austria Wien he was midfield director alongside Herbert Prohaska . After his active career, he became an entrepreneur (building cleaning). From 2000 to 2004 he was a local councilor in Laxenburg . In addition, he completed his trainer training to become an A-trainer. Today he works as a division coach in the youth field and looks after talented young footballers in individual training.

Career

youth

Influenced by his father, who played for the Wiener Sport-Club, Felix Gasselich began playing football at an early age, but was not active in clubs until he was 15. His father took over the individual training, which included, among other things, maneuvering balls into open basement windows in Viennese backyards from a great distance. In addition, he practiced the classic 1-on-1 game on mini goals in Vienna's outdoor swimming pools. There is a reputation that he left these games undefeated. Felix Gasselich succeeded in this without classical youth training only because of his pronounced feeling for the ball, his spatial imagination and his ability to anticipate. This talent of "Lixl", as he was called at the time, was not hidden from his father or the scouts of the Viennese clubs. At the age of 15, he was committed to FK Austria Wien in 1970 by his first club, to which he remained loyal until 1983.

professional

FK Austria Vienna

Felix Gasselich played his first professional game in the Bundesliga in the 1973/74 season. From 1973 to 1983 he played a total of 478 games (including 334 competitive games) for FK Austria Wien and scored 212 goals as an attacking midfielder (including 94 competitive goals). With FK Austria Wien he not only achieved true technical feats, but also successes were not lacking. Felix Gasselich was five times Austrian champion with FK Austria Wien (1975/76, 1977/78, 1978/79, 1979/80, 1980/81), three times cup winner (1976/77, 1979/80, 1981/82) and reached the final of the 1978 European Cup in Paris, where they lost 4-0 to RSC Anderlecht. The final was followed by two semi-finals in the 1979 championship cup and the 1983 cup winners' cup. In 1982, Felix Gasselich achieved a masterpiece that would still make a name for itself 30 years later. In the European Cup game against Galatasaray Istanbul , which Austria won 2: 4, he scored a goal that was subsequently elected Goal of the Year 1982 in Austria. After a pass just before the 16 he gave or headed the ball seven times, played two opponents and then placed the ball in the corner, making the goalie unsustainable. In 2011, on the occasion of the "100 Years of Austria Wien" anniversary, this goal was named Austria Goal of the Century and Felix Gasselich was elected to the "Austria-Jahrhundert-Elf" (middle field).

Ajax Amsterdam

After a very successful 1982/1983 season with 14 goals in 28 league games and successes on an international level, a move abroad was due. Initially, a transfer to Lazio Rome was planned. The preliminary contract was already signed. The change failed because the club was taken over by a new manager who signed other players. This cleared the way for Ernst Happel , who wanted to bring Felix Gasselich to Hamburger SV through a contact with Joschi Walter . But this time, too, something came up. Wolfram Wuttke had a preliminary contract with HSV and the right to withdraw from the contract with his former club FC Schalke 04 if Schalke were relegated to the 2nd division, which actually happened in 1983. At that time, however, Ernst Happel had already agreed to Felix Gasselich and felt obliged to his compatriot. Through his contacts in the Netherlands, he made contact with Ajax Amsterdam , which Felix Gasselich immediately engaged. He played in the Eredivisie from 1983 to 1985, where he became Dutch champions in the 1984/85 season.

Return to the Bundesliga

The deployment in the Netherlands was followed in 1985/86 by a Bundesliga season for LASK and two seasons for the Wiener Sport-Club, for which his father had already played. At the end of his professional career, Felix Gasselich was still working for the Grazer AK (1988/89) and the Kremser SC (1989/90). After these appearances in the Bundesliga, he let his career end with lower-class clubs, where he also worked as a player-coach.

National team

Felix Gasselich was called up 19 times for the Austrian national team and was able to score three goals for himself. On November 15, 1978, he made his debut at 1: 2 in Vienna against Portugal . The last game he played on September 26, 1984 in a 1: 3 in Vienna against Hungary .

City hall tournament

Felix Gasselich's real domain lay in the technical game "small-small" and thus the playing quality that is traditionally attributed to FK Austria Wien. He was therefore able to show his abilities above all in the Vienna Stadthallentourier , where he was named player of the tournament three times in a row from 1980 to 1983 and was thus able to seamlessly take on the role of Herbert Prohaska, who was in Italy at Inter Milan in the meantime . Gasselich was on a par with Prohaska in the indoor technical game, if not even better.

Legends Club FK Austria Vienna

On September 19, 2012, he was elected President of the newly founded Legends Club, which he founded based on the Dutch model. Any (no longer active) Austria-Wien player who has won at least three titles (championship or cup) with Austria in a season in which the title was actually won can be called an "Austria legend" Has been used and has played at least 100 competitive games for Austria.

societies

Greatest successes

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ What became of ...? The professor knows everything better - Axel Reiserer met Felix Gasselich on May 12, 2008.
  2. ↑ 1911Aktuell, Felix Gasselich in Wordrap ( memento of the original from September 2, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , September 1, 2016.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.1911aktuell.at
  3. ↑ Editorial Office Austrian Press Office , September 1, 2016.
  4. ↑ 1911aktuell - I have to collect bonus points ( memento of the original from September 2, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , September 1, 2016.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.1911aktuell.at
  5. ↑ FK-Austria Wien, Legendenklub , September 1, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Gasselich, Felix
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH December 21, 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna