Franz Aigner (soccer player)

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Franz Aigner (born September 14, 1967 in St. Johann im Pongau ) is a former Austrian football player in the position of striker , midfielder and defender as well as current football coach .

Aigner won three Austrian soccer championships and Supercup winners with SV Austria Salzburg , reached the UEFA Cup final with the club in 1994 and the Champions League in 1995, and played six international matches for the Austrian national soccer team. Franz Aigner is married and has two sons.

Career

Rapid rise and stagnation

The skilled machinist began his career in early years playing sports club Bischofshofen and played with the first team of Pongauer of the national league to the Regional West high. In the 1985/86 season, the regional league team reached the third round of the ÖFB Cup after victories over USV Salzburg (renamed FC Salzburg in 1988) and FC Zell am See , in which Austria Lustenau narrowly failed 3-2 . In the summer of 1986 Franz Aigner signed his first professional contract with SK Sturm Graz , and in the autumn of the same year he made his debut in the Austrian Bundesliga . However, he did not make the breakthrough.

After two years in Graz, which ended in the end with a reserve role, Aigner moved to the second division for SV Austria Salzburg . It was there that he first met his young colleagues Wolfgang Feiersinger , Christian Fürstaller and Hermann Stadler , with whom he later formed the core of the successful Salzburg championship and European Cup final team. Aigner's talent was already valued by the then coach Kurt Wiebach , but the young striker was unable to perform consistently and was considered a rather sloppy genius. In the 1988/89 season he celebrated promotion to the first Bundesliga with Salzburg.

Menopause between first and second division

After a good season in the first division, in which he made 21 appearances, Franz Aigner was awarded to city rivals FC Salzburg in 1990, where he was able to develop a little further. With the Taxhamers , Aigner surprisingly reached the quarter-finals in the ÖFB-Pokal, where they failed clearly against Rapid Vienna . Due to his performance in the 2nd division, the 1.79 m tall striker managed to be included again in the Bundesliga squad of Austria, but was awarded again after half a season in the second division; this time to Austria Klagenfurt . With the descent of the Carinthians from the second division, he was allowed to return to Salzburg in autumn 1992, but was ordered by Otto Barić to the U-21 team.

In the reserve team he changed under coach Miroslav Polák , who had just ended his active career and took over his first coaching post, from a pure offensive player to a midfielder. At the end of the 1992/93 season he was substituted by Baric three times as a joker in the fighting team and was able to convince with his newly gained qualities at these appearances, so that Baric campaigned for a further obligation Aigner.

From reservist to European Cup hero

In the new season he could not prevail in the Salzburg team for the time being and remained a reservist. After being substituted on twice in the European Cup in the 90th minute of the game, the now 26-year-old prepared the decisive goal for Wolfgang Feiersinger in the away game against Royal Antwerp on November 2, 1993 . His breakthrough came in the course of the spring of 1994, when he became an integral part of the Salzburg championship and European Cup team in the position of left wing defender. In the quarter-finals against Eintracht Frankfurt , coach Barić put him on the starting line-up. With SV Austria Salzburg, Aigner made it to the UEFA Cup final this season, celebrated winning the Austrian championship title for the first time, to which he also contributed two goals in 22 appearances, and also stayed in the game for the Austrian Supercup against FK Austria Vienna successful. With strong games in the UEFA Cup games against Karlsruher SC (semifinals) and Inter Milan (final), he even made it into the Austrian national team , where he made his debut in a 4-3 win over Poland . By 1998, Franz Aigner had a total of six international matches and two goals in the national team and was a consideration for team boss Herbert Prohaska for the 1998 World Cup in France.

With SV Austria Salzburg he defended the championship title and the Supercup in the 1994/95 season and won both again in the 1996/97 season under his former teammate and now new coach Heribert Weber . He narrowly missed his last success in 2000 with the defeat of Salzburg on penalties against the Grazer AK in the ÖFB Cup final. In autumn 2000 Aigner moved to the second division (1st division) for the then Salzburg satellite club BSV Bad Bleiberg . With the Bleiberger Wölfen he reached the semifinals in the ÖFB Cup again in the 2001/02 season, where his team only failed 3-2 at the first division Sturm Graz. After two seasons with the Carinthians, he ended his active career as a player at the age of 35, completed his coaching training and acquired the A license.

Career as a coach

He started his first coaching position in 2002 as assistant coach under Heimo Pfeifenberger at the SV Austria Salzburg Amateurs. In the following season, Aigner was hired as the team's head coach. With the amateurs he achieved the title of Salzburg state champion three times in a row and in the 2004/05 season he won the Salzburg state cup, which was held again for the first time since 1955, with a final victory against PSV Schwarz-Weiß Salzburg . After Red Bull took over the club in July 2005, Aigner was confirmed in his office. With the "young bulls", as the amateurs are now called since this takeover, he again achieved the national championship title and failed in the fight for promotion only in the last third of the championship at FC Lustenau 07 . After a weak start for his team, he was replaced by Thorsten Fink in early September 2006 .

From 2007 to 2009 and from 2012 to 2016 Franz Aigner trained the regional league team TSV Sankt Johann im Pongau . Since summer 2016 he has been the coach of SV Wals-Grünau .

Stations

player

Trainer

titles and achievements

player

Trainer

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Match report of the UEFA Cup final , on uefa.com. Retrieved February 4, 2017.
  2. ↑ Football: Franz Aigner gives the direction in Grünau , on salzburg.com, from April 25, 2016. Accessed on February 4, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Aigner, Franz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian soccer player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH September 14, 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Johann im Pongau , Austria