Franz Almer

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Franz Almer
Personnel
Surname Franz Almer
birthday September 23, 1970
place of birth Mürzhofen ,  Austria
position goalkeeper
Juniors
Years station
SV Mürzhofen
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1991-1993 DSV Leoben
1993-2005 Graz AK
Stations as a trainer
Years station
2006-2008 Grazer AK (To-Tr)
2008-2010 Red Bull Salzburg Juniors (To-Tr)
2010-2010 Bahrain (To-Tr)
2011-2014 SC Mürzhofen
2015– Grazer AK II
1 Only league games are given.

Franz Almer (born September 23, 1970 in Mürzhofen , Styria ) is a former Austrian professional football player. In 2005 he ended his professional career as a goalkeeper and has been looking after the second team of the GAK since 2015 .

biography

Franz Almer was born on September 23, 1970 in Mürzhofen, a community not far from Kapfenberg , where his parents had a farm . In his youth he acted as a midfielder and from the age of twelve began his goalkeeping career. In Mürzhofen, Almer, who was graduating from commercial school at the time, played in the combat team at the age of 16 and switched to Alpine Donawitz two years later . The fee at that time was 1,500  shillings per month and 1,000 shillings per point.

After two years with the blast furnace ballet and an unprecedented series of injuries, he decided to take a year off, then in 1993 he moved to the Grazer AK , to which he remained loyal until the end of his active career in summer 2005. After finishing his professional career, Almer stayed with the athletes as a goalkeeping coach.

In the summer of 2006 Almer was reactivated after the two substitute goalkeepers Fornezzi and Leitner injured themselves. His player pass was requested by SV Justiz, a club of the Styrian Unterliga Mitte where Almer had been an attacker since the end of his professional career.

From the 2015/2016 season, Almer will return to his old place of work, the Grazer AK , as a trainer of KM II - which starts in 1st class middle A.

Injuries

Almer's career was interrupted several times by numerous injuries; in 1990, 1991 and 1995 he was hospitalized with a shoulder injury. Two times on the right and once on the left, implanted metal and pieces of bone and later also a meniscus arthroscopy .

The climax of the negative series was February 12, 2003, when he suffered another dislocation of the left shoulder joint in a friendly against NK Ljubljana at the first half in the second half through no fault of anybody else. Thanks to his participation in a physiotherapy-controlled post-operation training session, he was ready to go again at the end of May, but soon afterwards had to overcome another setback with an ankle injury at a training game in Kapfenberg.

In 1996, Franz Almer helped Alexander Manninger indirectly to his international career when he fell ill before the UEFA Cup match against Inter Milan and Manninger had the chance to attract international attention.

There was a parallel in 1998 at the home game against AS Monaco , where Almer tore a muscle fiber while warming up and Tomas Tomic had to step in for him, who later moved to Portugal.

successes

Despite many injuries in crucial situations, he has had great sporting successes, including the successes with the GAK in the ÖFB Cup . His performance in the 2000 final against SV Salzburg at the Ernst Happel Stadium in Vienna was outstanding : In the last seconds of stoppage time when the score was 2: 2, Almer prevented the game-winning goal from Heiko Laeßig , and in the subsequent penalty shoot-out he held the decisive one Penalty by Peter Lipcsei and enabled the athletes to win the second cup.

A similar situation occurred in the 2004 Cup final against Vienna Austria when Almer saved the last penalty shot by Sean Dundee . In 2004 he played the last three games of the second half of the season in the championship season after Andreas Schranz was injured . With which he was able to achieve his greatest sporting goal: to become Austrian champion with the Graz AK.

Stations

Use statistics at the GAK

Austrian Bundesliga:

  • 1993/94: First division
  • 1994/95: First division
  • 1995/96: 35 games
  • 1996/97: 14 games
  • 1997/98: 27 games
  • 1998/99: 32 games
  • 1999/00: 31 games
  • 2000/01: 25 games
  • 2001/02: 36 games
  • 2002/03: 19 games / 1658 minutes (1 substitution, 1 yellow card)
  • 2003/04: 3 games / 270 minutes
  • 2004/05: 4 games / 283 minutes (1 substitution)
personal data
SURNAME Almer, Franz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Almer, Franzi
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian soccer goalkeeper
DATE OF BIRTH September 23, 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH Mürzhofen , Styria