Johann Pirkner

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Hans Pirkner
Personnel
Surname Johann Pirkner
birthday March 25, 1946
place of birth Vienna ,  Austria
size 180 cm
position striker
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1965-1966 Floridsdorfer AC
1966-1967 Admira Energie Vienna 4 (1)
1967-1968 Austria Klagenfurt 21 (2)
1968-1969 Admira Energie Vienna 15 (9)
1969-1971 FC Schalke 04 47 (8)
1971-1974 Alpine Donawitz 52 (31)
1974-1988 FK Austria Vienna 128 (62)
1978-1980 First Vienna FC 1894 49 (11)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1969-1988 Austria 20 (4)
1 Only league games are given.

Johann "Hans" Pirkner (born March 25, 1946 in Vienna ) is a former Austrian football player on the position of a striker .

Player career

International

Pirkner completed 20 international matches and scored four goals for the Austrian national team . He made his debut on September 21, 1969 in a friendly match in a 1-1 draw against the German national soccer team in Vienna . Pirkner scored the lead for the Austrians after seven minutes.

At the Football World Cup in Argentina in 1978 , he was in the Austrian squad . In the shirt with the number 19 he made two appearances against Spain (2: 1) and Italy (0: 1) when he was substituted on for Walter Schachner .

The Bundesliga scandal

From 1969 to 1971 Pirkner played at FC Schalke 04 in the German Bundesliga . In 47 games he scored eight goals. Since Pirkner was involved in the postponement of the game FC Schalke 04 - Arminia Bielefeld (0: 1) in April 1971 in the Bundesliga scandal , he was banned from the German Football Association from August 5, 1972 to August 4, 1974 and fined occupied by 2,300 DM . The Austrian Football Association , which had banned Pirkner for 2 years, pardoned him on June 15, 1973, whereby his ban expired on August 15, 1973.

After his return from the German to the Austrian Bundesliga, he was a member of the legendary Austria team around Herbert Prohaska, Robert and Josef Sara, Felix Gasselich, Karl Daxbacher and Hubert Baumgartner, which won the Austrian championship in 1978 and made it through to the final of the European Cup Cup winner advanced. Together with Thomas Parits and Julio Cesar Morales, he formed the so-called 100-year storm. While he had to admit defeat in the battle for top scorer Hans Krankl in 1978, he scored incredibly important goals for Vienna Austria. In the semi-finals of the European Cup winners' Cup against Dynamo Moscow in front of 70,000 spectators in the Prater Stadium, he converted his two penalties in a hard-fought match, first a penalty in the 49th minute and then to 2-2 in the penalty shoot-out (Austria won the penalty shoot-out 5-4 and was the cup winner in the final of the European Cup).

Although he played a major role in the success of Austria, he left them in the summer of 1978 after participating in the World Cup in Argentina. His last position as a professional footballer was on July 13, 1978 at the "Vienna".

successes

Away from the football field

Like his competitor at the time, Hans Krankl , Pirkner also took a trip to the music business (title: “Tuat's net schimpfn über mi” ). After the 1978 World Cup, the trained finished car mechanic Pirkner his professional career and was on business in the industry operate office machines and office technology.

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Penultimate column, below: "Grace for Pirkner" . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna June 17, 1973, p. 13 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  2. ^ Austria Wien versus Dinamo Moscow on April 12, 1978 in Vienna , Austria Wien Archiv
  3. ↑ Third column, below: "Pirkner fix bei Vienna" . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna July 14, 1978, p. 17 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
personal data
SURNAME Pirkner, Johann
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pirkner, Hans (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH March 25, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna , Occupied Post-War Austria