Herbert Feurer

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Herbert "Funki" Feurer
Herbert Feurer - SK Rapid Vienna (02) .jpg
Feurer 2010
Personnel
Surname Herbert Feurer
birthday January 14, 1954
place of birth Aspang ,  Austria
position goalkeeper
Juniors
Years station
1962-1972 SC Aspang
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1969-1974 SC Aspang
1974-1976 1. Wiener Neustädter SC
1976-1989 SK Rapid Vienna 289 (0)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1980-1982 Austria 7 (0)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
1989-1992 SK Rapid Wien (goalkeeping coach)
1992-1994 FC Admira Wacker Mödling (goalkeeping coach)
1993-2002 Austria (goalkeeping coach)
1994-1998 SK Rapid Wien (goalkeeping coach)
2000-2006 SK Rapid Wien (goalkeeping coach)
1 Only league games are given.

Herbert "Funki" Feurer (born January 14, 1954 in Aspang , Lower Austria ) is a former Austrian football player in the position of goalkeeper .

Active career

Feurer was a promising goalkeeper and Rapid fan even as a junior player that he spent at SC Aspang. In the Austrian youth teams where he already met Hans Krankl , he mostly wore green sweaters. Feurer caused a stir when, at the age of 15, he was already guarding the gate of the fighting team of his home club. Therefore, in 1974 he was signed by the then second division 1. Wiener Neustädter SC , where he made his debut under coach Sepp Schneider , who himself was a first-class goalkeeper at Wiener Austria . He also had his first major sponsor in Schneider.

He performed so well with Wiener Neustädtern that Robert Körner and functionary Kurt Eichelberger brought him to SK Rapid Wien in the summer of 1976 . There he ousted the previous standard goalkeeper Peter Barthold and played 28 of 36 championship games for the green-whites in his first season. He made his debut on August 11th in the home game against FC Admira Wacker , which was won 2-0. It was to be a long time for him in the west of Vienna.

The European Cup game against Celtic Glasgow on December 12, 1984 can be described as the absolute highlight of his career . Rapid won the home game 3-1 and in the second leg the Scots were 2-0 in front, before defender Rudi Weinhofer went down after a missed bottle throw. Rapid protested and the second leg was played again - on the said December 12th, this time in the venerable Old Trafford in Manchester. Peter Pacult was able to take the Viennese lead in the 17th minute, before an angry Celtic fan ran onto the field in the 65th minute and hit the stunned Feurer with punches and kicks. The goalie picked himself up again, continued playing and kept his goal clean until the final whistle - Rapid reached the quarter-finals.

In 1985, another young keeper found his way to Hütteldorf: Michael Konsel had come to Rapid from Vienna. In the 1985/86 season Feurer played eleven times, while Konsel came on 25 missions. Funki also made his last championship game for the Green-Whites against Admira on August 13, 1989 - this time away and with a 2-1 defeat. Three days later he was allowed to play again in the cup against SV Oberwart (3-0 win) and then a successful career was over.

The trainer Feurer

When Hans Krankl became a Rapidler coach in 1989, Herbert Feurer also came back as goalkeeper supervisor and they left together in the summer of 1992. VfB Mödling called and the Lower Austrian stayed in the south of Vienna for two years. Ernst Dokupil brought him back in 1994 and a year later he experienced his second European Cup final with his favorite club - this time as assistant coach. In April 1998 there were differences with the then coach Heribert Weber , whereupon Feurer left the club. From the 2000/01 season Herbert Feurer worked again as a goalkeeper coach at Rapid Vienna. He resigned from this position on December 31, 2006 for health reasons.

Herbert Feurer also trained the goalkeepers of the Austrian national team from 1993 to 2002.

Others

Funki Feurer was not only successful as a goalkeeper, but is still feared for his " wags " to this day . With this in mind, there are also three books by him that provide the best anecdotes about Rapid.

Statistics & Achievements

  • 289 championship games for Rapid
  • 32 European Cup games
  • 7 international matches
  • Participation in the World Cup in 1982
  • 4 × Austrian champion (1982, 1983, 1987, 1988)
  • 4 × Austrian Cup winner (1983, 1984, 1985, 1987)
  • Final in the European Cup of Cup Winners (1985)
  • 2 × Austria's "Footballer of the Year" (1980, 1981)

literature

  • Peter Linden, Peter Klöbl: 100 stars in green and white . Vienna 1999.
  • Roland Holzinger: Rapid, The Chronicle 1899–1999 . Vienna 1999.
  • Herbert Feurer, Peter Linden: Rapid "Wuchteln" . Vienna 2000.

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personal data
SURNAME Feurer, Herbert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Funki
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH January 14, 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Aspang , Lower Austria