Heribert Weber

This article deals with the Austrian soccer player Heribert Weber, the physicist of the same name can be found under Heribert Weber (physicist) .

Heribert Weber
Heribert Weber (2005)
Personnel
birthday	June 28, 1955
place of birth	Pöls ,  Austria
size	180 cm
position	defense
Juniors
Years	station
0000-1974	FC Pöls
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1974-1988	SK Sturm Graz	116 0(9)
1978-1989	SK Rapid Vienna	315 (39)
1989-1994	SV Austria Salzburg	150 0(9)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1976-1989	Austria	68 0(1)
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
1994-1995	ASVÖ FC Puch
1995-1996	Austria U-18 + U-19
1995	Austria U-20
1996-1998	SV Austria Salzburg
1998-2000	SK Rapid Vienna
2001-2002	1. FC Saarbrücken
2003-2004	SC Untersiebenbrunn
2008-2010	FC Admira Wacker Mödling (Sports Director)
1 Only league games are given.

Heribert "Heri" Weber (born June 28, 1955 in Pöls , Styria ) is a former Austrian soccer player , national player and soccer coach . In his career as a player he was five times Austrian champion, four times ÖFB Cup winner and reached a European Cup final with two different clubs.

Career as a player

The trained book printer played for the small Styrian association FSC Zellstoffe Pöls near Judenburg until he was 18 . In 1973 Heribert Weber moved to the first division team SK Sturm Graz . In Sturm's first championship game in the spring of 1974 (February 23 with a 0-1 defeat in Eisenstadt) Weber was used for the first time when he was exchanged for Walter Peintinger in the 82nd minute . With the Grazers he reached the cup final against "SSW Innsbruck" in 1975 under coach Karl Schlechta (although - after the 0: 3 on June 17 at Innsbruck Tivoli - the home 2: 0 in the second leg on June 25 in the Liebenau stadium was not enough ) and celebrated his first call-up to the national team as a Sturm player. When Schlechta went to Rapid Vienna in January 1978 , he also brought Heri Weber to the Hütteldorfer in the summer of the same year.

In the green-whites, the 1.80 m tall Styrian soon became a permanent fixture in the team and celebrated his first major successes. From 1978 to 1989 the defender and libero scored 39 goals in 315 championship games and won the Austrian championship title four times with the Viennese and the ÖFB Cup just as often . Heri Weber scored three goals in 43 European Cup appearances for Rapid and was also part of the team from 1984/85, which moved into the final of the European Cup winners under the then coach Otto Barić . The final itself, which took place in Rotterdam on May 15, 1985 , was lost 3-1 to Everton . On September 11, 1981, at the home game against FC Admira / Wacker (2-0), Franz Binder (known as "Bimbo Binder") presented him with the "Rapid Honor Captain for Life" award before the match began .

In 1989, the only honorary captain, Rapids, moved to the first division promoted SV Austria Salzburg at the age of 34 . With the Salzburg team, Heribert Weber once again achieved two runner-up titles under coach Otto Baric and in 1994 the club's first ever championship title. In the 1993/94 season, as a 39-year-old, he reached a European Cup final with the Salzburg Violets for the second time in his career. Both finals in the UEFA Cup against Inter Milan were only just lost 1-0 for Salzburg, who had to forego several regular players in the second final game due to injuries and bans. After the two UEFA Cup finals, the captain of Salzburg Austria ended his active career and switched to coaching.

Heribert Weber is also a record player in the Austrian Bundesliga (as of 2005). In 581 games he scored 57 goals as a libero and defender. He also made 63 European Cup appearances, scoring 3 goals, and was captain of the national team for many years .

National team

Heri Weber made his debut in the Austrian national team on April 28, 1976 in the 1-0 success of the Austrians over the Swedish national soccer team . The long-time team captain made a total of 68 international matches for Austria and scored one goal. The Styrian played three games each at the World Championships in 1978 and 1982, his last appearance in the dress of the Austrians in qualifying for the 1990 World Cup on October 25, 1989 in the 3-0 defeat against the Turkish national soccer team in Istanbul .

Success as a player

• 5 × Austrian champion : 1982, 1983, 1987, 1988 (Rapid Vienna), 1994 (Austria Salzburg)
• 4 × Austrian Cup winners : 1983, 1984, 1985, 1987 (Rapid Vienna)
• 3 × Austrian Supercup winner : 1986, 1987, 1988 (Rapid Vienna)
• 1 × European Cup winners final: 1985 (Rapid Vienna)
• 1 × UEFA Cup final : 1994 (Austria Salzburg)
• 5 × Austrian runner-up : 1984, 1985, 1986 (Rapid Vienna), 1992, 1993 (Austria Salzburg)
• 2 × Austrian Cup final : 1975 (Sturm Graz), 1986 (Rapid Vienna)
• 68 international matches and 1 goal for the Austrian national team from 1976 to 1989
• Participation in the Football World Cup in 1978 and 1982
• Part of the Rapid Team of the Century

Career as a coach

After retiring from his active career as a player, Heri Weber signed as a coach at the Salzburg satellite club ASVÖ FC Puch, with whom he was relegated from the second division in the 1994/95 season. From 1995 to 1996 he was responsible for the U-18 and U-19 youth teams of the ÖFB , before club boss Rudi Quehenberger offered him the post of coach at Salzburg Austria.

A team awaited him in Salzburg , which with the departure of numerous European Cup heroes and top players ( Pfeifenberger , Jurčević , Feiersinger , Mladenović , Artner , Fürstaller and Stadler ) was exposed to decay. Heri Weber knew how to form a new compact unit from the rest of the troupe and a few newcomers and sensationally won the Austrian championship title with Austria Salzburg in the 1996/97 season. In the semi-finals of the cup competition, he and his team failed unlucky on penalties against Vienna . In the 1997/98 season a lot went wrong for Weber near Salzburg; the championship could not be defended due to a blatant weakness away from home and Salzburg also failed in qualifying for the UEFA Champions League against Sparta Prague . Nevertheless, Weber had made a name for himself as a trainer due to winning the title last year and so the Rapids sporting director Ernst Dokupil brought him to the Hütteldorfern team in May 1998.

With Rapid Weber reached second place in the championship behind Sturm Graz in the 1997/98 and 1998/99 seasons. After his contract with the Hütteldorfer was terminated on May 30, 2000, he had to wait almost a year and a half before he was allowed to take up a new position as coach and later as sports director at the German second division club 1. FC Saarbrücken . In July 2003, Heri Weber took over the SC Untersiebenbrunn team in the second Austrian league and became the first league autumn champion in 2003. Heribert Weber then worked as a TV soccer expert for the pay TV broadcaster Sky and was once a week in Listening to the radio as part of a football broadcast.

From August 1, 2008 to summer 2010, Heribert Weber was the sports director of FC Admira Wacker Mödling .

Success as a trainer

• 1 × Austrian champion : 1997 (Austria Salzburg)
• 1 × Austrian Supercup winner : 1997 (Austria Salzburg)
• 2 × Austrian runner-up : 1998, 1999 (Rapid Vienna)

See also

• Austria at the Football World Cup 1978 in Argentina
• Austria at the Soccer World Cup 1982 in Spain