Josef Hickersberger

Josef Hickersberger
Portrait of Josef Hickersberger
Personnel
birthday	April 27, 1948 (age 72)
place of birth	Amstetten ,  Austria
size	177 cm
position	midfield player
Juniors
Years	station
1960-1966	ASK Amstetten
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1966-1972	FK Austria Vienna	112 (28)
1972-1976	Kickers Offenbach	118 (28)
1976-1988	Fortuna Dusseldorf	59 0(5)
1978-1980	SSW Innsbruck	35 0(6)
1980-1982	SK Rapid Vienna	48 0(4)
1983-1984	Baden AC
1984-1986	UFC pama
1986	SV Forchtenstein
1986	WSV Traisen
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1968-1988	Austria	39 0(5)
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
1983-1984	Badener AC (player-coach)
1986	SV Forchtenstein (player-coach)
1986	WSV Traisen (player coach)
1987	Austria U-21
1987	Austria (assistant coach)
1987-1990	Austria
1991	Fortuna Dusseldorf
1993-1994	FK Austria Vienna
1995-1997	Al Ahli Club
1996	Bahrain
1997-1999	Arab Contractors
1999-2000	Al-Shaab
2000-2001	Al-Wasl
2001-2002	Al-Ittihad
2002-2005	SK Rapid Vienna
2006-2008	Austria
2008-2010	Al-Wahda
2010	Bahrain
2010–2012	Al-Wahda
2013	Al-Wahda
1 Only league games are given.

Josef "Pepi" Hickersberger (born April 27, 1948 in Amstetten , Lower Austria ) is a former Austrian football player and current coach . He was twice team boss of the Austrian national team .

The Amstetten native experienced his career high point as a football player with seventh place at the 1978 World Cup and the legendary 3-2 win over Germany. In 1987 he took over the post of Austrian national coach for the first time, from which he had to resign in 1990 after the embarrassing 1-0 defeat against the Faroe Islands team . After several years in the Middle East , he returned to Austria in 2002 and led Rapid Vienna to the championship title in 2005. On January 1, 2006, he took over the Austrian national team for the second time in his career and looked after it at the 2008 home European championship .

Career as a player

Success with Vienna Austria, debut in the national team and the move to Germany

Josef Hickersberger began his career in 1960 at the age of twelve with his hometown club ASK Amstetten . As a teenager, the midfielder made the leap into the fighting team and attracted the attention of higher-class clubs. In 1966, at the age of 18, he moved to the top club and traditional club FK Austria Wien in the National League and made a good start in the team with four goals in five appearances. In the following season he won a regular place and celebrated his first big title by winning the ÖFB Cup (drawing of lots against ASK from Linz ). This was followed in 1967 by winning the European title with the Austrian amateur national team. In 1968 he played in the European Cup for the first time, but failed with Austria in the first round of the Cup Winners' Cup at Steaua Bucharest . On May 1st of the same year he made his international debut in the Austrian national football team under team boss Erwin Alge in a 1-1 draw against Romania when he came on for his club colleague Ernst Fiala in the 63rd minute .

After two third places in the National League, Hickersberger won the Austrian championship twice in a row under coach Ernst Ocffekt in 1969 and 1970 with the Violettes, with the Viennese only winning the 1968/69 season with greats like Robert Sara , Thomas Parits , Helmut Köglberger and Alfred Riedl had to accept a single defeat (2: 3 against ASK from Linz ). In 1970, he played his first game in the national team, on his fourth appearance, but lost 1-0 with his team in the friendly international match against Yugoslavia in Vienna. In the 1970/71 season, Amstettner won the ÖFB Cup for the second time with Austria by a 2-1 after extra time over arch rivals Rapid. In 1972 Josef Hickersberger contributed three goals to the 4-0 in just six minutes with a hat trick in front of match observers from Germany in the World Cup qualifier against Malta . After the runner-up title behind SSW Innsbruck , Hickersberger, who scored 28 goals in 111 championship games for Austria, left Austria in the summer of 1972 and moved to the German Bundesliga at Kickers Offenbach . In the following four years, the midfielder completed 118 Bundesliga games for Hessen and scored 29 goals. After Offenbach's relegation, the now 28-year-old moved to Fortuna Düsseldorf , where he played another 59 games in the first German Bundesliga until 1978 and scored five goals.

World Championship 1978, miracle of Córdoba and last successes with Innsbruck and Rapid

Hickersberger experienced his international career highlight with the Austrian national team, which was able to qualify for a World Cup for the first time after a break of 20 years, at the Football World Cup in Argentina in 1978 . Having long since become a regular under team boss Helmut Senekowitsch , the always rather inconspicuous midfield strategist played a major role in the promotion of his team to the second round. With the strongest Austrian team of the last 20 years, Hickersberger not only took seventh place, but also celebrated a historical football sensation with the “ Miracle of Córdoba ”, the legendary 3-2 victory over the reigning world champion Germany is unforgotten. With this triumph, the Lower Austrian, who played in all six World Cup games, ended his international career after 39 international appearances for his country, in which he scored five goals.

Since Fortuna Düsseldorf only wanted to grant him a one-year contract and set a transfer fee of 350,000 DM for him, Hickersberger considered the idea of ​​"re-amateurization" (this would have meant a six-month waiting period; on the other hand, he could have applied for unemployment benefit in Germany), but then returned he returned to his homeland during the summer break in 1978 and played for SSW Innsbruck for two years, where he initially had to struggle with major problems (coach Johann Eigenstiller had bet on the "young wave" and did not always set it up). With the Tyrolean syndicate he won the cup competition in the 1978/79 season with a 1-0 win at Tivoli and a 1-1 draw in Südstadt against Admira / Wacker , but surprisingly got down from the 1st division of the Bundesliga in the same year. After he only finished second with the Innsbruck team in the second division the following year and thus missed the return to the top tier, Hickersberger moved to SK Rapid Vienna in 1980 . With the Hütteldorfer he finished third in the championship in 1981 and celebrated his last major success on the field by winning his third Austrian championship title under the coaches Walter Skocik and Rudolf Nuske at the end of his professional career.

After the end of his career as a professional player, Josef Hickersberger retired from football and worked as an editor for Austrian Teletext and as a columnist for various newspapers. After two years of abstinence from football, he celebrated a comeback in 1984 as an amateur player for the small, lower-class Burgenland club UFC Pama. In 1986 he moved to SV Forchtenstein for half a season, which he took over as player-coach while in last place and led to a midfield position in the 2nd Burgenland class. Subsequently, he acted briefly as a player-coach at the Lower Austrian club WSV Traisen.

Title and achievements as a player

• 3 × Austrian champion : 1969, 1970 (Austria Wien), 1982 (Rapid Wien)
• 3 × Austrian Cup winners : 1967, 1971 (Austria Wien), 1979 (SSW Innsbruck)
• 1 × Austrian runner-up : 1972 (Austria Wien)
• 39 international matches and five goals for the Austrian national team from 1968 to 1978
• 1 × participation in the soccer world championship : Argentina 1978 (7th place)
• 1 × UEFA Amateur Cup winner 1967

Career as a coach

The rapid rise to national coach, the World Cup in Italy and the embarrassment against the Faroe Islands

After his engagements as player- coach at SV Forchtenstein and WSV Traisen , he took over a pure coaching position for the first time in the autumn of 1986 at the traditional, but now insignificant Badener AC . After only a few months, he was hired by the ÖFB on January 1, 1987 as assistant to the then Austrian team boss Branko Elsner and as head coach for the U-21 national team. After Ernst Happel and Erich Ribbeck refused , the previous assistant to Beppo Mauhart , the then President of the Austrian Football Association, was appointed head of the senior national team and became the youngest national coach in the association's history. It was presented to the public on December 23, 1987, although it was not welcomed in a friendly manner during the presentation, its nomination had to be defended by President Mauhart and it had only received approval from the Tyrolean Association President Burger.
On January 26, 1988, he announced his first team squad for two unofficial international matches as part of the training camp in southern France and also announced that Heribert Weber was the captain . In addition, Walter Gebhardt became Hickersberger's new assistant; he had previously been Otto Barić's assistant at Rapid Vienna.

Despite vehement criticism from numerous football experts - including former teammates such as Herbert Prohaska and Hans Krankl , who saw the inexperienced coach, who had never looked after a Bundesliga team, a bad cast - Hickersberger achieved the specified goal of qualifying for the 1990 World Cup in Italy . With respectable results in the World Cup qualification (3: 2 Turkey, 1: 1 and 3: 0 GDR, 0: 0 and 2: 1 Iceland, 0: 0 USSR) and promising successes in the preparatory games (0: 0 Egypt, 3 : 2 Spain, 3: 0 Hungary, 1: 1 Argentina, 3: 2 Netherlands) Hickersberger and his team around Herzog , Polster , Ogris , Rodax , Schöttel , Russ , Linzmaier , Artner and goalkeeper Lindenberger sparked a real euphoria among the association and fans that increased the expectations of the team.

After two narrow 0: 1 defeats against hosts Italy and Czechoslovakia , in which the Austrians played well but did not have the slightest chance of scoring, thanks to the win (2: 1) in the last group game against the USA, they almost managed to rise as one of the best group thirds in the second round, but due to the unfortunate results of the remaining games, the elimination was certain two days later. After another surprising defeat in Vienna against Switzerland (1: 3) the low point seemed to have been reached and Hickersberger lost all credit from fans and media. The ÖFB remained loyal to the Lower Austrian and so Hickersberger led his team into the upcoming qualification for the 1992 European Championship , which Austria had to contest against the teams from Yugoslavia, Denmark, Northern Ireland and the Faroe Islands .

The group was labeled as "pleasant" and the promotion as "feasible" and no importance was attached to the first match against the "amateur troop" of the small archipelago, which was only accepted into FIFA this year (1990). From an Austrian point of view, the outcome of the game seemed clear. Toni Polster (then a top player at Sevilla FC ) even spoke of a 10-0 win before the game, and the Faroese themselves, who had previously only played friendly matches, expected a high defeat.

After the embarrassing 1-0 defeat against the Faroese who were previously disparagingly referred to as “amateur kickers”, the call for Hickersberger's resignation was unmistakable. Three days after this historic sensation, the man from Amstetten complied with this request and resigned from his position as team manager. Because of this defeat, the Austrian media gave Josef Hickersberger the unflattering name “Faroe Pepi”. In his first era as team boss, he led the national team in 29 games to 10 wins, 7 draws and 12 defeats.

Guest performance in Düsseldorf, successes with Austria and the years in the Middle East

At the beginning of 1991, he took over the post of head coach at his former club Fortuna Düsseldorf as the successor to Aleksandar Ristić . After five games from which he got eleven points with his team, a series of failures followed at the beginning of the 1991/92 season with 6 defeats in a row, which ended with his dismissal. After this new negative event, Josef Hickersberger retired from football for two years. In autumn 1993 he took over the team from Austria Wien and led them to victory in the cup over FC Linz and in the Supercup over FC Tirol Innsbruck . Since he just missed the specified goal with the violets, the Austrian championship title, with second place behind Austria Salzburg , he was terminated again in the summer of 1994, before his contract expired. This insult, which he could not overcome for years, led him to turn his back on European football and from 1995 to spend several years in countries in the Arab world.

In Bahrain he looked after both the Al-Ahli team, with whom he won the championship in 1996 and advanced to the cup final in 1997, as well as the national team at the Arab Cup games. As national coach, he led his team to four wins, two draws and five defeats in eleven games. From 1997 to 1999 Hickersberger was active for two seasons in Egypt and reached the cup final and third place in the championship with Mekawleen Kairo in 1998. After two years in the United Arab Emirates , he moved to Al-Ittihad in Qatar and celebrated victory in the championship and cup competitions with the team in 2002.

Return to Austria, success with Rapid and the era "Hickersberger II" as national coach

After seven years abroad, Josef Hickersberger returned to Austria in May 2002 and built up a young team at Rapid Vienna. In the 2003/04 season he reached fourth place in the table with the Hütteldorfer and qualified with the team for the next year's UEFA Cup , in which the Viennese, however, failed in the second main round at Sporting Lisbon . In the 2004/05 season he won the Austrian championship title with Rapid and reached the group stage in the UEFA Champions League with the Hütteldorfer in autumn . With these successes, his reputation in Austria seemed to be restored, which was not changed by the subsequent unfortunate appearances of his Rapidler in the Champions League.

In autumn 2005, Hickersberger was presented as the new team boss by ÖFB President Friedrich Stickler . On January 1, 2006, the Amstettener officially took office and thus started the development work on a powerful team for the home European championship in 2008. At the end of the month he held a two-week training camp with the national team in Dubai , which was primarily aimed at getting to know each other , the sighting of new young players ( Özcan , Sonnleitner , Junuzovic and Fuchs ) and the presentation of the new playing attire.

In the first international match against Canada , the Lower Austrian largely relied on the squad of his predecessor Hans Krankl, but had to change it several times due to many failures. The hope for better times, which was slowly emerging after his success with Rapid at club level in the Austrian football scene, gave way to disillusionment with the surprising 0: 2 against the underrated Canadians. In the following matches, Hickersberger increasingly used young players and despite the worst start of a team boss era in the history of Austrian football (0 wins, 1 draw, 4 defeats; 4:11 goals) after the games against Canada, Croatia, Costa Rica, Venezuela and Liechtenstein) the call for the return of established players like Didi Kühbauer and Ivica Vastić vehemently rejected. Especially before and shortly after the international match against Liechtenstein, the situation was extremely tense and was considered by Hickersberger due to the fact that the kickers of the small principality scored a goal against Austria for the first time in their international history and almost brought them to the brink of defeat (final score 2: 1) already counted as. The Austrians' best game so far in the international match year 2006 was played just one week later against the higher-ranking Swiss national team. With a combative and surprisingly strong performance, the Austrians celebrated their first major success in the Hickersberger II era with a 2-1 win. In the last game of 2006, they also scored a 4-1 victory against World Cup participants Trinidad and Tobago become. In the first game of 2007 against Malta , however, the team only managed a 1-1 draw, which dampened the positive mood towards Hickersberger a little and set high expectations for the subsequent games. The positive mood returned somewhat when Austria beat Ghana 1: 1 with a good performance. The performance of the Austrian national team in the following games got worse and worse and after the 2-0 defeat against Chile on September 11, 2007, “Hicke out!” Chants echoed through Vienna's Ernst Happel Stadium. With a 3-2 respectable win against the Ivory Coast on October 17, 2007 in Innsbruck , in front of over 28,500 spectators, the discussions about an early replacement of Josef Hickersberger as team boss ended for the time being.

At the home European championship in 2008 , in which Austria had to compete in Group B against Germany, Croatia and Poland, the goal of reaching the quarter-finals was clearly missed. Despite quite passable performances, the team finished the preliminary round in third place with two defeats against Croatia and Germany (both 0: 1) and a draw against Poland (1: 1). On June 23, 2008, Hickersberger announced his resignation.

Again return to the Arab region

On December 10, 2008 he took over the first division club Al-Wahda in the United Arab Emirates , with whom he won the national championship title in 2010. Since he could not agree on a contract extension with the club, he left Al-Wahda in mid-May 2010. In early June 2010, Hickersberger was again presented as the new coach of the Bahraini national soccer team. However, he did not take over his position as national coach until July 1, 2010. One of the first games of the Bahraini national team under Hickersberger's leadership was the international soccer match Bahrain - Togo 2010 , in which an unknown group of players pretended to be the Togolese national team . Early in his tenure as head coach, he brought Georg Zellhofer , another Austrian coach, to Bahrain at the end of June 2010. Zellhofer took over the country's U-23 national team, with which he took part in qualifying for the 2012 Olympic Games .

In October 2010 it was announced that Hickersberger is giving up his national coaching post and moving back to Al Wahda. However, he was unable to continue the successful times there. Hickersberger initially stayed with the club for two years and was replaced by Branko Ivanković in the summer of 2012 . Because Al Wahda had a sporting crash with the Croat, Hickersberger returned to the coaching bench in April 2013. After only 78 days and without any significant success, his third term at the club from the United Arab Emirates came to an end in July 2013.

Since then, Josef Hickersberger has not had a job as a coach. On October 15, 2013, he worked as a TV expert for the Austrian private TV broadcaster ATV at the World Cup qualifying game for the Austrians in the Faroe Islands , thus returning to the place of his greatest defeat. Since February 2018, Hickersberger has been an honorary member of the Advisory Board of SK Rapid Vienna .

Title and successes as a trainer

• 1 × Master of the United Arab Emirates : 2010 (Al-Wahda)
• 1 × Austrian champion : 2005 (SK Rapid Vienna)
• 1 × Bahraini champion : 1996 (Al-Ahli)
• 1 × Qatari champion : 2002 (Al-Ittihad)
• 1 × Austrian runner-up : 1994 (Austria Wien)
• 1 × Austrian Cup Winner : 1994 (Austria Wien)
• 1 × Qatar Cup Winner : 2002 (Al-Ittihad)
• 1 × Austrian Supercup winner : 1994 (Austria Wien)
• 1 × Egyptian Cup final : 1998 (Mekawleen Cairo)
• 1 × Bahrain Cup semi -finals : 1997 (Al-Ahli)
• 1 × participation in the soccer world championship : Italy 1990
• 1 × participation in the European Football Championship : Austria and Switzerland 2008
• 1 × participation in the UEFA Champions League : 2005 (SK Rapid Vienna)
• 1 × participation in the FIFA Club World Cup (6th place, with Al-Wahda)

Awards

• In 1981 the midfielder was voted into the team of the season by the Kronen Zeitung .
• As a supervisor, both the Kurier and the Kronen-Zeitung voted him coach of the 2004/05 season and coach of the year 2005, respectively.
• His saying during the European Championship “We only trained our strengths, so the training was over after 15 minutes today”, he was awarded the German Football Culture Prize 2008 as the football saying of the year . In the same year, the quote also became the “saying of the year” in Austria. The jury justified its decision with the "elegant and witty description of certain conditions in Austrian football, which is in the best literary tradition of Austrian self-irony".

Private life

Hickersberger grew up as the son of the sandal manufacturer Josef Hickersberger and his wife Frieda together with his two sisters in Amstetten, Lower Austria. After graduation he began with a jus -Studies, however, broke this from an early stage in order to concentrate solely on his career as a professional footballer. He has two children with his wife, whom he once met as a petrol station inspector and with whom he has lived in Vienna-Penzing since his return to Austria . His son Thomas (* 1973) followed in his father's footsteps, played in the Austrian Bundesliga for a few years and also played in the Austrian national team.

In his free time, Josef Hickersberger mainly pursues his sporting hobbies. In the past, tennis and mountain hiking were the main activities , but now he has devoted himself to less intensive golf and chess .

Nicknames

The Austrian has a number of nicknames, such as "Pepi" (short for Josef ) and "Hicke" . The best known is the "Faroe Pepi" , which he got after the historic defeat with the Austrian national team against the Faroe Islands and which he has not been able to take off until today. After the series of defeats at the beginning of his second era as team boss, the name "Liechtenstein-Josef" was promised to him in the run-up to the encounter with Liechtenstein . Hickersberger himself said that he didn't care about such names, but always reacts irritably when reporters talk about it.

ÖFB international matches under team boss Josef Hickersberger

Legend

• H = home game
• A = away game
• * = Play on a neutral place
• - = no official international match
• green background color = victory of Austria
• yellow background color = tie
• red background color = defeat

First term of office of team boss Josef Hickersberger

Games	Victories	draw	Defeats	Gates	TD
29	10	7th	12	36:39	−3

No.	date	Result	opponent		venue	occasion	comment
-	02/02/1988	3: 1	Morocco	*	Toulouse ( FRA )		no official international match
494	02/05/1988	1: 2	Switzerland	*	Monaco ( MON )
495	04/06/1988	2: 2	Greece	A.	Athens ( GRE )
496	04/27/1988	1-0	Denmark	H	Vienna
497	05/17/1988	4-0	Hungary	A.	Budapest ( HUN )
498	08/03/1988	0: 2	Brazil	H	Vienna
499	08/31/1988	0-0	Hungary	H	Linz
500	09/20/1988	2: 4	Czechoslovakia	A.	Prague ( TCH )
501	October 19, 1988	0: 2	Soviet Union	A.	Kiev ( URS )	World Cup 1990 qualification
502	11/02/1988	3: 2	Turkey	H	Vienna	World Cup 1990 qualification
503	03/25/1989	0: 1	Italy	H	Vienna
504	04/11/1989	1: 2	Czechoslovakia	H	Graz		Last international match in the federal stadium in Liebenau
505	05/20/1989	1: 1	German Democratic Republic	A.	Leipzig ( GDR )	World Cup 1990 qualification
506	05/31/1989	1: 4	Norway	A.	Oslo ( NOR )
507	06/14/1989	0-0	Iceland	A.	Reykjavík ( ISL )	World Cup 1990 qualification	First international match against Iceland
508	08/23/1989	2: 1	Iceland	H	Salzburg	World Cup 1990 qualification
509	09/06/1989	0-0	Soviet Union	H	Vienna	World Cup 1990 qualification	Last international game against the Soviet Union
510	04/10/1989	2: 1	Malta	A.	Ta 'Qali ( MLT )
511	10/25/1989	0: 3	Turkey	A.	Istanbul ( TUR )	World Cup 1990 qualification
512	11/15/1989	3-0	German Democratic Republic	H	Vienna	World Cup 1990 qualification	Austria qualifies for a World Cup finals for the seventh time
513	02/28/1990	0-0	Egypt	A.	Cairo ( EGY )
514	March 28, 1990	3: 2	Spain	A.	Málaga ( ESP )
515	04/11/1990	3-0	Hungary	H	Salzburg
516	05/03/1990	1: 1	Argentina	H	Vienna
517	05/30/1990	3: 2	Netherlands	H	Vienna
518	06/09/1990	0: 1	Italy	A.	Rome ( ITA )	World Cup 1990 preliminary round
519	06/15/1990	0: 1	Czechoslovakia	*	Florence ( ITA )	World Cup 1990 preliminary round
520	06/19/1990	2: 1	United States	*	Florence ( ITA )	World Cup 1990 preliminary round	First international match against the USA, Austria retired as third in the group
521	08/21/1990	1: 3	Switzerland	H	Vienna		1000th international goal by Andreas Ogris
522	09/12/1990	0: 1	Faroe Islands	*	Landskrona ( SWE )	Euro 1992 qualification	First international match against the Faroe Islands / " Debacle against the Faroe Islands "

Second term of office of team boss Josef Hickersberger

Games	Victories	draw	Defeats	Gates	TD
27	5	9	13	29:39	−10

No.	date	Result	opponent		venue	occasion	comment
649	03/01/2006	0: 2	Canada	H	Vienna		First international match against Canada /
650	05/23/2006	1: 4	Croatia	H	Vienna
651	08/16/2006	1: 2	Hungary	H	Graz
652	09/02/2006	2: 2	Costa Rica	*	Lancy ( SUI )	4 nations tournament
653	09/06/2006	0: 1	Venezuela	*	Basel ( SUI )	4 nations tournament	First international match against Venezuela
654	10/06/2006	2: 1	Liechtenstein	A.	Vaduz ( LIE )
655	10/11/2006	2: 1	Switzerland	H	innsbruck
656	11/15/2006	4: 1	Trinidad and Tobago	H	Vienna		First international match against Trinidad and Tobago
657	02/07/2007	1: 1	Malta	A.	Ta 'Qali ( MLT )
658	03/24/2007	1: 1	Ghana	H	Graz		First international match against Ghana
659	03/28/2007	0: 1	France	A.	Saint-Denis ( FRA )
660	05/30/2007	0: 1	Scotland	H	Vienna
661	06/02/2007	0-0	Paraguay	H	Vienna		First international match against Paraguay
662	08/22/2007	1: 1	Czech Republic	H	Vienna		200th international match in the Ernst Happel Stadium
663	07.09.2007	0-0	Japan	H	Klagenfurt	4 nations tournament	Penalty shoot-out: 4: 3 First international match against Japan Opening of the Hypo Group Arena
664	09/11/2007	0: 2	Chile	H	Vienna	4 nations tournament
665	10/13/2007	1: 3	Switzerland	A.	Zurich ( SUI )
666	10/17/2007	3: 2	Ivory Coast	H	innsbruck		First international match against Ivory Coast Game in the Tivoli Stadium, which was expanded to 32,000 spectators because of the 2008 European Championship
667	11/16/2007	0: 1	England	H	Vienna
668	11/21/2007	0-0	Tunisia	H	Vienna
669	02/06/2008	0: 3	Germany	H	Vienna		50th international match under Josef Hickersberger
670	03/26/2008	3: 4	Netherlands	H	Vienna
671	05/27/2008	1: 1	Nigeria	H	Graz		First international match against Nigeria
672	05/30/2008	5: 1	Malta	H	Graz
673	06/08/2008	0: 1	Croatia	H	Vienna	EM 2008 preliminary round	First game in a European Championship finals, first game in a home tournament
674	06/12/2008	1: 1	Poland	H	Vienna	EM 2008 preliminary round
675	06/16/2008	0: 1	Germany	H	Vienna	EM 2008 preliminary round	250th defeat in an international match Austria is eliminated early as third in the group

See also

• Austria at the Football World Cup 1978 in Argentina

Web links

• Literature by and about Josef Hickersberger in the catalog of the German National Library
• ÖFB link via Josef Hickersberger
• Player portrait in the Rapid archive
• Trainer portrait in the Rapid archive

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Column 5: "Hickersberger becomes unemployed" . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna June 19, 1978, p. 14 ( Arbeiter-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
2. ^ «Before the Innsbruck uprising» . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna August 29, 1978, p. 10 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
3. ^ "Presentation was a tribunal"; "Kleine Zeitung" Carinthia No. 297 of December 24, 1987, pages 82/83
4. ↑ "Weber is the new captain" as well as gloss below: "Under the magnifying glass" and article on the right: "Hitzel and Koncilia for the time being for Gebhardt" . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna January 27, 1988, p. 20 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized version).
5. ↑ www.orf.at : Immediate resignation ( Memento from June 26, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
6. ↑ Tiroler Tageszeitung from May 17, 2010 , accessed on May 29, 2010
7. ↑ Josef Hickersberger new team boss of Bahrain ( Memento from June 5, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
8. ↑ Georg Zellhofer follows Josef Hickersberger into the desert ( memento of the original from August 6, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed July 27, 2010 
9. ^ Kurier.at: Hickersberger again Al-Wahda trainer
10. ↑ derstandard.at: ATV lets Josef Hickersberger compete against the Faroe Islands
11. ↑ Hickersberger: "Wouldn't have a chance today with our Cordoba style". Retrieved April 25, 2018 . 
12. ^ Hall of Fame Football Say of the Year
13. ^ Say of the year , December 11, 2008