Kurt Jara

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Kurt Jara
Personnel
birthday October 14, 1950
place of birth InnsbruckAustria
size 178 cm
position Left winger, midfield
Juniors
Years station
-1968 Innsbrucker SK
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1968-1973 FC Wacker Innsbruck 114 (40)
1973-1975 Valencia CF 57 (11)
1975-1980 MSV Duisburg 160 (23)
1980-1981 FC Schalke 04 31 0(2)
1981-1985 Grasshoppers Zurich 111 (24)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1971-1985 Austria 59 (14)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
1986-1988 Grasshoppers Zurich
1988-1991 FC St. Gallen
1991-1994 FC Zurich
1994-1995 VfB Mödling
1996-1997 Skoda Xanthi
1997-1998 APOEL Nicosia
1999-2001 FC Tirol Innsbruck
2001-2003 Hamburger SV
2004-2005 1. FC Kaiserslautern
2005-2006 FC Red Bull Salzburg
1 Only league games are given.

Kurt Jara (born October 14, 1950 in Innsbruck ) is a former Austrian soccer player and soccer coach .

Career

The midfielder began his career with Innsbrucker SK, from where he moved to the top division of FC Wacker Innsbruck in 1968 . In 1973 he moved to Spain for FC Valencia before playing for MSV Duisburg from 1975 to 1980 . He then played one season for FC Schalke 04 and from 1981 to 1985 for Grasshoppers Zurich .

In the German Bundesliga , he played 160 games for MSV Duisburg and 31 games for FC Schalke 04. His greatest success was reaching the UEFA Cup semi-finals with MSV Duisburg in 1979.

As an Austrian national player, he took part in the World Cup finals in Argentina in 1978 and in Spain in 1982. Kurt Jara scored 14 goals in 59 international matches. He made his team debut on July 11, 1971 in a friendly against Brazil in São Paulo , where he compensated for the 0-1 break deficit (to the 1-1 final score) in the 51st minute of the game and (according to the report of the "Arbeiterzeitung Wien") dated July 13, 1971) "caused confusion in the vulnerable Brazilian defense".

His team comeback was just as spectacular as his team debut. After the 1982 World Cup, he did not play in the Austrian national team. In November 1984, at the age of 34, he was able to return to the Austrian national team, as the national team had to be strengthened after the 3-1 defeat against Hungary in the World Cup qualification. He was called up by team boss Erich Hof against Holland to make the game as the second playmaker alongside Herbert Prohaska. However, he was not only able to help put the game in order, as coach Erich Hof expected, but also scored the decisive goal to make it 1-0.

He began his coaching career in 1986 in Switzerland at Grasshoppers Zurich. Further coaching stations in Switzerland were FC St. Gallen (1988–91) and FC Zurich (1991–94). In the 1994/95 season he was the coach of the Austrian club VfB Mödling . Other coaching stations were the Greek club AO Xanthi (1996–97), APOEL Nicosia (Cyprus, 1997–98) and FC Tirol Innsbruck (1999–2001), where he and his home club brought the title back to Innsbruck for the first time in ten years What he succeeded in the following two years, and also great international successes were brought back to Innsbruck. From October 2001 to October 2003 Kurt Jara was the coach of Hamburger SV , from February 2004 to April 2005 he coached 1. FC Kaiserslautern ; both clubs dismissed Jara for failure. From July 2005 until the end of the 2005/06 season he was employed by FC Red Bull Salzburg . On May 19, 2006, he was on leave and then replaced by the new coaching duo Giovanni Trapattoni and Lothar Matthäus ( Red Bull boss Dietrich Mateschitz had shown the ex-team player the door because of "inconsistencies in player transfers").

In 2007, Jara's supervisor activity was limited to appearances such as at the Bruno Pezzey memorial tournament in Sölden, where he officially acted as the coach of the "Bruno Pezzey Allstar Team".

Jara's departure from Red Bull Salzburg was the subject of several legal proceedings. In October 2007, the Salzburg Regional Court dismissed Kurt Jara's lawsuit against Red Bull Salzburg for revocation and cease and desist. Red Bull boss Dietrich Mateschitz was allowed to accuse the Tyrolean soccer coach of "inconsistencies in player transfers". The proceedings initiated by Mateschitz against Jara were discontinued in September 2009, after months of surveys, by the Salzburg public prosecutor's office and Jara was thus exonerated from the allegation of said inconsistencies.

In another process, the Salzburg labor court dismissed Jara’s dismissal in February 2008; The now 59-year-old had challenged his dismissal with the argument that special protective provisions under the Labor Constitution Act apply to him as a normal employee. According to the judgment, however, there is no additional opportunity to challenge dismissal because, in the opinion of the court, Jara was a senior executive.

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Matthias Arnhold: Kurt Jara - Matches and Goals in Bundesliga . RSSSF . June 9, 2016. Retrieved June 17, 2016.
  2. ^ Karel Stokkermans: Kurt Jara - International Appearances . RSSSF . June 9, 2016. Retrieved June 17, 2016.
  3. Heribert Benesch, The pleasant aspect of the 1-0 victory over Holland, in: Arbeiterzeitung, November 16, 1984, page 13.
  4. a b The proceedings against Kurt Jara have been dropped. oesterreich.orf.at, September 9, 2007 , accessed June 20, 2016