Michael Sollbauer

Michael Sollbauer
Michael Sollbauer (2018)
Personnel
birthday	May 15, 1990
place of birth	Klein Sankt Paul ,  Austria
size	186 cm
position	Defender
Juniors
Years	station
1996-2005	WSG Wietersdorf
2004-2007	FC Kärnten (partial cooperation)
2007-2008	SK Austria Carinthia
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
2008-2010	SK Austria Carinthia II	47 (2)
2008-2010	SK Austria Carinthia	18 (0)
2010-2020	Wolfsberger AC	280 (7)
2020–	Barnsley FC	8 (0)
1 Only league games are given. As of March 7, 2020

Michael Sollbauer (born May 15, 1990 in Klein Sankt Paul ) is an Austrian football player on the position of a defender .

Career

Sollbauer began his active career as a football player in 1996 in his hometown of Klein Sankt Paul in the Sankt Veit an der Glan district in Carinthia , where he was active in the offspring of WSG Wietersdorf . After going through several youth league classes, in July 2004 he received an offer from FC Kärnten , which at that time was playing in the second-rate first division after the professional team was relegated to the last place in the table from the top division in Austria in the 2003/04 preseason was.

From July 2004 to July 2005 he was initially only active as a cooperation player in the youth department of FC Kärnten, but was then reported by the club as a full club member. After the professional team of the club reached third place in the final table of the 2004/05 season , the team managed to reach only the seventh of ten places in the table after long in the top field of the league in the 2005/06 season . Sollbauer came this season on eleven missions in the youth of the club.

After Sollbauer came to 24 missions in the 2006/07 season , as well as two goals in the U-19 youth league sponsored by Toto , he was invited to a trial training session by the board of the newly founded SK Austria Kärnten .

On August 2, 2007, the young defender finally moved to the club in the state capital of Klagenfurt , where he was mainly active in the youth field, where he scored three goals in 24 league appearances. Furthermore, he came in the 2007/08 season to two missions for the Austria-Kärnten-Amateurs in the third-class Austrian Regionalliga Mitte , in which he made his debut on April 30, 2008 in the 1-1 away defeat when he was in the 90th minute of play came on for Bernd Schierhuber .

During the 2008/09 season , the defender was used in 28 out of 30 possible league games for the amateurs of SK Austria Kärnten in the fourth-class Carinthian league, the highest division in the state of Carinthia. As a regular player, he was one of the main people responsible for second place in the final table and the associated runner-up title. Overall, he came to two league goals during the season.

In 2008/09, for the most part still on the bench, Sollbauer celebrated his team debut on September 18, 2009 when he came on as a substitute for Martin Živný in the 55th minute in the ÖFB Cup game of the 2009/10 season against SV Allerheiligen ; the game ended in a 2-1 victory for the Carinthians. Five days later, on September 23, the young defender made his Bundesliga debut when he came into play for Gambian striker Modou Jagne in the 53rd minute of the 3-1 away defeat against LASK Linz . SK Austria Kärnten was already leading 1-0 in this game after 10 minutes, but ultimately had to admit defeat after three goals from Roman Wallner (as many assists from Thomas Prager ).

In summer 2010 he moved to the first division for WAC / St. Andrä . With the WAC he was promoted to the Bundesliga in 2012 and also reached the UEFA Europa League in 2019 . In nine and a half years he made 280 first and second division appearances for Wolfsberger. In January 2020 he moved to England for second division FC Barnsley .

successes

• 1 × Young Star of the Year 2012 - First League
• 1 × runner-up in the Carinthian League: 2008/09

Private

Sollbauer attended the BG / BRG Lerchenfeld in Lerchenfeldgasse in Klagenfurt, the same year as Andreas Tiffner , another professional football player. Like Tiffner, Sollbauer did not enter high school until the third grade.

Web links

Commons : Michael Sollbauer  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Michael Sollbauer in the database of weltfussball.de
• Michael Sollbauer in the database of transfermarkt.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Michael Sollbauer Joins The Reds barnsleyfc.co.uk, on January 24, 2020, accessed on January 24, 2020