Muhammad Akagündüz

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Muhammad Akagündüz
Personnel
Surname	Muhammet Hanifi Akagündüz
birthday	January 11, 1978
place of birth	Bingöl ,  Turkey
size	172 cm
position	attack
Juniors
Years	station
until 1996	Breitensee Wat 16
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1996-2000	FK Austria Vienna	0 0(0)
1997-1998	→  SV Gerasdorf  (loan)	12 0(1)
1998-1999	→  FCN St. Pölten  (loan)	34 (11)
1999	→  VfB Admira WM  (loan)	9 0(1)
2000-2005	SV Ried	90 (29)
2003-2004	→  Malatyaspor  (loan)	29 0(6)
2004-2005	→  Konyaspor  (loan)	31 0(6)
2005-2006	SK Rapid Vienna	34 0(9)
2006-2007	Kayserispor	13 0(2)
2007	Hellas Verona	5 0(2)
2007-2008	SV Ried	27 0(4)
2008-2009	Manisaspor	27 0(8)
2009-2010	FC Admira Wacker Mödling	11 0(5)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
2002-2007	Austria	10 0(1)
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
2012-2013	SK Rapid Vienna Academy U-18
2013-2015	SK Rapid Vienna Academy U-15
2015-2016	SK Rapid Vienna Academy U-16
2016-2019	SK Rapid Vienna II
1 Only league games are given.

Muhammet Hanifi "Aka" Akagündüz (born January 11, 1978 in Bingöl ) is a former Austrian national football player from Turkey and today's coach .

Life

Emigration to Austria and school

Muhammet Akagündüz was born in the province of Bingöl and grew up in the metropolis of Istanbul until he was nine years old . In 1987 he left Turkey with his parents and his two younger brothers Mehmet Saim (* 1980) and Atakaan (* 1983) and moved to Austria. The family settled in Vienna , where the father found a job as a window fitter and his mother found work in a shoe factory. The eldest son of the family stayed in Istanbul and now runs a computer specialist shop. For this reason, Muhammet, who did not speak a word of German at the beginning , repeated the fourth grade of the elementary school in Vienna, which he had already completed in Turkey, then went to secondary school for two years and then switched to the Geblergasse grammar school. After his graduation of "Neuösterreicher" began - he received in 1990 the Austrian citizenship - a medical school , which he later, after moving to SV Ried , as it in the near Upper Austrian capital, but broke Linz no medical school was.

Muhammad and Islam

In Vienna, the devout Muslim enjoyed , in addition to a good school education, a more in-depth religious training. On holidays, Muhammad visits the mosque ; According to his own statements, he also went to prayer houses between training sessions. In an interview with the daily newspaper Kurier on August 2nd, 2005 he said: “My faith helps me to pass the tests of everyday life. He gives me a lot of support. Inwardly, I always thank God. Not just after every goal. Even after every successful game situation. If I get something, it is because God wants it that way. ” He subsequently went on to explain religious extremism that he abhorred: “ Every religion commands peace. Terror has nothing to do with religion. "

Player career

First contact with football

He started playing football as a child in Turkey. However, they played on the street there; he did not belong to any association. In Vienna he was taken by friends to the small Breitensee WAT 16 club, which he soon joined. In his youth he scored thirty to forty goals per season in the position of striker and came to the club's first team at the age of 17 . He was accidentally observed by former Austrian team boss Josef Argauer , who kept an eye on the young striker talent and a year later steered him to Austria Wien for the transfer fee of 275,000 Schilling . There he earned his first spurs in the Vienna City League in the 1996/97 season with the Austria Amateurs, who at that time still played in cooperation with Prater SV , a well-known club that later became completely part of the Amateurs of Austria. During this season, Muhammet broke his collarbone for the first time, an injury that would happen to him several times in the course of his career.

Commuter between Vienna and St. Pölten (1996–1999)

In the 1997/98 season Muhammet Akagündüz was first included in the squad of the fighting team, but did not get beyond five appearances in preparatory games and two appearances in the UEFA Intertoto Cup . In the following season he had to be content with games in the Intertoto Cup (1 mission) and in test games (3) for the Violets. In the winter break of 1997 he was awarded to the second division club SV Gerasdorf, where he only played a few preparatory games and was taken to the Lower Austrian capital before the start of the season by coach Kurt Garger after he switched to FC Niederösterreich St. Pölten . For the next six months up to the summer Akagündüz played in St. Pölten , but was initially used in the left midfield due to an oversupply of good strikers. In the summer break he had to return to Austria, where he was tried in preparatory games on the position of the left central defender in the back four . When he did not agree to this position, he was judged to be technically and tactically too weak for the first division and advised him to return to the second division. Austria loaned the young Viennese back to St. Pölten in the second Bundesliga , where coach Kurt Garger now also used him as a striker. In the 1998/99 season, the medical student played a total of 34 championship games with the Lower Austrians and was on the top scorer list with 13 goals. With these goals Akagündüz also had a significant share in the second place in the table of St. Pöltner, who only narrowly missed promotion to the top division. Just in the last season game against the Vienna he broke in a duel with Andreas Gutlederer again the collarbone and had to mid-August - during the important preparation time - pause.

After his loan contract with St. Pölten ended, he returned to Vienna. The young striker was still not an issue for Austria Wien and so, at the request of VfB Admira Wacker Mödling , he was loaned to the Südstadt for the duration of the autumn round , where Akagündüz said he was not comfortable there. At Austria there were again only difficulties and when he was no longer ready to extend his contract prematurely, and Friedl Koncilia then wanted to deport him to the amateur team, Aka seriously thought of quitting football. The rescue came in autumn 2000 in the person of the then Stronach desired trainer Heinz Hochhauser , in the course of his transfer from Ried to Austria, Akagündüz, who was no longer wanted there, was deported in a counter-deal to SV Ried. Muhammet later commented on this transfer: "With that I was redeemed from this Austria" .

Breakthrough at SV Ried (2000–2003)

In Ried, the young Viennese flourished noticeably, which, according to his own statements, was also due to the family environment and the resulting team atmosphere among the people from the Innviertel . Under coach Helmut Kronjäger , Aka quickly developed into a high performer and a public favorite at SV Ried. After taking his new club into the lead after 15 minutes in the opening win over Schwarz-Weiß Bregenz , he also scored the opening goal to make it 1-0 at the first meeting against his unloved ex-club Austria Wien in autumn 2000 in the Horr Stadium . Akagündüz then scored nine Bundesliga goals before the bad luck overtook him again. An unfortunate collision with Alexander Jank in training led to his third broken collarbone, which ended the autumn championship for the then 23-year-old five laps before the winter break.

Muhammet Akagündüz used the winter break to free his younger brother Mehmet from 1. Simmeringer SC for 105,000 schillings - Muhammet paid this sum himself - and to place him at SV Ried. His wish to play in a team with his brother did not come true, however, as Mehmet settled in quickly in Ried, but could not recommend himself for a service in the first division because he was struggling with chronic muscle problems. For Muhammet, on the other hand, the Innviertel proved to be truly golden ground, as it had previously for Ronald Brunmayr , Christian Mayrleb and Michael Anicic . After his recovery, he continued to cause a sensation and finished seventh with the club, to which he contributed 13 goals throughout the season. Before the international match against Hungary , there were calls from the media for the first time to use the now “Innviertler” in the national team . At that time, however, the ÖFB argued that Akagündüz was still too unfamiliar for the team. He celebrated his premiere in the international match against Belarus on October 12, 2002, when he was the first SV Ried player to score an international goal just a few minutes after being substituted on. Muhammet himself, who received the best contract of his career from SV Ried after his inaugural season, scored an impressive 29 goals in a total of 90 championship games up to the relegation of Ried from the Bundesliga, which also earned him offers from clubs from his former home Turkey.

Engagement in Turkey (2003-2005)

In June 2003, Muhammet left SV Ried and went to Malatya in Turkey . For the local first division club he scored six goals in 29 matches in his first “foreign” season. In the following game year 2004/05, he moved to Konya and also scored a total of six times in the network for the club, which also played in the Turkish Süper Lig , in 31 appearances. In the summer of 2005 Aka accepted an offer from the Austrian record champions Rapid Wien and returned to Austria after two years in Turkey.

With Rapid in the Champions League 2005/06

At Rapid Vienna, Muhammet Akagündüz quickly became a regular player. In the first qualifying game for the Champions League , his first European Cup appearance for the Hütteldorfer , he scored two goals in the first 15 minutes in a duel against Luxembourg club F91 Dudelange , which ended with a 6-1 win for the Green-Whites. In the games of the group stage Aka, like the entire Rapid-Elf, could not prevail and remained without a goal. In the championship, the striker scored 9 goals in 34 appearances; he contributed another in the ÖFB Cup , from which the Rapidler were eliminated early. The now 28-year-old striker left the Hütteldorfer after just one season and moved to the Turkish first division club Kayserispor. In January 2007 he moved to Italy to Hellas Verona , but after their relegation he returned to Austria to SV Ried in August 2007 . In 2008 he played again in Turkey for Manisaspor , in July 2009 he moved to the second Austrian Bundesliga for FC Trenkwalder Admira Wacker Mödling , where he scored the decisive goal for the 2-0 final against First Vienna in his first game after being substituted on Football Club scored. In the summer of 2010, his contract with Admira ended.

National team (2002–2007)

The first international assignment for Austria was made by Muhammet, who in addition to the Austrian still has Turkish citizenship, but had opted for the red-white-red national team, in a game of the U-21 selection against Cyprus under coach Ernst Weber . In an interview that he gave to journalist Wolfgang Wiederstein in 2001, he confided his emotional feelings about it: “ It was a wonderful feeling, but at the same time a strange one, after all I still feel half Turkish, but the other way around half Austrian . As far as the feelings are concerned, it is half a shift ” .

Akagündüz got his first call-up to the national team in 2001 under Otto Barić , who only let him sit on the bench in the international match against Iran . To qualify for the 2002 World Cup in Japan and South Korea , Baric relied on Mario Haas and only nominated the Ried striker on demand. He celebrated his debut in national dress under Hans Krankl on October 12, 2002 in the qualifying match for the 2004 European Championship against Belarus in Minsk . Akagündüz came on as a substitute in the 75th minute and fixed the Austrians 2-0 victory with his first team goal in the 88th minute of the game. After that, the 1.72 m tall striker, still under contract with SV Ried, played in the games against the Netherlands (0: 3) and against Norway (0: 1) before he was called up for his next call-up until the Scotland game in 2005 had to wait. He played his last game so far in February 2007 against Malta .

Trainer

Akagündüz won the 2016 championship with the Rapid U16 team. With the U19 (2nd SK Rapid team) he won the Ruhr-Cup junior tournament in August 2018.

Others

With his brothers Ata Kaan, Mehmet Saim and Muhammet Ali, he founded a specialist electronics store in Ottakring , akatronik GmbH, in which he has a 35% stake.

successes

• Champions League group stage: 2005/06 (Rapid)
• 10 international matches and one goal for the Austrian national team

Individual evidence

1. ↑ laola1.at: Clubless players are still looking ( memento from September 6, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) from September 3, 2010 (accessed September 3, 2010)
2. ↑ https://www.skrapid.at/de/startseite/news/news/aktuelles/2016/06/meister-2016-beebeispielende-serie-laesst-aka-u16-jubeln
3. ↑ https://amp.spox.com/at/sport/fussball/international/1808/Artikel/sk-rapid-gewinnt-ruhr-cup-final-triumph-im-elfmeterschiessen-gegen-borussia-dortmund.html