Oliver Glasner

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Oliver Glasner
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Oliver Glasner (2018)
Personnel
birthday August 28, 1974
place of birth Salzburg ,  Austria
size 181 cm
position Central defense
Juniors
Years station
1981-1992 SV Riedau
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1992-2003 SV Ried 314 (18)
2003-2004 LASK 3 0(0)
2004-2011 SV Ried 202 0(9)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
2012-2014 FC Red Bull Salzburg (assistant coach)
2014-2015 SV Ried
2015-2019 LASK
2019– VfL Wolfsburg
1 Only league games are given.

Oliver Glasner (born August 28, 1974 in Salzburg ) is a former Austrian soccer player and today's coach and functionary . From the beginning of the 2015/16 season until the end of the 2018/19 season he was head coach and sports director of the Austrian Bundesliga club LASK . For the 2019/20 season he took over the German Bundesliga club VfL Wolfsburg as head coach.

Career as a player

Glasner began his career in the youth team of SV Riedau from Upper Austria . In 1993 he went to SV Ried , where he was still active in the second division at the time .

Oliver Glasner (center) with his team colleague Herwig Drechsel during an interview with a commentator on the pay TV channel Sky Austria

In 1995 he rose to the Bundesliga with Rieders and made his debut in this league that same year. Three years later, in the 1997/98 season, he won the ÖFB Cup with this team . After Rieder's relegation, he moved to LASK in Linz for the 2003/04 season , but returned the following season. In 2005 he was promoted to the highest league in Austria and in 2010/11 he was the second Austrian cup winner with SV Ried. In 2008, Glasner took fifth place in the election of Austria's Footballer of the Year .

On July 31, 2011, Glasner suffered a cut over the eye and a slight concussion in the game Rapid against Ried in a header duel. Nevertheless, he accompanied his team to the Danish Brøndby near Copenhagen for the return game in qualifying for the Europa League against Brøndby IF . After a final head ball training session, on August 4, 2011, a subdural hematoma , a hemorrhage between the brain and the meninges, occurred that was operated on the same day. Glasner survived the operation well, but ended his career on August 23, 2011 on the advice of the doctors.

Career as a trainer and functionary

Beginnings in Salzburg and Ried

In 2006, Oliver Glasner completed his studies at the German distance learning university in Hagen with a degree in business administration . After the end of his career, he was offered the coaching position of the second team at SV Ried , but Peter Vogl, managing director of FC Red Bull Salzburg and honorary president of SV Ried, brought him to Salzburg in January 2012 . At Mozartstadt, he took on the role of sports coordinator as an assistant to the management. After Ricardo Moniz was replaced , Glasner took over the position of assistant coach under the new head coach of Salzburg, Roger Schmidt . For the 2014/15 season he took up the position of head coach at his home club Ried .

Head coach and sports director of LASK

On May 25, 2015, it was announced in a press release that Glasner will be moving to LASK Linz for the 2015/16 season to act as head coach and sports director. With LASK, he was promoted to the Bundesliga in 2017 and placed fourth with the Upper Austrians at the end of the 2017/18 season as a promoted player, which entitles him to participate in the second qualifying round for the UEFA Europa League . There LASK prevailed against Lillestrøm SK , but then dropped out in the third qualifying round due to the away goals rule against Beşiktaş Istanbul . In the 2018/19 season, Glasner took 2nd place with the LASK in the regular season and qualified for the championship group. There you could hold the 2nd place behind the champions FC Red Bull Salzburg and thus qualify for the 2nd qualifying round of the Champions League .

VfL Wolfsburg

For the season 2019/20 changed Glasner to Germany , where he became the Bundesliga team of the VfL Wolfsburg as successor to Bruno Labbadia . He signed a contract that ran until June 30, 2022. For the second time in the club's history, the Wolfsburg-based company managed to defend a European Cup place in the table.

successes

As a player

As a trainer

  • Austrian champion 2014 (assistant coach at FC Red Bull Salzburg)
  • Austrian Cup winner 2014 (assistant coach at FC Red Bull Salzburg)

Web links

Commons : Oliver Glasner  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The Standard : Award: Marc Janko is Austria's "Player of the Year" , December 3, 2008
  2. ↑ Der Standard : Blood clots removed by Oliver Glasner , August 5, 2011
  3. ↑ Kleine Zeitung : End of career for Oliver Glasner after a cerebral hemorrhage ( memento from August 2, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ), August 23, 2011
  4. ↑ Der Standard : New Home for Oliver Glasner , December 19, 2011
  5. ↑ FC Red Bull Salzburg: The Bulls' coaching team is complete ( memento from July 12, 2012 in the Internet Archive ), July 9, 2012
  6. ↑ Laola1: Glasner becomes the new Ried trainer , July 11, 2014
  7. ↑ Glasner changes from Ried to LASK. In: ooe.orf.at. May 25, 2015. Retrieved November 23, 2017 .
  8. ↑ Oliver Glasner takes over , vfl-wolfsburg.de, on April 23, 2019, accessed on April 23, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Glasner, Oliver
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian soccer player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH August 28, 1974
PLACE OF BIRTH Salzburg , Austria