Sascha Horvath

Sascha Horvath
Sascha Horvath (2015)
Personnel
birthday	August 22, 1996
place of birth	Vienna ,  Austria
size	165 cm
position	midfield
Juniors
Years	station
2003-2005	SV Schwechat
2005–2012	FK Austria Vienna
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
2012-2015	FK Austria Vienna II	58 (2)
2013-2015	FK Austria Vienna	14 (0)
2015-2017	SK Sturm Graz	48 (4)
2017–	Dynamo Dresden	20 (1)
2019	→  FC Wacker Innsbruck  (loan)	14 (0)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals) 2
2011	Austria U16	3 (1)
2012-2013	Austria U17	21 (4)
2014-2015	Austria U19	17 (3)
2015-2019	Austria U21	22 (2)
1 Only league games are given. As of May 25, 2019 2 As of June 23, 2019

Sascha Horvath (born August 22, 1996 in Vienna ) is an Austrian football player on the position of midfielder who is under contract with Dynamo Dresden .

Career

society

Sascha Horvath was born in Vienna on August 22nd, 1996 as the son of the amateur soccer player Roman Horvath, who made over 200 appearances in the third-class regional league during his playing days. Horvath began his career shortly after his seventh birthday in September 2003 in the junior division of SV Schwechat , where his father was playing in the men's team at the time, and shortly before his ninth birthday in August 2005 he moved to the youth department of FK Austria Wien. After he had already made regular appearances in the U-13 team in 2007/08, in 2008/09 with 17 appearances and one goal he was already a regular member of the very strong offensive youth team that won the runner-up title behind the Vienna U-13s . Furthermore, at this time he already made occasional missions in the U-14 team, which celebrated the championship title this season. In 2009/10 he was able to prove his scoring risk for the Austria U-15 team, which subsequently became superior champions again. As a regular member of the U-15 academy team, for whom Horvath was used in all 22 league games in the 2010/11 season and scored seven goals, he was again champion. In the following season 2011/12, the trained midfielder was used for the first time in the U-18 academy team, made nine appearances and two hits in the "ÖFB Youth League U18" and was runner-up behind the academy team of Red Bull Salzburg.

On March 2, 2012, the midfielder played for the first time in the second Austrian team in the Regionalliga Ost in the 3-0 home win against SKU Amstetten . After a total of eleven appearances and his first goal in the adult area, which he scored on May 16 as a hanging tip in a 2-1 defeat against the FAC team for Vienna , Horvath and the team finished the season in third place in the table. After nothing specific is known about youth appearances in the 2012/13 season, he became a regular in the midfield of the regional league team this season . 21 league appearances were compared to one goal and four assists; the season ended with three points behind Parndorf in second place.

In addition to nine Regional inserts and an assist Sascha Horvath was 2013/14 , inter alia, of the Austria team in the 2013-14 UEFA Youth League participated. There he led the team as captain to the round of 16, where it was eliminated from the current competition after a 1: 4 against the age colleagues of the later finalist Benfica Lisbon . With the regional league team he was again runner-up, this time behind the FAC team for Vienna. He also made his Bundesliga debut this season when he came on for Marin Leovac in the 80th minute in a 3-0 away win against SC Wiener Neustadt . By the end of the season he brought Horvath, who was in the professional squad for a short time in the previous season, but without a job, to 12 Bundesliga appearances and reached fourth place in the table with the team. After 17 goalless regional league appearances and two equally goalless Bundesliga appearances, he was unable to achieve any significant table positions with either team in 2014/15 .

After FK Austria Wien had announced Horvath's departure at the end of the season at the end of May 2015, his move to league competitor SK Sturm Graz , with whom the then 38-fold young international player signed a three-year contract, became known on June 3, 2015 .

Sascha Horvath in the jersey of Dynamo Dresden (2017)

For the 2017/18 season, Horvath moved to Germany for the second division team Dynamo Dresden , with whom he received a contract valid until June 2021. In February 2019 he switched back to Austria on loan to the newly promoted Bundesliga club FC Wacker Innsbruck , with whom he was relegated from the Bundesliga at the end of the season.

National team

Sascha Horvath (right) in a duel with Ivan Šunjić (2015)

Sascha Horvath (right) fights for the ball in front of Duje Ćaleta-Car (2015)

Horvath made his debut in an Austrian youth national team on May 11, 2011 in a 1-0 win over his peers in neighboring Slovakia , when he played from the start and was replaced in the 41st minute by club colleague Michael Endlicher . In the further course of the year, two more friendly U-16 international matches followed, in which he also scored a goal, before he was called up to the U-17 national team under Hermann Stadler the following year . For this he finally made his debut on March 21, 2012 in a 3-1 victory over the Czech U-17 national team, where he was used from the start, in the 14th minute of the game after a solo run the 1-0 opening goal scored for Austria and was replaced in minute 57 by Adnan Ramakić , son of Ervin Ramakić . After a further twelve friendly international appearances, two goals and one assist, Sascha Horvath took part with the Austrians in the 2013 U-17 European Football Championship in Slovakia. There he was used in all three games of his team as a central midfielder and retired with the team in the group stage from the current tournament.

After being used on August 14, 2013 in a 2-1 win over Italy's U-17s over half time, he was no longer in the squad in the following seven international matches before he returned to the team in mid-October with a friendly match against Ivory Coast returned. Shortly afterwards he traveled with the team to the United Arab Emirates , where he took part in the 2013 U-17 World Cup. The attacking midfielder and the team finished the World Cup in last place in Group E behind Argentina, Iran and Canada. In the 2-2 draw against the U-17 of Canada, the only point reached by Austria, he scored the opening goal to make it 1-0 following a presentation by Daniel Ripic . After he had completed 21 international matches for the Austrian U-17 national team between 2012 and 2013, he was used for the first time in the subsequent U-18 team in June 2014.

After three appearances within a few days in qualifying for the U-19 European Championship , he and the team took part in the subsequent tournament in Hungary in July , where the team made it to the semi-finals, where it was clear 0: 4 against the subsequent world champion Germany was subject. Horvath, who was used for the team in all four matches, was able to qualify with the team for the U-20 World Cup 2015 in New Zealand due to the good placement . In the following months Horvath made another friendly international match, as well as six appearances in the qualification for the U-19 European Championship 2015 , in which he and the team won five times and thus made himself for the actual tournament in Greece qualified. In the end, Sascha Horvath was not called into the team that took part in the U-20 World Cup in May or June 2015.

In November 2015 he made his debut against Finland for the U-21 selection .

successes

• Runner-up in the Regionalliga Ost : 2012/13 and 2013/14

Web links

Commons : Sascha Horvath  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Sascha Horvath in the database of weltfussball.de
• Sascha Horvath in the database of transfermarkt.de
• Sascha Horvath in the database of fussballdaten.de
• Sascha Horvath on fussballoesterreich.at

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 38-FULL YOUNG TEAM PLAYER HORVATH CHANGES TO THE MUR ( Memento of the original from June 21, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed June 3, 2015 
2. ↑ Dynamo signs Sascha Horvath dynamo-dresden.de, on May 18, 2017, accessed on May 19, 2017
3. ↑ Kadernews: Wacker brings variable offensive players from Dynamo Dresden fc-wacker-innsbruck.at, on February 6, 2019, accessed on February 6, 2019