Thomas Vollnhofer

Thomas Vollnhofer
Thomas Vollnhofer (2018)
Personnel
birthday	2nd September 1984
place of birth	Oberpullendorf ,  Austria
size	180 cm
position	goalkeeper
Juniors
Years	station
1990-1998	USC Kirchschlag
1998-2002	BNZ St. Pölten
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
2002–2012	SKN St. Pölten	232 (0)
2012-2015	SC Wiener Neustadt	66 (0)
2015-2016	First Vienna FC 1894	30 (0)
2016–	SKN St. Pölten	17 (0)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
2000-2001	Austria U-16
2001-2002	Austria U-17	13 (0)
2002-2003	Austria U-19
1 Only league games are given. As of March 7, 2020

Thomas "Tommy" Vollnhofer (born September 2, 1984 in Oberpullendorf ) is an Austrian football goalkeeper .

Career

society

Thomas Vollnhofer started playing soccer at the age of six at his hometown club USC Kirchschlag , where his father Walter was a successful amateur soccer player. Thanks to his talent, he attracted attention early on, which between 1996 and 1998 brought him a total of 19 appearances in the regional selection teams of the main youth group south and 13 appearances in the Lower Austrian junior state selections. This also gave him the opportunity at the age of 14 to switch to the youth performance center in St. Pölten, where he was able to optimally combine his football training with further education at school. Vollnhofer graduated from the 2003 federal upper level secondary school in St. Pölten with a high school diploma.

Thomas Vollnhofer in the SKN St. Pölten jersey

At this time Vollnhofer had already been taken over into the squad of the SKN St. Pölten fighting team, which played in the Regionalliga Ost (third level). With consistent performance, he was able to quickly secure a regular place. As a contract amateur he played in 143 championship and 14 cup games. In the 2007/2008 season it was finally time for Vollnhofer to secure the championship title in the Regionalliga Ost with the SKN St. Pölten, whereby the club was promoted to the first division . On July 1st, 2008 Thomas Vollnhofer signed his first contract as a professional soccer player with SKN St. Pölten. Due to a severe vertebral injury suffered on May 9, 2008 against SC Neusiedl am See , Vollnhofer was only able to make his professional football debut in the 6th round on August 22, 2008 in a 3-0 win at 1. FC Vöcklabruck .

The goalkeeper trainer of the SKN St. Pölten, Ernst Scherr, was full of praise. “ Vollnhofer is characterized by unbelievable ambition and irrepressible commitment. He has enormous jumping power and maneuverability, plays along well and recognizes the situation at an early stage. He more than makes up for his rather small body size. "

Despite all of his footballing successes, the hobby drummer Thomas Vollnhofer made sure, according to his life motto, “ Never stop getting better, otherwise you stop being good! “With a degree in sports science for the time after his career as a footballer.

For the 2012/13 season he moved to the Bundesliga club SC Wiener Neustadt . After Wiener Neustadt's relegation to the second division, he joined the regional league team First Vienna FC 1894 in 2015 .

For the 2016/17 season he returned to SKN St. Pölten, which is now playing in the Bundesliga.

National team

With his sporting achievements, he also played in the Austrian youth national teams of the U-16, U-17 and U19 between 2000 and 2003, for which he played a total of 13 games under team boss Paul Gludovatz . Third place at the U-19 European Championship in Liechtenstein (2003) - Austria only had to face group winners in the semi-finals after victories against England (2: 1) and the Czech Republic (4: 1) and a 1-1 draw against France Portugal defeated 3: 6 despite a 2-0 lead after extra time - this was the final highlight of his career as a young player.

successes

• Third place at the U-19 European Championship with the Austrian national team in 2003
• Championship title in the Regionalliga Ost with the SKN St. Pölten 2007/08

Web links

Commons : Thomas Vollnhofer  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Thomas Vollnhofer in the weltfussball.de database
• Thomas Vollnhofer in the database of transfermarkt.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Bundesoberstufenrealgymnasium and federal commercial school for competitive athletes St. Pölten: Maturants 2002/03  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on December 3, 2008)  
2. ↑ Sportland Lower Austria: Thomas Vollnhofer is back!  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on December 3, 2008)  
3. ↑ personal interview of the author (November 21, 2008)
4. ↑ An SKN "veteran" returns "home" fussball-imnetz.at, on June 10, 2016, accessed on June 11, 2016
5. ↑ ORF .at: From Säumel to Kienast (accessed on December 3, 2008)