Walter Schachner

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Walter Schachner
Walter Schachner - FC Admira Wacker Mödling (3) .jpg
Walter Schachner (2009)
Personnel
birthday February 1, 1957
place of birth Leoben ,  Austria
size 180 cm
position striker
Juniors
Years station
1967-1975 FC St. Michael
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1975-1988 DSV Alpine 75 (55)
1978-1981 FK Austria Vienna 101 (72)
1981-1983 AC Cesena 58 (17)
1983-1986 Torino Calcio 85 (18)
1986 SC Pisa
1986-1988 US Avellino 48 (13)
1988-1989 SK Sturm Graz 16 0(3)
1989-1990 DSV Alpine 13 0(7)
1990 Graz AK 8 0(2)
1990 FC Salzburg 20 (18)
1991 VSE St. Pölten 9 0(1)
1991 SR Donaufeld 5 0(0)
1991-1993 DSV Alpine 51 (28)
1993-1994 SK Sturm Graz 11 0(0)
1994-1996 DSV Leoben 50 (12)
1996 FC Tirol Innsbruck 6 0(0)
1997 ASK Kottingbrunn
1998 SK Eintracht Wels 23 0(6)
2001 FC Carinthia 1 0(0)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1976-1994 Austria 64 (23)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
1999-2000 FC Zeltweg
2000-2002 FC Carinthia
2002 FK Austria Vienna
2002-2005 Graz AK
2006-2007 TSV 1860 Munich
2007 SK Austria Carinthia
2008-2010 FC Trenkwalder Admira Wacker
2011–2012 LASK Linz
1 Only league games are given.

Walter "Schoko" Schachner (born February 1, 1957 in Leoben ) is a former Austrian football player in the position of a striker and was last football coach for the Austrian first division club LASK Linz in the 2011/2012 season . Walter Schachner is currently a TV expert at the TV broadcaster SKY in Austria.

The trained company electrician got his nickname Schoko in his childhood, because as a boy he always had chocolate bars with him when he played football .

Career as a player

From 1975 to 1978 Schachner was active in what was then the 2nd division of the Bundesliga for Donawitzer SV Alpine , from which he made the leap into the Austrian national soccer team as a second division player. From 1978 to 1981 he played for FK Austria Wien and was three times Austrian champion and two-time top scorer in the Bundesliga with the Veilchen . In addition to Austria, SK Rapid Wien had also wanted to sign him, in the early hours of July 14, 1978, Schachner signed a one-year contract.

As a legionnaire he was active in the Italian league with AC Cesena , Torino Calcio , SC Pisa and US Avellino . After his international career he returned to Austria and played for several larger and smaller clubs from the top three levels until 1998. Schachner celebrated his farewell game in the last round of the 2000/01 season in the First Division at FC Carinthia, where he was already a coach at the time.

For the Austrian national team he played a total of 64 games and scored 23 goals. He made his debut on December 5, 1976 in the 1-0 win in the "Gzira Stadium" in La Valletta against Malta (Austria's first qualifying game for the 1978 World Cup; Schachner was in the starting line-up and was in the 81st minute by Hans Pirkner replaced. For the first time in 20 years a player from the second highest Austrian league played in the team). In the next game of the national team on December 15, 1976 at the Ramat Gan National Stadium in Tel Aviv , he scored his first international goal in the 3-1 victory of the Austrians against Israel with a 2-1 goal - and in a 1-0 victory in the qualifying game on April 17, 1977 in Vienna against Turkey, he scored the decisive goal.
He took part in two soccer world championships. In 1978 he reached seventh place with the Austrian national team at the World Cup. In the first game of the group stage against Spain at the 1978 World Cup in Argentina, he achieved a spectacular 1-0 after a solo almost half the football field. He was also in the line-up of the team that Germany defeated 3-2 in the Miracle of Córdoba . At the 1982 World Cup , Schachner reached eighth place with the Austrian national team. Once again he scored a decisive hit. He scored the winning goal in the first group stage (group opponents Chile, Algeria and Germany) against Chile to make it 1-0 and thus made a decisive contribution to the promotion to the second group stage (with three teams in a group), in which the national team against France 1: 0 lost, played 2-2 against Northern Ireland and were eliminated.

Change to the coaching office

Schachner began his coaching career at FC Zeltweg in Styria and led the regional league team to the Middle Regional League . In July 2000 he moved to FC Kärnten in the first division (second stage). With the Carinthians, he celebrated promotion to the Bundesliga as well as winning the ÖFB Cup and winning the Supercup.

He started the 2002/03 season at Austria Wien, where he was replaced by Christoph Daum on October 4, 2002 despite leading the table and performing well in the UEFA Cup . From October 9, 2002 he worked at the Grazer AK, which he took over at the penultimate place in the table and still led to the runner-up title.

In this season the memorable “chocolate table” was born, in which he added the points he had gained under his leadership with the Viennese and those with the Grazer AK to document his success as a coach. As a coach, Schachner scored more points than the champions Austria Vienna.

With the Graz AK he won the Austrian championship title and the ÖFB Cup for the first time in the club's history in the 2003/04 season . In addition, Schachner celebrated with the Grazers in qualifying as the only team in the 2004/05 Champions League season to win over Liverpool FC . Due to a 2-0 defeat in the home game, the 1-0 at Anfield was not enough for promotion to the first main round. In the following game year he reached the runner-up title in the championship with Graz.

Schachner had an exit clause in the contract with the Grazer AK if he received an offer from abroad. In the second half of 2005, Schachner was named as a possible successor candidate for practically every coach change in Germany, and he himself also publicly stated that he wanted to move abroad. In order to prevent the GAK from being without a coach in the middle of the season, and because he did not want to support the savings line of the club's board, he was given leave of absence on January 9, 2006 by President Harald Sükar .

On January 24, 2006, Schachner moved to TSV 1860 Munich, making him the fourth Austrian to join the Munich supervisor after Max Merkel , Franz Binder and Peter Pacult . For the first time in his coaching career, he started with a series of defeats. It was only in the penultimate round that the Munich team were able to save themselves from relegation with a home win against 1. FC Saarbrücken . On March 18, 2007, the association announced the separation from Schachner with immediate effect.

At the end of April 2007, Schachner signed a two-year contract with the new SK Austria Kärnten . However, he was given a leave of absence on December 3, 2007, having recorded only four wins and five draws in 21 games.

On August 9, 2008, Walter Schachner was introduced as the new coach of FC Admira Wacker Mödling after five match days and was dismissed on April 26, 2010.

On March 1, 2011, he took up a new coaching position at LASK Linz . At the end of the 2010/11 season he was relegated to the second-rate first division with Linz ASK  , while his former employer, FC Admira Wacker Mödling, returned to the Bundesliga .

Schachner failed in the 2011/12 season when attempting to immediately return to the top Austrian league: LASK only finished third behind champions Wolfsberger AC and Altach. In addition, the Linzers were refused a license for the 2012/13 season by the Bundesliga, which meant they were downgraded to the third performance class (Regionalliga Mitte). As the last instance, the Permanent Neutral Arbitration Court made a negative decision at the end of May 2012 on the objection brought by the LASK.

Walter Schachner is currently a football expert for live matches in the Austrian Bundesliga on TV station SKY.

From March 2017 to May 2017 Schachner was a candidate in the ORF dance show  Dancing Stars  .

successes

Title as a player

International matches

Trainer title

See also

Web links

Commons : Walter Schachner  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ «At the end,“ chocolate ”pancakes” . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna July 15, 1978, p. 9 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  2. ↑ "Got away with a black eye!" In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna December 6, 1976, p. 13 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  3. ↑ bottom right: "Krankl's splendid gate saved the victory" . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna December 6, 1976, p. 12 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  4. ↑ Internet site «FOOTBALL IN AUSTRIA», year 1976/77
  5. ↑ süddeutsche.de: Schachner stops (message from March 9, 2007)
  6. ↑ ORF: Klaus Schmidt takes over ( Memento from January 27, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on July 28, 2008)
  7. ↑ Admira separates from Walter Schachner. Retrieved April 26, 2010 .
  8. ↑ Schachner takes over from Zellhofer. Retrieved March 2, 2011 .
  9. ↑ Dancing Stars 2017 - tv.ORF.at . In: tv.ORF.at . ( online [accessed March 23, 2017]). Dancing Stars 2017 - tv.ORF.at ( Memento from April 28, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Schachner, Walter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Chocolate
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian soccer player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH February 1, 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Leoben , Austria