Xaver Schlager

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Xaver Schlager
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Xaver Schlager (2018)
Personnel
birthday September 28, 1997
place of birth Linz ,  Austria
size 174 cm
position midfield player
Juniors
Years station
2003-2009 SC St. Valentin
2009-2017 FC Red Bull Salzburg
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
2015-2017 →  FC Liefering  (farm team) 46 (7)
2016-2019 FC Red Bull Salzburg 67 (7)
2019– VfL Wolfsburg 23 (1)
2019 VfL Wolfsburg II 1 (0)
National team
Years selection Games (goals) 2
2013 Austria U16 2 (0)
2013 Austria U17 5 (0)
2015 Austria U19 8 (1)
2015 Austria U20 1 (0)
2016-2019 Austria U21 9 (2)
2018– Austria 11 (1)
1 Only league games are given.
As of June 20, 2020

2 As of June 23, 2019

Xaver Schlager (born September 28, 1997 in Linz ) is an Austrian football player . The midfielder plays for VfL Wolfsburg in the German Bundesliga and is active for the Austrian national team .

Career

societies

Xaver Schlager came to FC Red Bull Salzburg from SC St. Valentin in 2009 , where he initially played in the youth department. From 2011 he went through all years in the academy of "bulls".

In the winter break of 2014/15 he became a cooperation player for FC Liefering in the second division in order to gain his first experience in professional football. On February 27, 2015, under coach Peter Zeidler , he made his first appearance for FC Liefering in a 4-2 away win at SC Austria Lustenau . He was substituted on for Martin Rasner in the 90th minute of the game . On August 4, 2015, Schlager scored his first goal in professional football in the 2: 5 defeat against Kapfenberger SV .

On February 20, 2016, he was in the FC Red Bull Salzburg squad for the first time in the 2-0 home win against SCR Altach , but was not used. On May 10, 2016, Schlager was in the starting line-up in the 2-1 away win at SV Grödig , making his debut in the Austrian Bundesliga . In the away game against FC Admira Wacker Mödling on March 12, 2017, he equalized to 1: 1 and thus his first goal in the Bundesliga.

Xaver Schlager was the captain of the U-19s of FC Red Bull Salzburg in the UEFA Youth League . In the 2015/16 season, the team failed in the playoff at AS Roma . In 2016/17 his team qualified for the Final Four tournament in Nyon after a. Manchester City , Paris Saint-Germain and Atlético Madrid had defeated. He was unable to play there due to an injury.

For the 2019/20 season he moved to Germany for VfL Wolfsburg , where he received a contract that ran until June 2023. On the third day of the match, the midfielder broke an ankle without outside interference and was initially injured. On the 12th matchday he made his comeback with a short stint against Eintracht Frankfurt and on the 15th he scored his first Bundesliga goal in a 2-1 win against Borussia Mönchengladbach for VfL Wolfsburg.

National team

On April 30, 2013 Schlager was allowed to make his debut in the Austrian U-16 national team under team principal Rupert Marko in a 1-0 win in the friendly against his colleagues from Hungary . He came on as a substitute for Simon Pirkl in the 74th minute . This was followed by the 0-1 defeat in the second leg on May 2, 2013, another use in the second half of the game. Also under Rupert Marko, there were then five appearances in the Austrian U-17 national team .

Under team boss Hermann Stadler , Schlager played eight games in the Austrian U-19 national team . Including the qualification and the final round for the U-19 European Championship 2015 and the qualification for the U-19 European Championship 2016 . He scored his first goal in the team jersey on November 14, 2015 in the 2-0 win against Wales .

On March 30, 2015, he made his debut under Andreas Heraf in a friendly international match for the Austrian U-20 team against Mexico . For the U-21s, he was called up in August for the internationals against Russia and Finland. In November 2016, he and the team missed qualifying for the U-21 European Championship in Poland in 2017 in the playoff games .

In March 2018, the midfielder was appointed to the senior national team for the first time . He made his national team debut in the same month when he came on for Julian Baumgartlinger in the 90th minute of the friendly against Slovenia . He scored his first goal for the national team on November 18, 2018 in the Nations League game against Northern Ireland . Schlager met the Austrian 1-0 lead.

successes

FC Red Bull Salzburg

Web links

Commons : Xaver Schlager  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Transfermarkt.at: SC Austria Lustenau vs. FC Liefering 2: 4 (accessed on May 12, 2016)
  2. ↑ Transfermarkt.at: SV Kapfenberg vs. FC Liefering 5: 2 (accessed on May 12, 2016)
  3. ↑ Transfermarkt.at: Match report SV Grödig vs. FC Red Bull Salzburg 1: 2 (accessed on May 12, 2016)
  4. ↑ Reinforcement for the midfield vfl-wolfsburg.de, on June 26, 2019, accessed on June 26, 2019
  5. ↑ Schlager and Casteels are missing for weeks in Wolfsburg: broken ankle and hairline crack , transfermarkt.de, accessed on September 1, 2019
  6. ↑ Arnold's later volleyball hammer: Wolfsburg brings Gladbach from the top , match report on kicker.de, accessed on December 15, 2019.
  7. ↑ Transfermarkt.at: Match report Austria U-16 vs. Hungary U-16 1-0 (accessed May 12, 2016)
  8. ↑ Transfermarkt.at: Game report Hungary U-16 vs. Austria U-16 1: 0 (accessed on May 12, 2016)
  9. ↑ Transfermarkt.at: Xaver Schlager - international game career Austria U-17 (accessed on May 12, 2016)
  10. ↑ Transfermarkt.at: Xaver Schlager - international match career Austria U-19 (accessed on May 12, 2016)
  11. ↑ Transfermarkt.at: Match report Austria U-20 vs. Mexico U-20 3-1 (accessed May 12, 2016)
  12. ↑ National team roster for the international matches against Slovenia and Luxembourg oefb.at, on March 13, 2018, accessed on March 17, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Schlager, Xaver
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH September 28, 1997
PLACE OF BIRTH Linz , Austria