Gernot Sick

Gernot Sick ( born October 31, 1978 in Jews castle ) is a retired Austrian football player and national team.

Career

Gernot Sick footballer started his career in the domestic Scheifling. In 1993, the promising youngster came into the youth squad of the Grazer AK. Already in the 1996/97 season, the midfielder had under coach August Starek his first assignments in the first team. Numerous other missions in Championship, OFB Cup and UEFA Cup followed.

In 2000 he was in the team of Athletiker, which celebrated the second cup win in club history at Vienna's Ernst Happel Stadium against SV Austria Salzburg. In the spring of 2001/02 season he was loaned to SC Schwarz-Weiß Bregenz, but brought back in the summer of 2002. In the 2003 /04 season he won the Athletikern their first championship in club history. The Double Cup victory with the attendant is connected in a special way with Gernot Sick. He scored on the way to the final in the eighth, quarter and semi-finals respectively a hit twice ( second round vs. FC Tirol Innsbruck, Semifinal vs. SV Ried), it was the decisive victory gates.

Sick 2004, was appointed for the first time after several usage in the various OFB junior teams, by Hans Krankl in the Austrian national team and played in the European Championship qualifier in the matches against England and Northern Ireland.

After doctors at him a cartilage damage and a meniscus injury in his left knee diagnose the winter of 2005, the Obersteirer was operated on several times in 2006, where it was used cultured cartilage in the knee. After months of rehabilitation Sick increases in January 2007 and again in team training. However, is clear about the next phase in the spring, which can not withstand the stresses both knee joints in the professional sector. As a result, there Gernot Sick in May 2007, the end of his professional career known. In 2008 and 2009 he worked as a trainer at SV Gössendorf. For family reasons, he then withdrew finally back from football. He now works in the tourism sector.

In the fall of 2011, he brought together with Hannes Toth and Gernot Zenz his first football Kaberettprogramm " The round truth " on the stage, the trio is known as cabaret shaft collar.