Ladislav Maier

Ladislav Maier ( born January 4, 1966 in Boskovice ) is a former Czech football goalkeeper and current sports director.

Career

During his time in the Czech league Maier played as a goalkeeper always solid, but unimpressive. In 1998 he moved at the age of 32 years Slovan Liberec to Rapid Wien in the Austrian Bundesliga. First, considered by many fans skeptical Maier could immediately show his skills and kept in his first game two penalty kicks. He quickly became the absolute darling of the fans and the idol of many young Austrian goalkeeper. In his seven-year career at Rapid he was in a total of 151 league games, 13 Cupspielen and 21 European Cup games in use.

For four years, from 1998 to 2002, was Ladislav Maier the undisputed number one in goal for the Hütteldorfer. However, starting in 2002, he had increasingly the young goalkeeper Helge Payer soft, which was accelerated slowly from the coaching staff and set up to the goalkeeper. Maier was at this time, however, in a known manner sovereign and backed his goalkeeper colleagues as well as he could. Not once did he complained about his demotion, but acted only for the good of the team and introduced an enormously important support for Payer dar. By switching from Jürgen Macho Chelsea to Rapid Maier was half a season long even only third-choice goalkeeper. The highlight of his career Maier celebrated by winning the Austrian league title in the 2004/05 season, after which he was also the end of his active career known as football players.

After his playing career, Maier was sports director at his former club Slovan Liberec.

For the Czech national Maier played between 1995 and 2001 seven games.

Achievements

• Austrian Champion 2005
• Austrian Vice Champion in 1999 and 2001
• Goalkeeper of the season, according to Courier 1999/ 00 and 2000/ 01