Richard Kitzbichler

Richard Kitzbichler (born 12 January 1974 in Wörgl ) is a retired Austrian football player.

Career

Richard Kitzbichler began at the age of six years at the Tyrolean subclass SV low- village with the football game. At the age of 14, he joined the Federal youth development center of Innsbruck and went through there the entire youth department.

Under coach Branko Elsner 1992, he received his first contract as a young professional at FC Wacker Innsbruck and celebrated in the spring of 1993 in the game against the Wiener Sport - Club made ​​its debut in the Austrian Bundesliga. For the 1994/95 season he was loaned to the regional division SC Kundl due to lack of power, but managed through the detour Regional again the leap into professional football and celebrated in the spring of 1996 in the away match against Hungary in Budapest even his debut in the Austrian national football team.

After two seasons at FC Tirol Innsbruck, he joined in the summer of 1997, the then champion SV Austria Salzburg. In 2002, the talented, only 1.72 m wide midfielder ventured for the first time ventured abroad, but could not be at his new club, Hamburger SV enforce. In the same year Kitzbichler played his last of his 17 caps in the 2:3 defeat in Basel against Switzerland. After only one year in the German Bundesliga, it pulled the Tyrolean back to Austria. In Austria Vienna he was initially committed as a squad player, but could increasingly find themselves in the starting lineup. After a few good games for the Vienna he accepted an offer of the Australian soccer club Melbourne Victory and played in 2005 for half a year with great success in the local A-League.

In Melbourne Kitzbichler wore the shirt number 17 and came predominantly in the right midfield for use. In Australia, the former Austrian team player was considered a star of his team and one of the star players of the entire A-League.

During the winter break 2005/ 06 Kitzbichler returned to Austria and accepted an offer of the top club Red Bull Salzburg, where he is in the 2006/07 season as a key player with his nunmehrigen coach Adi Hütter the amateur team of Salzburg from the West Regional in the first League led. On 20 May 2009 Kitzbichler was the end of his active career as a footballer known.

Since the 2009/10 season Richard Kitzbichler operates at FC Red Bull Salzburg as a video analyst.