Robert Gucher
Robert Gucher (* February 20, 1991 in Graz) is an Austrian football player.
Club career
Career start
Robert Gucher started playing football in youth his home club TuS Paldau. After an early age his talent was visible, he moved to the State Training Centre Weiz. 2005 followed the next career step in the Academy of Grazer AK. There he was appointed in his first season for the captain of the U-15 team, with whom he also celebrated the AKA title.
From 2006 he was admitted as a 16 -year sporadically in the first team before he was allowed to make his debut for the GAK in the first team in 2007. This was followed by six games with a goal is scored in the Austrian Regionalliga Mitte.
Transfer Posse to move to Aston Villa
After he had noticed as captain of the Austrian U -17 National Team player a Scout tradition of the English club Aston Villa, he was invited for a trial in which he was able to convince. Then, a three-year contract he was submitted in the summer of 2007, he signed it.
As a result, it came to the controversy between Villa and the GAK. For now gave the Graz the player's change officially known, the change to report a day before departure Guchers to Birmingham as a failure.
After it rained then harsh media criticism for the actions of the GAK, followed on 2 September 2007, a formal opinion regarding the association of the change. Analogously, we made it clear that they wanted no means the player block this opportunity. Basically, you would have laid him no stones for a change in the way. Since Aston Villa but did not pay any fee and Gucher still had a young professional contract until 2009, it came to battle. After the GAK refused to release, Aston Villa made pressure on the Styrian Association and demanded a player pass and share. At the same time the decision was made an offer to release to submit to the GAK. This sum was but from GAK dubbed as "ridiculous " and " as an insult for the player and for the club ." It was followed by a statement of the facts of the GAK for " privateering " in the FIFA and FA. In the end you could with the Premier League club not agree on a transfer fee, whereupon Gucher had to stay in Graz.
Exchange to Italy
After the burst move to England, there were still several primarily by Italian clubs, anmeldeten their interest in Gucher. Among other things, it was Udinese Calcio and AC Milan. There followed a trial at Milan, which ended with a contract offer by the Milanese one more time.
In July 2008, however, his change was known to Frosinone Calcio, which committed Gucher in a double pack with his teammates from the GAK, Dieter Elsneg. Gucher announced in a row that he chose because of better perspective for Frosinone and against Milan. In Milan he would have been planned for the youth team in Frosinone he is in the squad of the professional team.
On 21 April 2009, he came in the game against FC Modena to his debut in the Italian Serie B.
Change in the Serie A
On February 1st 2010, on the last day of the transfer crossing time Gucher signed a loan contract with the Genoa. He succeeded locationally his club colleague Dieter Elsneg, who also joined on loan to Sampdoria in the same winter. As a result, he was a regular in the " Primavera " of the Genoese, with which he could win the Italian Youth Championship title in 2010. Simultaneously, he was often the pro squad of Il Grifone, but came to no use in Serie A. In July 2010 it was announced that Genoa had acquired 50 % of the player of Frosinone of transfer rights. In the season 2010/11 he was first in order to match fitness back awarded for one year to the co - owner.
National
Gucher went through so far all junior national team of Austria from the U- 16th The selections of the U -17 and U-18, he served as captain on the field.
Currently, he is a regular force and captain of the U-19 selection, with which he also denied the qualification for the U-19 Football Championship 2009 in Ukraine.