Alfred Hörtnagl

Alfred Hörtnagl 2009

Alfred "Ali" Hörtnagl (* September 24 1966 in Matrei am Brenner ) is a retired Austrian football player ( 1985-2005 ) and was sports director at SK Rapid Wien ( 2006-2011 ), junior coordinator at the German first division club SpVgg Greuther Fürth ( November 2011 to December 2012) and since January 2013 now sporting director at the German third division side FC Rot -Weiß Erfurt.

Career

With almost 19 years of Wipptaler debuted in the first team of the former SSW Innsbruck in the Bundesliga under the coaching duo of Werner Schwarz and Friedl peer who coached the team after the off Cor bromine. Hörtnagl came in the last seven games of the season 1984/85 are used. Only in the summer of 1984 he was pushed from power center to the U21 team Tirol Innsbruck.

In the following years he was a fixture in the team. Especially under Ernst Happel he was from his second year in Innsbruck in the tremendous success of FC Swarovski Tirol - instrumental - Double Champion in 1989 and 1990. Never forget the Tivoli Gala Games in 1989 Cupfinalrückspiel are against Admira and the historic thrashing about Rapid 6-1 in April 1990. Again, in the 1992/93 season Hörtnagl could celebrate a national title, the Cup victory in Vienna's Prater against arch-rivals Rapid. Under the new coach Horst Koeppel Hörtnagl was then no longer in the squad of FC Tirol. In the fall he came in rapid, but was caught in Hütteldorf not really happy, and then moved for two years to SK Sturm Graz. In the summer of 1996, he ventured to Greece, after a year it went to Cyprus.

In the winter of 1997/98, when the FC Tirol Innsbruck was in a serious sporting crisis, he was brought by Peter Koncilia back home. A gold handle for both sides, as the future was to prove. Under the coach Cipro and then under Kurt Jara, he was one of the best defensive midfielders in Austria. With the great success from 2000 to 2002 he was a key player in the ranks of FC Tirol Innsbruck. After the bankruptcy in the summer of 2002, he was with Robert Wazinger the only member of the champion team who supported the new start under the roof of FC Wacker Tirol playful. From the game year 2002/2003 the club was within two years as a direct result of the Regionalliga in the Bundesliga. In the season 2004/ 05 Alfred Hörtnagl was also athletic director and player in one. Due to differing views on the future of FC Wacker Tirol took place at the end of the season 2004/ 05 the separation.

International Hörtnagl was not spoiled by success. In the UEFA Cup, he failed with FC Swarovski in 1987, although only in the semi-final against eventual winners IFK Göteborg, but came here only sporadically used. Neither in the Happel years, even in the era Jara, the ambitions of the Tyrolean could be achieved, a great international success came.

With the Austrian national team, he managed to qualify for the 1990 World Cup in Italy, in preparation, he headed its terminal gate to 2-1 in Spain the turnaround for a sensational 2:3 victory of the Austrians. After the rather disappointing World Cup, it was spared to be with the Faroe disgrace with it. No longer considered by the team manager Dietmar Constantini, Ernst Happel and Herbert Prohaska, he celebrated under Otto Baric 1999 made ​​a comeback and even came up with some inserts.

In summer 2005, the defensive midfielder ended after 20 years of his active career as a professional footballer. Then he wrote his first book.

Since January 2006, Alfred Hörtnagl EURO 2008 ambassador for the European venue Innsbruck. He also writes regularly for the crowns newspaper columns and held in the summer of 2006, two soccer and recreational camps for children. On 20 December 2006 it was announced that Hörtnagl new sports director of Rapid is on 30 March 2011, he joined voluntarily returned from this post. From November 2011 to December 2012 he held the post of junior co-ordinator at the German first division club SpVgg Greuther Fürth. Since January 2013 he is now sporting director at the German third division side FC Rot -Weiß Erfurt.

Achievements

  • 5 x Austrian Champion: 1989, 1990 (FC Swarovski Tirol) 2000, 2001, 2002 ( FC Tirol Innsbruck)
  • 3 x Austrian Cup Winner: 1989 (FC Swarovski Tirol ), 1993 (FC Wacker Innsbruck ), 1996 (SK Sturm Graz )
  • 1 x Master of the Regionalliga West: 2003 (SPG WSG Wattens FC Wacker Tirol )
  • 1 x First League Champion: 2004 (FC Wacker Tirol )
  • Participation in the Football World Cup 1990 in Italy (2 inserts)
  • 27 caps for the OFB
  • 33 European Cup games
  • 411 Bundesliga appearances

Works as a writer

  • Fighting Chess with heart: football as a Journey ( Berenkamp publisher); ISBN 3-85093-206-0
Kavala F.C. FC Wacker Innsbruck (2002) Otto Barić Integrated Authority File
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