Andreas Rauscher
Andreas Rauscher (born 25 January 1978 in Graz) is an Austrian football player at the position of a defender.
Career
Rauscher went through the mini boys on the classic children 's and youth training in the youth teams of the Grazer AK. In the amateur team of Athletiker under coach Werner Gregoritsch he was then as a central midfielder already captain and leading players. As a squad player, he was already in the 1997/98 season under coach Klaus Augenthaler with a short stint to his Bundesliga debut.
In summer 1998, he joined the second class FC Kärnten, but even there he could not establish himself in the starting eleven. 2000 then he moved to FC Gratkorn to the regional center. In 2004 he succeeded now used primarily as a Defensive midfielder or central defender, with the Gratkornern promotion to the second highest Austrian league.
After eight years at Gratkorn he was in 2008, brought to the rise of Kapfenberg SV in the Bundesliga by his former youth coach Gregoritsch to the Upper Styrian. He made his debut on 13 July 2008 in a 2-2 home draw against FK Austria Wien. During the 2008/ 09 season Rauscher came in just four league games for Kapfenberg used and played with these only two games in the full match times through. Then he left for the rest of the season because of severe pain in the back, and with a broken neck vertebrae and only returned at the start of season 2009/ 10 in the team back. Addition, there was also a broken foot, he had suffered in a game in the previous season.
By the end of October 2009, he came to a total of eight league operations before he was injured in the away match against SK Austria Kärnten one more time and was replaced with Thomas Schönberger in the game. According to a later investigation was bekanntgegegben on 27 October 2009 that Rauscher's ligament was torn in his left knee and he therefore had to retire from the game until the end.