Andreas Weimann
Andreas Weimann 2013
Andreas Weimann (born 5 August 1991, Vienna) is an Austrian football player. Currently he is under contract at Aston Villa.
Career
At the age of seven years, Andreas Weimann started by clubs to play football in the youth department of FC Stadlau. In 2005, he joined the junior of the SK Rapid Wien, where he clearly put his great talent. This earned him the only 16 -year-old four convocations in the Austrian U- 17 national team one. This Scouts of Aston Villa on the center forward were attentive, whereupon he received a contract offer from the Academy in 2007. " Rapid Wien has failed to offer the very big striker talent a contract ," said the former Rapid Vienna player and former U-18 OFB team boss Peter Persidis which, however, was convinced that the player had made " the right step ". Although a year younger than his age peers, Weimann be secured immediately secured a regular place in the U-18 team of the Academy of Aston Villa and was allowed after the 2007/ 08 season looking forward to the English U-18 Championship title. Due to its good performance drew Weimann in the 2008 /09 season in the reserve team of Aston Villa, where he significantly helped his goals that end up back an English league title could be celebrated.
This success was followed in the summer of 2009, the next career step. Andreas Weimann has been adopted as the only 18 - year-old in the squad for the first team. In the preseason game on August 2, 2009 at the Stadio delle Alpi in Turin against Juventus (0-0 ) Weimann made his debut and was allowed to participate during the 74 minutes before he was replaced by Barry Bannan. To kick off the 2010/11 season came Weimann as a substitute for his Premier League debut against West Ham United.
After Weimann had already completed four missions in the Austrian U-17 national team and three appearances in the U-19 national team, he was appointed in September by the new team manager Andreas Herzog as a 18- year-old in the Austrian U-21 national team. In his first game in qualifying for the U-21 European Championship against Scotland Weimann came in the 56th minute for Marc sand onto the field and scored just a minute later with his first touch the decisive goal in a 1-0 victory in Austria.
During the winter break of the season 2010/11 Weimann was loaned out to Watford. According to the U20 World Cup in Colombia, where he was employed in all three group matches of the Austrians, he returned in August 2011 back to Aston Villa. He graduated on August 23, 2011, a game in the League Cup and made the 2-0 victory against Hereford United for a lot of momentum.
That same week it from Aston Villa a new contract offer to 2014 was submitted, which he accepted also. In order to gain more match practice, he was until January 2012 again awarded to the Championship club Watford FC.
Only a month later it was announced that the lending was terminated early due to an injury. Since the end of September Weimann is thus back in the squad for Aston Villa. On March 10, 2012 Weimann scored after Substitutes his first goal in the Premier League, which was crucial to the game 1-0 home win his club Aston Villa against Fulham. On November 10, 2012 Weimann scored in the 2:3 defeat Aston Villas against Manchester United for the first time two goals in a Premier League game.
On 2 October 2012, Andreas Weimann from team boss Marcel Koller convened for the first time in the Austrian national team for the World Cup qualifiers against Kazakhstan and debuted on October 12, 2012 at the Away Match in Astana.