Branko Elsner

Branko Elsner ( born November 23, 1929 in Ljubljana, † November 17, 2012 ) was a Yugoslav and Slovenian sports teacher and football coach, who achieved primarily as a two-time Austrian team boss notoriety.

Career

The first successes as a football coach Branko Elsner celebrated in his homeland with Slovenian NK Olimpija Ljubljana, which he has edited from 1964 to 1967. 1968 made ​​the jump to Austria, where he arrived in the early 1970s with the SSW Innsbruck its previous peak as a club coach. With the Innsbruckern from Slovenia won in 1972 and 1975, the Championship, 1970 and 1975, the OFB Cup and at international level the Mitropacup in the years 1975 and 1976. These successes and his great popularity even led to the fact that in 1975 he, if only transitional the Austrian national team took over as manager for two European Championship qualifiers. After Béla Guttmann and Leopold Šťastný he was only the third Legionnaire on the bench of the Austrian national team.

Once the site of the Austrian team bosses became vacant in January in 1985, OFB President Beppo Mauhart decided to resort to the Slovenes again. Assistant Branko Elsner's the team was Gustl Starek. The most famous game of " Teamchefära Elsner " was the 4-1 home win at the reopening of the Prater Stadium on Germany. However, he missed the target European Championship qualifier in 1988 and also failed with his Olympic team, what 1987 Elsner's replacement by Hickersberger led, who promptly abolished the World Cup qualifiers. More recently, Branko Elsner was among other things the Japanese first division Brummel Sendai as manager in use.

Branko Elsner was awarded his doctorate in 1982 and taught in the 1990s as a professor at the Faculty of Sport, University of Ljubljana.

Family

Branko's son Marko Elsner ( born April 11, 1960), bronze medalist with the Yugoslav team at the 1984 Olympic Games played, including for Red Star Belgrade, OGC Nice and Austria.