Florian Sturm

Florian Sturm ( born May 6, 1982 in Wörgl ) is an Austrian football player.

Career

Club career

Storm began his career, like almost every Tyrolean football talent in the BNZ Tyrol, before he got a professional contract with FC Tirol on the youth of the SV Wörgl. Although the then pinnacle of Austrian football, he celebrated two championships, but could not establish himself in the first team.

In order to gain match practice, he was awarded in a row for the second half of the 2000/01 season to partner WSG Wattens in the Red Zac league. After strong performances in this half of Tyrol got an offer from the then first division SW Bregenz, which was accepted.

In Bregenz he made the final breakthrough, as it has been prescribed a change of position away from the tower on the left winger. This resulted in a significant increase in performance result. Storm graduated as master players twenty games in which he was able to achieve five goals. At the end of the season he was selected by the daily Kurier among the top 3- Newcomer of the Year.

He was then recruited for the season 2002 /03 of SK Rapid Wien. In Rapid he played three solid seasons, which were crowned with the title in the 2004/05 season. During this time he made ​​himself as a reliable squad player a name, the really big jump him but never succeeded. For this reason urged storm after the championship to a move abroad.

His first overseas station was the SpVgg Greuther Furth in the German second division. The station was extremely unfortunate for him. He could fight for a regular place and completed only three games. In winter, was dissolved by mutual agreement then on his contract.

Vertragslos he then wrote, in his home at the crisis-hit FC Wacker Innsbruck. In the Tyrol, it was hoped great things of his lost son. But storm could not meet the expectations. Come without any match practice from Germany, he found difficult to shape and completed only six games. Here he managed a score.

As a result they went after only half a year their separate ways. Due to its poor performance for Wacker his good name in Austria was almost completely destroyed. This he also received by any other Austrian first division club an offer.

For the season 2006/ 07 he then attended a contract offer from the Swiss second division side FC Vaduz. In Vaduz him a more offensive role was meant for again, which he was able to meet with success. He became a key player of the team and scored fourteen goals in two years. In the 2007 /08 season Vaduz was with Storm Master of the Challenge League and rose for the first time in the club's history in the Axpo Super League on. After climbing Vaduz began to rejuvenate his team, after storm, despite its strong performance in the last two years, a new contract was awarded.

Again, out of contract he got from the new Milton Keynes coach, the Switzerland - Italy's Roberto Di Matteo, an offer for a trial. Storm increased and was able to convince. As a result, he became the first player to transfer the Di Matteo -actuated. Currently, storm plays on the side of Tore Andre Flo with the Dons to promotion to the Football League Championship. However, a knee injury suffered in October 2008 forced him to pause the whole of November. In the January 2009 storm was declared after only four completed short stakes for out of contract.

In May 2009 storm signed for the 2009/10 season, one-year contract with an option for another in the Austrian Bundesliga side SV Ried. The 2010/11 season he spent at FC Vaduz in the Challenge League.

National

Through its strong performance for Bregenz storm was convened in the Austrian Under-21 national soccer team. The majority of his games he graduated in qualifying for the U -21 Football Championship in Germany in 2004, for which Austria but not qualified.

Achievements

• 3 x Austrian Champion: 1999/2000, 2000/ 01, 2004 /05
• 1 x Master Challenge League: 2008
• 1 x Austrian Cupfinalist: 2005