Heribert Weber

Heribert Weber ( 2005)

Heribert " Heri " Weber ( born June 28, 1955 in Pöls, Styria ) is a retired Austrian football player and national team football coach. In his career as a player he was five times Austrian champion, four times OFB - Winners' Cup and reached the European Cup with two different clubs a final.

• 2.1 successes as a coach

Career as a player

The trained printer played until he was 18 at the small Styrian club FSC pulp Pöls at Jews castle. In 1973, Heribert Weber for first division side SK Sturm Graz. With the citizens of Graz he reached in 1975 under coach Karl Schlechta the cup final and celebrated as Storm players also his first convocation of the national team. As Schlechta went to Rapid Vienna in January 1978, he took in the summer of the same year Heri Weber to Hütteldorfern.

The Green-Whites of 1.80 m wide Styrian soon became a regular fixture in the team and celebrated his first big success. From 1978 to 1989, the defender and libero scored in 315 games of 39 goals and won with the Viennese four times Austrian Champion title and just as often the OFB Cup. Heri Weber scored in 43 European Cup appearances for Rapid three goals and also belonged to the team of 1984/85 moved under then coach Otto Baric in the final of the European Cup Winners' Cup. The final itself, which was held on 15 May 1985 in Rotterdam, but went 1-3 against Everton lost.

In 1989, the only honorary captain Rapids at the age of 34 years to Erstligaaufsteiger SV Austria Salzburg. With the Salzburg Heribert Weber arrive again under coach Otto Baric two runner-up title and 1994, the first championship of the club at all. In the 1993/94 season he reached the 39 -year-old with the Salzburg Violet for the second time in his career, a European Cup final. Both finals in the UEFA Cup against Inter Milan went for the Salzburg who had to do without in the second final match on several key players due to injuries and suspensions, narrowly lost 0-1. After the two UEFA Cup finals, the captain of the Salzburg Austria ended his active career and joined the coaching reins.

Heribert Weber is also a record player in the Austrian Bundesliga (as of 2005). In 573 games, he scored 63 goals as Libero and defender. He also completed 63 European Cup inserts in which he scored 3 goals and was for many years captain of the national team.

National

His debut in the Austrian national team was Heri Weber on April 28, 1976 in a 1-0 victory over the Austrians, the Swedish national football team. Overall, the long-time team captain graduated 68 caps for Austria, scoring one goal. The three games played the Styrian at the World Championships of 1978 and 1982, his last appearance in the dress of the Austrians he had in qualifying for the 1990 World Cup on October 25, 1989 at 0:3 defeat against the Turkish national football team in Istanbul.

Successes as a player

• 5 x Austrian Champion: 1982, 1983, 1987, 1988 (Rapid Vienna ), 1994 (Austria Salzburg)
• 4 x Austrian Cup winner: 1983, 1984, 1985, 1987 (Rapid Vienna)
• 3 x Austrian Supercup Winner: 1986, 1987, 1988 ( Rapid Vienna)
• 1 x European Cup Winners' Cup final the -: 1985 (Rapid Vienna)
• 1 x UEFA Cup Final: 1994 ( Austria Salzburg )
• 5 x Austrian Vice Champion: 1984, 1985, 1986 (Rapid Vienna), 1992, 1993 (Austria Salzburg)
• 2 x Austrian Cup Final: 1975 ( Sturm Graz ), 1986 (Rapid Vienna)
• 68 caps and 1 goal for the Austrian national team from 1976 to 1989
• Participation in the World Cup 1978 and 1982
• Part of the Rapid Team of the Century

Career as a coach

Following the resignation of his active career as a player Heri Weber signed as coach of Salzburg satellite club ASVÖ FC Puch with which he descended from the second division in the 1994/95 season. From 1995 to 1996 he was responsible for the U -18 and U-19 youth teams of the OFB before was offered by Club Chef Rudi Quehenberger the post as coach of Austria Salzburg him.

In Salzburg awaited him a team that with the departure of numerous European Cup heroes and top players (whistling Berger, Jurčević celebration Singer, Mladenovic, Artner, Fürstaller and Stadler ) was abandoned to decay. Heri Weber understood it from the rest of the group and some new items to form a new compact unit and won in the 1996/97 season with Austria Salzburg sensational Austrian Championship title. In the semifinals of the Cup petition, he failed his team unhappy in a penalty shoot-out against Vienna. In the game year 1997/98 then went for Weber bei Salzburg much besides; the championship could not be defended and also in qualifying for the UEFA Champions League failed Salzburg against Sparta Prague because of a glaring weakness Away. Nevertheless, Weber had made because of winning the title last year as a coach a name and so brought him the sports director Rapids, Ernst Dokupil in May 1998 as a trainer to the Hütteldorfern.

With Rapid Weber reached in the seasons 1997/98 and 1998/99 respectively to the second place in the championship behind Sturm Graz. After his contract was terminated at the Hütteldorfern on 30 May 2000, he had to wait until the German second division side FC Saarbrücken first as manager and later was allowed to begin a new position as director of sport almost one and a half years. In July 2003, Heri Weber took over the team of SC Untersiebenbrunn in the Austrian second game stage and thus became the first league Herbstmeister 2003. Thereafter Heribert Weber worked for the pay-TV broadcaster Sky as a TV football expert and was once a week in listen to the radio as part of a football program.

From 1 August 2008 to the summer of 2010 was Heribert Weber sporting director of FC Admira Wacker Mödling.

Success as a coach

• National football team ( Austria )
• Football Player (SK Sturm Graz )
• Captain ( SK Rapid Wien )
• Soccer player ( FC Red Bull Salzburg)
• Football coach ( FC Red Bull Salzburg)
• Football coach (SK Rapid Wien )
• Football coach ( Germany )
• Football functionary (FC Admira Wacker Vienna)
• Austrian Champion ( football)
• Person ( Pöls )
• Austrian
• Born in 1955
• Man