Hubert Baumgartner

Hubert " Hubsi " Baumgartner ( born February 25, 1955 in Wolfsberg, Carinthia ) was an Austrian football player and later a football coach. The goalkeeper was with Austria Vienna three times Austrian champion in 1978 and reached the final of the European Cup Winners' Cup.

Career

Hubert Baumgartner began his career at SV Bad St. Leonhard, from where he came to the first division side SV Alpine Donawitzer 1973. A year later, he played in Vienna in Austria. With the violets he was soon able to break the hegemony of the SSW Innsbruck and 1976, 1978 and 1979, three times Austrian champion in four years. In particular, internationally, he sat down with the club in scene: In 1978 the place in the final of the European Cup Winners' Cup, in which Hubert Baumgartner has been called " Penalty Killer" to the rise of heroes. So he not only pass a single penalty in the quarter final against Hajduk Split in the penalty shootout, already he saved a penalty during the game. Even in the semi-final against Dynamo Moscow, he parried the decisive Elfemeter. In the final game, however, you had then beaten 0-4 RSC Anderlecht.

The nearest international highlight followed a year later. In the European Cup Champion 1978 /79 Austria came before the semi-finals, where they failed just short of Malmö FF. In his successful Austria- time Hubert Baumgartner was convened total of 25 times in the squad of the Austrian national team and accompanied the team and the Football World Cup 1978 in Argentina. But in the end he came only once to a international match, in February 1978 in a 1-1 draw against Greece. The former number one in Austria was called Friedl Koncilia (SSW Innsbruck), who also Baumgartner succeeded in 1979 in Austria, as he accepted an offer from Recreativo Huelva.

Hubert Baumgartner played until 1983 when Spain's oldest football club and learned in his time in Andalusia also met his future wife. Then return to the Austrian Bundesliga, where he still six seasons long stood for FC Admira / Wacker goal followed. In 1988, Hubert Baumgartner of the Lower Austrian competitors VSE St. Pölten, with which he was able to rise from the Second Division, but then in a championship game so seriously injured in a clash with Christian Keglevits that he had to end his career.

There was a flying change on the coaching chair of St. Pölten, first as an assistant coach and from 1990 until 1993 as head coach. Rapid (1993 /94), again VSE St. Pölten (1995-1996) and FC Linz (1997) were the names of other stations. In 2006 he took up the post of General Manager of Admiralty to, but could not reach with the team in the league and put up at the First League, where he was released in March 2007.

Achievements

  • 3 x Austrian Champion: 1976, 1978, 1979
  • 1 x Austrian Cup winner: 1977
  • Soccer goalkeeper ( FK Austria Wien )
  • Soccer goalkeeper (Spain )
  • Austrian Champion ( football)
  • Football coach ( SKN St. Pölten )
  • Football coach (SK Rapid Wien )
  • Football coach (SV Würmla )
  • Football coach (FC Admira Wacker Vienna)
  • Austrian
  • Born in 1955
  • Man
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