Peter Stöger

Peter Stoeger, 2011

Peter Stoeger ( born April 11, 1966 in Vienna) is an Austrian football coach and former football player. Since the beginning of the 2013/14 season he is the coach of the German second division club FC Cologne 1.

Career

Player

About the FavAC, Steyr and Vienna, the then 22 -year-old Stoeger came to Austria Wien. He was obliged to replace midfielder Herbert Prohaska, who declared his resignation in 1989. With the Vienna violets Stoeger experienced its most successful years as a player. With three league titles and three Cupsiegen he had to have a proud record in six seasons. His first game for the Austrian national team, he completed on February 5, 1988 against Switzerland ( 1:2 result ). Overall Stoeger wore the Austrian jersey 65 times, where he scored 15 goals. Even in the World Cup finals in France in 1998, he belonged to the squad (2 inserts).

After a Bundesliga season with FC Tirol (1994/1995) Stoeger moved to arch-rival of Austria, the SK Rapid Wien. In his first season he succeeded with the Hütteldorfern the title. In 1996 he reached with Rapid also still the entry into the European Cup Winners' Cup final.

Scrapped at Rapid, he came across the LASK back to Austria, with which it is also the most commonly identified back. After engagements at VfB Admira Wacker Mödling and the second division SC Untersiebenbrunn Stoeger 2004 declared its active footballers career ended.

Coach / Director of Sport

After Stoeger had finished his playing career in the summer of 2004, he received an offer from SC Untersiebenbrunn to work as a manager. However, it made the precarious financial situation impossible to put together a team, which is why Stoeger declined the offer. He returned to " his " Austria and became manager of the amateurs. The big surprise came in May 2005: Peter Stoeger and Frenkie Schinkel, previously Scout Austria Amateurs, replaced the coach duo Günter Kronsteiner and Lars Søndergaard. After only four weeks of work, the Austria won under Stoeger / Schinkel's the cup final against Rapid 3-1 - Stögers first title as a coach. In December 2005, Stoeger withdrew from the daily training work and was sports director. This season, the Austria was the 23rd time champion.

In the fall of 2006, he was suspended along with Schinkel due to the disastrous performance of the team during this period (among the last place in the table ). In June 2007 he returned to Vienna and was, until June 2010 he was sports director. From autumn 2007 to April 2010, Stoeger was in a dual role trainer and also celebrated in June 2009 promotion to the second highest league. Frenkie Schinkel succeeded him as Vienna coach for the last games of the season.

Then Stoeger joined the club on a yearly basis. As of November 2010, he was coach of the Grazer AK. In June 2011, his running contract with GAK has been resolved amicably, so that he could perceive an offer from the Austrian Bundesliga side SC Wiener Neustadt as a coach and sporting director. A year later, he negotiated even the cancellation of the contract in order to compete in the Vienna Austria with a contract for 2 years the succession of Ivica Vastić. A year later, Austria was with points record champions. Stoeger himself felt the title as the "most beautiful " of his career, and was able to make his next career move in the summer of 2013:

He received a rumored transfer fee of 700,000 Euros and the income from a friendly match of the two teams the release to switch to the 1 FC Cologne. Stoeger said on the issue of morality in such Change: " We only talk about morality when good people want to improve despite the existing contract We're not talking about morality, when coaches are fired despite contract.. " Stoeger had with the " Billy Goats " equals success, the traditional Cologne club was the fall of champion and Winter King.

In addition, Stoeger was at Sky as an analyst of league games as well as working as a columnist for the daily newspaper Kurier.

Personal

The presenter, actress and cabaret artist Ulrike Kriegler is his partner since 1998.

Successes as a player

• 4 × Austrian champion: 3 × with Austria (1990/ 91, 1991 /92 and 1992/93 ), 1 × with Rapid (1995 /1996)
• 3 × Austrian Cup Winner: 1989 /1990 1991/1992, 1993/1994
• Best midfielder of the season, according to courier: 1995/96
• FIFA World Cup 1998

Success as a trainer / sports director

• 2 × Austrian Cup Winner: 2005, 2006 (Austria Wien)
• 2 × Austrian champion: 2006, 2013 ( Austria Wien )
• 1 × Master of Regional League East: 2009 ( First Vienna FC 1894)