Ralph Hasenhüttl

Ralph Hasenhüttl (2012 )

Ralph Hasenhüttl ( born August 9, 1967 in Graz ) is a former Austrian football player and current coach. During his playing career, the 1.91 m wide forward played in eight games for the Austrian national team.

• 3.1 as a player
• 3.2 as coach

Playing career

In the club

After the striker for a long time successfully played football in Austria, he tried his luck abroad from 1996. He played two years in Belgium at KV Mechelen Lierse SK and before he moved to the 1998/99 season 1 FC Cologne. The transfer fee was the equivalent of € 200,000. In the two years at FC he scored only three goals and changed in the summer of 2000 SpVgg Greuther Fürth.

In 2004, he left his playing career in the amateurs for FC Bayern Munich in the Regionalliga Süd finish.

National

Hasenhüttl celebrated as a substitute his debut on 15 May 1988 in a friendly match against Hungary and was able to record his first international goal for it after 10 minutes. Overall, he completed 8 games for the Austrian national team, scoring three goals.

Coaching career

From 2004 to 2005 Hasenhüttl oversaw the A2 Junior of SpVgg Unterhaching. After the dismissal of Harry Deutinger in March 2007, he was up to the commitment of Werner Lorant worked as interim coach of the first team and then worked as an assistant coach under Lorant. After his resignation Hasenhüttl was appointed on 4 October 2007 as the new head coach. With the team he finished the season in sixth place. In the following season, 2008/ 09, the team showed in the newly formed 3rd Liga, under his leadership good performance and finished at the end table in fourth place, with just one point adrift of the relegation place and two points behind the direct ascent ranks. However, in the new season, they could not build on the achievements and finished after 24 completed games with 31 points table tenth place, Hasenhüttl was therefore exempted on 22 February 2010 as the head coach at the game of association.

On January 2, 2011 Ralph Hasenhüttl took over at third division VfR Aalen succeeds Rainer Scharinger. At this time the club wintered with just one point gap to the relegation zone in 16th place. At the end of the season Hasenhüttl finished with the club also the 16th place in the table; by reaching the class obtaining his contract extended automatically by one year. For the following season the squad was reduced with 14 disposals and eight new additions and redesigned to the remaining core of the team around on his terms, as a seasonal destination a place in the middle of the table was issued. In fact, the team ended after an initially rather weak start to the season for the winter break in a relatively balanced league sixth place with only one point adrift of the relegation rank. This trend continued in the second half, among others, in the form of a series of eight victories in a row, so Hasenhüttl, whose contract was extended ahead of schedule in November 2011 for two years, at the end of the season took second place in the table with the team and provides direct promotion to the 2nd Bundesliga reached.

During the training camp for pre-season training in the summer of 2012 ill Hasenhüttl to a hantavirus infection. However, after about three weeks of absence he could take to the start of the new season 2012/13 returned to work on time. Instead in the promotion season mainly a 4 -4- 2 system, Hasenhüttl used in the new season with the VfR mainly a tailor- fast switching and counter- Game 4 -5- 1 system with which the team surprisingly successfully contested the season: After an outstanding first round they reached the winter break in fifth place in the table. Due to some hapless games after the winter break, the Aalen occupied at the end of the season, still as the best climber, the ninth place in the table. Be required after disagreements with sporting director Markus Schupp and after the club for the new season imposed an austerity program, the club had to leave for the new season by the one hand, numerous players, on the other hand, no new - After two successful years in Aalen Ralph Hasenhüttl asked in June 2013 should - to the early termination of his contract.

Since October 7, 2013 Hasenhüttl head coach at FC Ingolstadt 04 after Marco had been dismissed because of short of success.

Achievements

As a player

• Austrian Champion: 1991, 1992, 1993 with Austria Wien; 1995 Austria Salzburg
• Austrian Cup winner: 1990, 1992, 1994 with Austria Wien
• Promotion to the 1st League: 2000 with the 1st FC Cologne

As coach

• Promotion to the 2nd Bundesliga: 2012 with the VfR Aalen