René Aufhauser

René Aufhauser (FC Liefering )

René Aufhauser ( born June 21, 1976 in Voitsberg, Styria ) is an Austrian football player at the position of midfielder. The former national player is currently at FC Liefering, the farm team of the FC Red Bull Salzburg, under contract.

Since his involvement in Salzburg he lives with his girlfriend and his son near the state capital.

Career

From amateur to master kicker in Salzburg

René Aufhauser started playing football in youth his home club in Koeflach and joined as a 19- year-old to the regional league ASK Voitsberg. In the team competition the Voitsberger he was mostly used on the position of a defensive midfielder and convinced already there by his talent and his train on goal. Besides his work as an amateur footballer in the budding electrical engineers attended the Polytechnic in Weiz, lived five years in Kolping house as a boarder and successfully completed his training with the Matura.

René Aufhauser was discovered at the age of 20 years by Werner Gregoritsch. This then looked after the Styrian amateur team and became aware of the talented midfielder. Gregoritsch gave his friend Heribert Weber the tip to look at the Köflacher in a competition game. In autumn 1996, Weber observed the young Regional kicker in a game of Styrian amateur team in Graz and was the appearance Aufhauser, especially his drive as a defensive player to go along always in the attack, enthusiastic. On the same day he contacted Aufhauser and promised him an engagement at the Bundesliga Salzburg. On 1 January 1997 René Aufhauser signed his first professional contract with SV Austria Salzburg. Within six months, the former amateur football became the U-21 national team scorers and indispensable part of the Salzburg master squad, were in the then -known players like celebration Singer, Konrad, Ibertsberger, Hütter, Kogler, Kocijan, Lainer and Prosenik.

His debut in the Austrian Bundesliga he was already for the season opener on 1 March 1997 in a 4-0 victory of his team in the stadium Lehener against the SCN FC Admira / Wacker. Heribert Weber forced his new young star and put him in 17 of the 18 games of the spring round and it ten times from the beginning. At the end of the 1996/97 season with Salzburg was René Aufhauser top of the table and celebrated his first Austrian Championship title to which he was able to contribute two goals. In the summer of the same year he won the Mozart city dwellers even the Supercup.

Although in Salzburg through many outlets former European Cup hero and champion kicker failed to the really big successes in the following years, he succeeded under Weber's successors Krankl and Miro Polak constantly to keep its shape and to become the leading player, star and crowd favorite. After the commitment of Sweden Hans Backe as head coach, the situation for the header specialists changed fundamentally. Lower jaw, he lost in the 2000 /01 season the aura of the star player and found himself frequently on the substitutes' bench again, so he felt hemmed by new coach in his personal development. Aufhauser said in Salzburg no longer be able to develop and sought by itself a club turnover.

Level flight with the GAK, years with the Red Bulls

After he received the offer from his former promoter Werner Gregoritsch to play for the Grazer AK joined René Aufhauser during the summer break in 2001 in the Murmetropole. In Graz he had at the beginning with Ales Čeh, then captain of the Slovenian national team to the role of leadership player fight. Gregoritsch left the two rotate, his successor Libregts and Schachner familiar more and more on Aufhauser, and left as Čeh in summer 2003 Graz, he had lost his place in the starting line- entirely on Aufhauser. In the game year 2001/ 02 it reached with the victories in the OFB Cup and Super Cup and his first success with the Graz Redcoats. Under the new coach Walter Schachner, the GAK developed into a serious Titelkanditaten and finished 2003 ranked second in the championship. By Walter Schachner he " get pre- shows football theory in absolute perfection " in their own words. The highlight of his career so far experienced René Aufhauser in the 2003/04 season, when he was able to celebrate their first championship in their Club history as well as the Cup victory with the citizens of Graz. Aufhauser is also GAK - capped player with 25 inserts in the OFB team during his time with the Athletikern.

Despite good performance was not reflected in Salzburg René Aufhauser under the former team boss Herbert Prohaska. Only under Otto Baric he was drafted in 2001 as GAK player for the first time in the national squad, sat at home against Liechtenstein but only on the bench. His debut in the Austrian national football team celebrated the Styrian under Barics successor Hans Krankl on 27 March 2002 in the match against Slovakia. Under Hans Krankl the Styrian advanced to a fixed size in the national team. Through its strong international games especially when GAK in the Champions League qualifiers and the UEFA Cup the Game 2004 /05 - he was, for example, instrumental in the 1-0 win against the eventual Champions League winners Liverpool - he attracted also an international sensation. Thus, the new Salzburg coach Kurt Jara tried successfully to a return of the 28 -year-old flagship professionals who stands now since July 2005, with FC Red Bull Salzburg under contract.

The Red Bulls had René Aufhauser years difficult to enforce as starting player, but could ultimately win as the only regularly inserted Austrian championship in 2007. So the Styrian counted under the OFB team, Josef Hickersberger to the regular players in the pre-season games for the European Championship 2008. In the match against Trinidad / Tobago ( 4:1) in Vienna reach him three goals. On 27 May 2008 René Aufhauser could reach the mark of 50 against Nigeria internationals and was called a day later in the Austrian Championship squad. At the European Championships Aufhauser occurred in all three games used, whereby he was replaced at the last two group matches against Poland and Germany. Against Croatia, he inflicted the penalty, the Luka Modrić by led to the 1-0 winning goal.

In the season after the European Aufhauser was back with the cops under contract. At the end of the season Aufhauser was delighted to receive his fourth title. For Salzburg he came in 36 games 25 times to insert and scored two goals.

On February 1, 2010 Aufhauser moved from Salzburg to Bundesliga LASK Linz. He signed a contract up to and including the summer of 2011. At the end of the season 2010/11 he went with the residents of Linz in the First League, the second division of Austria, from.

After the LASK got no license for next season, he signed a one year contract when playing with the license of the USK Anif farm team of FC Red Bull Salzburg, FC Liefering. As captain, he was largely responsible for the rise in the First League. In the season 2013-2014 he is captain of the club.

Achievements

• 4 x Austrian Champion: 1997 ( SV Austria Salzburg ), 2004 ( GAK ), 2007, 2009 (Red Bull Salzburg)
• 4 x Austrian Vice Champion: 2003, 2005 ( GAK ) 2006, 2008 (Red Bull )
• 2 x Austrian Cup Winner: 2002, 2004 ( GAK )
• 1 x Austrian Cup Final: 2000 (Salzburg)
• 2 x Austrian Supercup Winner: 1997 ( Salzburg ), 2002 ( GAK )
• 58 caps and 12 goals for the Austrian national team since 2002