Walter Kogler
Walter Kogler ( born December 12, 1967 in Wolfsberg ) is an Austrian football coach and former player.
- 2.1 successes as a coach
Playing career
In the club
Kogler began his career with the Wolf Berger AC. His first professional club was the SK Sturm Graz, where he remained until 1992. The next stop was Austria Vienna, where he matured into a national player. In 1996 he moved to SV Austria Salzburg and was Austrian champion. After the championship season in 1998, he went for a year to France for AS Cannes. On his return to Austria, it LASK Linz took them under contract. In 1999 he moved to FC Tirol Innsbruck, where he was Austrian champion again. Between 2002 and 2004 he made his career with FC Kärnten finish.
He was 5 times Austrian champion (1x Austria Wien; 1x Salzburg; 3x FC Tirol ); 1x Cup winner; 3x Supercup winner. In his 17 years as a pro, he played 495 times for the Austrian Bundesliga.
National
Kogler made its debut on September 4, 1991 in a friendly match against Portugal, in which he should achieve his only international goal. Overall, he played 28 times for the Austrian national team. He was there at the World Cup in France in 1998 for Austria, but was not used.
Coaching career
After his playing career, he took over the management of the sporting youth academy of FC Kärnten, he was coach of the Regional Club SK St. Andrew. As of 2006, Kogler official EURO 2008 was Ambassador of the OFB for the location of Klagenfurt, he also organized children's football camps.
From 21 December 2007 to 13 May 2008, he was head coach of the DSV Leoben, but changed despite the integrity of a class Leobner in the first league to league rivals FC Wacker Innsbruck. With the Innsbruckern Kogler was in the 2009/10 season with two points ahead of FC Admira Wacker Mödling master of second-class Austrian First Division and thus increased with the team on to the Bundesliga. There succeeded in in the seasons 2010/11 and 2011/ 12, stay out the club out of the relegation battle. The Innsbruck occupied the sixth and seventh respectively. Through these successes Kogler drew attention to himself and has been associated since the spring of 2012 with the clubs Red Bull Salzburg and Austria Vienna. After a disastrous start to the 2012/13 season - after eleven games Wacker Innsbruck finished with three points ( one win and 10 defeats) the last place - Walter Kogler was sacked by the club on 10 October 2012.
After Kogler has worked temporarily as an expert in the pay-TV broadcaster Sky, he took over for the season 2013/14 the German third division side FC Rot -Weiß Erfurt.