Walter Schachner
Walter " Schoko " Schachner ( born 1 February 1957 in Leoben, Styria ) is a retired Austrian football player at the position of a striker and was in season 2011/2012 football coach of the Austrian first division club LASK Linz. Currently, Walter Schachner TV expert at the TV station SKY in Austria.
His nickname Chocolate received the trained electrician in his childhood, as he always had as a boy candy bar while playing soccer there.
Career as a player
From 1975 to 1978 Schachner was active in the then second division of the Bundesliga for the Donawitzer SV Alpine, from which he managed as a second division players made it into the Austrian national football team. From 1978 to 1981 he played for FK Austria Wien and was with the violet three times Austrian Champion and two -time top scorer in the Bundesliga.
As a legionnaire, he worked in the Italian League against AC Cesena, Torino Calcio, SC Pisa and at U.S. Avellino. After his career abroad, he returned to Austria and still played until 1998 with several larger and smaller clubs from the top three levels. His farewell game Schachner celebrated on the last lap of the 2000/01 season in the First Division for FC Kärnten, where he has worked as a coach at the time.
For the Austrian national team, he played a total of 64 games, scoring 23 goals. He made his debut on December 5, 1976 in a 1-0 win against Malta. He participated in two World Cups. In 1978, he reached the World Cup with the Austrian national team to seventh place and was also in the lineup that team that could defeat Germany in the wonders of Cordoba 3-2. In the 1982 World Cup Schachner reached the eighth place with the Austrian national team.
Change to the coach office
Schachner began his coaching career at FC Zeltweg in Styria and led the country's division in the Regional center. In July 2000 he moved to FC Kärnten in the First Division ( second game stage). With the Carinthian he celebrated both the promotion to the Bundesliga as well as winning the OFB Cup and the Supercup victory.
The 2002/03 season he joined Austria Vienna, where he was but despite standings and good performances in the UEFA Cup replaced already on 4 October 2002 by Christoph Daum. As of 9 October 2002, he worked at Grazer AK, which he took over on the penultimate place in the table and still led the runner-up title.
In this game season was the memorable " candy table " born, in which he added under his leadership with the Viennese and the won with the Grazer AK points to document his success as a coach. As a coach, Schachner scored a total of more points than the champions Austria Wien.
The Grazer AK in the game he won in 2003/ 04 for the first time in the club's history the Austrian league title and the OFB Cup. In addition, Schachner celebrated with the citizens of Graz in qualifying as the only team in the Champions League 2004/05 season a victory over Liverpool. By a 0-2 defeat in the home game 1-0 but not enough at Anfield for promotion to the main round. In the following year he reached Graz game the runner-up title in the championship.
Schachner had at Grazer AK an exit clause in the contract, he was to receive an offer from abroad. In the second half of 2005 was virtually Schachner called at every coaching change in Germany as a possible successor candidate, and he even publicly stated that to wish to move abroad. To prevent the GAK stands in the middle of the season without a coach, and because he did not want to share the saving line of the Association Board, was therefore granted leave on January 9, 2006 by President Harald Sükar.
On 24 January 2006, Schachner moved to TSV 1860 Munich and was the fourth Austrians at the Munich team bench after Max Merkel, Franz Binder and Peter Pacult. For the first time in his coaching career began with a series of defeats. Only in the penultimate round of the Munich were able to save from relegation with a home victory against 1 FC Saarbrücken. On 18 March 2007, the club announced the separation of Schachner with immediate effect.
End of April 2007 signed Schachner the new SK Austria Kärnten a 2- year contract. However, he was on leave on December 3, 2007 after he was able to record only four wins and five draws in 21 games.
On August 9, 2008 Walter Schachner was introduced as the new coach of FC Admira Wacker Mödling to five games and released on 26 April 2010.
On 1 March 2011 he joined LASK Linz on a new coaching job. With the Linzer ASK he rose at the end of the 2010/11 season in the second-class First League, while his former employer FC Admira Wacker Mödling returned to the Bundesliga.
Schachner failed in the 2011/12 season when trying to immediately rise again in the highest Austrian league: LASK finished behind champion Wolf Berger AC and Altach only the third place. In addition, the residents of Linz was denied a license for the 2012/13 season of the Premier League, which means the demotion to the third power class ( Regional Center). As a last resort, the Permanent Court of Arbitration Neutral met end of May 2012 a negative decision on the appeal brought by LASK.
In June 2012, it was announced that Karl Daxbacher new coach of LASK is. Walter Schachner is currently football expert for live games of the Austrian Bundesliga at the TV station SKY.
Achievements
Title as a player
- 3 x Austrian Champion: 1979, 1980, 1981 (Austria Wien)
- 1 x Austrian Cup Winners' Cup: 1980 (Austria )
- 2 x Austrian scorer: 1979, 1980
- 3 x Austrian Footballer of the Year ( fan choice): 1976, 1978, 1979
- 1 x top scorer in the Coppa Italia: 1984
Internationals
- 64 caps and 23 goals for the Austrian national football team from 1976 to 1994
- Participation in the World Cup Soccer Championships 1978 and 1982