Wolfgang Feiersinger

Wolfgang " Sali " Celebration Singer (born 30 January 1965 in Saalfelden ) is a retired Austrian football player and coach.

Career

Association

Celebration Singer, who previously worked as a policeman in civilian life, his career began at the 1st Saalfeldner SK. In 1986, the Pinzgauer to professional club SV Austria Salzburg and became a regular player. A real career boost learned Feiersinger but only under coach Otto Baric, with whom he then celebrated his first success at club level in the SV Austria Salzburg. In 1992 and 1993 he was with Salzburg are an Austrian runner, the first title wins narrowly - were lost - on goal difference. In 1994 celebrated celebration Singer, the first Austrian Champion title of SV Austria Salzburg and was also Supercup winner. A success that the Saalfeldner repeated with his team in 1995. But he was also an international success with the people of Salzburg in the UEFA Cup. There he struck with Salzburg namely, among other Karlsruher SC Eintracht Frankfurt and to ultimately collect the final. There the team against Inter Milan was defeated twice nearly 0:1.

Celebration Singer was a member of the Salzburg champion team in 1996/97 under Heribert Weber, but switched after the first four games of the season in the German Bundesliga to Borussia Dortmund. For the Borussia Saalfeldner completed 57 Bundesliga games and became first due to an injury by Matthias Sammer times for regular players. So he took him for long stretches of the season 1996/97 and had to give him back to make room and watch the game due to tactical considerations of coach Ottmar Hitzfeld even from the stands only in the Champions League final against Juventus. Hitzfeld explained the decision as follows:

"That was the hardest decision of my life. Since I 've been thinking for weeks. Celebration Singer had played great, but Matthias Sammer was fit again. And on the bench I needed as a wildcard René Tretschok. So I not only had to let him out in the finale, but put on the whistle. For me it was stress. But I decided for success. Humanity fell by the wayside. "

In the Bundesliga, he reached only the third place with Borussia. At the start of the new season Hitzfeld was converted into a sports director and Nevio Scala took over as coach. This alleged:

" Only God is perfect, but Wolfgang Feiersinger it is as a player. "

Under the direction Scalas he also came to more missions than before and won the World Cup, was with Borussia but only tenth in the final table. Therefore Scala Dortmund left at the end of the season and was replaced by the former youth coach Michael Skibbe. Celebration Singer came under whose direction are less in use and therefore left the Borussia after Fast descent in 2000.

At the beginning of the 2000/01 season celebration Singer moved to LASK Linz, for whom he scored a goal in 25 games before he returned to Salzburg Austria in the fall of 2001. There, he came in 18 games for use. 2002 ended Feiersinger his active career as a professional footballer, but still played still in the Regionalliga West and Salzburg League for PSV black and white Salzburg.

National

The National team career celebration Singer began under coach Josef Hickersberger with his debut on 21 August 1990 in the international against Switzerland in Vienna. Feiersinger completed 46 games for the Austrian national team, both as a sweeper, defender and offensively oriented midfielder and was a participant of the football World Cup in France in 1998 under coach Herbert Prohaska.

After the career

From 2006 to end of May 2008 ceremony Singer acted as trainers and coaches the U- 17 team of Red Bull Salzburg associated Federal young center. Then he took over in 2009 together with his partner in Aurach the big game mountain hut, which he managed until mid-October each year from early June throughout. In addition, his daughter Laura is currently Austrian national team and Bayern Munich active, his nephew Kevin plays for SV Elversberg. When Bruno Pezzey Memorial Tournament on December 11, 2013 Reutte, the 48 -year celebration singer collapsed with atrial fibrillation; with the attending paramedics, he was taken to the hospital Reutte and transferred the following day to Innsbruck, where he became located in the ICU.