What a second half. Back on track, and how! A statement.
Mandatory celebratory I am from Austria by Rainhard Fendrich together with the team.
#euro2024
First place in the group of death.
Accepting apologies from everyone who tried to convince me I was overhyping Austria for no reason before the tournament in all my recent media appearances 😎
#euro2024
And it’s done: Dominik
#Frieser
leaves
@LASK_Official
and joins the rest of the Austrian gang at
@BarnsleyFC
.
Loved his progress in the last season. Always reliable, no bad days, great working ethic and stamina, some great goals – he’s a player you’d gladly have in a squad.
Sorry, but
#Szoboszlai
for Player of the Season? Really?
He’s had two brilliant months. Two. The rest of the season was more than mediocre. Or did we all forget what was there before the break?
Weissman? Fountas? No?
The only acceptable colours tonight.
Sad about not being able to make it to the game of the century as I’m stuck in Moscow longer than planned this time, but here we are anyway!
#svasrbs
(FCW friends, please look away 🙈)
Sorry, I don’t think I will be able to focus on ⚽️ in the following days while my country is doing atrocious things I never voted for or supported, not being able to to do anything to stop them.
I’ll just retweet this from my personal account and take a break.
Today we woke up in a country where those shouting “no to war” are labeled fascists and arrested, and those who order a full attacking invasion are not.
I wish they all rot in hell.
Got a bit carried away with a retro shirts shopping spree during lockdown, and a part of its results has finally arrived.
Can’t avoid sharing it: Euro'08 (with a pretty logical choice of the name on the back) and the glorious FC Tirol from late nineties.
Rapideum,
@skrapid
’s museum, is one of the gems among football and sports museums: cool collection, good structure, well thought-through descriptive texts. Awesome job!
As you all may remember, I was extremely upset during the last round of international games.
What I didn’t tweet about is that after the Denmark game, as a consolation, I managed to order a
@skrapid
shirt — with the number 48, of course.
Well, here it is.
And yet again, same thought all these two years: it’s so sad to think back about the time this generation of players wasted under Franco Foda.
But it’s all long gone. Best squad, best manager, best style. So deserved.
#euro2024
Geschenk von Brigitte
#Annerl
! 💶💶💶 Die Präsidentin des
@tsv_hartberg
spendiert den mitgereisten Fans beim gestrigen Spiel beim WAC etwas zu trinken. 🍻
📺 Die Hartberg-Präsidentin erklärt die Szene im Sky-Interview 👉
#SkyBuliAT
#WACHTB
Not that I am usually posting selfies to this account (and that’s fair), but the world absolutely needs to know there’s a person running around in Moscow tonight rocking this latest (and saddest 😢) addition to my retro shirts collection:
@SVM_1922
from early 2000s.
This is seriously the first time in ages when I am positively surprised by a decision made by the ÖFB board.
Bold, promising, and very fitting. Really exciting for the months and years to come.
Our dearest
@tsv_hartberg
gets another solid 10/10 on the
#HartbergScale
📰
But the most important thing is that
#1
Spermbooster stays. There it is, the key to the stability in the Austrian Bundesliga.
The year is 2016, Shuichi Gonda is dreaming of the Champions League at the glorious SV Horn at the bottom of the Erste Liga.
Six years later, he and his Japan NT are at the top of the World Cup group with Spain and Germany.
Life is curious sometimes, isn't it?
✍️ Die Tinte ist trocken:
🏆 Weltmeister
🏆 Zweifacher Champions-League-Sieger
🏆 Neunfacher Deutscher Meister
Jerome
#Boateng
unterschreibt bis 2026 bei unseren Schwarz-Weißen ⚫⚪
📰Mehr dazu:
#inundaut
Seriously, what a game by
@skrapid
. Great attacking input, a recognisable idea behind all actions and the general game plan, and no cracks under pressure in the final minutes. So cool.
#gnkscr
So happy to see this
@SKSturm
actually win a trophy. This is one of the best teams this league has seen in decades.
They’re not perfect, yes, but who is? They know how to use their strong sides and how to diminish their imperfections.
Kudos to Ilzer, Schicker and the team.
Still (pleasantly) surprised since the first time I heard rumors about this move.
Absolutely loved him last season at Lustenau — his strong left foot, his robustness, his sprints. Can imagine him settling in well in such a league with his qualities.
#inundaut
And now,
@AustriaSalzburg
vs Golling, Regionalliga Salzburg.
Visits to the Max Aicher Stadion are the coolest matchday experience anyone can get in Salzburg, and no one can convince me otherwise.
Hello everyone!
Taking over the Austrian Analyst role for
@FootballRadar
from the one and only
@FussballTim_
. Pretty excited to begin this journey ⚽️🇦🇹
Absolute mess from a tactical point of view all the game. Zero preparation, zero link-ups, zero specific instructions, zero efficient solutions for particular repetitive patterns.
I expected something in this style, but I clearly underestimated the magnitude.
#walaut
Admira is a club that never ceases to amaze. They escaped relegation last weekend. What happened since then?
• As a thank you, Klaus Schmidt was asked to leave the club.
• The party led to a 20+ people Covid cluster that left only 7 field players available for today.
🤷♀️
Fans of SV Austria Salzburg (Austria 3rd division) made "Kasnocken" (cheese spaetzle) at yesterdays game in order to pay for a €35,000 pyro fine.
Across the next games they will be selling different food to help the club pay.
Kasnocken at
@AustriaSalzburg
💶 €5 (£4.30)
May 2023: Maximilian Entrup plays in the Regionalliga Ost, 3rd tier.
November 2023: Maximilian Entrup, as one of the most remarkable Bundesliga strikers of the moment, earns his NT call-up.
Just wow.
Okay, potentially a good day to see your team (
@wackerinnsbruck
) get crowned in their division – promotion to the 4th tier is secured, but still there are some unfinished tasks.
#fcw1913
Status report: Rapid’s new stadium is cursed, that Pentz’s intuitive leg save made us SCREAM, and I guess my stories didn’t annoy the audience of 100k+ people in Russia too much.
#scrfak
Foda: has all the time in the world to experiment in friendlies and previous matches
also Foda: starts a vital official match with an unusual formation he hasn't recently practiced.
Okay.
#autmkd
Foda also just confirmed
#AUT
will start in a 3-5-2 formation: "Our opponents are good on the break, so we need cover in defence. He should help build-up from a back three. That's what we have trained this week."
#AUTMKD
#EURO2020
What are you all doing while there is no football?
I, for instance, am trying to get
@wackerinnsbruck
back to Bundesliga on
#FM20
.
And quite successfully so far.
#stayathome
Seriously, we need to talk about that Kapfenberg’s run (unbeaten since March) — but this is a crucial result in the promotion race.
Are BW Linz and St. Pölten bottling it all together to let GAK get promoted to the Bundesliga?
All in all: thank god it ended.
Another uninspiring night for Austria who got lucky the opponent only lasted for 30 minutes. 2nd half: pure torture.
Honestly, I could just copy and paste what I tweeted at the last NT games: it’s Groundhog Day every time.
#autfro
If someone had told me before the tournament that
#aut
would reach extra time in the round of 16, I would have laughed so hard.
I criticized Foda a lot before this — but he has done an incredible job. He and all the boys. Regardless of how it ends today.
#itaaut
Finally got to see the place where the Lehener Stadion, the home of Austria Salzburg between 1971-2002, once stood.
It now has a residential complex, a retirement home, a cultural center and a library, and its architecture still majorly reminds of the past of the place.
A game like that would have been lost between defensive substitutions and some random miscoordinated blunders a little more than a year ago.
So great to see what a suitable manager does to this talented group of players.
#autswe
I remember Didi Kühbauer giving up on the title race before the season started, but having -13 points from Salzburg just seven matchdays after the start is… something else.
#scradm
1 - Sasa Kalajdzic’s goal for Austria was the first Italy have conceded since October 2020, ending a run of 19 hours and 28 minutes without conceding for the Italians. Eternity.
#ITAAUS
#EURO2020
So if the
#Hojlund
to Atalanta deal goes through, it’s an insane one for Sturm and the Bundesliga as a whole: €17m is incredible, remembering that he came in as a 1,8m bargain.
It will be painful from a football perspective, but it’s top business by Andi Schicker.
#inundaut
🇦🇹 le rapid Wien qui égalise face au Sparta avec un bijoux de lob. Vraiment magnifique, même moi avec le grand angle j’avais pas vu que le gardien était suffisamment avancé pour tenter ça
Chapeau monsieur Knasmüllner 🎩
HISTORY IS MADE!
It’s incredible to watch how this team keeps developing in the last seasons. Year after year, steady management, consistent concept, youthfulness and shining eyes.
Kudos to Rapid (and Hedl personally) for this game.
But I still feel like this result is basically the worst that could happen to SCR: it would be used as a reason to continue with FF, and the overall stagnation – apart from minor highs like this one – would continue.
#rbsscr
I rarely retweet anything from my private/more Russia-targeted account, but not this time.
Tonight I am making my commentating debut: I was invited to be the co-commentator for... yes, of course, the 331st Vienna derby 💚💜
For Start TV, ÖFBL rights holder in Russia. Yay!
Небольшое объявление: меня сегодня позвали комментировать кое-что особенное на телеканал «Старт». Что именно?
331-е венское дерби, «Рапид»-«Аустрия». 💚💜
Смотреть и слушать в 18:55 мск здесь:
It’s finally happening: I’ll be back in Austria soon for the first time since the pandemic (and the war) began. 🇦🇹
If anyone wants to say hi, have a ☕️ or a 🍺, DM me:
•31/05-04/06 Salzburg
•03/06 Ried (U21 NT ⚽️)
•05-07/06 Innsbruck
•08-12/06 Vienna
•10/06 NT vs France ⚽️
Something tells me
@SKSturm
will be able to solve their notorious stadium problem solely with the money they’ll get from Rasmus
#H
øjlund’s sell-on clause this summer.
Yes, I have taken some time at the end of a pretty busy day to spend it on a Barcelona pre-season friendly instead of doing more urgent things.
Yes, it was for this reason.
Yes, I guess it’s not the last time.
#Demir
Deutsche Bahn has made everything for me not be able to come, buuuut here am i, at
@wackerinnsbruck
against Silz/Mötz at the Regionalliga Tirol.
#fcw1913
I’ve said it a million times already and I will say it again:
@SKSturm
are doing an immense job lately.
The club hit the jackpot with both Andi Schicker and Christian Ilzer, and here’s a logical consequence: 2nd place, “best of the rest”. Kudos.
#sturbs
According to Krone, Gerhard Struber it is.
Bad news for the club, and a big downgrade. He left the RBS system in 2019 for a reason, and his work afterwards was pretty questionable at times.
Probably the worst available option.
#inundaut
So it actually happened.
Richi’s performances between 2017 and 2019 under the guidance of Helge Payer were one of the brightest things in the club’s latest history. Good times.
Good luck in Poland! 🧤
#inundaut
Richard Strebinger verlässt nach über sechs Jahren den SK Rapid und wechselt zu Legia Warschau!
DANKE, Richie und nur das Beste auf deinem weiteren Karriereweg! 🍀
📄
#SCR2022