Four in ten Austrian Bundesliga club bosses said champions Red Bull Salzburg were favourites to win the 2010/2011 title.Sturm Graz coach Franco Foda, Magna Wiener Neustadts Peter Schöttel, Kapfenberg manager Werner Gregoritsch as well as “Bulls” boss Huub Stevens said today (Tues) they tipped last seasons champs to win the trophy once more.Red Bull won […]
Josef Hickersberger has been appointed as new manager of the Bahrain national team.Bahrain Football Association officials announced today (Thus) that the 62-year-old Lower Austrian take over on 1 July.Hickersberger, a former Austria Vienna midfielder, will succeed Czech Milan Máčala as the team failed to beat New Zealand in the play-off to qualify for the upcoming […]
Former national team captain Andreas Herzog has appealed to bosses at his former club Werder Bremen to sign Marko Arnautovic.The 21-year-old striker is currently looking for a new club after leaving Champions League winners Inter after just one year. Arnautovic is still owned by his former club Twente Enschede. But the Vienna-born player already made […]
A number of Vienna cultural locales were flooded or otherwise disrupted by yesterdays (Thurs) heavy rain.Water was ankle-deep in five of the seven cinemas at Lugner City, and one of them had to be evacuated during a film showing and the buildings lowest floor had to be closed. Theatre manager Alexander Fischbacher said it was […]
The Burgenland election campaign heated up today (Weds), with the Peoples Party slamming an advertisement by Social Democratic (SPÖ) Governor Hans Niessl.The advertisement announces his decision to dissolve the provincial legislature in advance of the 30 May provincial election.ÖVP provincial manager Christian Sagartz demanded that the SPÖ make the sources of the funding of its […]
Bakery staff were given suspended sentences yesterday (Weds) after they sold a bottle of mineral water filled with detergent last year.David D. is still recovering from taking one gulp from the bottle he bought at the shop in Grafenschachen in Burgenlands Oberwart district last November.The bakerys 40-year-old boss told judges at Eisenstadts provincial court that […]
Austrian Bundesliga club Sturm Graz have set their sights on an up-and-coming Real Madrid player, the Austrian press has claimed.Sports newspapers report today (Fri) that the clubs executive manager Oliver Kreuzer flew to Spain to check out the skills of centre-back Gary Kagelmacher.The 21-year-old Uruguayan with German roots whose contract expires this summer […]
The Austrian subsidiary of German transmission and automation specialist Lenze announced today (Thurs) that Sepp Resch would be its new general manager for Austria and Eastern Europe.Resch, 49, has been the head of international automation firm Cegelec.Lenze said Reschs focus in his new job would be maximisation of growth potential.Lenze Austria, based in Asten near […]
The Social Democrats (SPÖ) will financially support the election campaign of incumbent president Heinz Fischer, it has emerged.SPÖ federal manager Günther Kräuter said today (Thurs) an “election fund” would be set up in which members will pay in around four Euros. This would be a sum of around one million Euros since the party has […]
England will play their final test match ahead of this summers World Cup in Graz, it has emerged.Organisers of the national teams training camp in Styria announced today (Thurs) that the star-studded squad would play against Japan at UPC Arena in Graz on 30 May.The friendly would be broadcast live in Japan, they added, but […]