Toni Polster has been named new manager of an amateur football team competing in the fifth-highest league. Viennese side SC Wiener Viktoria said today (Weds) that the former goal machine will coach its senior squad next season. The club said the first training session was set to take place on 11 July. Polster most recently […]
Austrian teenage sensation David Alaba has penned a two year contract extension at Bayern Munich. The new deal will keep the 18-year-old at the German giants until June 2015. The young starlet spent the second half of last season on loan at Hoffenheim also in Germany where he made 17 appearances – scoring twice. Bayern […]
Erwin Hoffer is about to join Eintracht Frankfurt, according to sport newspapers.The Austrian national team striker most recently played for 1. FK Kaiserslautern after the German Bundesliga club agreed on a one-season loan deal with Italian giants SSC Napoli where Hoffer experienced a tough time. Hoffer who left Rapid Vienna in 2009 is […]
SV Ried fans are looking forward to see their team aiming for European glory next season after Austria Lustenau were beaten in the ÖFB Cup final yesterday (Sun).The second-league side performed well in front of 14,500 fans at Viennas Ernst Happel Stadium, but it was Ried who found the net. Markus Hammerer is tipped to […]
A star-studded Spanish football team have set their sights on a wayward Austrian talent.Villareal CF are interested in snatching Marko Arnautovic, according to sport newspapers. Reports have it that the team who finished last season in fourth place are ready to pay more for the 22-year-old than his current club Werder Bremen forked […]
Sturm Graz have won the Austrian Football Bundesliga for a third time in the clubs history.The team managed by German Franco Foda beat Wacker Innsbruck 2-1 last night (Weds). Red Bull Salzburg (RBS), who won the league last season, overtook Austria Vienna to claim second place in the final standings. The squad of Ricardo Moniz […]
Growing interest in short-term stays and fewer German tourists left the Austrian winter tourism industry with a decline in overnight stays.Statistik Austria said today (Thurs) that hotels and guesthouses recorded 62.04 million overnight stays between November 2010 and April 2011, down by 1.1 per cent compared to the previous winter and around as many as […]
Significantly fewer people lost their lives on slopes in the Austrian mountains in the past winter holiday period.The Austrian Committee for Alpine Safety (KfAS) said today (Fri) 33 skiers and snowboarders were killed. With 48 people, most of last winters victims died on prepared pistes. The organisation added that 96 people lost their lives on […]
A tourism sector official has called for more marketing efforts within Austria as hotels brace for a decline in overnight stays.Hans Schenner, head of the Federal Economy Chambers (WKO) tourism department, said today (Thurs) he feared hotels and guesthouses of the country welcomed fewer guests this month than in April 2010. Schenner also announced that […]
Arsenal may not hold their pre-season training camp in Austria for the first time in 10 years.British media report today (Thurs) that the Premier League giants were expected to go on a lucrative tour across Asia. Arsenal officials think that such a venture will boost the London teams popularity in emerging markets and pour […]