Rapid Vienna failed to narrow the gap to leaders Red Bull Salzburg (RBS). The 32-time league champs only reached a 1-1 draw against title holders Sturm Graz on Sunday. RBS defeated SV Ried 2-0. Kapfenberg won against FK Austria Vienna 1-0 while Mattersburg lost 1-2 to FC Admira. The match between Wacker Innsbruck and Wiener […]
Rapid Vienna must avoid a widening of the gap to leaders Red Bull Salzburg (RBS) this Sunday. The Bulls lead the table, with the Green-Whites in second place. Rapid, who are managed by former Austrian national team defender Peter Schöttel, face underperforming title holders Sturm Graz on Sunday. RBS play SV Ried already tomorrow (Sat). […]
Red Bull Salzburg (RBS) have managed to stay on top of the Austrian Football Bundesliga. The squad of Ricardo Moniz beat Peter Stöger’s Wiener Neustadt 2-1 yesterday (Weds). Second-placed Rapid Vienna crushed Kapfenberg (3-0) while SV Ried beat FC Admira 2-1. Sturm Graz – who won the title last season – defeated Wacker Innsbruck (1-0). […]
Austria’s oldest citizen has died aged 111. Hermine Nistler was born on 24 December 1900 in Favoriten in Vienna and had up until her death lived a long and healthy life. The first few years of Hermine’s life were far from easy however. When she was just eight years old, she lost both of her […]
Another town has stripped Adolf Hitler of his citizen of honour title, it emerged today (Tues).Wolfgang Mair, the Peoples Party (ÖVP) mayor of Waidhofen an der Ybbs in Lower Austria, announced that the decision was made unanimously by all Town Hall delegates yesterday. Mair added that all of the towns councillors wanted to disassociate themselves […]
Olympic champion Andrea Fischbacher has been awarded Salzburgs Sportswoman of 2010 award.The skier who claimed the gold medal in the Super-G competition of last years Vancouver Olympic Games was honoured in a ceremony attended by hundreds of fans, businesspeople, politicians and artists at Salzburg Airport yesterday evening (Thurs). She was also awarded the […]
Former number one in the world Ana Ivanovic won her first WTA Tour title in two years in Linz yesterday (Sun).The 22-year-old Serb beat Swiss ace Patty Schnyder in straight sets (6-1, 6-2) in the final of the 220,000 US dollar Generali Ladies tournament.Ivanovic, who also triumphed in the 2008 edition of the event, was […]
Milan Jovanovic has left Rapid Vienna after just one year with the 32-time league champions.Rapid bosses said today (Weds) they had mutually agreed with the Montenegrin centre-back to end the contract. Jovanovic, 27, joined the team coached by Peter Pacult on a free transfer from Russian club Spartak Nalchik last summer. The national team player […]