Austria Wien promotes professionalization of sport structure

Christian Puchinger is now Head of Sport Science of Austria Wien and is also taking over the position of the athletic coach of the Young Violets. The long-time Academy coach Christoph Glatzer will be Andy Ogris’ new assistant coach and thus a link between rookies, academy, A and B team.

The technical director Ralf Muhr explains the new functions and the necessary increasing professionalization in the area of sport:

"Christian Puchinger will be in charge of sport science across all areas and thus play a very important role in the club. It is crucial that all tests, medical checks and monitoring of performance data are carried out consistently in the physical area. Each of the four sport areas have their own sport scientists. With Christian Puchinger, all scientific data and content are now coming together," says Ralf Muhr.

Young Violets as the flagship of Austria Wien’s training

"Christoph Glatzer will act as the assistant coach of the Young Violets in close exchange with Roman Stary (assistant coach of the professional team) and also as a link to the Academy. He has been a coach in the Academy for a long time and is a proven expert, who knows exactly how the development of our best perspective players has gone in recent years and how we can specifically drive individual development. The professionalization of the Young Violets is important to us," explains technical director Ralf Muhr.

Especially the Young Violets are increasingly professionalized by these personnel changes as a 'flagship' of Austria Wien’s training.

Puchinger: scientific recording and monitoring of performance data

The head of sport science Christian Puchinger, who worked as a rehabilitation coach of the A-team in the preseason and has been involved with Austria Wien for many years, emphasizes, "To us it is important that we continue to improve the consistency of the athletic training starting with our rookies all the way to the A-team and to force the scientific approach."

The recording of performance data and the monitoring by means of scientific methods are central tasks of Puchinger.

Glatzer pushes the individual development of young, talented Austria Wien players

Christoph Glatzer has been working for Austria Wien since 1999, coaching one of the three Academy teams (U15, U16, U18) throughout the last eight years, so he knows all the current violet talents:

"The advantage is that I know almost all of our players very well, from their time in the Austria Academy and in school. The most important thing is to make every single player a little bit better during every training, to work on their personalities as well as on individual strengths and weaknesses on the field. In almost 20 years working for Austria Wien I have gained a lot of experience in the field of education and want to pass this on to our Young Violets," says Christoph Glatzer, who has also gained experience in professional football while he worked as an assistant coach for Andy Ogris for the A-team from March to June 2015.

The second Bundesliga as a great opportunity for individual player development

The long-standing ‘Violet’ and Academy coach sees the second Bundesliga as a great opportunity for the development of great talents. "The Young Violets are the flagship of our education. We can now offer our young players an even better development perspective under professional conditions in the second Bundesliga. Athletically the league is certainly a great challenge, but the Generali-Arena can give an extra motivational boost for home games," said Glatzer.

Christoph Glatzer started in 1999 as U8 coach for Austria Wien, at that time he already had Aleksandar Dragovic under his wing. After that, he gradually moved up, soon he also took over functions in the administration and organization of the Austria Academy, which he continues to carry out as well as a leading supervision of the school cooperation with the ‘Ballsportgymnasium Wien’.

Lieber Austria-Fan,
der Inhalt des heutigen FK Austria Wien-Newsletters

» Trainingsstart in eine neue Ära mit vielen neuen Gesichtern
» Offizieller WhatsApp-Service für Austria-Fans!
» Fanshop schließt am Samstag bereits um 12:00 Uhr
» Viola TV: Das erste Training bei der Generali-Arena
» Die nächsten Spiele & Termine der Veilchen

Testspiele:
Sa, 23.06., 14:00 Uhr, UNION MAUER
So, 24.06., 16:00 Uhr, FC BISAMBERG
Mi, 27.06.,19:00 Uhr, SC OBERPULLENDORF
Fr, 29.06, 19:00 Uhr, POYSDORF

Trainingslager
03.07 – 11.07.2018 in Seeboden/Kärnten
05.07., 18:00 Uhr, Shaktar Donezk, Villach
09.07., 18:00 Uhr, Arsenal Tula, Möllbrücke/Lurnfeld

13.7.2018 19:00h ERÖFFNUNGSSPIEL GENERALI-ARENA BORUSSIA DORTMUND
1. Cup-Runde: 20.7-22.7.2018
Meisterschaftsstart: 28.7/29.7.2018

Endlich z’Haus. Nun ist auch die Mannschaft wieder in Wien-Favoriten angekommen, trainiert seit Donnerstag-Vormittag auf den Trainingsplätzen hinter der Nord-Tribüne. Neuzugang Uros Matic schildert uns seine Eindrücke von den ersten Einheiten. Cheftrainer Thomas Letsch gibt einen Ausblick auf die Vorbereitung.
Zu den weitern Infos >>

Die Austria erweitert die Kommunikation mit Ihren Anhängern um einen neuen Kanal. Ab sofort können Veilchen die wichtigsten Neuigkeiten sowie Fan-Infos via WhatsApp abonnieren – und das kostenlos.
Zu den weiteren Infos >>

Da sich das Fanshop-Team samt Fanartikel auf den Weg zum Testspiel gegen Union Mauer (Samstag, 14:00 Uhr, Sportplatz Union Mauer) macht, schließt der Fanshop in der Ost-Tribüne der Generali-Arena und damit auch die Ticket-Schalter ausnahmsweise eine Stunde früher, nämlich um 12:00 Uhr.
Zu den weiteren Infos >>

Viola TV hat die besten Bilder und einige Eindrücke vom ersten Training hinter der neuen Nord-Tribüne eingefangen. Cheftrainer Thomas Letsch und Neuzugang James Jeggo sprechen im Interview u.a. über die tollen Trainingsbedingungen und schildern uns einige Schwerpunkte für die nächsten Wochen.
Zu den weiteren Infos >>