- Herbert Prohaska
Football player infobox
playername = Herbert Prohaska
fullname = Herbert Prohaska
dateofbirth = birth date and age|1955|8|8
cityofbirth =Vienna
countryofbirth =Austria
height = height|meters =1.80
currentclub = retired
clubnumber =
position =Midfielder
youthyears = 1970–1972
youthclubs = Vorwärts XI Ostbahn XI
years = 1972–1980
1980–1982
1982–1983
1983–1989
clubs = Austria Vienna
Inter Milan
Roma
Austria Vienna
"career totals"
caps(goals) = 259 0(62)
056 00(8)
026 00(3)
194 0(35)
"535 (108)"
nationalyears = 1974–1989
nationalteam = fb|Austria
nationalcaps(goals) = 083 0(10)
manageryears = 1990–1992
1993–1999
1999–2000
managerclubs = Austria Vienna
Austria
Austria Vienna
pcupdate =December 30 ,2007
ntupdate =December 30 ,2007 Herbert Prohaska (born
8 August 1955 inVienna ,Austria ) is a retiredAustria n football player.Prohaska is currently working as a football pundit for the Austrian Broadcasting Corporation (
ORF ). His nickname "Schneckerl", Viennese dialect for curly hair, derives from his curly haircut in his younger years.Club career
Prohaska started his professional career in 1972 at the football club Austria Vienna. By 1980 he had helped his club to win 4 Austrian league titles and 3 Austrian cup wins. In 1980 he joined Inter Milan, and won the
Italian Cup in his second season with the "nerazzurri ". In 1982 he moved toAS Roma , where he won the Italian championship in his first year. He returned to Austria Vienna in 1983 to finish his playing career.In November 2003, he was selected as the Golden Player of Austria by the
Austrian Football Association as their most outstanding player of the past 50 years. [http://www.uefa.com/uefa/news/Kind=256/newsId=130150.html]International career
He made his debut for Austria in a November 1974 friendly match against Turkey and was a participant at the
1978 FIFA World Cup and1982 FIFA World Cup . [ [http://www.fifa.com/worldfootball/statisticsandrecords/players/player=174881/index.html Record at FIFA Tournaments] - FIFA] He earned 83 caps, scoring 10 goals. [ [http://www.rsssf.com/miscellaneous/oost-recintlp.html Appearances for Austrian National Team] - RSSSF] His final international was a June 1989 World Cup qualification match against Iceland, but he retired before the1990 FIFA World Cup .Managing career
In 1989 Prohaska retired from playing. Shortly after his retirement Prohaska started to work as a coach at Austria Vienna where he won two Austrian League titles and two Austrian Cups.
In 1993 he became manager of the "Nationalmannschaft", qualifying as group winners for the
Football World Cup 1998 inFrance . 1999 he resigned after a disastrous 9-0 defeat to Spain. From 1999 to 2000 he returned to managing Austria Vienna.Honours
As a player
*
Austrian Football Bundesliga (7):
** 1976, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1984, 1985, 1986
*Austrian Cup (4):
** 1974, 1977, 1980, 1986
*Italian Serie A Championship (1):
** 1983
*Italian Cup (1):
** 1982As a manager
*
Austrian Football Bundesliga (2):
** 1991, 1992
*Austrian Cup (2):
** 1990, 1992External links
* [http://www.austria-archiv.at/spieler.php?Spieler_ID=126 Player profile] - Austria Archive
* [http://www.uefa.com/uefa/history/associationweeks/association=8/newsId=136161.html UEFA.com article on Austria's Golden Player]
* [http://www.national-football-teams.com/v2/player.php?id=18036 Career stats] - National Football TeamsReferences
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