Stefan Lexa

Infobox Football biography
playername = Stefan Lexa


fullname = Stefan Lexa
height = Height|m=1.80
dateofbirth = birth date and age|1976|11|1
cityofbirth = Klagenfurt
countryofbirth = Austria
currentclub = SV Ried
clubnumber = 8
position = right winger
youthyears = 1983-1989 1989-1995
youthclubs = SV Heimstetten TSV 1860 München
years = 1995-1996 1996 1996-1998 1998-1999 1999-2001 2001-2002 2002-2003 2003-2006 2006-2007 2007 2008 2008-present
clubs = SpVgg Landshut SV Heimstetten Wacker Burghausen SV Wehen SSV Reutlingen SpVgg Unterhaching CD Tenerife Eintracht Frankfurt 1. FC Kaiserslautern 1. FC Kaiserslautern II 1. FC Kaiserslautern SV Ried
caps(goals) = 49 (2) 31 (4) 59 (9) 28 (6) 11 (0) 56 (2) 24 (1) 04 (0) 15 (0) 04 (2)
nationalyears = 2001-2006
nationalteam = fb|Austria
nationalcaps(goals) = 5 (0)
manageryears =
managerclubs =
pcupdate = 4 August 2008
ntupdate = 4 August 2008

Stefan Lexa (born November 1, 1976 in Klagenfurt,Austria) is an Austrian football (soccer) player.

Club career

Much-travelled Lexa was born in Klagenfurt but was raised in Germany. At the age of seven years he started at SV Heimstetten. As youth player he also played for 1860 München. He spent a couple of years in the German Second division before winning promotion to the German Bundesliga with Eintracht Frankfurt after he got relegated with them the season before. With Eintracht he also lost the 2006 German Cup Final. After that final he moved back to the 2nd division to play for 1. FC Kaiserslautern before making his debut in the Austrian Football Bundesliga with SV Ried in 2008. In 2002/2003 he also played 11 games for Spanish Second Division side CD Tenerife.

The Carinthian is classified as a good dribbler and mostly plays on the right wing.

International career

He debuted for Austria in an October 2001 World Cup qualification match against Israel under manager Otto Barić. As of August 2006 Lexa was capped five times, in doing so not being capped for four years between 2002 and 2006. His last international was a May 2006 friendly match against Croatia.

External links

* [http://www.svried.at/svried.wsc/Page.p?HTMLPageIdent=192&SpielerIdent=119 Player profile] - SV Ried
* [http://www.national-football-teams.com/v2/player.php?id=510 Career stats] - National Football Teams