Christoph Westerthaler

Christoph Westerthaler

Personal information
Full name	Christoph Westerthaler
Date of birth	January 11, 1965 (1965-01-11) (age 46)
Place of birth	Silz, Austria
Height	1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)
Playing position	midfielder or striker
Youth career
1973-1983	SPG Silz/Mötz
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps†	(Gls)†
1983-1986	FC Wacker Innsbruck	30	(7)
1986-1988	LASK Linz	53	(18)
1988-1994	FC Swarovski Tirol	167	(66)
1994-1995	SK Vorwärts Steyr	49	(14)
1996-1997	LASK Linz	47	(13)
1997	APOEL Nicosia	0	(0)
1998-1999	Eintracht Frankfurt	47	(8)
2000	FSV Frankfurt	33	(26)
2001	VfL Osnabrück	7	(0)
Total		433	(152)
National team
1989-1993	Austria	6	(0)
Teams managed
2002-2005	FC Wacker Tirol (assistant)
2005-2007	Innsbrucker AC
2008-present	SV Völs
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. † Appearances (Goals).

Christoph Westerthaler (born January 11, 1965) is a retired Austrian football player and now football manager of lower league side SV Völs.

Club career

Nicknamed Gischi, Westerthaler was a small-built striker who started his professional career at FC Wacker Innsbruck and stayed with them for 9 years, split by a 2 season period at LASK Linz. With the Tyrolean side he won 2 league titles and 2 domestic cups. In 1994 he moved to SK Vorwärts Steyr only to rejoin LASK two years later. In 1997 he moved abroad and played in Germany for the two major Frankfurt teams and VfL Osnabrück.

In the summer of 2001 he finished his career as a player because of a knee cartilage damage.

International career

He made his debut for Austria in an October 1989 friendly match against Malta but was not considered for the 1990 FIFA World Cup. He earned 6 caps, no goals scored. His final international game was a November 1993 World Cup qualification match against Sweden.

Honours

• Austrian Football Bundesliga (2):
  • 1989, 1990
• Austrian Cup (1):
  • 1989, 1993
• Austrian Bundesliga Top Goalscorer (1):
  • 1992 ^[1]

External links

• Career stats - National Football Teams
• German Bundesliga stats - Fussballportal

References

1. ^ "Österreichs Torschützenkönige". www.oberliga-a.at. http://www.oberliga-a.at/fussball_a/torschutzen_a.htm. Retrieved 2008-09-03. ^{[dead link]}

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Name	Westerthaler, Christoph
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Date of birth	January 11, 1965
Place of birth	Silz, Austria
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