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19th Qualifier
Confederation: UEFA (Europe)

The Austrian team

The Country | The Road to FRANCE98 | The Team | Honours | Coach


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Land area: 83 858 km²
Population: 7 900 000
Capital: Vienna
Main cities: Linz, Salzburg
System of government: Republic
Head of state: Thomas Klestil
Currency: Schilling
Time difference: None

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31 August 96 Austria - Scotland 0-0
09 Ocotber 96 Sweden - Austria 0-1
09 November 96 Austria - Latvia 2-1
02 April 97 Scotland - Austria 2-0
30 April 97 Austria - Estonia 2-0
08 June 97 Latvia - Austria 1-3
20 August 97 Estonia - Austria 0-3
06 September 97 Austria - Sweden 1-0
10 September 97 Belarus - Austria 0-1
11 October 97 Austria - Belarus 4-0

25 points
17 goals scored
4 goals conceded


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Goalkeeper: KONSEL (age 35, 36 caps)
Defenders:  CERNY (age 24, 20 caps)
SCHÖTTEL (age 30, 49 caps)
FEIERSINGER (age 32, 35 caps)
PFEFFER (age 32, 51 caps)
PRILASNIG (age 24, 4 caps)
Mid-field: MÄHLICH (age 26, 6 caps)
PFEIFENBERGER (age 31, 34 caps)
HERZOG (age 29, 64 caps)
Striker: POLSTER (age 33, 41 caps)
VASTIC (age 28, 9 caps)

Number of players used during the qualifying rounds: 28

National team colours: white and black

FIFA ranking (on 16 October 1997):  23th


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Herbert PROHASKA
Prohaska, who played for Inter Milan and A.S Roma at the end of the seventies, is someone who has really captured popular imagination in Austria, thanks to his spearheading the talented national teams made up of the likes of Krankl, Pezzey and Koncilia. In 1993, following the demise of Ernst Happel, he took over as coach but failed to help Austria qualify for the 1994 World Cup finals or Euro 96 in England. He was a successful coach with Austria Vienna before shoehorning his team into FRANCE 98, an occasion when he intends to erase the painful memories left in the minds of Austrian supporters by Italia 90.

 

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