Today at 9 p.m., not only millions of German football fans will be sitting in front of the television at the Europa League final in the Spanish metropolis of Seville between Eintracht Frankfurt and Glasgow Rangers. The final is also of great interest in Austria. Riedau’s Oliver Glasner, record player at SV Ried, is only the sixth Austrian coach in a European Cup final. His (coaching) career is impressive, today he wants to crown it with the greatest Frankfurt success in several decades. The OÖN review the past eleven years of Glasner’s career.
- 2011: The final training session on August 4th for SV Ried’s European Cup game against Bröndby IF is actually the last of Glasner’s career. During the night he had to be operated on in a hospital in Copenhagen because of a blood clot in his head. On August 23, the then 36-year-old announced the end of his career. Between 1992 and 2011, Riedauer played a total of 571 games for SV Ried. This makes him the record player for the Innviertler.
- 2012: After a short creative break, during which Glasner recovered 100 percent from his serious operation, Glasner started his second career at Red Bull Salzburg in January 2012. Glasner, who successfully completed his business studies in 2006, was a sports coordinator for six months before he worked as an assistant coach in the city of Mozart for two years. The beginning of a successful career as head coach.
- 2014/2015: Three years after the involuntary end of his career as a player, Glasner returns to his SV Ried as a coach. After 37 competitive games, the bomb bursts in May 2015, just before the end of the season. A game before the end of the season, it was announced that Riedauer would switch to arch-rival LASK, who was still playing in the second division at the time, and had signed a four-year contract there. The outrage in Ried is huge, Glasner is released immediately and is no longer on the bench in Ried in the last game against Sturm Graz.
- 2015-2019: The coaching career of the 47-year-old is picking up speed, albeit with a delay. With LASK, he was only promoted to the Bundesliga in his second season, where Linz developed into a top team straight away. After fourth place in the first Bundesliga year, LASK became runners-up in the 2018/2019 season. For Glasner, this is the stepping stone to the German Bundesliga.
- 2019-2021: Glasner will take over VfL Wolfsburg in the summer of 2019. In the first season, the Innviertler leads the Wolfsburg to seventh place. In the Europa League qualification, Wolfsburg fails at AEK Athens. Under Glasner’s direction, VfL Wolfsburg even qualified for the Champions League in the 2020/2021 season. Despite the sporting success, there is an ice age between Wolfsburg sports director Jörg Schmadtke and Glasner. Glasner is in demand and is moving to Frankfurt, where he succeeds Adi Hütter.
- 2021-2022: The start with Eintracht Frankfurt goes wrong. In the first round of the DFB Cup, the Hessians lost 2-0 to the third division team Mannheim. In the league, the Frankfurters are mostly in the midfield with many ups and downs. The international performances, which inspire the whole of Germany, are completely different. The impressive record in the Europa League is seven wins and five draws. After first place in the regular round, Frankfurt’s Betis eliminated Sevilla, FC Barcelona and West Ham United. The biggest game in Glasner’s career so far will kick off at 9 p.m. today.
Source: Nachrichten
