“Time to say goodbye” – this is also the motto of the final phase of the Upper Austria football league: for some players who have more than shaped the state’s highest league in recent years, it will be over in the summer.
Bad Ischl’s Mario Petter, who played his last home game in the jersey of the team from the Salzkammergut in yesterday’s 6-0 win against Ostermiething, will hang up his football boots after this season. The goal scorer’s record – at stations such as Bad Goisern, Stadl-Paura, Vorwärts Steyr, Vöcklamarkt and Bad Ischl – is impressive: against Ostermiething, the 32-year-old scored his 348th goal in the first team. “There have been many highlights. Seven promotions, including the one with Vorwärts Steyr to the 2nd league. The first game against Liefering was very special.”
But Goal-Petter has also achieved personal bests: “Winning the Golden Shoe twice, once with 43 goals in the Landesliga West for Stadl-Paura, will be remembered forever.” His goal tally has repeatedly attracted the attention of larger clubs: “I turned down a move to 1860 Munich, but there were also offers from Ried, LASK and Sturm Graz. But the job was always important to me, so the overall package was never right.” The long-time striker is not bored even after his career: for the past year, his daughter Emilia has been the absolute focus of his and his wife Marlene’s lives.
Edelweiss captain retires
Thomas Winkler is also saying goodbye to the Upper Austrian league stage: the long-time captain of Edelweiss Linz enjoyed his career to the full until he was 39 years old, celebrating two regional league championship titles with Vöcklabruck (2008) and Grödig (2010) as well as state cup titles with FC Wels and Edelweiss. Remarkably, his CV as a defender only includes one exclusion – a yellow-red card in the 2007/2008 season with Vöcklabruck. A return to the round ball is not out of the question: “I want to enjoy other things now. But it is quite possible that I will be active as a coach one day.”
St. Valentin’s Daniel Guselbauer, Friedburg’s Thomas Fenninger and Bad Leonfelden’s Benjamin Freudenthaler will also end their careers after this season. Wolfgang Klapf, however, is not thinking about retiring yet: the head of defense from Weißkirchen will still be playing next season, even at the age of 45.
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