ÖFB team striker Marko Arnautovic is highly motivated in the play-off game against Wales on Thursday. And the 32-year-old tries everything to get his team-mates excited.
“I know it could be my last World Cup. I really want to be there. That’s why the motivation is even higher than normal. I conveyed that to our players and will continue to do so in the days leading up to the game. One The World Cup is simply the greatest, the maximum. Everyone wants to go there. I’m not just talking about the footballers, but about all of Austria. That’s why we have to do everything we can to shoot Austria to the finals.”
Arnautovic worries less about the opponent: “Hats off to the successes that Gareth Bale has celebrated. But he’s also just a person and a player. I don’t care how he’s doing because I’m convinced of my team am.”
With a little delay, Andreas Weimann was also nominated for the ÖFB team squad. The ÖFB-Internationaler moved from Rapid to Aston Villa in 2007 and then stayed on the island – further stations were Watford, Derby County and Wolverhampton before the transfer to Bristol City took place in 2018.
He missed almost the entire last season at the English second division team due to a cruciate ligament rupture, but things are going like clockwork this season: Andreas Weimann has 18 goals and nine assists in 39 league games.
Weimann scored two of his goals last August in Bristol’s 2-1 away win against Cardiff City and thus in the stadium where the ÖFB team is visiting on Thursday.
“I’m probably playing the best season of my career,” Andreas Weimann had already speculated on a call-up.
Source: Nachrichten
