AUSTRIA SHOP <-- ... Austria Shop ... --> AUSTRIA FORUM

May 12th, 2008   |   Login

Archive for the 'Sport' Category

The football fever around the Euro 2008 in Austria and Switzerland has now also captured the holy priests.
Austrias clerics also want to be a part of the Football Euro.

Auxiliary bishop Franz Scharl is going to pledge 18 sacral action forces today, but this should be just the beginning for a religious offensive during the European […]

The broke Austrian football club “SK Austria Kärnten” has received a credit in the value of 500.000 Euro.
The club has to use this money to improve its infrastructure. It’s not allowed to buy new players!

“The money comes from a man which want to remain nameless”, says the Minister President of Carinthia Jörg Haider.
But 500.000 Euro […]

The new football club in Carinthia called “SK Austria Kärnten” is an artificial project of Carinthias minister president Jörg Haider.
The club was founded this year by politicans of Carinthias leading party BZÖ, and bought the license to play in Austrias Premiere League from FC Superfund in Upper Austria, who quit its existance in professional football.

SK […]

No excitment shows the Austrian police about the group draw for the Football Euro 2008 in Austria and Switzerland.
Austria has to play in “Group B” against Germany, Poland and Croatia. This is the worst case for the security administrators and the police.

“A nightmare came true. It couldn’t be worser”, says one of the Austrian security […]

The draw in a friendly match against our neighbours from Czech Republic is a decent result for the Austrian football team.
After all Czech Republic is on the 9th place of the FIFA world ranking.

The hero of the Austrians was Martin Harnik who played his first match for Austria. He came into the match in the […]

Chancellor Alfred Gusenbauer, who is also the minister of sport, informed the public about the stage of the preparatory operations for the UEFA European Football Championship next year in Austria.

Gusenbauer met with national coach Josef Hickersberger, and the players Martin Stranzl (Spartak Moscow) and Sebastian Prödl (Sturm Graz).
Gusenbauer wallows in felicity about the big event […]

The UEFA searches for next years European Football Championship in Austria and Switzerland volunteers who work for free.
The UEFA European Football Championship is the third biggest sport event in the world, which makes astronomical amounts of money, but the volunteers should work for free.

The wanted persons should be over 18 years old, have knowledge in […]

Austria is among the best four football nations in the world.
At least in the U-20 football world cup in Canada. This kind of sensation creates a true football euphoria in Austria, where usually football pessimism rules.

Austrian newspapers overturn themselfes with chorus of praise for this team. They commented the entering into the semi finals with […]

Already for the third time Salzburg failed to host Winter Olympic Games.
The games will be hosted in Sochi (Russia). The Russians won the second ballot against the candidature of South Korea, who wanted to host the Olympic Games close to the border of North Korea.

The elimination of Salzburg was already in the first ballot. The […]

The Scottish football team was the winner against the Austrian on Wednesday evening by a 1:0 victory in Vienna.
But if you take a look in Austrian newspapers of the last two days, the match itself turned to a minor matter. Austria played in the Viennese Gerhard Hanappi Stadium. The home ground of the football club […]

The Viennese football derby between Austria and Rapid Vienna this afternoon was overshadowed by heavy riots.
During the match Rapid goalkeeper Helge Payer was hit by burning missiles from Austria Vienna supporters. The fans of Rapid Vienna on the other side of the goal were throwing benches and wood laths at police forces.

Already at lunchtime before […]

Also the Austrian football is becoming more and more violent. After the football match Sturm Graz vs SV Ried, the guest supporters from Ried started to attack the police with fireworks and beer bottles.
The result of the match was a brotherly 1:1. But brotherly was not the behaviour of the guest fans from the Upper […]

Tickets for the Football EURO 2008 in Austria will be available in the internet on the 1st March.
Three matches will be played in the new stadium in Klagenfurt. The first 9.000 tickets can be ordered between 1st and 31th March in the internet. Additionally 2.000 tickets will be given to sponsors.
The Football Stadium Klagenfurt has […]

Football: Malta vs Austria 1:1

Malta, the island with 400.000 inhabitants, almost beated Austria in a football friendly match yesterday evening.
A lucky deflected free kick by Greek legionnaire Andreas Ivanschitz in the 49th minute to the 1:1 equalizer, saved Austria from a total disaster.
The Austrian team played slow without emotion and motivation. Even Austria coach Josef Hickersberger confessed “this match […]

This evening the 11th world cup night slalom in the Styrian town of Schladming takes place on the ski track called “Planai” .
The host expects more than 40.000 people for that event. The ticket advance sale was a great success. So much tickets as never before were sold.
The night race in Schladming is not only […]

The coach of the Salzburg football team Red Bull went to court against a voice imitator, who made advertising with his voice in the radio.
Several times the imitator made advertising on the radio for a car-dealer with the voice of Giovanni Trapattoni. Trarattoni now wants fictitious license fee because of the violation of his personal […]

Great success for the Austrian ski ladies in the Finnish area of Levi on Saturday. The first three on the pedestal were Austrians.
Especiall the superior winner Marlies Schild justified with the eight world cup victory in her seventh slalom, all the high expectations, which she received after her strong performances in the training. The girl […]

After the poor performance of Rapid Vienna in Graz, its angry fans went totally mad.
Rapid Vienna lost against the crisis-ridden Sturm Graz in a very poor performance 0:2. This caused a lot of injured persons after the match, because the fans of Rapid Vienna started to attack the police and the fans of Sturm Graz. […]

This was a little sensation, and the players of the Austrian football national team showed that they can play good football.
Especially in the first 45 minutes the Austrians played fantastic football which wasn’t seen in the last two years. Offensive, aggressive and good combinations. It was really a joy for the eyes to watch this […]

68. minute: Mario Frick scores the 1:0 lead for Liechtenstein. Austria seemed to be in football hell again, like 16 years ago when they lost the first match against the unknown Faroe Islands.
But the goalkeeper of Liechtenstein had pity with the Austrians. Two mistakes made it possible that Austria could turn the match and win […]

The Austrian football national team will play the 35.000-inhabitant-country Liechtenstein in Vaduz today.
According to the latest results of the Austrian football team, the Austrians are under big pressure to win this match. It would be the first victory this year. Everything else than a victory for Austria would bring the coach Josef Hickersberger into a […]

Football riot in Pasching

Bad times for the football in Austria. After the latest disgraceful matches of the national team, also disappointment and anger in the league matches.
Only a crowd of about 4.000 visitors came to yesterdays Upper Austrian football derby between the teams of FC Superfund Pasching and SV Ried. The football fans have seen a boring 0:0 […]


Bottom page content goes here if you want to...
You can use this space for ads, etc
You can set the behaviour of this section via the theme options...
Adjust the height of this section by modifying style.css section labelled 'footerbar'

Kredit