Herbert Prohaska

Herbert Prohaska

Personal information
Full name	Herbert Prohaska
Date of birth	(1955-08-08) 8 August 1955
Place of birth	Vienna, Austria
Height	1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Position(s)	Midfielder
Youth career
	Vorwärts XI
1970–1972	Ostbahn XI
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1972–1980	Austria Vienna	259	(62)
1980–1982	Inter Milan	56	(8)
1982–1983	Roma	26	(3)
1983–1989	Austria Vienna	194	(35)
Total		535	(108)
International career
1974–1989	Austria	83	(10)
Managerial career
1990–1992	Austria Vienna
1993–1999	Austria
1999–2000	Austria Vienna
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Herbert Prohaska (born 8 August 1955 in Vienna, Austria) is a retired Austrian football player. He is among Austria's greatest football players of all time. His nickname "Schneckerl", Viennese dialect for curly hair, comes from his curly haircut in his younger years. He works as an analyst for Austrian television and writes for Austria's most popular newspaper.

Career

Prohaska was born into a working class family. His father was a worker and his mother cleaned rooms. His father was coach of a youth team of Vorwärts XI. Here Prohaska started his career at the age of 9, then he played for the minor league club SC Ostbahn XI in Vienna. Then he went on to FK Austria Wien and became a professional player. He played at the age of 16 for the first team of Austria Wien. Between 1972 and 1980 he won four Austrian league titles and three cups. In 1980 he went to Italy where he played for Inter Milan and later for AS Roma. In Italy he won the championship with Inter and the cup with Roma. From 1983 to 1989 he played for FK Austria Wien and won another three championships and one cup. He retired from playing football in 1989.

Shortly afterwards he became coach of Austria Wien an won the championship twice. 1993 he became coach of the football national team. His biggest success was the qualification for the FIFA World Cup in 1998 as winner of the group stage. 1999 he resigned after a 0:9 defeat versus Spain. But in his era the team was number 17 in the FIFA team ranking, a place which could not reach another team coach ever since. From 1999 till 2000 he was again coach of Austria Wien.

After the end of his football career he became an analyst for Austrian Television (ORF) and he wrote for the newspaper "Kronen-Zeitung". In 2011 he was elected "Austria Wien player of the century".

International career

From 1974 to 1989 he played 84 matches for Austria and scored 12 goals. One of his goals, against Turkey, helped Austria to qualify for the 1978 FIFA World Cup.

International statistics

Appearances and goals by national team and year

National team	Year	Apps	Goals
Austria	1974	1	0
	1975	7	1
	1976	7	1
	1977	8	1
	1978	13	0
	1979	7	3
	1980	7	0
	1981	5	2
	1982	10	1
	1983	4	0
	1984	6	1
	1985	4	0
	1988	1	0
	1989	3	0
Total		83	10

Scores and results list Austria's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Prohaska goal.

List of international goals scored by Herbert Prohaska

No.	Date	Venue	Opponent	Score	Result	Competition
1	15 October 1975	Prater Stadion, Vienna, Austria	Luxembourg	6-2	6-2	UEFA Euro 1976 qualification
2	15 December 1976	National Stadion, Ramat Gan, Israel	Israel	1-1	3-1	Friendly match
3	30 October 1977	Atatürk Stadi, İzmir, Turkey	Turkey	1-0	1-0	1978 FIFA World Cup qualification
4	29 August 1979	Prater Stadion, Vienna, Austria	Norway	2-0	4-0	UEFA Euro 1980 qualification
5	26 September 1979	Prater Stadion, Vienna, Austria	Hungary	1-0	3-1	Friendly match
6				2-0
7	17 June 1981	Linzer Stadion, Linz, Austria	Finland	1-0	5-1	1982 FIFA World Cup qualification
8				2-0
9	17 November 1982	Gerhard-Hanappi-stadium, Vienna, Austria	Turkey	3-0	4-0	Friendly match
10	2 May 1984	Makario, Nikosia, Cyprus	Cyprus	2-1	2-1	1986 FIFA World Cup qualification

Honours

Player:

• 7x Austrian Champion with FK Austria Wien: 1976, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1984, 1985, 1986
• 4x Austrian Cup with FK Austria Wien: 1974, 1977, 1980, 1986
• 1x Champion Italy Seria A with AS Roma: 1983
• 1x Italian Cup with Inter Mailand: 1982
• FIFA World Cup:1978, 1982
• 3x Austrian Footballer of the Year: 1984, 1985, 1988
• FK Austria Wien:Team of the century

Coach:

• 2x Austrian Champion with FK Austria Wien: 1991, 1992
• 2x Austrian Cup with FK Austria Wien: 1990, 1992
• FIFA World Cup: 1998

Reading

• ballesterer fm Nr.68 January,February 2012-Prohaska, Austrianer, Held & Hawara (German language-main article about Herbert Prohaska)

Other websites

• Player profile Archived 2012-10-14 at the Wayback Machine – Austria Archive
• UEFA.com article on Austria's Golden Player
• Career stats – National Football Teams