[MxPx]

Against Cyprus on Tuesday and the winner of Finland-Latvia on Wednesday.

Our squad:

Tor:
Jürgen Macho (1. FC Kaiserslautern/GER/1 cap)
Helge Payer (Rapid/3)
Andreas Schranz (GAK/1)

Abwehr:
Anton Ehmann (GAK/8)
Ferdinand Feldhofer (Rapid/4)
Martin Hiden (Rapid/32)
Mario Hieblinger (FC Kärnten/8)
Andreas Ibertsberger (SC Freiburg/GER/1)
Markus Katzer (Rapid/2)
Emanuel Pogatetz (GAK/13)
Martin Stranzl (VfB Stuttgart/GER/22)

Mittelfeld:
Rene Aufhauser (GAK/22)
Andreas Ivanschitz (Rapid/10)
Markus Kiesenebner (Austria/5)
Roland Kirchler (FC Superfund/25)
Bozo Kovacevic (FC Superfund Pasching/5)
Dietmar Kühbauer (Mattersburg/52)
Stefan Kulovits (Rapid/0)
Sebastian Martinez (Rapid/0)

Angriff:
Mario Haas (JEF United/JPN/37)
Roland Kollmann (GAK/10)
Wolfgang Mair (Wacker Tirol/0)
Christian Mayrleb (FC Superfund/24)
Thomas Pichlmann (FC Superfund/0)
Ivica Vastic (Austria/42)

Auf Abruf: Michael Mörz (Mattersburg/0), Patrick Pircher (SW Bregenz/0), Yüksel Sariyar (FC Superfund/0)



4 new players. Good choices with Martinez, Mair and Pichlmann. Kulovits' call-up is something I don't understand though...

 

[Tim]

...but, most importantly

Coach:
Krankl (Crazy Mofo/infinity)

 

[tgv325]

Kulovits' call-up is something I don't understand though...

He's usually wearing a green and white jersey...


The tournament should be subtitled like "the useless tournament". Thankfully we'll have live coverage of the games by ORF. :wallbang: (Shouldn't all of them be in Bormio?) Those people who decide to spend money on that rather than buying TV-rights for UEFA-cup-games should be imprisoned for some time...

 

[MxPx]

And after injured Dospel, Schopp, Standfest, Sick and Amerhauser, who weren't in the squad in first place, Kühbauer, Kiesenebner, Hiden and Feldhofer are out and replaced by Dollinger, Sariyar and Pircher. Almost a B-team again.

 

[B. Sparxxx]

Seems like some interesting younger players will get a chance in these games. What do you guys think of Mair Pichlmann and Sariyar?

 

[Alexx]

Yesterday on Dubai sports channel (seriously....) I saw a roundup on the Tiger-Cup 2004. Singapore won it. It is played in two games (Indonesia has 120 000 spectators in just any game, I was told) and I wondered if our B NT currently in Cyprus would have a chance. Not sure, definitely not sure..... :sigh:

I somehow like the Pichlmann idea though.

 

[arantes]

Wenn ich seh, wie der junge Martinez so souverän einen Elfer verwandelt, da geht mir das Herz auf.

 

[il_principe]

hat der krankl das etwa gesagt?

 

[MxPx]

The Cyprus-game was absolutely horrible, that 2nd half was the worst I have seen in the last few years...
The 2nd game was much better, I liked Dollinger+Mair on the flanks, even Kovacevic as central defender was ok.

 

[B. Sparxxx]

Mair seems to me like hes a decent player certainly he should be given a shot with the lack of quality strikers available. How was Sariyar's play? according to Sport1 he was the best Austrian on the pitch.

 

[tgv325]

4th place - let's party, we got a draw against Latvia! Yes, Latvia! arty:

 

[tgv325]

hat der krankl das etwa gesagt?

Nein, aber der Wind war schuld. (Dabei hat Haas gar nicht gespielt.)

Martinez ist meines Wissens übrigens "erst" 26 oder 27...

 

[Alexx]

...und eines ist auch klar, die Kombination Martinez und Elfer steht für eine ganz andere Freude, ganz andere!

 

[MxPx]

...und eines ist auch klar, die Kombination Martinez und Elfer steht für eine ganz andere Freude, ganz andere!

when: March 6th
where: Ballesterer-Lokal (Schönbrunner Strasse 86)
what: Austrias Weg ins EC-Cup-Finale 1978 - hosted by a cool guy who writes for Ballesterer (u.a. "Fußball unterm Hakenkreuz) and happens to lecture political science at Uni

 

[Alexx]

Cool. And as I'm unyoung enough, I was right there when Martinez scored in a packed Prater (at least I remember it that way, as a little boy). In the post game interview Martiniez said something like "Habe ich gemacht Augen zu und bumm. War drin"