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| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Date of birth | (1955-08-08)8 August 1955 (age 70) | ||
| Place of birth | Vienna, Austria | ||
| Height | 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) | ||
| Position | 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 (German pronunciation:[ˈhɛʁbɛʁtpʁoˈhaska,-ˈpʁɔhaska];[1][2] born 8 August 1955) is an Austrian former professionalfootballer. He ranks among Austria's greatest football players of all time. Prohaska works as a football pundit for the Austrian Broadcasting Corporation (ORF). His nickname "Schneckerl",Viennese dialect for curly hair, derives from his curly haircut in his younger years. A talented, elegant, and combativemidfielder, Prohaska played as adeep-lyingplaymaker, and was known for his technique, intelligence, and precise passing.[3][4]
Born inVienna, Austria, Prohaska started his professional career in 1972 at the football clubAustria Vienna. By 1980 he had helped his club to win fourAustrian league titles and threeAustrian Cup wins. In 1980, he joinedInter Milan, and won theItalian Cup in his second season with thenerazzurri. In 1982, he moved toA.S. Roma, where he won theItalian championship in his first year.[3] He returned to Austria Vienna in 1983 to finish his playing career.
Prohaska made his debut forAustria in a November 1974 friendly match againstTurkey and was a participant at the1978 and1982 FIFA World Cups.[5] He earned 83 caps, scoring 10 goals.[6] His final international was a June 1989 World Cup qualification match againstIceland, but he retired before the1990 World Cup, while Austria qualified for the tournament.
In 1989 Prohaska retired from playing. Shortly after his retirement he worked as a coach at Austria Vienna, where he won two Austrian League titles and two Austrian Cups.
In 1993, he became manager of theAustria national team, qualifying as group winners for the1998 World Cup in France. In 1999, he resigned after a disastrous 9–0 defeat toSpain. From 1999 to 2000 he returned to managing Austria Vienna.
In November 2003, Prohaska was selected as theGolden Player of Austria by theAustrian Football Association as their most outstanding player of the past 50 years.[7] In August 2004, he was voted the Austrian Footballer of the Century as the Austrian Football Association celebrated its 100th anniversary.[8]
Working as a pundit for the Austrian Broadcasting CorporationORF, Prohaska suggested at the2006 World Cup that refereeGraham Poll's famous yellow card blunder[9] was a result of heavy alcohol consumption before the match.
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