Herbert Prohaska

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
Transfermarkt.at 
+ Appearances and goals by national team and yearNational teamYearAppsGoals  Austria 19741019757119767119778119781301979731980701981521982101198340198461198540198810198930Total 8310

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

+ List of international goals scored by Herbert ProhaskaNo.DateVenueOpponentScoreResultCompetition115 October 1975 Prater Stadion,  Vienna, Austria  6-26-2   UEFA Euro 1976 qualification215  December 1976 National Stadion,  Ramat Gan, Israel  1-13-1   Friendly match330 October 1977   Atatürk Stadi,  İzmir, Turkey    1-01-0     1978 FIFA World Cup qualification429 August 1979  Prater Stadion,  Vienna, Austria    2-04-0  UEFA Euro 1980 qualification526 September 1979  Prater Stadion,  Vienna, Austria  1-03-1   Friendly match62-0717 June 1981   Linzer Stadion,   Linz,  Austria  1-05-1  1982 FIFA World Cup qualification82-0917 November 1982 Gerhard-Hanappi-stadium, Vienna,  Austria    3-04-0    Friendly match102 May 1984   Makario,    Nikosia,  Cyprus    2-12-1  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  – Austria Archive
 UEFA.com article on Austria's Golden Player
 Career stats – National Football Teams

Category:Austrian footballers
Category:Players of the Austrian national football team
Category:1955 births
Category:Austrian football managers
Category:Austria national football team managers
Category:Living people
Category:FK Austria Wien players
Category:Austrian football champions
Category:Austria at the 1978 FIFA World Cup
Category:Austria at the 1998 FIFA World Cup
Category:Austrian football midfielders
Category:Association football midfielders