Oliver Glasner
Oliver Glasner (born 28 August 1974) is an Austrian professional football manager, currently managing Eintracht Frankfurt. In his playing career, he played as a defender for Austrian Football Bundesliga side SV Ried. Playing career. Glasner started his career at SV Riedau, and joined SV Ried in 1993, in the second Austrian division. 1995 Ried got promoted to Austrian Bundesliga. In the 1997/98 season Glasner won the Austrian Cup with Ried. When Ried went down to second division, Glasner joined LASK for the 2003/04 season, but returned to Ried a year later. 2005 Ried again managed promotion to the  Bundesliga, and in the season 2010/11 Glasner a second time won the Austrian Cup with Ried. On 31 July 2011 he suffered a cut above the eye and a slight concussion. in a match between Ried and Rapid in a header duel. Nevertheless, he accompanied his team to the Danish Brøndby near Copenhagen for the return game in qualifying for the Europa League against Brøndby IF. After a final head ball training session, a brain haemorrhage developed on August 4, 2011. This hemorrhage between the brain and the hard meninges was operated on the same day. Glasner survived the operation  well, but ended his career on the advice of the doctors on August 23, 2011. Glasner made more than 500 league appearances in his 16-year career. Coaching career. Beginnings in Salzburg and Ried. 2006 Glasner completed Diplomkaufmann at University of Hagen. He was offered an assistant coach role at Ried in 2012. But Peter Vogl, then honorary president of SV Ried and CEO of Red Bull Salzburg, hired Glasner as management assistant, responsible for sports coordination. Glasner asked Ralf Rangnick for an opportunity in coaching, and in July 2012, he became assistant coach for Roger Schmidt in the first -team squad. After the successful 2 years stint at Salzburg, he was appointed head coach of his former club SV Ried for the 2014/15 season. Glasner won his first match as head coach 3–2 against SC/ESV Parndorf in the first round of the Austrian Cup and won his first league match 3–1 against Wiener Neustadt. LASK. Glasner joined LASK in the 2015–16 season as director of sport, and coach. Glasner helped the club earn promotion to the first division following the 2016–17 season. The club finished the 2017–18 Austrian Football Bundesliga season in fourth position, qualifying for the UEFA  Europa League. It was the club's first European campaign since 2000. In the 2018–19 season, LASK finished in second place, just behind perennial champions FC Red Bull Salzburg, and qualified for the UEFA Champions League. Following his success with LASK, Jörg Schmadtke hired Glasner to manage VfL Wolfsburg in the Bundesliga, and Valérien Ismaël joined LASK as his replacement. Vfl Wolfsburg. In Glasner's first year with Wolfsburg, the 2019–20 season, the club managed to qualify for the Europa League. In the 2020–21 season, Wolfsburg finished fourth, qualifying for the UEFA champions League. Eintracht Frankfurt. In May 2021, Eintracht  Frankfurt announced that Glasner had signed on as head coach on a three-year deal until 30 June 2024. The start at Frankfurt was challenging. Frankfurt had with Axel Hellmann a new chairman of the board, Markus Krösche succeeded Fredi Bobic as managing director sports, Ben Manga succeeded Bruno Hübner as sporting director, and the team lost its top scorer André Silva to RB Leipzig, as well center forward Bas Dost left. Eintracht dropped out of the German Cup in Glasners first game against third tier Waldhof Mannheim. Frankfurt was close to the relegation zone in November. They managed to  win only one German championship game during the first months, against Bayern in the Allianz arena. It was the first time after 21 years, and after 16 matches they did so. In November Frankfurt gained a couple of times points scoring in the last minutes of games, and finished the first half of the season with 6 wins out of seven. On April 14 2022, Glasner helped Frankfurt advance to the semi-finals of the UEL, defeating Barcelona "en-route."