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Andreas Heraf (born 10 September 1967) is an Austrian football manager and former player, most recently in charge of Türkgücü München.[1] He was previously the technical director for New Zealand Football and head coach for the New Zealand women's national team.[2]

Andreas Heraf

Personal information
Date of birth	(1967-09-10) 10 September 1967 (age 55)
Place of birth	Vienna, Austria
Height	1.76 m (5 ft 9 in)
Position(s)	Midfielder
Youth career
	Graphia Wien
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1985–1988	Rapid Wien	55	(6)
1988–1990	First Vienna	76	(19)
1991	Austria Salzburg	11	(4)
1991–1994	Vorwärts Steyr	80	(23)
1994	Hannover 96	17	(3)
1995–1999	Rapid Wien	135	(21)
2000–2001	Kärnten	30	(0)
Total		404	(76)
National team
1996–1998	Austria	11	(1)
Teams managed
2001–2002	1. FC Saarbrücken
2003–2005	Austria Lustenau
2005	SC Schwanenstadt
2006	FC Superfund
2006–2007	SC Schwanenstadt
2007–2008	SC-ESV Parndorf 1919
2008–2015	Austria U20
2015–2017	Austria U17
2017–2018	New Zealand women[note 1]
2018–2019	Floridsdorfer AC
2021	SV Ried
2021	Türkgücü München
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Club career

A defensive midfielder, Heraf started his professional playing career at Rapid Wien and moved to city rivals First Vienna in 1988. He then had half a season at Austria Salzburg, before joining Vorwärts Steyr. After another half season at German Second division side Hannover 96, he returned to Rapid Wien. In his first season back, the longhaired Heraf played in the 1995–96 UEFA Cup Winners Cup Final against Paris St Germain in Brussels, which Rapid lost. He finished his career at FC Kärnten.

International career

Heraf made his debut for the Austria national team in an April 1996 friendly match against Hungary and was a participant at the 1998 FIFA World Cup but he did not play. He earned 11 caps. His first and only goal he scored versus Latvia 1997. Herafs last international was an October 1998 World Cup qualification match against San Marino.

Managerial career

After retiring, he became a manager. His clubs were Austria Lustenau, SC Schwanenstadt, FC Superfund and SC Schwanenstadt again. After a few months at SC-ESV Parndorf 1919, he joined the Austrian U-20 set-up.

New Zealand women's national team

On 24 April 2017, Heraf was announced as the New Zealand Football technical director. Later that same year, he also become the coach for the New Zealand women's national team.[3]

After the Football Ferns lost to Japan in June 2018, there was calls for Heraf to resign following his comments in the post match press conference, including that the team would never have the quality to compete with other teams and the size of New Zealand meant they could not compete.[4][5] He later stated he was misunderstood and that he would not resign.[6] On 19 June, a letter of complaint signed by at least ten players was sent to New Zealand Football, collated by the New Zealand Professional Footballers' Association.[7] Later that day, it was also announced that New Zealand Football were deliberately flouting a FIFA directive that Heraf should not be in charge of both roles at the same organisation.[8]

On 20 June, it emerged that the Players' Union had sent a strongly worded letter to New Zealand Football, instructing them to discontinue all communications with players, after Heraf and other New Zealand Football staff members were contacting players and strongly encouraging them not to write letters or issue any formal complaints.[9] That afternoon, it was announced that Heraf would be placed on special leave while an independent investigation was conducted into the allegations around bullying, intimidation and a culture of fear.[7][10]

On 31 July, it was announced that Heraf and New Zealand Football parted ways and that he would leave by the end of the week,[11] after thirteen players refused to play and complained about him.[12]

Return to Europe

After several years at Floridsdorfer AC and SV Ried, he joined Türkgücü München in December 2021.[13]

Honours

Rapid Wien

• Austrian Bundesliga: 1986–87, 1987–88, 1995–96
• Austrian Cup: 1986–87, 1987–88, 2000–01

FC Kärnten

• Austrian Cup: 2000–01

Notes

References

External links

• Player profile and stats – Rapid Archive (in German)
• 2. Bundesliga stats – Fussballportal (in German)
• Andreas Heraf at FIFA (archived)
• Andreas Heraf at National-Football-Teams.com
• Andreas Heraf at WorldFootball.net

На других языках

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[de] Andreas Heraf

Andreas Heraf (* 10. September 1967 in Wien) ist ein ehemaliger österreichischer Fußballspieler und nunmehriger -trainer. Der defensive Mittelfeldspieler kam elfmal in der österreichischen Fußballnationalmannschaft zum Einsatz.

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- [en] Andreas Heraf

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[es] Andreas Heraf

Andreas Heraf (Viena, Austria, 10 de septiembre de 1967) es un exfutbolista y actual entrenador austriaco, que se desempeñó como mediocampista y que militó en diversos clubes de Austria e Alemania. Fue seleccionado internacional austriaco, en tal solo 11 oportunidades y anotó solo 1 gol y además, disputó 1 Copa del Mundo FIFA, con el seleccionado de su país. Actualmente es entrenador del Türkgücü Múnich de Alemania.

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[fr] Andreas Heraf

Andreas Heraf est un footballeur autrichien né le 10 septembre 1967 à Vienne, qui évoluait au poste de milieu de terrain au Rapid Vienne et en équipe d'Autriche.

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[it] Andreas Heraf

Andreas Heraf (Vienna, 10 settembre 1967) è un allenatore di calcio ed ex calciatore austriaco, di ruolo centrocampista, tecnico del Türkgücü.

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[ru] Хераф, Андреас

Андреас Хераф (нем. Andreas Heraf; 10 сентября 1967, Вена, Австрия) — австрийский футболист и футбольный тренер, выступал на позиции опорного полузащитника.

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