Friedrich Koncilia is a former Austria

Austria

Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of roughly 8.4 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the...

n football

Football (soccer)

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 goalkeeper.

Club career

Born in Klagenfurt

Klagenfurt

-Name:Carinthia's eminent linguists Primus Lessiak and Eberhard Kranzmayer assumed that the city's name, which literally translates as "ford of lament" or "ford of complaints", had something to do with the superstitious thought that fateful fairies or demons tend to live around treacherous waters...

, Koncilia made his debut for local side Austria Klagenfurt at 17, moving to SV Wattens

WSG Wattens

WSG Wattens is an Austrian football club located in Wattens, a town in the state of Tyrol in the west of the country. They currently play in the Austrian Regional League, the third tier of Austrian football.- History :...

 in 1969. After two seasons there he enjoyed his longest and most successful spell at FC Wacker Innsbruck

FC Wacker Innsbruck

FC Wacker Innsbruck was Austrian association football club from Innsbruck, Tyrol.- History :The Fußball-Club Wacker Innsbruck was established in 1915 by Jakob Hanspeter, Benedikt Hosp, Josef Leitner, Josef Albrecht and other now unknown football enthusiasts and adopted club colours of black and...

, staying there for eight years. He moved abroad to RSC Anderlecht (Belgium) only to return to Austria after a mere 8 games and finished his career at Austria Wien. A back injury forced him to retire at 37.

International career

He made his debut for Austria

Austria national football team

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 in a September 1970 friendly match against Hungary

Hungary national football team

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 and was a participant at the 1978 FIFA World Cup

1978 FIFA World Cup

The 1978 FIFA World Cup, the 11th staging of the FIFA World Cup, was held in Argentina between 1 June and 25 June. The 1978 World Cup was won by Argentina who beat the Netherlands 3–1 after extra time in the final. This win was the first World Cup title for Argentina, who became the fifth...

 and at the 1982 FIFA World Cup

1982 FIFA World Cup

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. He earned 84 caps, no goals scored, which makes him Austria's fifth most capped player of all-time (with Bruno Pezzey

Bruno Pezzey

Bruno Edmund Pezzey was an Austrian footballer.-Club career:Regarded as one of Austria's greatest defenders of all time, Pezzey started his professional career at local side FC Vorarlberg and moved to FC Wacker Innsbruck after only one season, winning two league titles and a domestic cup...

) His last international was a May 1985 World Cup qualification match against Cyprus

Cyprus national football team

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.

Honours

• Austrian Football Bundesliga (8):
  • 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1980, 1981, 1984, 1985
• Austrian Cup
  Austrian Cup
  The Austrian Cup, in German: ÖFB-Cup is an annual football competition held by the Austrian Football Association, the ÖFB.It has been held since 1919, with the exception of the time of the Anschluss between 1939 and 1945 and the period between 1950 and 1958 when the competition was deemed of...
  
   (6):
  • 1973, 1975, 1978, 1980, 1982, 1984
• Mitropa Cup
  Mitropa Cup
  The Mitropa Cup, officially called the La Coupe de l'Europe Centrale was one of the first really international major European football cups for club sides...
  
  (2):
  • 1975, 1976

External links

• Profile - Austria Archive
• Career stats - National Football Teams