Mario Haas
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Mario Haas is an 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)
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball...

 forward, who currently plays for SK Sturm Graz
SK Sturm Graz
SK Sturm Graz is an Austrian association football club, based in Graz, Styria, playing in the Austrian Bundesliga. The club was founded in 1909 and the club colours are black and white....

.

Club career

Born in Graz, Haas has played most of his career for local side Sturm, except for a short stint at French side Racing Strasbourg. Also, in 2005 he joined JEF United Ichihara Chiba
JEF United Ichihara Chiba
is a Japanese professional football club that plays in J. League Division 2. On February 1, 2005, the club changed its name from JEF United Ichihara to the current name after Chiba city had joined Ichihara, Chiba as its hometown in 2003. The club name, JEF -taken from JR East and Furukawa Electric-...

 of Japan's J-League and enjoyed a reasonably successful first season, helping them lift the Yamazaki Nabisco Cup
J. League Cup
J. League Cup is a Japanese football competition organized by J. League. It is also known as Yamazaki Nabisco Cup or Nabisco Cup because confectionery/bakery company Yamazaki Nabisco have sponsored the competition since its inception in 1992.It is generally regarded as the Japanese equivalent to...

 (the Japanese League Cup), the club's first ever trophy.

International career

He made his debut for Austria
Austria national football team
The Austria national football team is the association football team that represents the country of Austria in international competition and is controlled by the Austrian Football Association ....

 in an April 1998 friendly match against the United States
United States men's national soccer team
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 and was a participant at the 1998 FIFA World Cup
1998 FIFA World Cup
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. He earned 43 caps, scoring 7 goals. His last international was a May 2007 friendly match against Scotland
Scotland national football team
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. He was asked to play in Austria's squad in a friendly match against Turkey in November 2008, by Austria's coach Karel Brückner, but refused, saying that he wanted to concentrate on his job at Sturm Graz. However, even despite this, he is still has not retired from International Football.

Club career statistics

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|1992/93||rowspan="7"|Sturm Graz
SK Sturm Graz
SK Sturm Graz is an Austrian association football club, based in Graz, Styria, playing in the Austrian Bundesliga. The club was founded in 1909 and the club colours are black and white....

||rowspan="7"|Bundesliga
Austrian Bundesliga
The Austrian Football Bundesliga is the highest-ranking national league club competition in Austrian football. It is the competition which decides the Austrian national football champions, as well the country's entrants for the various European cups run by UEFA.The Austrian Bundesliga, which began...

||6||1||||||||||6||1
|-
|1993/94||28||5||||||||||28||5
|-
|1994/95||34||13||||||||||34||13
|-
|1995/96||35||12||||||||||35||12
|-
|1996/97||14||1||||||||||14||1
|-
|1997/98||36||17||||||||||36||17
|-
|1998/99||32||17||||||||||32||17

|-
|1999/00||rowspan="2"|Strasbourg
RC Strasbourg
Racing Club de Strasbourg is a French association football club founded in 1906 and professional since 1933, based in the city of Strasbourg, in Alsace...

||rowspan="2"|Division 1
Ligue 1
Ligue 1 , is the French professional league for association football clubs. It is the country's primary football competition and serves as the top division of the French football league system. Ligue 1 is one of two divisions making up the Ligue de Football Professionnel, the other being Ligue 2....

||16||1||||||||||16||1
|-
|2000/01||11||2||||||||||11||2

|-
|2000/01||rowspan="5"|Sturm Graz
SK Sturm Graz
SK Sturm Graz is an Austrian association football club, based in Graz, Styria, playing in the Austrian Bundesliga. The club was founded in 1909 and the club colours are black and white....

||rowspan="5"|Bundesliga
Austrian Bundesliga
The Austrian Football Bundesliga is the highest-ranking national league club competition in Austrian football. It is the competition which decides the Austrian national football champions, as well the country's entrants for the various European cups run by UEFA.The Austrian Bundesliga, which began...

||14||4||||||||||14||4
|-
|2001/02||30||12||||||||||30||12
|-
|2002/03||20||6||||||||||20||6
|-
|2003/04||34||10||||||||||34||10
|-
|2004/05||16||7||||||||||16||7

|-
|2005||rowspan="2"|JEF United Ichihara Chiba
JEF United Ichihara Chiba
is a Japanese professional football club that plays in J. League Division 2. On February 1, 2005, the club changed its name from JEF United Ichihara to the current name after Chiba city had joined Ichihara, Chiba as its hometown in 2003. The club name, JEF -taken from JR East and Furukawa Electric-...

||rowspan="2"|J. League 1||25||6||2||1||2||0||29||7
|-
|2006||23||5||0||0||8||5||31||10

|-
|2006/07||rowspan="4"|Sturm Graz
SK Sturm Graz
SK Sturm Graz is an Austrian association football club, based in Graz, Styria, playing in the Austrian Bundesliga. The club was founded in 1909 and the club colours are black and white....

||rowspan="4"|Bundesliga
Austrian Bundesliga
The Austrian Football Bundesliga is the highest-ranking national league club competition in Austrian football. It is the competition which decides the Austrian national football champions, as well the country's entrants for the various European cups run by UEFA.The Austrian Bundesliga, which began...

||15||4||||||||||15||4
|-
|2007/08||35||14||||||||||35||14
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|2008/09||35||15||||||||||35||15
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|2009/10||||||||||||||||
384||138||||||||||384||138
27||3||||||||||27||3
48||11||2||1||10||5||60||17
459||152||2||1||10||5||471||158
|}

National team statistics

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|1996||1||0
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|1997||0||0
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|1998||10||2
|-
|1999||4||0
|-
|2000||1||0
|-
|2001||7||0
|-
|2002||0||0
|-
|2003||8||4
|-
|2004||6||1
|-
|2005||3||0
|-
|2006||0||0
|-
|2007||3||0
|-
!Total||43||7
|}

Honours

  • Austrian Football Bundesliga (2):
    • 1998, 1999
  • 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...

     (3):
    • 1996, 1997, 1999
  • Yamazaki Nabisco Cup
    J. League Cup
    J. League Cup is a Japanese football competition organized by J. League. It is also known as Yamazaki Nabisco Cup or Nabisco Cup because confectionery/bakery company Yamazaki Nabisco have sponsored the competition since its inception in 1992.It is generally regarded as the Japanese equivalent to...

    (2):
    • 2005, 2006

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