FC Red Bull Salzburg
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| Full name | FC Red Bull Salzburg | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Nickname(s) | Die Bullen (The Bulls) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Founded | 1950 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Ground | Wals Siezenheim Stadium Wals-Siezenheim Austria (Capacity 31,100) |
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| Chairman |  Rudi Theierl |
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| Manager |  Jacobson Adriaanse |
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| League | Austrian Bundesliga | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2007-08 | 2nd | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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FC Red Bull Salzburg is an Austrian football club, based in Wals-Siezenheim. Their home ground is the Wals Siezenheim Stadium.
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[edit] History
FC Red Bull Salzburg was founded on September 13, 1933, as SV Austria Salzburg. In 1950 the club was dissolved but in the same year it was re-founded again for the first time. In 1978, the official name was changed to SV Casino Salzburg and in 1997 to SV Wüstenrot Salzburg, while the common calling name remained SV Austria Salzburg. The Red Bull company bought the club on April 6, 2005 and rebranded it (see below). Famous players who played for the club include Oliver Bierhoff, Thomas Häßler, Toni Polster, Saša Ilić and Niko Kovač.
[edit] The Red Bull takeover
After the takeover, Red Bull changed the club's name, management and staff, declaring "this is a new club with no history". Red Bull initially claimed on the club website that the club was founded in 2005, but was ordered to remove this claim by the Austrian FA. No trace of violet can be found in the club's new logo anymore and the team plays in the new colours red and white. This complete re-branding of the team is very similar to Red Bull's treatment of its two Formula One racing teams, Red Bull Racing and Scuderia Toro Rosso. However, Red Bull would not completely follow this precedent when it acquired the MetroStars club in Major League Soccer in the USA; while it rebranded the team Red Bull New York, it chose to recognise the MetroStars' history.
The traditional supporters tried to resist the radical changes and formed their own movement in order to regain some of the tradition. Several fan-clubs throughout Europe voiced their support in what they saw as a fight against the growing commercialisation of football.
But after five months of protests, and talks between the club owner and the traditional fans, no compromise was reached. Thus, on September 15 2005, the "violet" supporters stated that the talks had finally failed and they would end their efforts.
This gave rise to two separate fan groups : the "Red-Whites", who support "Red Bull Salzburg" and the "Violet-Whites", who wanted to preserve the 72-year-old tradition, but refused to support the rebranded club, and ultimately formed a new club, SV Austria Salzburg.
[edit] Recent history
In May 2006, Red Bull announced on its website that it had hired veteran coach Giovanni Trapattoni as new coach together with his ex-player Lothar Matthäus as co-trainer. The pair initially denied having reached a deal, but officially signed on May 23, 2006. Red Bull ultimately won the T-Mobile Bundesliga 2006/07 by a comfortable margin with 5 games still left in the season after drawing 2-2 with previous season's champions FK Austria Wien on 28 April 2007. Red Bull were beaten by Shakhtar Donetsk in the third qualifying round[1] [2] of the UEFA Champions League 2007-08 and then knocked out of the UEFA Cup 2007-08 in the first round by AEK Athens FC. On the 13th of February 2008 Giovanni Trapattoni (the manager of FC Red Bull Salzburg) confirmed that he would be taking over as the new Republic of Ireland manager in May.
[edit] In Popular Culture
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The British tabloid newspaper The Sun, is currently featuring the team playing against the fictional side "Warbury United", in the UEFA Cup, in their 3D comic strip "Striker". The most recent strip printed on the 15th February 2008, features the team drawing 2-2 away from home, with Alexander Zickler, levelling the scores. Actual digitised faces of the squad are featured, alongside the Red Bull logo on their shirts. Timo Ochs is also featured when Warbury went 2-1 up.
[edit] Achievements
The former SV Casino Salzburg was a three times national champion: 1994, 1995 and 1997. They participated several times in the UEFA Champions League and UEFA Cup. In 1994, the club reached the final of the UEFA Cup, they faced Internazionale and lost a very thrilling game 2-0 on aggregate. Red Bull Salzburg were national champions in 2007.
[edit] Selected former players
[edit] Current squad
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[edit] Red Bull Juniors Salzburg
[edit] Current squad
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[edit] Out on loan
- Vratislav Lokvenc to FC Basel
- Andreas Ivanschitz to Panathinaikos
- Ronald Gercaliu to FK Austria Wien
- Alexander Manninger to AC Siena
- Ingo Enzenberger to SK Schwadorf
[edit] References
- ^ Salzburg - Shakhtar Donetsk : 1 - 0 Match report from ScoresPro.com
- ^ Shakhtar Donetsk - Salzburg : 3 - 1 Match report from ScoresPro.com
[edit] See also
[edit] External links
- (English) Official website
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Austrian Bundesliga seasons
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