Florian Kainz (; born 24 October 1992) is an Austrian professional

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who plays as a

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for

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club

1. FC Köln 1. Fußball-Club Köln 01/07 e. V., commonly known as simply FC Köln () or FC Cologne in English, is a German professional football club based in Cologne in North Rhine-Westphalia. It was formed in 1948 as a merger of the clubs ''Kölner Ballspi ...

and the Austria national team.

Club career

In July 2014, after more than a decade with

Sturm Graz Sportklub Sturm Graz is an Austrian association football club, based in Graz, Styria, playing in the Austrian Football Bundesliga. The club was founded in 1909. Its colours are black and white. In its history, Sturm Graz has won the Austrian f ...

, Graz native Kainz transferred to

Rapid Wien Sportklub Rapid Wien (), commonly known as Rapid Vienna, is an Austrian football club playing in the country's capital city of Vienna. Rapid has won the most Austrian championship titles (32), including the first title in the season 1911–12, ...

for an undisclosed fee. He signed for Rapid until summer 2017. In June 2016, Kainz joined

Werder Bremen Sportverein Werder Bremen von 1899 e. V. (), commonly known as Werder Bremen (), Werder or simply Bremen, is a German professional sports club based in Bremen, Bremen (state), Free Hanseatic City of Bremen. Founded on 4 February 1899, they are be ...

on a four-year contract, for a reported €3.5 million transfer fee. On 18 March 2017, he scored his first goal for the club in a 3–0 win against

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. Having been introduced as a substitute in the 88th minute he found the net two minutes later in a match that saw all three of Werder Bremen's Austrian players score in the club's highest win of the season. Two matches later he assisted the last goal in Werder Bremen’s 5–2 win away to

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via free kick, after being brought onto the pitch in the 76th minute. In the first match of the 2018–19 season, a 6–1 win against

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in the first round of the

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, Kainz assisted the first goal and scored the second in a "Man of the Match" performance. In January 2019, Kainz joined

on a three-and-a-half-year deal. The transfer fee paid to Werder Bremen was reported as €3 million.

International career

Kainz made his debut for the senior

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squad when he came on as a substitute in a friendly against

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in November 2015.

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* * 1992 births Living people Footballers from Graz Association football midfielders Austrian footballers Austria international footballers Austrian Football Bundesliga players Bundesliga players 2. Bundesliga players SK Sturm Graz players SK Rapid Wien players SV Werder Bremen players 1. FC Köln players Austria youth international footballers Austria under-21 international footballers Austrian expatriate footballers Austrian expatriate sportspeople in Germany Expatriate footballers in Germany {{austria-footy-midfielder-stub