Mario Haas (born 16 September 1974) is an Austrian former professional
footballer
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who played as a
forward. Apart from two short foreign engagements in
France
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and
Japan, he played most of his career with
SK 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 Austria ...
. Haas also made 43 appearances for the
Austria national football team
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, including at the
1998 World Cup in France.
Career
Club career
Mario Haas was active in SK Sturm Graz's youth section for ten years before playing his first game for the club's professionals in the spring of 1993. In the following years he played a major role in the two league titles in
1998
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and
1999
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and the three
Austrian Cup victories in 1996, 1997 and 1999. Together with
Ivica Vastić
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He played, amongst others for FK Austria Wien, SK Sturm Graz and LASK a ...
and
Hannes Reinmayr he formed the so-called "magic triangle" of Sturm Graz during this successful period. In the summer of 1999, he decided to make his first move abroad, moving to France to join
Racing Strasbourg. However, he was unable to establish himself there and therefore returned to his home club in the spring of 2001.
During the winter break of the 2004/05 season, his ex-coach
Ivica Osim brought him to
JEF United in the
J1 League in Japan. He won the
Japanese Cup with the club in both 2005 (the club's first ever trophy) and 2006. From the spring of 2007, Mario Haas played again for his regular club Sturm Graz, with whom he triumphed in the Austrian Cup for the fourth time in 2010. He was substituted in the match against
Kapfenberger SV
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on February 12, 2011, marking his 412th appearance for SK Sturm Graz in the
Bundesliga
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and making him the team's sole record holder ahead of
Günther Neukirchner
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. At the end of the
2010/11 season, Haas became Austrian football champion with Sturm for the third time. Thus, Mario Haas was involved in all three league titles and four of five cup victories of Sturm Graz.
On December 1, 2012, Mario Haas ended his active career at the age of 38 during the match Sturm Graz vs.
Wiener Neustadt
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(3:1). Today he runs his own football camps. He was coach of FC Bad Radkersburg, after the termination of his contract he became coach of USV Mettersdorf, but this contract was terminated after 5 defeats in a row.
At the general assembly of SK Sturm Graz on January 18, 2016, he was honored as honorary captain together with Günther Neukirchner and
Andy Pichler.
National team
Haas made his debut for the
Austria national team in an April 1998 friendly match against the
United States
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and was a participant at the
1998 FIFA World Cup. He earned 43 caps, scoring seven goals.
His last international was a May 2007 friendly match against
Scotland
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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.
Career statistics
Club
International
Honours
Sturm Graz
*
Austrian Bundesliga:
1997–98,
1998–99,
2010–11
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*
Austrian Cup: 1995–96, 1996–97, 1998–99, 2009–10
*
Austrian Supercup: 1996, 1997
*Top scorer: 1995, 1998, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2008, 2009
*Record player with 451 appearances
JEF United Chiba
*
J.League Cup
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:
2005,
2006
References
External links
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1974 births
Living people
Footballers from Graz
Austrian footballers
Association football forwards
Austria international footballers
1998 FIFA World Cup players
SK Sturm Graz players
RC Strasbourg Alsace players
JEF United Chiba players
Austrian Football Bundesliga players
Ligue 1 players
J1 League players
Austrian expatriate footballers
Austrian expatriate sportspeople in France
Austrian expatriate sportspeople in Japan
Expatriate footballers in France
Expatriate footballers in Japan