Michael Baur (born 16 April 1969) is an Austrian former professional

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who played as a

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Club career

Born in

Innsbruck Innsbruck (; ) is the capital of Tyrol (federal state), Tyrol and the List of cities and towns in Austria, fifth-largest city in Austria. On the Inn (river), River Inn, at its junction with the Wipptal, Wipp Valley, which provides access to the ...

, Baur started his career with Tirol Innsbruck and played 12 seasons for them, winning four league titles and a domestic cup. In 1997, he went for a short break to Japan and also played a season in the German

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for

Hamburger SV Hamburger Sport-Verein e.V. (), commonly known as Hamburger SV () or Hamburg (), or HSV (), is a German sports club based in Hamburg, with its largest branch being its Association football, football department. Though the current HSV was founde ...

. At 34 years of age, he signed for SV Pasching, and after another four seasons there he decided to make another move and switched to LASK Linz.

International career

Baur made his debut for the Austria national team in a May 1990 friendly match against

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as a substitute for Kurt Russ and was a non-playing squad member at the

1990 FIFA World Cup The 1990 FIFA World Cup was the 14th FIFA World Cup, a quadrennial Association football, football tournament for men's senior national teams. It was held from 8 June to 8 July 1990 in Italy, the second country to host the event for a second ...

. His last international match was an October 2002 European Championship qualifying match, also against the Netherlands. He earned a total of 40 caps, scoring five goals.

Coaching career

Baur was announced as the new head coach of SV Grödig on 7 May 2014, four days before the final match of the end of the 2013–14 season. He begins in the 2014–15 season. He had been the head coach of the reserve team of Red Bull Salzburg from the summer of 2012 to end of November 2013. He was sacked on 4 June 2015.

Career statistics

Club

International

Coaching record

Honours

Tirol Innsbruck *

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: 1989–90, 1999–2000, 2000–01, 2001–02 * Austrian Cup: 1992–93

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Baur, Michael 1969 births Living people Footballers from Innsbruck Austrian men's footballers Men's association football midfielders Austria men's international footballers 1990 FIFA World Cup players Austrian Football Bundesliga players J1 League players Bundesliga players FC Tirol Innsbruck players Urawa Red Diamonds players Hamburger SV players LASK players Austrian expatriate men's footballers Austrian expatriate sportspeople in Japan Expatriate men's footballers in Japan Austrian expatriate sportspeople in Germany Expatriate men's footballers in Germany FC Wacker Innsbruck players FC Swarovski Tirol players 20th-century Austrian sportsmen ASKÖ Pasching players