Attila Sekerlioglu

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Attila Sekerlioglu
Personal information
Full name Attila Sekerlioglu
Date of birth (1965-01-27) January 27, 1965 (age 59)
Place of birth Vienna, Austria
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Position(s) Defender or Midfielder
Youth career
Elektra Vienna
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1985-1987 Austria Wien 0 (0)
1988-1995 Austria Wien 173 (7)
1995 FC Tirol Innsbruck 16 (0)
1995-1998 St. Johnstone 41 (7)
1998-2001 SC Untersiebenbrunn
2001-2002 FC Oslip
Managerial career
2002-2003 Maccabi Vienna
2003-2004 SC Himberg
2005 SV Horn
2005-2007 ASK Schwadorf
2008 VfB Admira Wacker Mödling
2009 Tema Youth
2010 Berekum Chelsea
2011-2012 SV Stockerau
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Attila Sekerlioglu (born January 27, 1965 in Vienna) is a retired Austrian footballer of Turkish descent.[1] He played in midfield. After retiring, he moved into management. He has most recently been manager of Austrian club SV Stockerau. He is now a scout for Bayern Munich.

Club career

During his career he played for Elektra Vienna, Austria Vienna (1988–1995),[2] VSE St. Pölten, FC Tirol Innsbruck (1995), St. Johnstone (1995–1998), SC Untersiebenbrunn and FC Oslip.[3]

Coaching career

Since retirement, he has moved into coaching and management, in the early 2000s, Sekerlioglu managed Maccabi Vienna, SC Himberg and, until January 2005, SV Horn. Sekerlioglu was appointed manager of ASK Schwadorf, then in the Austrian regional league, in 2005.[4] Schwadorf hosted English giants Arsenal in a pre-season friendly on July 31, 2006. The visitors won 8-1.[5]

Sekerlioglu guided ASK Schwadorf to the Austrian Regional League Eastern Region championship in 2006-07, thus seeing the club promoted for the fifth time in six years, after winning 22 of their 30 league games, but he was fired in August 2007 after the club failed to win their first two games of the 2007-08 season.[6]

He went on to manage VfB Admira Wacker Mödling during the 2007-08 season, but was dismissed in April 2008. He signed for Ghanaian Premier League side Tema Youth in early 2009, but left at the end of the season. He remained in Ghana to become manager of Berekum Chelsea in October 2010.[7]

On 22 August 2011, he was named as head coach of the Austrian Landesliga side SV Stockerau, before leaving the following year to take up his current role with Bayern Munich.

In November 2014, it was reported that he is one of the coaches who applied for India U17 job to manage in 2017 FIFA U-17 World Cup. [8]

Personal life

His brother, Cem, is also a footballer. He has a son, also named Attila.

In October 2013, he paid a visit to his former club St. Johnstone after watching the Champions League match between Celtic and Barcelona in Glasgow the previous evening.[9]

Honours

As a player

As a manager

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