The Austrian administration reached this choice unanimously after an in depth evaluation of quite a few choices. The committees had been introduced with a shortlist of 5 choices from 16 analyzed teaching candidates, which they handled intensively and examined their execs and cons for Austria Vienna. The committees authorised the primary proposal from the sports activities administration to offer duty to Stephan Helm and the committees accepted it.
Stephan Helm will work carefully with assistant coach Christian Wegleitner, who has gained as most of the final 4 video games throughout his time as interim head coach and guided Austria by different European Cup video games. Christoph Glatzer, who has labored in numerous roles on the Violets since 1999, completes the teaching workers as assistant coach and can be head of participant improvement.
Sports activities director Jürgen Werner: “We made this choice collectively inside the Austrian administration with full conviction. Stephan Helm was our first selection and he’ll deliver us further qualities as head coach. It was essential to us that Christian Wegleitner continues to play a central position within the teaching workers in We all know each of them nicely and have understood one another very nicely through the years.
President Kurt Gollowitzer: “From my standpoint, we’ve discovered the Austrian answer, filled with competence and expertise, of which I’m 100% positive. Austria Vienna has an essential give attention to our academy; we need to push in younger and extremely gifted gamers . the skilled sector in a well timed method I wish to level out that F16 gained the championship on the weekend, which we’re very completely happy about and for which I can solely congratulate!”
Head coach Stephan Helm: “The chance to tackle this duty as head coach makes me very completely happy and honored. Austria Vienna is a membership with loads of custom, a transparent imaginative and prescient and an excellent fan tradition. I’ve had a really robust reference to Austria for years and I’m obsessed with this activity. Within the final six months as the top coach of the Younger Violets, I’ve seen loads of the potential of the following era of younger Austrians and I’m positive that we’ll take the following steps and construct on the crew’s strengths.”
Expertise as a video analyst, affiliate coach and head coach at residence and overseas
Stephan Helm has been working as head coach with the Younger Violets for the reason that finish of February 2024, after being accountable for the Austrian recreation evaluation within the teaching workers of Thorsten Fink and later Thomas Letsch in 2018. He then adopted Fink as an assistant coach to GC Zurich (2018-2020) in Switzerland, the place he additionally labored as a video analyst and U21 head coach. After a season as assistant coach of LASK underneath Dominik Thalhammer (2020/21), Stephan Helm took over the primary teaching place at SKN St. Pölten within the 2nd league (2021-2023) along with Emanuel Pogatetz.