Rafael Pollack

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Rafael Pollack
Personal information
Date of birth (1988-10-28) October 28, 1988 (age 35)
Place of birth Tulln, Austria
Height 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)
Position(s) Midfielder
Team information
Current team
Admira Wacker (assistant)
Youth career
1996–1998 SV Königstetten
1998–2003 FC Tulln
2003–2005 BW Hollabrunn
2005–2006 Admira Wacker
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
2006–2007 Admira Wacker 11 (0)
2007 Würmla 13 (4)
2008–2009 NAC Breda 0 (0)
2009–2010 VfB Lübeck 3 (0)
2010 FAC 13 (5)
2010–2011 Waidhofen/Ybbs 10 (1)
2011–2012 FC Tulln 13 (8)
2012 FC Mistelbach 13 (2)
2012–2014 FC Ober-Grafendorf 50 (12)
2014–2017 Wiener SK 70 (18)
2017–2018 ASK Ebreichsdorf 23 (4)
2018–2020 Großweikersdorf SV 8 (6)
2021 Atzenbrugg/H. USV 0 (0)
Managerial career
2014–2015 Wiener SK (assistant)
2018 Rapid Wien (athletic coach)
2019 Rapid Wien II (athletic coach)
2021 Atzenbrugg/H. USV
2021–2022 FCM Traiskirchen (assistant)
2022 SV Horn (assistant)
2022– Admira Wacker (assistant)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Rafael Pollack (born October 28, 1988) is a retired Austrian footballer. [1]

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Career

Coaching career

In the 2014-15 season, while playing for Wiener SK, Pollack also worked as a youth coach at the club. Pollack continued as an active player for a few years, before he was hired as an athletic coach at SK Rapid Wien under the staff of Goran Djuricin in the summer 2018. [2] From the new year 2019, he was instead moved to the clubs reserve team backroom staff. [3]

In December 2020, Pollack was appointed player-manager at USV Atzenbrugg-Heiligeneich at the age of 32. [4] He left the position in November 2021, as he accepted a job offer from FCM Traiskirchen, becoming the clubs new assistant manager under head coach Zeljko Radovic, who he formerly worked together with at Rapid Wien. [5] Radovic and his staff, including Pollack, was fired in May 2022.

In June 2022, Pollack joined SV Horn as assistant manager under his former VfB Lübeck-teammate, Rolf Landerl. [6] On 20 September 2022, Pollack and Landerl resigned from their positions. [7] On 6 November 2022, the duo landed a new job at Admira Wacker. [8]

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References

  1. "Rafael Pollack". worldfootball.net. Retrieved August 15, 2014.
  2. Rapid: Goran Djuricin kontert Streit-Gerüchte, laola1.at, 28 August 2018
  3. Umbau oder Neubau? Bei Rapid dreht sich das Personal-Karussell, kurier.at, 14 November 2018
  4. „Möchte Spieler besser machen“, noen.at, 23 December 2020
  5. Rafael Pollack wird neuer Co-Trainer!, facebook.com, 18 November 2021
  6. Rafael Pollack komplettiert unser Trainerteam für die kommende Saison, svhorn.at, 18 June 2022
  7. Horn: Komplettes Trainerteam geht, 90minuten.at, 20 September 2022
  8. Rolf Landerl kehrt zur Admira zurück, kicker.de, 6 November 2022