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Biography
Christoph Westerthaler (born January 11, 1965) is a retired Austrian football player and now football manager of lower league side SV Völs.
Club career
Nicknamed Gischi, Westerthaler was a small-built striker who started his professional career at FC Wacker Innsbruck and stayed with them for 9 years, split by a 2 season period at LASK Linz. With the Tyrolean side he won 2 league titles and 2 domestic cups. In 1994 he moved to SK Vorwärts Steyr only to rejoin LASK two years later. In 1997 he moved abroad and played in Germany for the two major Frankfurt teams and VfL Osnabrück.
In the summer of 2001 he finished his career as a player because of a knee cartilage damage.
International career
He made his debut for Austria in an October 1989 friendly match against Malta but was not considered for the 1990 FIFA World Cup. He earned 6 caps, no goals scored. His final international game was a November 1993 World Cup qualification match against Sweden.
Honours
- Austrian Football Bundesliga (2):
- 1989, 1990
- Austrian Cup (1):
- 1989, 1993
- Austrian Bundesliga Top Goalscorer (1):
- 1992
- "Österreichs Torschützenkönige". www.oberliga-a.at. Archived from the original on September 15, 2007. Retrieved 2008-09-03.