Alfred Riedl

Alfred Riedl

Riedl in 2010
Personal information
Date of birth	(1949-11-02)2 November 1949
Place of birth	Vienna, Austria
Date of death	8 September 2020(2020-09-08) (aged 70)
Place of death	Pottendorf (Niederösterreich), Austria
Height	1.84 m (6 ft 0 in)[1]
Position(s)	Striker
Youth career
1961–1967	ATSV Teesdorf
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1967–1972	Austria Wien	98	(58)
1972–1974	Sint-Truiden	56	(33)
1974–1976	FC Antwerp	54	(34)
1976–1980	Standard Liège	106	(53)
1980	Metz	19	(6)
1981–1982	Grazer AK	42	(11)
1982–1984	Wiener Sport-Club	52	(15)
1984–1985	VfB Mödling	0	(0)
Total		427	(210)
International career
	Austria U18	5	(0)
	Austria U23	6	(0)
1975–1978	Austria	4	(0)
Managerial career
1989–1990	Wiener Sport-Club
1990–1991	Austria
1991–1993	Favoritner AC
1993–1994	Olympique Khouribga
1994–1995	El Zamalek
1997–1998	Liechtenstein
1998–2000	Vietnam
2001	Khatoco Khánh Hòa
2001–2003	Al Salmiya
2003–2004	Vietnam
2004–2005	Palestine
2005–2007	Vietnam
2008–2009	Hải Phòng
2009–2010	Laos
2010–2011	Indonesia
2010–2011	Indonesia U23
2011–2012	Laos (technical director)
2012–2013	Visé (head of youth development)
2013–2014	Indonesia
2015	PSM Makassar
2016	Indonesia
Medal record Men's football Representing  Vietnam (as manager) AFF Championship Runner-up 1998 Representing  Indonesia (as manager) Runner-up 2010 Runner-up 2016
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Alfred Riedl (2 November 1949 – 8 September 2020^[2][3]) was an Austrian football player and manager. As a player he was a striker.

Riedl first played for Austria Wien from 1967 to 1972, before leaving Austria to play for the Belgian club Sint-Truiden at the age of 22. After he played eight seasons in the Belgian First Division (two with Sint-Truiden, two with Royal Antwerp and four with Standard Liège), Riedl enjoyed a brief spell at FC Metz in France. He came back to Austria after a single season there, to play for Grazer AK, and then at Wiener Sportclub and VfB Admira Wacker Mödling.^{[citation needed]}

Riedl was capped four times for the Austria national football team, making his debut in April 1975 against Hungary.^{[citation needed]}

As a manager, Riedl coached Olympique Khouribga (Morocco, 1993–94), Al-Zamalek (Egypt, 1994–95), Al Salmiya (Kuwait, 2001–03), and many national teams, including Austria (1990–92), Liechtenstein (1997–98), Palestine (2004–05), Vietnam (1998–2001, 2003–04, 2005–07), and Laos (2009–10). In the 2007 AFC Asian Cup, he coached Vietnam to a 2–0 victory over UAE and help the team to get to the quarterfinal for the first time in history. Unfortunately, in late 2007, after the team's disappointing performance in the SEA Games 2007 competition, he was fired and replaced by the Portuguese coach Henrique Calisto. In October 2008, he returned to Vietnam to coach Hải Phòng. However, after only three matches with poor performance, he was dismissed.^[4] On 9 July 2009, he signed a contract as head coach of Laos, the contract was for two years.^[5]

On 4 May 2010, Riedl was named the new coach of Indonesia's national and under-23 sides.^[6][7] He led the Indonesian national team to the 2010 AFF Suzuki Final but lost to Malaysia on 4–2 aggregate score. Then suddenly, on 13 July 2011, he lost his job because of a "contract dispute",^[8] after a highly publicized political power struggle within the Football Association of Indonesia (PSSI), and was replaced by Wim Rijsbergen.^[9][10]

After a return to Laos as technical director and Belgian club Visé as head of youth development, Riedl was reappointed as Indonesia national team head coach in December 2013, signing a three-year contract.^{[11][12][13][14]} His contract was terminated by mutual consent at the end of 2014, after Indonesia failed to qualify for the knockout stages of the 2014 AFF Suzuki Cup.^[15] Riedl then accepted the head coach job of PSM Makassar in early 2015, but resigned in April the same year before the league even started.^[16]

Rield returned as the head coach of Indonesia in 2016 on a one-year contract, and guided Indonesia to the finals of 2016 AFF Suzuki Cup. After Indonesia lost to Thailand 3–2 on aggregate in the finals, his contract was not renewed by PSSI.^[17][18]

Riedl died on 8 September 2020 in Austria due to cancer.^{[19][20][21][22][23]}

Austria Wien

• Austrian Football Championship: 1968–69, 1969–70
• Austrian Cup: 1970–71

Grazer AK

• Austrian Cup: 1980–81

Individual

• Austrian Football Championship top scorer: 1971–72^[24]
• Belgian First Division top scorer: 1972–73, 1974–75

Olympique Club de Khouribga (Morocco)

• Moroccan Cup runner-up: 1994

Vietnam

• AFF Championship runner-up: 1998
• Southeast Asian Games runner-up: 1999
• King's Cup runner-up: 2006

Vietnam Olympic

• Southeast Asian Games runner-up: 2003, 2005

Indonesia

• AFF Championship runner-up: 2010, 2016

• Official page
• Profile – Austria Archive
• Alfred Riedl at National-Football-Teams.com
• Alfred Riedl Interview