var playerInfo={"1A770A41820EA8876555100F4F89BC57":"<P>Marcel Koller is a former Swiss football player and current head coach of the Austria national team.<BR><BR>Koller played his entire career for Swiss club Grasshoppers Zurich. In these 24 years he won seven Swiss championships and five Swiss cups. For the Swiss national team he got 56 international caps, scored 3 goals and participated at Euro 1996.<BR><BR>Koller&#39;s career as coach started at the Swiss club FC Wil in the season 1997-98. He led his club to a promotion place in the Swiss Challenge League. In January 1999 he went to FC St. Gallen in the Swiss Super League. One year later the club won its first championship for almost 100 years. Also on European level FC St. Gallen could celebrate successes: in the UEFA Cup the Swiss side could eliminate English top club FC Chelsea. Koller was voted Swiss manager of the year 2000. On 9 January 2002, he went to his old love Grasshoppers Zurich. Koller won his second championship as a coach in the 2003 Season. After failing to qualify for the Champions League and a losing streak in the league he resigned on 3 October 2003.&nbsp; From 23 May 2005 on Marcel Koller was coach of German side VfL Bochum. The club was relegated into the Second Bundesliga the season before and its coach Peter Neururer was sacked as a result. Koller got the challenge to lead the club directly back to the highest level. Already five matches before the end of the season VfL Bochum was sure of its return to the Bundesliga. The goal of season 2006-07 was to stay in the Bundesliga. VfL Bochum bought a few new players in the winter break and started a winning streak. Highlights were two memorable home victories against arch rivals Borussia Dortmund and FC Schalke 04. Bochum even had a winning streak of four away victories in a row at the end of the season, a new club record. Already two rounds for the end of the season VfL Bochum was sure of survival in the Bundesliga. Eventually the club finished at the 8th place, the third best season for Bochum ever. In the 2009&#8211;10 season, with only four points out of the first six matches VfL Bochum started rather disappointing and the public pressure grew continuously. After a 2-3 home defeat by FSV Mainz more than two thousand supporters gathered at the stadium to demand his dismissal. As a reaction one day later, at 20 September 2009 Koller was sacked as head coach of VfL Bochum.<BR><BR>On 4 October 2011, Koller was appointed as the new manager of the Austrian National Team. Koller officially started on 1 November 2011, and had a winning ratio of over 50% by November 2015.<BR><BR><STRONG>Facebook:<\/STRONG> de-de.facebook.com\/FPA.Marcel.Koller<BR><STRONG>Twitter:<\/STRONG> twitter.com\/marcelkollerfpa<BR><STRONG>Instagram:<\/STRONG> marcel.koller<\/P>","3F6EEC72E60D52B53E2E6377341938DB":"4","3B9127F7BC829326":"1","7777CB48C34672EC8F83E174F0B7EFC7":"","D1BA8203CB065367D63301112214EF98":"0","816C8DE73A2D153866B49ADDE8EB04C4":"Switzerland","078F3C827B475FC4":"536492","4EB8C1CDD4A86AD4B213AF7FAE87E4FE":"Basel","86178E7285C328960D9569BD40C7D883":"1960-11-11","75B83B44A2FCDD1B4FF631FCD2E3CC16":"999","147403B66C8CB5C7":"2995","1BB8AF7BD3F66066":"","D1BA8203CB0653674BC0BB939FB9C9015E7A5DD213AB87AF":"1","8084EC95B881D770":"Al Ahly SC","90579B4DEA63C3E4":"Marcel Koller","2F200EF80307E2A90BE724565D2038D0":"2022-9-9","A494ABC507986833":"Marcel Koller","F52748F924D1E675":"","7F6018B84729B122B8EE7594158DA382":"Basel,Austria,VfL Bochum,1. FC Koln,Grasshoppers,FC St. Gallen,FC Wil","0E9052569923A91555E1DAF3C456F9CD":"<P><STRONG><U>INDIVIDUAL<\/U><\/STRONG><\/P><P><STRONG>Swiss Manager of the Year:<BR><\/STRONG>2000<\/P>","e_index":2};