Oliver Glasner: The ‘normal one’ who survived a brain haemorrhage and became a champion

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Walk down Riedau’s main street from the train station, past a handful of restaurants and a car showroom, and a left turn by a supermarket brings you to a small football stadium. This is the humble home of Austrian sixth-tier club SV Riedau, bordered on one side by an outdoor swimming pool and another by a garden centre. Behind the two-storey clubhouse flows the River Pram, a tributary of the Inn, which winds down from the Swiss Alps and eventually meets the Danube in Germany.

In a month we have the most important game in the club’s history’,” Roitinger recalls. “Oliver said to me, ‘Trainer, I will play’.” Glasner did just that, coming on as a second-half substitute as SV Ried beat Sturm Graz 3-1.

 

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