Helge Payer
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| Personal information | |||
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| Full name | Helge Payer | ||
| Date of birth | 9 August 1979 | ||
| Place of birth | Wels, Austria | ||
| Height | Script error: No such module "person height". | ||
| Position(s) | Goalkeeper | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 1985–1991 | Eintracht Wels | ||
| 1991–2001 | Rapid Vienna | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2000–2001 | → Kottingbrunn (loan) | 26 | (0) |
| 2001–2012 | Rapid Vienna | 242 | (0) |
| 2012–2013 | Kalloni | 3 | (0) |
| International career‡ | |||
| Austria U16 | 11 | (0) | |
| Austria U17 | 6 | (0) | |
| Austria U18 | 10 | (0) | |
| Austria U21 | 13 | (0) | |
| 2003–2009 | Austria | 20 | (0) |
| *Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 22 May 2011 ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 21 December 2009 (UTC) |
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Helge Payer (born 9 August 1979) is a retired Austrian professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper. He played for the Austrian national team.
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Club career
Payer came through the youth ranks at SK Rapid Wien to make his professional debut in the 2001-02 season, taking over the first-choice spot from Czech veteran Ladislav Maier. In 2006 he was also named team captain. With Rapid, he won two league titles, also appearing 5 times during the and played 5 games in the 2005-06 UEFA Champions League group stage.
On 27 August 2009, he saved an Ashley Young penalty at Villa Park in the UEFA Europa League as Rapid Wien lost to Aston Villa 2–1. Rapid did, however, proceed to the next round via the away goals rule.
International career
Payer made his debut for Austria in an Euro 2004 qualifier in June 2003, against Belarus, coming on as a late substitute for Thomas Mandl.
After becoming a regular starter for the Nationalmannschaft, Payer was included in the 23-man party for in Euro 2008, but was forced to pull out due to an intestinal thrombosis.[1]
National team statistics
| Austria national team | ||
|---|---|---|
| Year | Apps | Goals |
| 2003 | 2 | 0 |
| 2004 | 1 | 0 |
| 2005 | 4 | 0 |
| 2006 | 4 | 0 |
| 2007 | 3 | 0 |
| 2008 | 1 | 0 |
| 2009 | 5 | 0 |
| Total | 20 | 0 |
Honours
References
- ↑ Austria's Payer signed off for six months
- ↑ Helge Payer at National-Football-Teams.comLua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 28: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).
External links
- Official website (German)
- Rapid Wien profile (German)
- Rapid Wien stats (German)
- Helge Payer at National-Football-Teams.comLua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 28: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).
- Austrian FA Website
- Pages with broken file links
- Pages using infobox football biography with height issues
- Articles with German-language external links
- 1979 births
- Living people
- People from Wels
- Austrian footballers
- Austrian Football Bundesliga players
- SK Rapid Wien players
- Austria international footballers
- Association football goalkeepers
- Austrian expatriate footballers
- Expatriate footballers in Greece
- Austrian expatriates in Greece
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