Markus Berger
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Personal information | |||
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Date of birth | 21 January 1985 | ||
Place of birth | Salzburg, Austria | ||
Height | Script error: No such module "person height". | ||
Position(s) | Centre back | ||
Team information | |||
Current team
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Tondela | ||
Number | 5 | ||
Youth career | |||
1993–1999 | Austria Salzburg | ||
1999–2002 | Stuttgart | ||
2002–2004 | Eintracht Frankfurt | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
2004–2007 | SV Ried | 61 | (1) |
2007–2011 | Académica | 71 | (5) |
2012–2014 | Chornomorets | 52 | (0) |
2014 | Start | 11 | (1) |
2014 | Ural | 3 | (0) |
2015 | Gil Vicente | 11 | (1) |
2015– | Tondela | 3 | (0) |
International career | |||
2004–2007 | Austria U21 | 34 | (0) |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 14 December 2015 |
Markus Berger (born 21 January 1985 in Salzburg) is an Austrian professional footballer who plays for Portuguese club C.D. Tondela as a central defender.
Club career
Having started his professional career at SV Ried, Berger helped it promote to the Bundesliga in his first year, and played in 14 games as the club finished in a best-ever runner-up position in the 2006–07 season. Primeira Liga side Académica de Coimbra paid €300,000 for his services in July 2007; after going almost unnoticed throughout the campaign, he scored in his fifth match with the Students in a 3–0 away win against S.L. Benfica.
Berger was first-choice in his last two years with Académica, netting four league goals combined in the process. During January 2009, he went on a trial period with Hibernian from the Scottish Premier League,[1] and his agent later claimed that a loan deal had been agreed between the clubs with Hibs having the option to buy the player at the end of the season for £500,000,[2] but the move was not completed.
On 30 December 2011, after nearly 100 official appearances for Académica, Berger penned a three-year contract at Ukrainian Premier League's FC Chornomorets Odesa. At the start of March 2014, he left his team due to the civil unrest caused by the 2014 Ukrainian revolution,[3] going on to sign for Tippeligaen club IK Start late into that month.[4] He made his debut on 6 April in a 3–1 home success over FK Haugesund, in which he also netted his first goal.
In June 2014, after only a few months in Norway, Berger moved to the Russian Premier League with FC Ural Sverdlovsk Oblast.[5][6] However, in January of the following year, he returned to Portugal after signing with Gil Vicente F.C. until the end of the season.[7]
Berger agreed to a one-year deal with C.D. Tondela in early July 2015, after suffering team relegation.[8]
References
- ↑ Hibs look at Berger; Sky Sports, 19 January 2009
- ↑ Hibs agree Berger loan; Sky Sports, 25 January 2009
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- ↑ Start henter midtstopper (Start acquires defender); IK Start, 31 March 2014 (Norwegian)
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External links
- Markus Berger at footballzz.co.uk
- Markus Berger profile at ForaDeJogo
- Markus Berger at Soccerway
- Articles with Norwegian-language external links
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- 1985 births
- Living people
- Sportspeople from Salzburg
- Austrian footballers
- Association football defenders
- Austrian Football Bundesliga players
- SV Ried players
- Primeira Liga players
- Associação Académica de Coimbra – O.A.F. players
- Gil Vicente F.C. players
- C.D. Tondela players
- Ukrainian Premier League players
- FC Chornomorets Odessa players
- Tippeligaen players
- IK Start players
- Russian Football Premier League players
- FC Ural Sverdlovsk Oblast players
- Austria under-21 international footballers
- Austrian expatriate footballers
- Expatriate footballers in Portugal
- Expatriate footballers in Ukraine
- Expatriate footballers in Norway
- Expatriate footballers in Russia
- Austrian expatriates in Portugal
- Austrian expatriates in Norway
- Austrian expatriates in Russia