Anton Polster

1982/87 Austria Vienna (AUT) 145 games, 119 goals

1982 Simmeringer SC (AUT) (Loan) 13 games, 8 goals

1987/88 Torino (ITA) 27 games, 9 goals

1988/91 Sevilla FC (ESP) 106 games, 56 goals

(Spanish Championship: 102 games, 55 goals)

(UEFA Cup: 4 games, 1 goal)

1991/92 CD Logroñés (ESP) 38 games, 14 goals

1992/93 Rayo Vallecano (ESP) 34 games, 14 goals

(Spanish Championship: 31 games, 14 goals)

(Spanish Cup: 3 matches)

1993/98 FC Cologne (GER) 160 matches, 83 goals

(German Championship: 150 matches, 79 goals)

(German Cup: 10 matches, 4 goals)

1998/2000 Borussia Mönchengladbach (GER) 43 matches, 18 goals

(German Championship: 38 matches, 15 goals)

(German Cup: 5 matches, 3 goals)

2000 Austria Salzburg (AUT) (Loan) 12 matches, 2 goals

With the National Team :

95 caps, 44 goals

(Friendly matches: 40 caps, 13 goals)

(World Cup qualifiers: 29 caps, 15 goals)

(World Cup qualifiers: 6 caps, 1 goal)

(Euro qualifiers: 20 caps, 15 goals)

1st cap: 17 November 1982 against Turkey (4-0)

Last cap: 1 September 2000 against Iran (5-1)

Anton Polster

Born March 10, 1964 in Vienna (AUT)

Austrian, Striker, 1m88

Nickname: "Toni the double"

Anton Polster was born on March 10, 1964 in Vienna, Austria. He started playing at a young age and at the age of 9 he joined the training center of Austria Vienna, a legendary Austrian club and also his favorite club. He joined the first team in the 1982/83 season, from there, it was the beginning of a real goal machine.

In 1985, he won his first professional titles, the Austrian Cup and Championship. In total, he played 145 matches for his training club and scored 119 goals, enough to attract the attention of bigger European clubs, and that's the case, in 1987 he joined Torino.

Joining an ambitious Serie A team, the player will have a complicated but promising season, despite everything, he will be transferred to FC Seville, in Spain. There, he will establish himself as one of the best center forwards in Europe, piling up goals. He then has 2 experiences in lower clubs at CD Logroñés and Rayo Vallecano where he always proves decisive.

Eager for a change of scenery, he joined FC Cologne in 1993, the beginning of one of the most beautiful pages of his career. In Cologne, he will score 83 goals in 160 games then join Borussia Mönchengladbach where he plays 43 games for 18 goals. He then returns home, to Austria, in 2000 where he ends his career at the age of 36.

Anton Polster was a formidable scorer with good technical quality despite his 1.88m. He was an effective striker, even to celebrate his goals, he was content to throw himself into the arms of his teammates and then greet the public.

He also had a great international career in a minor football country at the time, he still participated in 2 World Cups in 1990 and 1998, he scored his only goal in the World Cup during the 1998 edition where he scored a goal against Cameroon, allowing his team to snatch a point.

In total, he was an Austrian international between 1982 and 2000, wearing his nation's jersey 95 times, and scoring 44 goals. Polster was also part of the typical team of the 20th century of the Austrian selection in 1999 by the Austrian daily "Kronen Zeitung".

- European Golden Shoe in 1987 (39 goals)

- Top scorer in the Austrian championship in 1985 (24 goals), 1986 (33 goals) and 1987 (39 goals) (Austria Vienna)

- Voted best Austrian footballer of the year in 1986 and 1997

- Voted Austrian sportsman of the year in 1997

- Named to the Austrian national team of the 20th century in 1999 by the Austrian daily newspaper "Kronen Zeitung"

- Named to the Austria Vienna team of the 20th century in 2001

- Received the Order of Merit of the Austrian Republic in 2000

- Received the "VdF" Honorary Award in 1997 by the Austrian players' union

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