The Admira Wacker Chronicle
Squad24 Apr 2028
A row about effort at Admira Wacker
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Cheick Mamadou Diabaté was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad24 Apr 2028
Words exchanged at Admira Wacker
Sandro Steiner and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
The dugout24 Apr 2028
Josef Weberbauer has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Admira Wacker will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
Market24 Apr 2028
The Alexander Schmidt question follows Admira Wacker around
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Alexander Schmidt’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
The dugout24 Apr 2028
The manager makes Stefan Haudum a promise
Nothing in writing and nothing in public: a word about playing time, given face to face at Admira Wacker. The team sheets over the next month will show whether it was worth having.
Boardroom24 Apr 2028
Admira Wacker keep producing them
18 graduates from an academy now rated 11 out of 20. A club this size does not survive any other way, and every name on that list is known in the town.
In brief
- Squad Word from the training ground: Iván Barbero
- The dugout The manager plants his flag on Christopher Olsa
- Squad Welcome back, Florian Baumgartner