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Alfred Riedl (born November 2, 1949 in Vienna) is an Austrian football manager and a former striker.

Club career

He used to play for FK Austria Wien when he left Austria for the Belgian club Sint-Truiden at the age of 22. After he played 8 seasons in Jupiler League (2 with Sint-Truiden, 2 with Royal Antwerp and 4 with Standard Liège), Riedl enjoyed a brief spell at FC Metz in France. He came back to Austria after a single season, to play for Grazer AK, and then at Wiener Sportclub and VfB Admira Wacker Mödling. He finished twice as top scorer of the Jupiler League.

International career

Riedl has been capped 4 times for the Austria national football team, making his debut in April 1975 against Hungary.

Coaching career

As a manager, Riedl has coached Olympique Khouribga (Morocco, 1993-94), Al-Zamalek (Egypt, 1994-95), Al Salmiya (Kuwait, 2001-03), and many national teams, including Austria (1990-92), Liechtenstein (1997-98), Palestine (2004-05), and Vietnam (1998-2001, 2003-04, 2005-2007). In the 2007 AFC Asian Cup, he has coached Vietnam to a 2 - 0 victory over UAE and help the team to get to the Quarterfinal for the first time in history. Unfortunately, in late 2007, after the team's disappointing performance in the SEA Games 2007 competition, he was fired and replaced by the Portuguese coach Henrique Calisto. On the October 2008, he returned to Vietnam to coach the Xi mang hai fong FC soccer club. However after only 3 matches with poor performance, he was dismissed.

source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Riedl